Nigeria’s economic crimes commission said it recovered nearly $500 million in proceeds of crime last year and secured more than 4,000 criminal convictions, its highest since the agency’s inception more than two decades ago. Africa’s biggest energy producer, Nigeria has struggled for decades with endemic corruption, which many Nigerians say contributes to widespread poverty in […]
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested two Chinese nationals for allegedly offering a $250,000 bribe in local currency to one of its senior officials. Meng Wei Kun and Xu Koi were arrested on Tuesday inside in their office in the northern city of Sokoto as they gave the money […]
Operatives of the EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Monday, October 14, 2019, raided a Osogbo-based nightclub notorious for hosting parties for suspected internet fraudsters. The raid led to the arrest of 94 suspects and confiscation of 19 exotic cars, laptops, scores of sophisticated mobile phones and other items. Popularly known as ‘Club Secret Underground’, the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, arrested a fake native doctor, Fatai Olalere Aliu, who was alleged to be notorious for duping people under the guise of possessing spiritual power to their problems. Aliu was arrested by the operatives of the Commission during a raid on […]
Nigerian Authorities have seized jewelry and a customized gold iphone worth 40 Million Dollars from former Minister of Petroleum in that country, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The order for the seizure was given by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, a High Court Judge. In granting the order, Justice Oweibo directed the applicant, EFCC, to publish the interim forfeiture order […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria have seized jewelry worth a whopping 40 Million Dollars from former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. A judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday, Friday, July 5th 2019 ruled that the items including a customized gold iphone be forfeited […]
Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, jailed a notorious yahoo yahoo kingpin, Akpojivi Onoriode, who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrime. The convict, a 29-year-old graduate of Delta State University, Abraka […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office in Nigeria, has secured the conviction of Eric Ogbemudia at the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State. A statement from the agency says that Ogbemudia was arraigned on a one-count charge of obtaining the sum of Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Pounds Sterling […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria last night laid ambush at former Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose’s Abuja Residence and took him on allegations of corruption while he was in office. The Governor officially handed over yesterday to a new governor and just when he thought he was going home to rest and […]
