The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday refused to restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating an alleged suspicious payment to an oil firm, Zone 4 Energy Ltd. The company’s lawyer, Mr Lanre Ogunlesi (SAN) had urged […]
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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has called for an independent inquiry into how a former Chief Protocol Officer to the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Desmond Nunugwo, allegedly died in the […]
•Secures court order to detain Fayose’s associate The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has laid its hands on a bank account with over N2.5billion opened in the name of a former female minister’s housemaid. Investigators of the anti-graft agency […]
The immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh on Thursday said he was prepared to pay back his share of N400million out of the $2.1billion cash meant for arms. The cash was allegedly […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 17-count charge against a former Aviation Minister and Spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode over an alleged 1.5 billion Naira fraud. A former Minister of Finance, […]
Over N1billion cash illegally deployed in the 2015 election has been refunded. The cash came from some former ministers, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and coordinators of some election observer groups, The Nation learnt yesterday. More […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will soon commence the prosecution of the 43,000 persons so far discovered as ghost workers on the payroll of the Federal Government. Also, the Federal Government said it has saved the country about N4.5billion […]
By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY-THE Edo state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih Tuesday spent a second night at the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over the N700million presidential funds that came […]
Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode yesterday appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for preliminary grilling on the N2.5billion illegally withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and paid into the accounts of six chieftains of […]
EFCC quizzes 16 directors Some Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials have been summoned to the agency’s Abuja headquarters in connection with the alleged N23.29billion bribe the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing. The EFCC has quizzed 16 […]