Tag Archives: EFCC

The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the National Lottery Trust Fund, Bello Maigari, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for helping to widen NLTF’s revenue base through enhanced remittance inflows from N800 million to N2.1 billion annually.  He gave the commendation in Abuja recently when he …

The Chairman of the  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede, on Thursday, raised the alarm about the craze for gratification and bribes among the commission’s investigators, noting that he had a process in motion to fish them out. Olukoyede made this disclosure on Thursday in his New Year …

The Department of State Services has freed the embattled ex-Economic and Financial Crimes Commission boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa, after exactly 134 days spent in the custody of the secret police. According to Punch,Bawa was released from the national headquarters of the secret police, ‘Yellow House,’ in Abuja, on Wednesday night. Bawa …

The Nation’s apex Anti-Corruption Agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)has come under scrutiny.President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the indefinite suspension from office,it’s Chairman, Mr AbdulRasheed Bawa,CON. This was announced in a statement by Willie Bassey, Director, Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that it expects all operators in the Nigerian financial system especially bankers to declare their assets latest June 1, 2021. The Commission’s Executive Chairman, Abdulrashed Bawa, dropped this hint today March 16, while speaking with journalists at the State House, Abuja …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, March 11, 2021 arraigned Peter Hena, Former Coordinating Director of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS and eight other officers of the agency before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The others are Mohammed Bello Auta (Director …

Luck ran out on a syndicate of 13 cybercrime suspects on Thursday March 11, when operatives of the Abuja Zonal Office of the EFCC raided their hideouts and apprehended them. Five of the suspects were picked up at an N8m a year apartment in Gilmore Estate, Jahi, while the other …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned Abiodun Waheed Hassan and his Company Bestworth Insurance Brokers Limited before Justice S.C Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a five count charge of alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the …

The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday arraigned one Andrew Eigbokhaebholo, a staff of the University of Calabar, before Justice S. M Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State. He was arraigned alongside his company, Panandy Oil and …

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission investigating officer, Adariko Michael, on Tuesday, alleged that N2.2 billion was spent on prayers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to win the war against Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Mr Michael was giving evidence as the first prosecution witness (PW1) in the trial of Sambo Dasuki, …