Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Buhari unveils Nigeria’s new visa policy
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja has launched the new Visa Policy 2020 which is intended to attract innovation, specialized skills and knowledge from abroad to complement local capacity. In his remarks at the official public presentation of the Nigeria Visa Policy (NVP) 2020, the President said “the implementation of the Nigeria Visa Policy 2020 …
N2 Billion Fraud: Maina Appears In Court In Wheelchair
Gbeleyi Abayomi Embattled former Chairman of the defunct Police Pension Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Thursday appeared before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, in a wheelchair. Maina had been absence in court on alleged health issues in the last two proceedings. The Ex police pension task force is being prosecuted …
BREAKING: Maurice Iwu former INEC Boss re-arraigned for N1.23bn fraud.
By Obi Obumneme The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu, for an alleged fraud of N1.23bn. The former INEC boss, Prof. Iwu pleaded not guilty. Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted him bail and adjourned till November 25, 2019. However, Iwu was first …
Mompha an Instagram socialite nabbed by EFCC
By Obi Obumneme. Instagram sensational celebrity and socialite Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha has been arrested by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos office on Friday 18, October 2019 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to Dubai Emirate following [a] series of intelligence reports received by the Commission. EFCC made …
$11m Cyber Fraud: Lagos Court Orders Invictus Obi’s N280m Forfeited
Gbeleyi Abayomi In an affidavit filed in support of the application, EFCC investigator, Ariyo Muritala, said the commission assigned him and others to investigate a request for information on Okeke and three others Following his arrest and subsequent detention in the US for alleged cyber crime, The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday has …
Crossing over from civil to political activism
Gbeleyi Abayomi Sir: My attention has been drawn to an article with the above-mentioned title which appeared at page 13 of The Guardian of Friday, September 27, 2019. In the said article, there was a clear factual inaccuracy when you suggested that I was engaged sometime in the immediate past by the Economic and Financial …
We didn’t know corruption during our time – Gow
Former military Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), said on Monday that his regime never experienced anything such as corruption for the nine years it was in power. Gowon, whose government ruled from 1966 to 1975, made the statement at the 8th Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa hosted by …
FG clears air on whereabouts of recovered loots
ABUJA – The Federal Government has made clarification on the confusion trailing the whereabouts of recovered loots, insisting that they were being paid into dedicated accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). According to vanguard reports, discrepancies in the figures released to the media by the Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr …
