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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arraigned a Dutch couple, Peiter Borremans and Nkechi Borremans for suspected fraudulent dealings involving a marine tanker vessel to the tune of $330,000.The anti-graft…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called on members of the public to ignore an advert on WhatsApp purportedly seeking to enlist young Nigerians into the anti-graft agency.The agency’s Head, Media and Publicity, Mr…

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN has lambasted the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay.Sagay had claimed that Malami would…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, a day after his confirmation by the National Assembly.Bawa, who looked visibly elated, donned a…

The Ninth Senate has confirmed the nomination of 40-year-old Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The confirmation followed a two-hour screening exercise conducted at…

Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of the Ogun State High Court 4 sitting in Abeokuta has ordered the remand of a socialite, Mary Maisirat Akerele in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ibara, Abeokuta.This followed her arraignment by the Economic…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commisssion (EFCC) says it has arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters in Auchi, Edo State.In a release, the anti-graft commission said its Benin Zonal Office made the arrest on Monday.The…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested a 28-year-old medical practitioner, Chijioke Precious and 17 others over alleged internet fraud in Owerri, Imo State.In a statement, the commission said that the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its new Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa has no corruption record as claimed in some media reports.The commission stated this in a statement Tuesday after the Presidency announced his…

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina stated…

Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States of America (USA), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said.The EFCC’s Counsel,…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal office, have arrested three Dubai-based suspected internet fraudsters and 14 others in Lagos.The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement on…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s Investigator, Bello Hamma-Adama, on Wednesday, revealed how the sum of N75 million was recovered from Halima Tanimu Turaki, wife of a former minister in the President Goodluck…

A 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fraudulently converting to personal use a sum of N2million that was erroneously transferred into his bank account.The Ilorin Zonal Office…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday opened its case in the ongoing trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and three others when it presented its first witness,…

Justice Ibrahim Watilat of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters, Tobiloba Stephen Shokunbi and Emmanuel Korede Oladunjoye, to six months and four months…

An EFCC Investigation Officer, Ms Sekinat Badamasi, on Tuesday told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that a businesswoman, Uju Okoye, defrauded applicants of N32 million for fictitious NNPC jobs.Being led in evidence by the prosecution…

The Maiduguri Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil popularly known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’ on a fresh three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense to the…

The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has secured the conviction and sentencing of one Aniche Ezenwa Francis to six months imprisonment for internet fraud before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Michael Uwachukwu (a.k.a Rodrigo), an undergraduate of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, for defrauding an American woman of $11,522.The Port Harcourt zonal…

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abba, has said that the commission secured 865 convictions from a total of 1,305 cases it filed in courts in 2020.He said that a total of 7,340…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of a self-professed cleric, Pastor Theophilus Odenigbo, who duped a retiree of N1 million.An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan sentenced Pastor Odenigbo to…

The trial of a self-styled herbalist, Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum…