Tag Archives: EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has produced former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, for arraignment on charges of diverting N110 billion from state government’s coffers. Mr Bello, who spent the night in EFCC custody, was driven into the premises of the FCT High Court in Abuja in the anti-corruption agency’s vehicle at about 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday. He was subsequently ...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the suit filed by some state governments led by Kogi State to challenge the establishment and prosecutorial powers of Nigeria’s key anti-corruption agencies. The verdict laid to rest wide-ranging issues often raised by state governments against investigations and prosecutions of their current and former officials by the federal agencies. The agencies are the Economic ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have detained a former governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, for the alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion of the 13 per cent derivation fund from the Federation Account between 2015 and 2023. A source told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Okowa was detained on Monday, 4 November, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when he ...

By Kester Ezuma As Nigeria continues to confront persistent corruption and financial crime, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) stands as the nation’s front-line defense against those undermining our economic integrity. But despite its crucial role, the EFCC has struggled with its image, and much of this perception problem is tied to professionalism, transparency, and even its own internal ...

Lagos state governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given clarification on the news circulating in a section of the media, titled: “Sanwo-Olu Sues EFCC over alleged plan to arrest, prosecute him after tenure.” Sanwo-Olu gave the clarification in a statement signed by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro (SAN). The statement reads, “We need to clarify that ...

By Casmir Igbokwe My intervention on this page last week drew some flak from unexpected quarters. Titled, ‘EFCC’s searchlight on Bello, Obiano and naira abusers’, the article mentioned the prosecution of two former governors – Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and Willie Obiano of Anambra State – by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Their cases came up penultimate ...

The embattled immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said he was ready to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja to answer to the 19-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him. Though Bello was absent for his arraignment, he briefed a team of lawyers who addressed the court on his behalf ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Erudite scholar, Professor PLO Lumumba, was quoted to have said that “in Japan, a corrupt person kills himself. In China, they will kill him. In Europe, they jail him. In Africa, he will present himself for election.” The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) appears bent on stopping this negative perception about corruption in Africa, nay Nigeria. ...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, has faulted the recent reported attacks and disruption of the business activities of Bureaux de Change (BDCs) operators in different urban centers across the country by Government Agencies, describing it as ill-advised and wrongly directed. Obi, who made his views known via his Facebook page on ...

Anambra State governor Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo has visited his predecessor, Chief Willie Obiano, who was arraigned in court on Wednesday over an allegation of committing fraud to the tune of N4 billion while he was governor. It was gathered that, as a result of the trial, the former governor had his passport confiscated, and this will stop him from ...