Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Naira Abuse: After six months in jail, Bobrisky breathes air of freedom
After spending six months at Kirikiri Correctional Centre, Lagos, for abusing the naira, controversial cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has been...
P-Square splits again: Paul confirms breakup with brother Peter
For the second time in five years, the P-Square music group, comprised of Peter and Paul Okoye, has suffered another split. In a...
Kwankwaso’s rights suit against EFCC suffers temporary setback
The hearing of a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and...
Court declines Emefiele’s request to travel abroad for medical checkup
A Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday rejected an application by Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of...
Just in: Buhari’s Power Minister, Mamman, gets reprieve, N10bln bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted bail to former Minister of Power Saleh Mamman, who was being held in prison...
Updated: Ex-Power minister remanded in prison over alleged N33bn fraud
A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded Saleh Mamman, a former Minister of Power, in Kuje Correctional Centre (prison), Abuja, pending his...
Depressed Abuja EFCC operative flatlines
An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has taken his own life at his residence in Abuja, the nation’s capital,...
EFCC probes its operatives over alleged assault on female hotel staff in Lagos
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has established a disciplinary panel to investigate allegations of assault against two of its operatives. The...
EFCC wants Bello’s lawyers indicted for alleged professional misconduct
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has requested that the Federal High Court in Abuja punish ex-Gov. Yahaya Bello’s two legal representatives...
Move my trial to Kogi, ex-Gov. Yahaya Bello tells court
Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State, has written to Justice John Tsoho, the Chief Judge of the Federal High...
Court orders final forfeiture of $1.4m linked to ex-CBN Gov. Emefiele
A Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Ayokunle Faji, has issued a final order for the permanent forfeiture of $1,426,175.14...
Naira abuse: Plea bargain: Cubana Chief Priest pays N10m to FG, case struck out
Following a plea bargain, Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday dismissed the naira abuse charge brought by...
Proceeds from unlawful activities: Private varsity forfeited to FG
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of a private university, NOK University, Kaduna State, including all its assets,...
Currency hawker at event centre jailed six months, slapped with N897,900 forfeiture to FG
Guilt-racked Lagos woman, Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi, who hawked and sold the nation’s currencies – the Naira – at an event centre in Lagos,...
Court Seizes $4.7m, N830m, other properties recovered from Ex-CBN Gov. Emefiele
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sums of $4.7 million, N830 million, and several properties...
Breaking: Sirika, brother, pleads not guilty to alleged N19.4bln fraud
Former Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika, his brother, Ahmad Sirika, and a firm, Enginos Nigeria Limited, have been arraigned on a fresh 10-count...
