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$82,570 internet fraud: Mother, son jailed 3 years each

      Trapped in the quicksand of internet fraud, a mother and son are to spend 12 years in jail each for...

Bribery: Sen. Shehu Sani gets N10m bail, passport seized

  After a month-long detention, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday granted ex-Senator Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central) a bail of N10 million....

Breaking: Alledged extortion: Shehu Sani arrested by EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Sen. Shehu Sani over alleged extortion of $20,000 from the owner of ASD Motors....

N7.65bn Fraud: Court denies Orji Kalu bail, remains in prison

Says no evidence to prove ill health   A federal high court in Lagos on Monday, dismissed Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s bail application...

EFCC arrests Adoke on arrival at Abuja airport

   Mr Mohammed Adoke, former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice,  was on Thursday on arrival from Dubai  at Abuja airport...

Sun newspaper management reacts to company’s forfeiture to FG

…says appeal is pending on interim forfeiture order of 2007   Following the EFCC’s marking and possibly sealing of the corporate headquarters of...

Orji Kalu’s conviction: Sun Newspaper, Slok airline to be forfeited to FG

  Some property belonging to the convicted former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, were on Saturday marked for forfeiture to the Federal...

For the third time, ex-Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji, aide face trial over N333m fraud

…Supreme Court orders retrial   Four years after he exited as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, was...

UPDATE: N7.65bn fraud: Court sentence Orji Kalu to 12 years in Prison

  Former Abia state governor Orji Uzor Kalu  has  been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in Prison for fraud by a Lagos...

Again Saraki gets court’s interim forfeiture order of two more mansions in Kwara

This is certainly not the best of times for the immediate past Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as two of his mansions in Ilorin,...

HEDA’s False Alarm Over New Rule By AGF Malami

By Taiwo Odulana A civil society organization, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA, uncharacteristically raised a false anti-corruption alarm a few days ago...

EFCC arrests controller, doctor of Kirikiri Maximum Prison over $1m scam

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested a Deputy Controller of Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi, and the head of...

Corruption cases: FG strips EFCC, others of seizure of assets power, transfers authority to AGF

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other allied bodies have been stripped of the powers to seize assets of people...

Maina pleads innocence, remanded  

  Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, has been remanded in Abuja Correctional Centre (prison) on the orders of a...

Maina, ex-Pension Task force boss, arraigned in Abuja, enters no-guilty plea

  By Kunle Akinsola   The former chairman of Pension Reform Taskforce, Abdul-Rasheed Maina, who was arrested at an Abuja hotel few weeks...