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Queues: CBN directs banks to start cash payment across the counters
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to commence the payment of the redesigned Naira notes over the...
Reprieve as Abuja court vacates interim forfeiture order on Ekweremadu’s 44 properties
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday came down hard on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), accusing...
Updated: Doyin Okupe released, says was arrested in error
Dr Doyin Okupe, a former Director- General of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, who was arrested on Thursday morning by the secret police,...
Effective Ist March, 2023, three-year jail term, N10m, N25m fines await violators of cash withdrawals from public accounts
In a bid to give teeth to the Money Laundering Act, the Federal Government has slammed a ban on cash withdrawal from Public...
Again, incarcerated ex-Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, denied bail in London
The Central Criminal Court, London, also known as Old Bailey, has again denied bail to former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The trial...
N200m money laundering charge: Doyin Okupe, DG, Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, jailed two years
Dr Doyin Okupe, the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, is to spend the next two years behind bars for a...
Ahead 2023 polls: Presidential candidates, others on our watchlist, says EFCC
The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that some “top politicians” are on its watch list in the build...
N7.65bn fraud: Orji Uzor Kalu not discharged yet, EFCC Chair Bawa
The Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, said in Abuja that the Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu,...
Serving Senator and Governorship Candidate To Spend 42 Years Behind Bars For Money Laundering
The senator representing Akwa Ibom North East in the National Assembly, Albert Bassey has been sentenced to 42 years in jail for money...
Alleged N544m contract fraud: Ex-SGF Babachir Lawal, five others discharged, acquitted
At last, justice appeared to have been served as former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, and five others...
Looted Funds: At least 3 governors on EFCC watchlist, says Bawa
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the anti-corruption agency has placed several governors on...
EFCC Chairman, Bawa, convicted of contempt, sent to Kuje prison
A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, of contempt. Bawa’s...
Crestfallen Ekweremadu faces interim forfeiture of his 40 landed properties in Nigeria, UK others
The embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in prison in Britain is facing woeful times in his life as...
EFCC records 2,700 convictions in 2022, highest since inception — Bawa
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday disclosed that it has recorded over 2,701 financial crimes convictions as of October 7,...
Abuja Court orders final forfeiture of another set of Diezani’s homes, luxury cars to FG
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered permanent forfeiture of two Abuja exotic houses and two luxury vehicles belonging to a...
$9.6bn P&ID fraud: Arrest British man, James Nolan, court orders
For jumping bail and failing to appear in court for trial, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday issued a bench warrant...
