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Corruption allegation: FG drops Anamekwe as Acting Accountant-General, names Sylvis as replacement

The acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Chukwuyere Nwabuoku Anamekwe has been fired and another acting holder of the office has been...

N322m laundering charge: Nigerian Senator jailed

After defecting from PDP to APC in 2021 ostensibly for a safe haven, serving Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, is to spend the next seven...

Buratai’s Alleged Malfeasance: HEDA Petitions ICPC, CCB

Following the bust and arrest of a suspect and a military contractor in connection with money laundering tipoff from the NFIU, under the...

Rebellion At the Apex Court

By Reuben Abati “Wahala be like bicycle” is an expression that most people familiar with Nigerian street lingo would easily identify with. It...

BREAKING: N174bn fraud: FG’s Accountant-General gets bail, reunites with family

Barely 15 days after his arrest and remand  custody for N174 billion fraud, the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been...

BREAKING: N2.9bn fraud: Ex-Imo Gov. Okorocha gets reprieve

...to remain in EFCC custody untill bail conditions are fulfilled

Okorocha to cool his heels in custody, hires four SANs

Rochas Okorocha, former lmo Governor and APC presidential aspirant, was on Monday remanded in EFCC custody untill May 31 pending the hearing of...

Ex-lmo Gov. Okorocha hauled up in court over N2.9bn corruption charges

Few days after his arrest from his Abuja residence, former Imo Governor and presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha, was on Monday, brought before a...

Just in: Accountant-General’s probe: EFCC reveals another stolen N90bn

As the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) continues investigation into the snitching of N80 billion by the suspended Accountant-General of the...

2023 polls: Money politics: Nigeria inching toward plutocracy, government of the rich and for the rich — INEC Chairman

With the overwhelming influence of money on Nigeria’s politics, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has expressed...

Finally, EFCC closes in on ex-Gov. Okorocha, arrests him amid sporadic gunshots

    After about seven hours after laying siege to Sen. Rochas Okorocha’s house in Maitama area of Abuja, operatives of EFCC eventually...

Just in: Ex-Imo Gov. Okorocha’s Abuja residence under EFCC siege

In a tactical strike to arrest him, the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have swooped on the Abuja residence...

N23.3bn fraud: EFCC re-arraigns ex- Finance Minister, Bashir Yaguda

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned a former Finance Minister, Bashir Yaguda and four others before an FCT High Court...

Magu was promoted to AIG after retirement — Police Affairs Minister, Dingyadi

Facts have emerged that the erstwhile sacked Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), CP lbrahim Magu, was actually promoted to Assistant...

BREAKING: Two days after Patricia Etteh’s arrest, ex-NDDC MD, Nsima Ekere, picked up by EFCC

Barely two days after the arrest of Nigeria’s first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, for NDDC contract...

Alleged N80bn fraud: FG places Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on indefinite suspension

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, who was busted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over N80 billion fraud, has...