Former minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro revealed how he airlifted N1.219 billion cash to former Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose in 2014. Obanikoro claimed that he received the money from former national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki as directed by Fayose. Ekweanaedo News reports that Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has officially handed over $54,330 in bribe money, which its officers had rejected from tramadol importers at the Tin-Can Island Command.f The Customs action collaborates with the zero-tolerance policy of the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. In a statement released by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ngozi…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sensitized Nigerians not to fall for the antics of fraudsters who carry out their fraudulent scheme by swapping the ATM cards of unsuspecting citizens. Using its official X handle, the anti-graft agency detailed that it had received series of complaints from well-meaning Nigerians concerning unauthorized withdrawals from their…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) explains why it arrested and detained four Nigerian Air Force (NAF) officials. In a statement titled Facts of the Face-off Between EFCC and NAF Officers in Kaduna, the anti-graft agency unveils that the military officials were arrested and kept behind bars after they attempted to forcefully release suspected…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today produced the former Governor of the Central Bank Godwin Emefiele in court for the hearing of his bail application Emefiele, who has been in the custody of Security agencies for over 149 days, was ordered by Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, to…
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele today [Monday] failed to appear before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. This is despite an order by the judge Justice Olukayode Adeniyi for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to produce him in court for hearing of his motion…
A Civil Society Organisation has demanded the release of the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s custody. Convener of the Coalition of Civil Society for Defence of Human Rights, Yusuf Maje, made this known at a ‘Free Emefiele Rally’ held in Abuja on…
The Chairman of Economic Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has abruptly demanded that night sting operations be put to a total stop in all commission’s commands. The crimes commission boss gave the directive in Abuja on Wednesday, in correlation with the arrest of 69 suspected internet fraudsters in Ile-ife, Osun State, by operatives of the…
A former operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abubakar Madaki has told a Federal High Court in Lagos how a former minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, handed over the sum of One point two billion naira in cash to former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose. Fayose and his firm Spotless…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has been told to beam its searchlight on the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano’s eight years reign. Executive Director, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation and Chairman, Campaign for Democracy, South East, Uzor, A Uzor, in a statement in Awka said the former…
