The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, has accused some individuals of trying to sabotage the efforts of the government in curbing insecurity in the country. According to him, the individuals which he didn’t disclose their names, were doing everything possible to frustrate the efforts of the government. “There are certain individuals trying to…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has foiled the attempt by an alleged trans-border trafficker to smuggle 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg from Ghana into Lagos. The Director, Media and Advocacy of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Mr Babafemi said that the interception came in another…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said asset recovery is vital in the fight against economic and financial crimes and a major disincentive against corrupt practices. The Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, stated this when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes paid an oversight visit to the EFCC…
The newly elected chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State, Franklin Okechukwu Nwadialo, has been arrested by the FBI upon his arrival in Texas over an alleged $3.3 million romance scam. According to documents from the FBI circulated on social media, the charges, announced by U.S. Attorney Gorman, allege that Nwadialo orchestrated a…
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has denied an alleged suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over planned arrest and prosecution after his tenure expires. Lawal Pedro, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, disclosed this in a statement released by Sanwo-Olu’s spokesperson, Gboyega Akosile, on Tuesday. His clarification comes amid a…
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a head teacher, Benjamin Ogba, to life imprisonment for defiling two underage girls, who are both seven years old. The judge held that the prosecution proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, with the ingredients of defilement to the court’s…
President Bola Tinubu has assured that Nigeria will continue to work with its international partners to ensure that cyber criminals and organised crime groups involved in transnational car thefts are deprived of the benefits of their illegal activities. To this end, Tinubu directed security and law enforcement agencies—including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
The Nigerian Immigration Service initially detained Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday immediately after his return to Nigeria. This occurred on the same day that members of the Take It Back Movement and other activists gathered at the airport in anticipation of his arrival….
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has charged defence counsels in the Commission’s cases to be guided by the ethics of their profession in the discharge of their duties to their clients. Olukoyede gave the charge recently through the Ibadan Zonal Director of the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE1 Hauwa Garba Ringim when the Executive…
The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna State for fraud. According to a Monday statement on EFCC X.com handle Shuaibu is facing prosecution on a seven-count charge, including criminal breach of trust,…