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12 Apr
Popular crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky who has always identified as a woman openly confessed to being a man in court on Friday. Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos sentenced Bobrisky, to six months imprisonment. READ ALSO: Naira abuse: Court sentences Bobrisky to six months in custody A…
11 Apr
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed the allegation that one of its prosecutors was offered a bribe over the Malabu OPL 245 fraud case, which led to the dismissal of the charges against the former Attorney General of the Federation...
11 Apr
No fewer than five firms have been linked with former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in the latest 26-count charge of alleged fraud and corruption filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
10 Apr
No fewer than five firms have been linked with former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in the latest 26-count charge of alleged fraud and corruption filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). At least four of the firms have Lagos addresses. Some of the companies include Source Computer…
10 Apr
The obnoxious reign of politicians without principles, and political parties without ideology is taking shape in the Southeast.
10 Apr
The principal partner at Ojukwu Chikaosolu and CO Law Firm, Chikaosolu Ojukwu (SAN) has warned Nigerians and the media that the continual linking of his client, Dr Betta Edu to the investigations going on in the Humanitarian Ministry or over recovered funds would be legally pursued as defamatory and libellous. This is against the backdrop…
10 Apr
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, accused President Bola Tinubu of promoting anti-poor policies.
9 Apr
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned hotels, supermarkets, restaurants, and schools to stop charging in dollars or any foreign currency within Nigeria. EFCC’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, stated this on Monday, in the latest edition of the commission’s monthly e-magazine, EFCC Alert. Olukoyede said anyone found in the act of dollarization of the…
9 Apr
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arraigned Binance Company and one of its executives, Tigran Gambaryan, on five count charges bordering on money laundering.
9 Apr
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has, so far, recovered N30 billion for the Federal Government, while it has also placed 50 bank accounts under investigation in the ongoing probe of the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, the Executive Chairman of EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has said.
8 Apr
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation of 14 suspected oil thieves, along with a motor fishing trawler, Hawwau Tanko, arrested in Bayelsa. The EFCC Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He said that the suspects and the vessel were handed over to the commission…
8 Apr
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday remanded the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for alleged abuse of office and fraud to the tune of $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion.
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