The trial of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, OlaJumoke Akinjide, for N650m fraud has been adjourned until Jan. 18. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday pronounced the adjournment. Akinjide is being prosecuted by anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), alongside Sen. Ayo Adeseun, a chieftain of Read more
FEATURED Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has reportedly taken delivery of 2019 model of Mercedes Benz S Class after salaries of various categories of workers in the State have been drastically cut to a record low percentage. A video gone viral over the weekend showed Governor Bello examining the car and subsequently made moves Read more
The CCB had in July prepared charges against Magu for allegedly turning down the demand to declare his assets Suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, will not appear before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) on Tuesday, according to TheCable. Magu had been summoned by the Bureau to Read more
The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been summoned by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The Bureau asked the embattled EFCC chief to appear before it on Tuesday with documents of his assets and copies of his assets declarations while in service, among other things. The Read more
CORRUPTION “That you, Haruna Baba Jauro, Dr Dauda Bitrus Bawa and Thlumbau Enterprises Ltd., on or about the 6th day of January 2014 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did conspire among yourselves to commit an offence …” The Lagos Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, November Read more
A former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraud, according to ireportnews. Newsheadline247 understands that Fowler was invited Monday morning over an ongoing investigation involving Alpha Beta Consulting, a tax firm allegedly belonging to the national leader of the ruling Read more
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has refused to grant extradition order against Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum, Deizani Alison-Madueke from the United Kingdom. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu turned down the application on the grounds that the evidence in support to prove that the earlier court summon granted to the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured an order to freeze the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudasiru Obasa’s three bank accounts belonging. In a matter filed at the federal high court, Lagos, with suit number; FHC/L/CS/1069/2020, the EFCC sought an ex-parte order to freeze Obasa’s three bank accounts with Read more
The Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, has been charged to a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by The Inspector-General of Police over alleged fraud involving $120,000. Binuyo was charged for conspiracy, fraud, cheating and forgery in a suit numbered CR/975/2020 filed on September 9, Read more
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has revealed that the sum of N2.67 billion paid to some federal colleges for school feeding during the COVID-19 lockdown ended up in some people’s private bank accounts. ICPC chairman, Bolaji Owasanoye, revealed this in his keynote address at the second national summit on diminishing Read more
