“A 2012 report stated that Nigerians had invested up to $6 billion in real estate in Dubai over three years…” More than 130 choice assets have been bought with looted funds in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), by some ex-governors, ministers and senators. These assets are among the over 800 traceable to Nigerians in the Read more
CORRUPTION The probe of the tenure of Babatunde Fowler as Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has commenced as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned ex-FIRS Coordinating Director and eight others. President Muhammadu Buhari had reportedly queried Fowler for poor revenue collections between 2015 and 2018. The report said the query signed Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has George Turnah, re-arraigned a former Special Adviser to an ex-Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dan Abia, for N2.9billion fraud. In a statement by EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Turnah was re-arraigned alongside two others and nine firms before Mohammed Turaki of the Federal High Court in Port 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
