Less than a week after the Senate introduced a bill to grant a full autonomy to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the upper chamber is...
He once ruled the creeks of the Niger Delta. Feared and dreaded, his name struck terror and sent chill down the spines of both friends and...
The account of Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah (retd.) has been frozen by a Federal High Court in Abuja sequel to an ex parte application filed by the...
As part of its efforts to unravel details surrounding the $43m discovered in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, the House of Representatives has identified the Central...
By Sonala Olumhense… His name: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President-Elect. The man who, in one week, would take control of the Africa’s most bewildering country. He was...
The controversy surrounding Nigeria’s concession of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) and National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) to Indian firm, Global Infrastructure Holding Limited (GIHL), on Friday assumed...
By Pius Adesanmi…. Now that a world-acclaimed Professor of Law is running the show in the land, you’d expect him to use this window to inject...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is going to appeal the ruling of an Appeal Court which discharged and acquitted former Adamawa State Governor, Bala...
The Federal Government says it recovers millions of dollars in stolen funds from public coffers, according to Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance. Adeosun, who stated...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo Nigerian problem is like Lagos traffic, long, complex, and ugly. I have been attempting to solve the complex equation – Nigeria, and...
By Joseph Edgar…. I have decided to look at this issue from another angle and to also look at it beyond the personalities involved. This write...
Amidst serious concerns over undue interference in the work of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the Egmont Group, which is a body of 154 financial...
The Senate, on Wednesday, announced that it will soon commence a probe of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to ascertain how grants and other...
Five days after securing bail, former Jigawa State governor, Saminu Turaki, was on Tuesday re-arraigned in court and ordered to be remanded in Kuje Prison. A...
The seeming battle of supremacy between Nigeria’s executive and legislative arms of government may soon fall to the judicial arm for settlement. Feelers emanating from the...
Enugu State former Chief Judge, Innocent Umezuluike, was on Friday arraigned before Enugu High Court over alleged reception of N10 million in donations from a litigant...
Another judge, Justice James Agbadu-fishim, who was recently reinstated by the National Judicial Council (NJC), was on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of the Ikeja...
Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has made attempts to kill her by sending assassins after...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, has petitioned the House of Representatives, seeking protection against alleged “relentless” harassment by agents of the Federal Government, particularly the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed what may have been a betrayal of trust within Nigerian governors. Commission has alleged that the chairman...
A former governor of Jigawa State, Senator Saminu Turaki was on Tuesday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was picked...
The Senate, on Tuesday, renewed its face-off with the executive and threatened to sanction the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, if he fails to implement the...
A former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan is to pay a fine of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira only) for withdrawing a suit against the Economic and...
The EFCC on Thursday secured what could be tagged a ‘slap on the wrist’ conviction for a former branch manager of Skye Bank Plc. The convict,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized an estate, allegedly valued at over N4 billion from a former Chief of Army Staff. The estate,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned a traditional ruler for obtaining money under false pretense, a crime popularly called 419. The monarch,...
The EFCC has traced about N603 million to one Mrs Esther Habu, wife of Mr Josiah Habu, a civil servant and Director of the Bioresources Development...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly raided the home of former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, in Kaduna State. Sambo, who was vice to...
A judge of the Federal High Court, Bayelsa Division, Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa recently reinstated by the National Judicial Council (NJC) was on Friday arraigned in court...
Senate President Bukola Saraki says he is unperturbed by the decision of the federal government to appeal the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)...
There are indications that the consortium of 13 banks, which facilitated the $1.2 billion (N541 billion) loan to telecommunications firm Etisalat is suspecting fowl play in...
The Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, Olusegun Runsewe, has said that a lot of crimes committed in many countries attributed...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday withdrew the detention order against Honourable Aliyu Ahman Pategi. Pategi, a House of Representatives member representing Edu/Moro/Patigi areas...
An Appeal Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday sacked the application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an injunction restraining the...
The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) says the state governor, Nyesom Wike is planning to tender documents linking his predecessor, and current minister...
Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman Justice Danladi Umar may face a fresh probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over some allegations, The...
A legal practitioner, Dr. Joseph Nwobike (SAN), on Wednesday told an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Raliatu Adebiyi , that N750,000 he gave...
Despite the economic and political situation in the country has been subjected to under the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Presidency on Tuesday said that the...
A Federal High Court judge, Hydiazira Nganjiwa, who was recently recalled from suspension by the National Judicial Council (NJC), on Tuesday challenged his arraignment by the...
The Nigerian Government on Tuesday disclosed that it is making concerted efforts to ensure that the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it has finally begun investigation into the 2016 budget padding allegations against the House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday raided the premises of The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of The Sun Newspapers and threatened to seal...
A recent report published by Budgit, a social advocacy platform primarily engaged in simplifying the budget and matters of public spending for citizens, has blown the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The anti-graft agency...
By Azu Ishiekwene… The government of President Muhammadu Buhari just boxed itself into a corner and the National Judicial Council (NJC) is very pleased to beat...
The Economic and Financial Crimea Commission (EFCC) on Thursday claimed that a number of senior police and army officers shared from the huge funds allegedly doled...
It was a bad day for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as an Abuja Federal High Court judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, on Tuesday landed...
A political godson of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. George Turnah, has vowed to institute a N10billion defamation suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
A group of protesters stormed the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday. The protesters were demanding EFCC Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu’s...
Justice of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Agwadza William Atedze, has queried the use of public funds to buy vehicles for politicians. He has therefore...
