The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command, has arrested 41 suspects and impounded 12 trucks containing different types of solid minerals mined without license. Parading the suspects in Ilorin on Tuesday, EFCC Zonal Commander, Mr. Michael Nzekwe said that the suspects were picked from various locations including Patigi, Igbeti and Ogbomoso areas near Kwara state. The Commander …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered over N30 billion from the N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs under the former minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouk. Sources in the anti-graft agency, who spoke with The PUNCH on Friday, said the commission had also uncovered over N500 million from the scam associated with Umar-Farouk’s successor, Betta Edu, who was …

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede has revealed that the anti-graft agency had uncovered how a religious sect in Nigeria is laundering money for terrorists. This was as he also revealed that another religious body was found to be protecting a money launderer after some money suspected to have been laundered was traced …

The impeached Speaker of the Ogun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, alongside two other principal career officers of the assembly, Hon. Dayo Samuel and Hon. Adeyemo Adedeji, were on Monday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, the capital of the state. Oluomo and the duo were dragged before the court by the Economic …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Kayode Ajulo, on Monday, said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seems to have lost the essence for which it was created and has now allegedly turned into a political tool. He also restated his call for President Bola Tinubu to set up a presidential task force to unmask officials of the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has seized the passports of the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, and her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, over the ongoing investigations into scandals in the ministry. Edu, who arrived at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja at 10 am on Tuesday, was still being quizzed by the commission’s investigators as of the …

The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has been mandated to report at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Jabi, Abuja on Tuesday. Edu was suspended by President Bola Tinubu on Monday over alleged N585 million scandal. The embattled minister was invited by the anti-graft agency in compliance with President Tinubu’s …

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday raided the headquarters of the Dangote Group in connection with ongoing investigation into foreign exchange allocations. According to PREMIUM TIMES, on arrival at the headquarters of one of Africa’s largest conglomerates in Lagos, the EFCC operatives demanded documents relating to allocation of foreign exchange to the group in the last 10 …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has tracked N30 billion of the N44 billion moved from the accounts of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). The multiple accounts to which the funds were moved by some NSIPA officials have been frozen by the anti-graft agency as part of an ongoing probe. It was learnt that the N44 billion …

Immediate past Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hadija Sadiya Farouq, has denied any link to one Mr. James Okwete, who is reported to be under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over alleged financial improprieties. The anti-graft agency was said to be investigating Okwete over an alleged N37 billion fraud. In a statement …