The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will be calling 15 witnesses to prove the N4 billion theft charges it filed against a former governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano. The prosecuting counsel for the EFCC, Slyvanus Tahir (SAN), disclosed this on Wednesday shortly after Obiano was arraigned on nine counts before the Federal High Court in Abuja. After Obiano …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Chuef Willie Obiano, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, over alleged money laundering to the tune of N4,008,573,350. The PUNCH gathered on Tuesday that the ex-governor will be arraigned on nine count charges. The development comes over a week …

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 Federal Government has for the third time amended the criminal charges it filed against the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. In the latest amended charge taken before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Thursday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accused Emefiele of impersonating the …

A cyber-security specialist, Mr. Chidiebere Ihediwa has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (well known as Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists. According to him, this strategy is better, rather than allowing them to languish in detention or undergo destructive dissolution. Ihediwa, also a renowned software developer, made the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has interrogated the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Oluwatoyin Madein, over an alleged link to a N585.2 million fraud involving the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Betta Edu. The AGF was quizzed by EFCC interrogators at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja on Monday. Details of the interrogation on Tuesday revealed …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8 billion. According to Sunday PUNCH, it was revealed that the amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving the former governors and ex-ministers was not less than N772.2 billion, however, the anti-graft …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the travel documents of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu; and her predecessor, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq who are being probed for various alleged financial malfeasance during their separate stewardship of the ministry. Also, top sources within the commission said that the EFCC seized the passport of …

A Federal High Court on Wednesday remanded former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Olu Agunloye at the Kuje Correctional Centre, pending when the bail would be granted over allegations of fraud. This is as Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka questioned the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which arraigned Agunloye before Justice Donatus Okorowo. He pleaded …

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 …