Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, detained a former Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for the alleged diversion of the state’s N1.3 trillion of the 13 per cent derivation fund from the Federation Account between 2015 and 2023. A source said that Okowa was detained in Port Harcourt when he reported at the commission’s …

The arrest of Edo State’s Accountant General, Mr. Julius Anelu, and two other top officials, was carried out to save the state in view of “huge and suspicious transactions from the state treasured by the outgoing administration”. According to a relaible source within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the development was not to ground the activities of the …

Since the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede assumed office about one year ago, the fight against corruption, financial and cyber crimes, has taken a new heightened and reinvigorated dimension to the admiration of those who are genuinely concerned about fighting the cankerworm of corruption that has bedeviled our nation almost to a standstill. …

Our majestic, even imperial state governors just couldn’t mask it anymore; their loathsomeness and disgust with the country’s attempt, even if feeble, at fighting corruption. 16 of them, out of 36 governors in the country have matched up to the Supreme Court with an uncanny request: that the highest court in the land should declare that the Economic and Financial …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 21 January for ruling on a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arraign and try in absentia former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for alleged money laundering charge pending against him. In the charge, the EFCC accused Bello, among others, of laundering N80,246,470,088.88 belonging to Kogi State. Justice …

The Lagos State Government has dismissed a news report on Tuesday, which claimed that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to Court over alleged plan to prosecute him after his tenure. Sanwo-Olu is only a year and five months into his second and final term of four years each. In a statement on Tuesday, …

A non-governmental organisation, Journalists Against Corruption (JAC) has urged the media to support the war against corruption by rallying round the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement in Abuja on Sunday by JAC’s Programme Coordinator, Mr. Kehinde Osifisan, the group said that the media has a “duty to hold the government accountable to the people”. The statement …

Former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Thursday, failed to respond to a summons for arraignment before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. This latest case involves allegations of N110 billion fraud. Justice Maryann Anenih had issued the summons on 3 October, and also granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) permission for substituted service of the …

As part of the efforts to prevent cybercrime and channel the digital skills of young Nigerians to more productive ventures, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has concluded plans to establish a Cybercrime Research Centre. The Centre, which is being put together in partnership with a foremost fintech firm, Flutterwave, will serve as a research and resource centre for …

The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in a suit filed by 16 state governments challenging the constitutionality of the laws establishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and others. A seven-member panel of justices presided over by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, on Tuesday reserved the matter after the lawyers in the matter argued their applications. The suit which was originally …