The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it is investigating an incident involving a Chinese national who tore Naira notes in Lagos. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, confirmed this to The PUNCH on Friday. According to report, the incident occurred at a Chinese-owned company along the Lekki-Epe Expressway, when officials from the Lagos State Government arrived to seal off the …

Nigeria is a major crude oil producer. It currently produces about 1.3 million barrels of crude per day. In the best of times, it can pump somewhere around 1.8 million barrels of the black gold daily. That number could cross the 2 million mark if we decide to end crude oil theft and illegal bunkering. These will not happen because …

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the suit filed by some state governments led by Kogi State to challenge the establishment and prosecutorial powers of Nigeria’s key anti-corruption agencies. The verdict laid to rest wide-ranging issues often raised by state governments against investigations and prosecutions of their current and former officials by the federal agencies. The agencies are the Economic …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released on bail two persons who were listed as defendants in the fresh 16-count charge it filed against former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The commission, which confirmed the development when the case came up before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, at Maitama, on Thursday, however, complained …

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has said the level of corruption in the power sector would make people cry. He put it this way: “As we speak, we are grappling with electricity. If you see some of the investigations we are carrying out within the power sector, you will shed tears. “People …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has summoned a Nigerian national, Ibrahim Mohammad, his family, and other guests, over alleged naira abuse at his wedding to Amina Babagana Zannah, in Kano. The invitation follows a viral video depicting individuals spraying naira notes at the event, drawing public attention and backlash as part of the agency’s ongoing campaign against currency …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Vanguard has warned a former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to stop disgracing the party over his running battle with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement on Sunday by the Coordinator of APC Youth Vanguard, Mr. Rasheed Sanusi, the group wondered why the former governor “has been evading …

The League of Patriotic Lawyers has called on the leadership urge the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) “ not to be intimidated by the galaxy of cowardly governors currently shopping for judicial forum to undo the good works of the commission”. Briefing newsmen, the Chairman of the body, Abubakar Yesufu told the media that with EFCC’s …

The recent virulent outbursts on a national television programme by a United Kingdom-based Nigeria lawyer, Prof. Fidelis Oditah, calls for serious concern as it was nothing short of corruption fighting back. One is taken aback that Oditah, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), though far from home, could go on a national television’s live programme to display or feign lack …

The former governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, is still being held at the Port Harcourt, Rivers State office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This makes it his second night in the custody of the anti-graft agency. This is as the Delta State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) backed the detention of the former governor, describing …