The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has debunked claims that it discovered $800 million, ₦700 billion in cash, and drugs worth ₦1 trillion at the residence of Bello El-Rufai, the eldest son of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. In a statement released Thursday on its official Facebook page, the anti-graft agency dismissed the allegations…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has linked the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to the massive Abuja property with 753 duplexes and other apartments located in the Cadastral Zone area of the capital city. This information was obtained on Tuesday contained in court documents filed by the anti-graft agency…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has achieved its largest single asset recovery since its establishment in 2003. In a statement by the agency on Monday, December 2, 2024, Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal High Court ordered the final forfeiture of a massive estate in the Lokogoma District of Abuja to the Federal Government….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized the international passport of former Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement during his tenure. Okowa is being probed over the alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion from the 13 percent derivation fund allocated to Delta State between 2015…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has clarified that Mrs. Fauziya Danjuma Goje, daughter of Senator Danjuma Goje, was not the individual in a viral video showing naira notes being sprayed at a wedding. In a statement issued on Monday by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, the commission said its investigation…
No fewer than 704 students from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, have filed a petition with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Sokoto zonal office, requesting an investigation into the alleged diversion of their tuition fees by the Special Adviser on Students’ Matters to the state governor, Abubakar Muhammad Salame. The students, who are indigenes of…
The running mate to Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 election, Ifeanyi Okowa, remains in detention at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, marking his second night with the anti-graft agency. Okowa, who was the former Delta State Governor responded to an EFCC summons on…
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Ifeanyi Okowa, former governor of Delta State, over allegations of misappropriating N1.3 trillion from funds allocated to oil-producing states. Okowa was taken into custody on Monday after he reported to the EFCC office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following an official summons. Sources involved in the investigation disclosed…
Controversial Nigerian crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky, has reportedly departed Nigeria just days after being released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The embattled cross-dresser was stopped and removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos late Thursday night while attempting to leave the country…
The Lagos State Government has dismissed reports that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It was reported that Sanwo-Olu had allegedly filed a lawsuit against the EFCC, alleging threats of arrest, detention, and prosecution once his tenure as governor concludes. The suit, a fundamental rights enforcement action, was submitted to…
