Corruption Scandals

N1.5bn Fraud: Court Orders Arrest Of Ex-Naval Chie

Saturday, May 4, 2024
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrest of a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, and two other officers over an alleged N1.5 billion money laundering case. It was learnt that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offe ...

EFCC Arraigns Kwara Ex-Finance Commissioner For N1.22bn Fraud

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has, on Monday, April 29, arraigned a former Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State, Ademola Banu, before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin. The Nigerian Voice reports that he was arraigned over alleged ...

Police Arrests NATCOM Director-General For Alleged Fraud, Impersonation

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Reports have emerged that men of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested the Director-General of the National Commission against the Proliferation of Arms, Light Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism (NATCOM), Adejare Adegbenro, for alleged fraudulent activitie ...

Revealed: How Kogi Ex-Gov, Yahaya Bello, Paid School Fees Of Pre-School Child At

Friday, April 26, 2024
Agreement documents and payment receipts have shown details of how the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, paid school fees for his children including his pre-school child, Zayyan Ali Bello, in advance up to 2034/35. The payments were made to American International School, Abuja ...

N4.6b Traced To Ex-Sokoto Governor’s Son— EFCC Witness Tells Court  

Friday, April 26, 2024
The Second Prosecution Witness, 2PW, Hamza Abdullahi in the trial-within-trial of former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and four others, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, told Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, that a sum of N4.633billion was traced to the acc ...

Court Orders Arrest of Ex-Director General Of National Institute for Legislative

Friday, April 26, 2024
A Federal High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has ordered the arrest of former Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Professor Ladi Aisha Hamalai for her failure to appear in the corruption case preferred against her by the Independent Corrupt Practices and ...

EFCC Arrests Ex-Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika Over Alleged N8bn Nigeria Air Fra

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former Minister of Aviation under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Hadi Sirika, over allegation bordering on N8,069,176,864.00 money laundering. According to reports, the embattled former Minister of Aviation arrived at the Federa ...

Alleged ₦84bn Fraud: Court Orders EFCC To Serve Charge On Yahaya Bello’s Lawyer

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to serve a copy of the charge against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on his lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohamed. This follows the absence of Bello in court for h ...

No Officials From Humanitarian Affairs Ministry  Have Been Cleared In Ongoing Pr

Sunday, April 14, 2024
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has said no officials from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs have been cleared in ongoing investigations into financial misappropriation. This is as the EFCC disclosed that it has recovered N32.7 billion and $445,000 in the ongoing investigation. It ...

Court Grants Ex-CBN Governor, Emefiele, N50Million Bail

Friday, April 12, 2024
A high court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has granted bail to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in the sum of N50 million. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released details of 18 out of the 26 fresh multi-million-dollar and naira corruption ch ...
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