Justice Muhammad Maina of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 convicted and sentenced one Gilbert Nosihe Omorogbe to one year imprisonment. Omorogbe was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one- count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N1, 190,000.00. The amended charge reads: ”That you Gilbert Nosihe Omorogbe on or about May, 2021 in Maiduguri, Borno State dishonestly misappropriated and converted to your own use the aggregate sum of N1,190,000.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira), belonging to one Sarah Bulama under the guise to secure an…
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The trial of former Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over an alleged mismanagement of Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC’s funds continued on Thursday, March 13, 2025 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) presenting its third witness, Engineer Abdulsalam Olarewaju Sirajudeen, before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin. Ahmed and Banu are facing trial for the alleged misappropriation of UBEC funds to the tune of N5.78 billion. Testifying before the court, Sirajudeen, a project manager with SUBEB in 2013 who later became Director of Physical Planning in…
The Third Prosecution Witness, PW3, Engineer Abdulsalam Olarewaju Sirajudeen in the trial of a former governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu for alleged fraud, on Thursday, March 13, 2025 disclosed before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin that the Ahmed failed to award contracts for UBEC projects in the state, captured and ratified in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB Action Plans after UBEC had given approval for their award and execution, backed with matching grants and counterpart funding. Ahmed and Banu are facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a husband and wife, Baba Sule Abubakar Sadiq and Hafsat Kabir Lawal, alongside two others, Abdullahi Bala and Ladani Akindele, before Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court for obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering and stealing to the tune of N197,750,000 (One Hundred and Ninety Seven Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira. They were arraigned on six-count charges on Monday, March 9, 2025. Specifically, the defendants allegedly colluded among themselves and defrauded their victims through different guises, including impersonating the wife of the Governor of Katsina…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede has called on staff of the Commission to continue on the paths of professionalism, integrity and courage in order to keep faith with the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. . He made the call in Uyo, Akwa –Ibom State on Wednesday March 12, 2025, while on a working visit to the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Commission. According to him, the anti-graft works of the EFCC required great sacrifice and staff of the Commission should be ready at all times…
The trial of the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Finance Commissioner, Ademola Banu, over alleged misappropriation of N5.78 billion public funds continued on Wednesday, March 11, 2024, before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, the EFCC presented its second witness, PW 2, Dr. Musa Oladimeji Dasuki, a retired Permanent Secretary at the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), who served between 2011 and 2020. Led in evidence by EFCC counsel Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, Dasuki testified that the Kwara State Government, under…
Justices Ladiran Akintola, O.S. Adeyemi, K.B. Olawoyin, G.A. Sunmonu of the Oyo State High Court and Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan. Oyo State, have convicted and sentenced thirty-two persons to prison for fraud. They were prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on separate one-count charges bordering on impersonation, internet-related offences. The convicts are: Kolade Olayinka Akinlosotu, Adetoro Kolawole Jelili, Olatunji Opeyemi Matthew, Ehifowoju Kehinde Emmanuel, Basit Akorede Mustapha, Banjoko Olamide Oriyomi, Badmus Quazeem Damilola, Ikumapayi Olalekan Babajide, Muili Olamilekan Sodiq, Odususi Yemi Michael, Ashiru Adebola Ibrahim, Ayomide Olamide Ogidan, Fatusin Michael…
The First Prosecution Witness, PW1 in the ongoing trial of Kore Holdings Limited, , Temitope Erinomo, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, told Justice J. O. Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court Abuja, that the company didn’t report its activities to the appropriate authority in accordance with the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is prosecuting Kore Holdings Limited on a four -count amended charge alongside Muhammed Kuchazi (now deceased), for failing to comply with the requirements to report its activities to the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and failing to…
In a landmark ruling on Monday, March 10, 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria dismissed appeals filed by the Attorney General of Rivers State and the Speaker of the State’s House of Assembly against the leave granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Court of Appeal to contest an order of perpetual injunction of Federal High Court, Port Harcourt that barred the Commission from investigating Dr. Peter Odili’s tenure as governor of the state. The dismissal by a five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice John Okoro effectively cleared the pathway for the Commission to investigate Dr. Odili’s eight year rule of the oil-rich state and brought to an end EFCC’s long-standing legal battle to probe the administration. The legal…
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Richard M. Mills Jr. has reaffirmed that the robust working relationship between the United States government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would continue in order to achieve significant success in the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. He stated this in Abuja on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 when he led a delegation of the US Mission in Nigeria on a familiarization visit to the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede at the Commission’s corporate headquarters. “I’m very grateful for the relationship we have…