The Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Y. Halilu in Jabi on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 ordered one Ibrahim Kamba, a suspected land racketeer, to pay the sum of N15,000 as fine to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for delaying trial. Kamba was arraigned on March 23, 2017 on one-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. He was alleged to have been involved in a land scam to the tune of N7million. The case, which was initially slated for March 27, 2017 for commencement of trial, has suffered several adjournments due to the…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, October 27, 2016 arraigned one Moses Godia Shipi, managing director, La Shipson Construction Nigeria Limited before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusufu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 16-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N6.5million. Shippi allegedly conspired with one Harrison Ogar Job (at large) to defraud one Abiola Jacobs of Delmac Nigeria Limited of the said sum under the pretext that he had a contract for the supply of crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroluem Corporation, to Ghana. The…
Justice Tukur Mu’azu of Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced the immediate past sole Administrator of Kaura Local Government, Kaduna State, Ibrahim Akut Baba to seven years imprisonment without option of fine for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. The convict was arraigned before Justice Mu’azu on January 7, 2016 on allegation of defrauding one Alhaji Auwal Ibrahim of Rahusa Investment Limited, Sabon Hunkuyi, Kaduna state sometime in 2011, over a phony gas supply contract. The victim allegedly paid the convict N1million for the supply of five trucks of gas at the rate of N200,000 per truck.…
Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced to one and half years imprisonment, a former Director General of Delta State Direct Labour Agency, Mr. Emmanuel Odafe Igbini. The sentence is without an option of fine. Igbini’s journey to prison began when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned him on a three-count charge in November 2014, for failing to make full disclosure of assets comprising his Naira account with Stanbic IBTC Bank, US Dollar Account and his daughter’s account with same bank. He pleaded not guilty to the three- count…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on October 26, 2016 arraigned the quartet of Tamuno Tonye Ogolo, Donald Ndifreke Dickson, Godspower Chukwudi Okoro and TamGold Energy Services before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a 5-count charge of criminal conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretence. It was alleged that Okoro, in connivance with other accused persons sometime in September 2015, contacted one Bloom Faith Petroleum Limited, and promised to supply the company with crude oil through a vessel, MT OCEAN LILY. After series of negotiations, the complainant, Bloom Faith, allegedly paid…
The Vice President of Industrial Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, on Monday, October 24, 2016 identified corruption as a crime against humanity which required concerted efforts of all Nigerians to fight and defeat. He made the remark while playing host to the acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, who visited the Textile Labour House, Kaduna. Comrade Aremu who is also the General Secretary of the Textile Workers’ Union said that there was a linkage between the collapse of many industries in the country and systematic corruption, citing “addictive waivers” granted by some corrupt ministry officials in…
A driver identified as Chinwoke Onyedinazu was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice M. A. Liman of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for duping a Briton, Paul H., the sum of One Hundred and Eighty Two Thousand, Sixty Four Pounds, Ninety Nine Shillings (182,064.99). He was docked on a nine-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense. Onyedinazu was a former driver of Mr. Paul while he was residing in Nigeria. In 2014, Onyedinazu reportedly proposed a fish farming business to the Briton and the latter accepted the proposal. He later…
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Friday, October 21, 2016 granted the application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the consolidation of the two separate criminal charges against former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and others with respect to their involvement in the infamous N2.1billion arms scam. Dasuki (first defendant) alongside Shuaibu Salisu, a former Director, Finance and Administration, Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA; Aminu Babakusa, a former General Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are being prosecuted…
The North East Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Maiduguri, Borno State, Ibrahim Bappa on Thursday, October 20, 2016 disclosed that a sum of N196,670.000.00 (one hundred and ninety-six million, six hundred and seventy thousand naira) had been recovered by the anti-graft agency in the zone. He added that another sum of N2.8million had also been recovered from individuals as a result of petitions received and acted on. Bappa made this disclosure at the zone’s media briefing in Maiduguri. According to him, the Maiduguri zonal office which was commissioned on the 22nd March, 2010 was closed…
The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja was stalled on October 20, 2016 as Dariye’s counsel, Nantok Joshua, asked for an adjournment to enable the defence produce a ruling purportedly delivered by a Kaduna State High Court, which it intended to tender and build on with its next witnesses. The ruling, according to Joshua, deals with the ecological funds, which is the crux of the case, couldn’t be tendered because the Registrar of the Kaduna State High Court was unavailable to provide it…
In less than ten months of being in operation, the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered N57,316,607.15. The Zonal Head, Mr. Akanniyene Ezinma made the disclosure today October 20, 2016 at a maiden media briefing in the Commission’s office at Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan. According to him ”the Ibadan Zonal office was established in January 2016 as an impetus to the anti corruption vision of the Federal Government and the resolve of the Acting Executive Chairman, Ibrahim Magu to extend the anti graft war to the grassroots and especially to bring the Commission closer…
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has lauded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its assistance in the recovery of pension assets. The Executive Secretary of the Directorate, Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor who gave the commendation during a courtesy visit to the EFCC headquarters today in Abuja, underlined her agency’s indebtedness to the Commission for the assistance it rendered to PTAD, during the recent verification exercise. “Your officers participate in the exercise for which we are extremely grateful,” she said. She said PTAD values the collaboration between the two agencies and sough further assistance of the Commission in the recovery of pension assets held by some insurance…
The South East Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Enugu secured a total of Fourteen (14) convictions in the last ten months and recovered over Two Hundred and Forty Four Million, Five Hundred and Eighty Seven Naira, Twenty Kobo (N244,574,587.28). The Zonal Head, Johnson Babalola disclosed this today in Enugu at a press conference to brief the media and other stakeholders on the activities of the zone since January 2016. Babalola further disclosed that Nine Hundred and Fifty Five Thousand ,Four Hundred and Sixty Five United State Dollars ($955,465 USD); Ten Thousand Euro (€10,000) and Three…
Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 warned parties, their agents and surrogates to stop interfering with prosecution witnesses. The judge gave the warning at the resumed trial of a former Taraba State governor, Jolly Nyame, following complaints from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecution team that the defendant was interfering with its witnesses. Nyame is standing trial on a 41-count charge of money laundering, criminal breach of trust and gratification to the tune of N1.64bn. The case which had earlier been slated for hearing today could not…
A witness in the trial of Patrick Ziadeke Akpobolokemi, Major General Emmanuel Atewe, Kime Egozi and one Josephine Otuoga on 19th October, 2016 told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos how Major General Atewe, former Commander of the Joint Military Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield, disbursed over N8.5bn from the account of the Joint Task Force, domiciled in Zenith Bank Plc. The witness, Teslim Ajuwola compliance officer with Zenith Bank made the disclosure through the account statement of the Joint Task Force, under Atewe. The instruments forwarded to the EFCC by Zenith Bank, showed the second defendant and one…
The Federal Government has called for more support from Nigerians for the efforts aimed at recovering stolen funds from persons that looted the nation’s treasury. The call was made by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, while addressing participants at a 2-day National Conference jointly organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, PACAC and the National Assembly. The programme with the theme, “The Role of the Legislature in the Fight against Corruption in Nigeria” offers a platform for participants to brainstorm on how to tackle corruption in the country. Declaring the conference open, Osinbajo lamented…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on last Monday, October 17, re-arraigned a former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, his son, Senator Abdulaziz Nyako, and two others on a 37-count of money laundering before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly laundering state funds to the tune N40billion. Others are: Zulkifik Abba and Abubakar Aliyu, who were joined as 3rd and 4th defendants, while the firms allegedly used in laundering the funds – Blue Opal Limited, Sebore Farms & Extension Limited, Pagoda Fortunes Limited, Tower Assets Management Limited and Crust Energy Limited were…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 arrested a businessman, Abdulhafiz Umar Barau, for allegedly obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N12,150,000 (Twelve Million One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). The complainant, Dusus Yyang Bot, allegedly supplied 90,000(Ninety Thousand) litres of Automobile Gas Oil (AGO) worth N12,150,000 to the suspect sometime in January this year. The 38-year-old suspect had assured the complainant that he would pay the agreed sum of money after the product was delivered to him. However, the complainant alleged that the suspect could not be reached any more after…
The Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Kudirat Jose on 21 September convicted and sentenced one Michael Ugochukwu to five years imprisonment on a one count charge of stealing to the tune of N10,500,000 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only) property of Patrick Ekeh. The convict was arraigned by the EFCC in early 2014 following investigation of a petition by one Patrick Ekeh who alleged that he imported a total of twenty eight vehicles for the convict from the United States of America sometime in January 2010 through the Lagos port. It was later discovered in April…
The former governor of Adamawa State, James Bala Ngilari, has been charged and remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was the ruling of Justice Nathan Musa of High Court of Adamawa state, which sat in Yola on September 21. The EFCC had charged Ngilari for violation of procurement laws in the award of contract of one hundred and sixty-seven million naira to one El-Yadi Motors Limited for supply of twenty-five units of operational vehicles (Toyota Corolla). The Commission had instituted a nineteen count-charge against Ngilari, his former secretary to the government, Ibrahim Andrew Welye…