The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today July 28, 2017 secured the conviction of one Umar Kabir Danbaba before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court on a one count charge of Cheating. The convict fraudulently obtained the sum of N1,470,000 (One Million, Four Hundred amd Seventy Thousand Naira ) from the complainant for the purpose of securing and allocating mining site in Zamfara State but instead diverted the money to his personal use. Upon his intial arraignment on 16th June 2017, the convict pleaded not guilty to the nine count charge brought against him by the…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has called on Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the South-South, to brace up in monitoring the integrity and execution of contracts by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He made the call on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at an interactive meeting with leaders of Civil Society Groups in Rivers and Bayelsa States. According to Magu, the only modality of fighting the evils of abandonment and poor contract execution of contracts is to be involved in thier monitoring. “We must monitor how contracts are being given…
Nigeria’s anti-corruption czar, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) through her Kano Office has recovered a sum of N328,988,296,990.62 (Three Hundred and Twenty Eight Billion, Nine Hundred and Eighty Eight Million, Two Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety Naira, Sixty Two Kobo) from nine major oil marketers across the country. The recovery was sequel to a petition against the leadership of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its subsidiary, Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC. The petition alleged that a whooping sum of N40billion had been diverted by the major oil marketers in connivance with the leadership…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday returned a parcel containing a Camcorder to the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, Germany, also known as BKA, for onward delivery to a German, David Muehling. The Canon E0S C100 Camcorder was returned to the BKA through its representative in Lagos, Damilola Adewale, by the Head of Operations, EFCC Lagos zonal office, Garba Dugum. The Commission recovered the parcel, following a petition received from the BKA on July 20, 2017. The BKA had notified the Commission about the encounter of a German businessman, David Muehling, who was allegedly duped by a Nigerian…
The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 and presided over by a vacation judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor, has granted an application filed by a former Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Olajumoke Akinjide, for the release of her international passport to enable her travel abroad for medical treatment. kinjide and one Olanrewaju Otiti had been arraigned on June 22, 2017 before Justice J.O. Abdul-Malik of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on an amended 12-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N650million. The accused allegedly conspired to receive the…
The ongoing trial of Joseph Nwobike, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, before Justice Raliat Adebiyi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja continued Friday July 21, 2017, with the prosecution confronting him with various text messages he sent to a court official in order to influence the cases he was handling. Nwobike is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 11 counts bordering on perverting the court of justice and offering gratification to public officials. One of the counts reads: “That you Nwobike, on the 19th day of March, 2015 in Lagos, within…
Justice J.E. Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Segun Oyekanmi, Managing Director, Loben Investment Co-operative Multi-purpose Society Limited, to five years imprisonment for N30million fraud. The convict alongside his company and one Ade Bosede ( still at large) had been arraigned on October 26, 2016 on a three-count charge bordering on stealing, conspiracy to steal and issuance of dishonoured cheques to the tune of N30 million. The convict had collected the sum of N30m (Thirty Million Naira) from one Olufunke Dada, with an assurance that he wanted to give…
A suspected credit card fraudster, who allegedly masterminded the theft of $5,400 Canadian Dollars from a catering entertainment outfit in Brantford, Canada has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The fraud came to light after a young Nigerian undergraduate of Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia,Tony Ifeoluwa Adebero was arrested in Toronto, Canada on charges of wire fraud. The youngster who was expecting to receive his tuition from his dad, Mr Adebero Oyewole, did not suspect fraud when his account was credited by his bank. He however became worried when few days after, he got a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to appeal the July 20, 2017 Court of Appeal ruling, which acquitted a former Adamawa State governor, Bala Ngilari, of the five-count charge of corruption, which the state’s High Court had on March 6, 2017 found him guilty of, and sentenced him to five years in jail. Ngilari was arraigned before Justice Nathan Musa on a 17-count charge in September 2016, and after going through 52 exhibits tendered by the EFCC, as well as the testimony of six witnesses, the trial judge found him guilty of five out of the counts, and…
The assistance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been sought by the Nigerian Products Marketing Company (formerly Pipelines and Products Marketing Company), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in tackling sundry financial malpractices in the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil industry. Umar Adiya, the managing director of the company made the plea when he led senior management staff of the organization on a courtesy visit to the EFCC head office on Friday July 21, 2017. Adiya lauded the Commission for its giant strides towards eradicating corruption in the country. He said the visit…