The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) led by Barrister Adebayo Somefun has expressed its determination to identify with the anti-corruption drive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Somefun, during a visit to the Commission on Thursday, July 20, 2017 said that, “the new management of NSITF is solidly behind the EFCC in its bid to change the country for better, as change itself is inevitable”. According to him, “In order for Nigeria to rise above the present gloomy economic times, Nigerians need to view problems as the optimistic who sees opportunities in difficulties in contrast to the…
Author: Kunle Edun
The management of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) on July 20, 2017 expressed its willingness to partner with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in its bid to promote the anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. Haruwa Okatahi, Director of Employment, Social Security and Skill Acquisition, NYCN, made this known when he led a team of management staff on a visit to the Abuja head office of the EFCC. According to him, “The NYCN is an umbrella body which represents youths across the 36 States including FCT with strong presence in the Local Government Areas and numerous wards nationwide.…
The Court of Appeal in Lagos today dismissed the appeal brought by Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the Bench Warrant issued against him by Justice Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos. It will be recalled that on 15 December, 2015 the EFCC instituted a Criminal Charge against Tompolo and 9 others. The Commission, through its counsel Festus Keyamo, could not serve Tompolo personally with the summons. On January 12, 2016 Keyamo applied and obtained an order for substituted service of the said summons by pasting same on Tompolo’s last known…
A vacation judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor, sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of a $37.5m( N11.75bn) property on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos allegedly belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The order came following an exparte application, on July 17, 2017 supported by an eight-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Abdulrasheed Bawa, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC . The former Minister was said to have purchased the 15-storey building, which comprises 18 flats and six penthouses, between 2011 and 2012 from the developers, YF Construction and Real…
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu on July 19, 2017 inaugurated a committee to reposition the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU. The committee which has members drawn from law enforcement, financial and regulatory agencies is chaired by Dr. Abdullahi Shehu, a former Director General of the Inter-Governmental Action Against Money Laundering in West Africa, GIABA. Other members of the committee are Mr. Chidi Chukwuka from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC); Mr. Bamanga Bello, Head of the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML); Hajia Jamila Yusuf of the Central Bank of Nigeria; …
The Consul General of the Germany Embassy in Lagos, Mr. Ingo Herbert has assured the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of continued support in combating corruption in Nigeria through regular training for its staff. Speaking today at the opening of a 10-day capacity building programme on Corruption Control, facilitated by the German Government through Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) also known as German Federal Criminal Police, Herbert pledged adequate support for EFCC in in achieving its mandate. ‘’I read newspapers every day; I see that EFCC has taken up the challenge and is doing a great job. The German government is supporting…
Ten years after his first arraignment, a former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki was on July 18, 2017 re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 32-count charge of fraud. Turaki, a two-term governor is facing multiple charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, stealing, money laundering and misappropriation of public funds. After his was arraigned in 2007, he went into hiding and was subsequently declared wanted by the EFCC, for failing to present himself for trial. A warrant directing the Inspector General of Police or…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned one Mallam Umaru Kankani before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on a two-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining by false pretence. Kankani’s journey to the dock followed a petition by one Dr. Salisu Ahmed of Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe alleging that sometimes in June, 2016, he was defrauded by the accused to the tune N2.3million over a parcel of land situated at Federal Low-cost, Gombe, which ownership the accused claimed was his, but was later discovered to be a scam. Investigation by operatives of the EFCC revealed…
Hearing on the N359million fraud trial of a former provost of the Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology, FSMLT, Dr. Nkereuwem Sunday Etukudo, suffered another setback on July 17, 2017 as the absence of the trial judge, Justice Y. G. Dakwak of the Plateau State High Court, Jos, who was said to be away for another official engagement, forced an adjournment. On the last adjourned date, Friday June 2, 2017, the Registrar who cited “scheduling conflicts” as reason for the further adjournment, today informed parties that, “The judge had travelled for a conference in the company of the Chief Judge.”…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned the general public to be wary of the activities of the duo of INNOCENT ONYEKACHI ORITSETIMEYIN AKPOTEDJA ADJENUHGURE and ADEOLA SAM OPEYEMI who have been misleading Nigerians with false information about the activities of the Commission. Barely six hours after the Supreme Court judgment in the case of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where it ruled in favour of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi’s faction, Adjenuhgure posted in his Facebook Timeline that $42 million was found in Senator Makarfi’s farm by the EFCC “less than 2 hours after the Supreme Court judgment”.…