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…
Author: Kunle Edun
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…