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…
Author: Kunle Edun
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…
Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Ltd, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Ltd, and Avalon Global Property Development Company Ltd, allegedly linked to Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan in a $15million money laundering case today pleaded guilty before Justice Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Court, Lagos. But Waripamo-Owei Emmanuel Dudafa, former adviser on domestic affairs to President Jonathan; Amajuoyi Azubuike Briggs, another former presidential aide and Adedamola Bolodeoku, former official of Skye bank pleaded not guilty. The defendants are alleged to have fraudulently received and retained various sums…
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, has sought collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as part of efforts to enhance the activities of both agencies. He said the EFCC could track an individual who is suspected to have been involved in any fraudulent activity with his or her driver’s licence. Oyeyemi made the remark while receiving a delegation of the EFCC led by its acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, at the FRSC headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, September 15, 2016. Oyeyemi, who said that the FRSC provides services to other law enforcement agencies to aid…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has called on Chatham House to ensure that the findings of its research intervention in the fight against corruption in Nigeria are grafted into the programmes of the anti- corruption agencies in the country. He made the plea Wednesday September 14 at a dinner organized by the Royal Institute of International Affairs for researchers and participants in its workshop on Social Norms of Corruption in Nigeria at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja. He said the Commission was pleased by the institute’s intervention, adding that the EFCC is open to…
The attention of the EFCC has been drawn to the reactions that have trailed its statement on the call by Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud SAN, recently elected president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) that the Commission should be stripped of its prosecutorial powers. Whilst the reactions have been overwhelmingly positive, a few people seem to have read only the headlines of newspapers and online platforms that reported the statement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commission DID NOT say the whole of the NBA is populated by rogues and vultures. The Nigerian Bar and Bench are peopled by very many…
The 56th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) came to an end August 26, in Port Harcourt with the bar making pronouncements on major issues of national importance. One of the new commitments as articulated by the new President of the Association, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, is to reinvent the association by reclaiming its moral high ground through a campaign for ethical rectitude by members of the bar. “The NBA under my watch will fight judicial corruption. We shall make the legal profession unattractive for corrupt lawyers,” he said. This is reassuring considering the evidence that senior…
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has expressed the readiness to collaborate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-graft agencies in the country towards ridding the country of corruption and economic and financial crimes. During a presentation by the group at the Commission’s head office in Abuja, on Monday, August 29, 2016, Oliver Blake, Team Lead, Governance and Social Development, explained that the project titled “Anti-Corruption in Nigeria” (ACORN) would revolve around ‘‘Sanction, Society and System’’ . The project coordinator, Ekanem Bassey said the project would examine financial accountability in the public sector as well…