The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 23, 2025, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Chidubem Ogbura, a banker with Union Bank Plc, in the trial of Friday Audu, Huang Haoyu and An Hongxu over an alleged N3.4bn, $2,562,203 cybercrime before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. They are among the 792 –member syndicates of cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud arrested on December 19, 2024 in Lagos in a surprise operation tagged “Eagle Flush Operation” by EFCC operatives. The defendants, alongside a company, Genting International Co. Ltd., are standing trial on…
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The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 23, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of 17 Chinese nationals to one year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud before Justices D. E.Osiagor and Justice D.I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The convicts are: Yu Hui,( a.k.a A.Bin) , Huang Jin Hui, Fei Fan, LU Qiang , HU Xi Zheng, Sun Zhi Peng, WU Hao, Cong Bing and LI Qiang ( a.k.a Yang Huan Huan). Others are: Zheng Wei( a.k.a .A Hong) , Cheng Jian, DA Tou, A Wen,…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged all stakeholders involved in tackling money laundering, including Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs), Licensing Authorities and Self-Regulatory Bodies, to strictly adhere to the rules and regulations of the ongoing reforms in Anti-Money Laundering Law/ Countering Terrorist Financing/ Countering Proliferation Financing AML/CFT/CPF. He gave the charge on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at a stakeholders’ engagement in Abuja. In his opening address, Director, Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML), Deputy Director of the EFCC, DCE Harry Erin, who spoke for the EFCC’s Chairman appreciated…
The Ag. Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE I Michael Wetkas, has called for stronger collaboration between the Commission and the Department of State Service, DSS. He said this while on a scheduled courtesy visit to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Command of the DSS. Wetkas noted that it was important for him to seek collaboration from other law enforcement agencies following his posting to Abuja Zonal Directorate in March 2025. He noted the DSS as one of the key security and law enforcement agencies in the country…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,has called on students across the country to shun negative use of the internet, stressing that it could be counter-productive and criminal. The call was made in Lagos on Friday, June 20, 2025, at an interactive session with students from the Department of International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, who came on an educational visit to the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the EFCC. Speaking during the engagement, the Zonal Director, CE Michael Nzekwe encouraged the students to engage in innovative ideas that could draw attention to their crafts. The Zonal Director,…
Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the Special Adviser to the Executive Governor of Benue State on Documentation, Research, and Planning, Dr. Mkor Aondona for alleged sextortion and cyber bullying. He was arrested on Friday June 20, 2025 in Makurdi following claims of some female students accusing the governor’s aide of unethical and criminal behavior involving sexual exploitation, cyber bullying and blackmail. The petitioners alleged that Aondona was routinely recruiting slim and attractive girls for ushering jobs and insisted on sexual favours as a condition for selection. Based on this, they…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Friday, June 20, 2025 upheld the January 22, 2025 ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo for the final forfeiture of N1,582,000,000 (One Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty-two Million) to the federal government, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC against Steve Olusegun Ogidan. He was the National Coordinating Consultant of Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL and was investigated for criminal breach of trust, bribery and money laundering alongside Aliyu Abbati Abdulhameed, then former Managing Director of NIRSAL. Investigation by the Commission against the duo led the Commission to a reasonable suspicion that Ogidan acquired the sum through illegitimate…
Justice K. Dagat of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, Borno State on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 convicted and sentenced the trio of Enoch Adebayo Richard, Samdave Megwah(a.ka.a glorycyberfix) and Abdusalam Hassan to eight years imprisonment each. The defendants were arraigned on two -count separate charges by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the offences of money laundering and impersonation. The charge against Richard reads: “That you, Enoch Adebayo Richard between 2022 and 2024 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did directly take possession of United States of American…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Friday, June 20, 2025, adjourned till September 26, 2025 further hearing in the case involving a music promoter, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu ThankGod, also known as Eezee Tee. ThankGod, alongside his company, Eezee Global Concepts Limited, was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, on an amended seven-count charge bordering on alleged foreign exchange malpractice and money laundering to the tune of $397,106 USD( Three Hundred and Ninety Seven Thousand, One Hundred and Six United States Dollars). …
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 19, 2025, arraigned a Ponzi scheme operator, Adonu Kingsley Ifeanyi, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Adonu was arraigned on a five count-charge of money laundering to the tune of N10 Billion. One of the counts reads : ”That you ADONU KINGSLEY IFEANYI between 4″ June, 2021 and 23 July, 2021, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did take possession of the total sum of N1,076,337,842 (One Billion, Seventy Six Million, Three Hundred and…
The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 19, 2025 arraigned one Dr. Nekabari Dambere Nathan, a Port Harcourt-based medical doctor before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State for fraud. Nathan was arraigned alongside his Global Horizons Academy Ltd on a one-count charge, bordering obtaining by false pretence and advance fee fraud to the tune of N N39,157,000,00 (Thirty-nine Million, One Hundred and Fifty-seven Thousand Naira). The charge reads: “That you, Dr. Nekabari Dambere Nathan and Global Horizons Academy Ltd between 8th April, to 12th December 2023 at Port Harcourt within the…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 19, 2025, arraigned one Ibrahim Abubukar before Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Abubakar was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy to commit stealing and retaining the sum of N5bn. One of the counts reads: “That you, Ibrahim Abubukar, IBRAHIM (at large) and Alhaji Kabiru (at large), on 2 February, 2025, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired amongst yourselves to commit an offence to wit: retention of the total sum of…
Greater opportunities for sensitization and education on the dangers of corruption, economic and financial crimes are now available for the public, courtesy of a new drama series on EFCC Radio 97.3 FM, titled Eagle Theatre. The drama series was presented on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at the corporate headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to the Commission’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede by the Director General of the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, Dr. Shuaibu Husseini. As a product of collaboration and partnership between the EFCC and NFVCB, Husseini while presenting the drama series, disclosed…
Justice R.M.Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced Isaac Otaigbe Omonodion and Obinna Daniel to jail for fraud. They were prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on separate a one-count charge that border on impersonation, obtaining by false pretence and cybercrime. The charge against Omonodion reads: “That you Isaac Otaigbe Omonodion (a.k.a. Major Hashim), male, sometime in April, 2025 in Bida, Niger State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated one Major Hashim (a Nigerian military personnel) on Facebook, with the intent to gain advantage to yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (I) of…
Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 19, 2025, arrested 13 suspected internet fraudsters at Atimbo and Lemna Trailer Park areas of Calabar in Cross River State. Six others were earlier arrested on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Idoro in Akwa Ibom State for their alleged involvement in cybercrimes. They were all arrested in different sting operations following actionable intelligence linking them with alleged internet-related fraud. Items recovered from them include: three exotic cars, 31 mobile phones and five laptops. The suspects will be charged to court upon the…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, arraigned a company, Green Eagles Agri Business Solutions Limited, before Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The company is being prosecuted on a two – count charge bordering on operating collective investment schemes without a licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The petitioners, a group of investors, alleged that sometime in 2020 the duo of Taiwo Oluwadahushola and Adetola Adetayo, promoters of Green Eagles Agri Business Solutions Limited, invaded the social media space and…
The Third Prosecution Witness, PW3, Umar Babangida in the trial of the former Minister of Power and Steel Development, Olu Agunloye, on Monday, June 16, 2025, told Justice J.O. Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja that Agunloye’s successor, Senator Liyel Imoke revealed that the Federal Executive Council meeting of May 21, 2003 did not approve the memo of his predecessor for the award of the Mambila Hydro Power Project to Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited. Agunloye is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a seven-count charge, bordering on fraudulent award…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, reiterated the commitment of the Commission to ensuring that recovered assets are used for the good of every Nigerian. He stated this in Kachia, Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State while on an Inspection Visit to the Federal University of Applied Sciences. The University, taken over from a former private Nok University following a court order for its forfeiture, due to illicit funding, is yielded to the government through the efforts of the EFCC and approved for educational use by President Bola Ahmed…
Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday June 17, 2025 arrested a former Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Moses Thomas Sule and 14 other members for alleged money laundering. The 14 members are: Gwottson Fom, Sani Abubakar, Jwe Philip Gwom, Thomas Dantong, Happiness Mathew Akawu, Cornelius Dotyok and Agbalak Ibrahim. Other members are: Danjuma Azi, Fwangje Bala Ndat, Salome Tanimu Wanglet, Namba Rimuyat, Nimchak Rims, Ishaku Maren and Paul Datugun. The former legislators were arrested following claims by some concerned citizens of the state against them for…
Justice R.M.Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, Kaduna State has convicted and sentenced one Stephen Adeoti to jail for fraud. He was prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one-count charge, bordering on impersonation and cybercrime. The charge reads: “That you, Stephen Adeoti (a.k.a Anonymous Collective) (M) between January to April, 2025 in Bida, Niger State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated one Anonymous Collective, on Facebook (an online social media application) with the intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22(2) (b) (i) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention,…