The absence of Abdullahi Alao’s counsel on Wednesday September 23rd, 2015, stalled trial in the matter of Mahmud Tukur, Ochonogor Alex, Abdullahi Alao and their companies: Eterna Plc; AxEnergy and Star Inspection Services Nigeria Limited answering to a 38- count charge of conspiracy, and obtaining N3,121,393,098 unearned subsidy fund by false pretence and forgery at the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja. At the resumed hearing, Alao’s counsel, Mr. Aderemi Oguntoye was conspicuously absent in court, with no explanation as to his whereabouts. The presiding Judge, Justice Lateef Lawal Akapo expressed displeasure over Oguntoye’s absence, as he ordered that…
Author: Kunle Edun
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde has stressed the need for women to be agents of change by being actively involved in the war against corruption, with a view to building Nigeria of our dream. He made the call at the EFCC Zonal Anti-Corruption Sensitisation Workshop for Women Civil Society and Community-Based Groups on Monday, September 21, 2015 at G-Tower Hotels and Tourism Limited, Owerri, Imo State. The sensitisation workshop with the theme, ’’how women’s organisations can aid the fight against corruption, economic and financial crimes’ seek to articulate a structured national response to gender and corruption.…
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on September 21, 2015 arraigned one Amadi Jude before Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Federal High Court Calabar, Cross River State on a 12-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. Amadi who goes by different pseudo names – Richard Smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, and Morgan Abela, is alleged to have collected 4,544,000 naira from a Swedish national, and promised to marry her. Count one reads: “That you, Amadi Jude Junior (alias Richard smith, Mike Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, Morgan Abela) ‘m’, John Ikechukwu Efughi (at large), and Farouk…
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 arraigned three former bankers – Rita Emmanuel, Orjiri Martins and Monday Chibueze Ben, before Justice G. C. Aguma of the State High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N12,150,000. Emmanuel, a customer service manager and teller of a new generation bank, allegedly converted the sum of N6,075,000 belonging to some bank customers to personal use. The fraud was allegedly concealed by Martins and Ben. The trio, who were present in court, are alleged to have deliberately conspired…
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invoked a section of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 to convict an accused person, Uba Mohammed for refusing to appear in court after he was granted bail on June 10, 2013. The accused person is standing trial before Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the on a two- count charge of Criminal Breach of Trust to the tune of N10million (Ten Million Naira). The offence is punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. In view of his failure to…
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 arraigned a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, his two sons – Aminu Sule Lamido and Mustapha Sule Lamido, Aminu Wada Abubakar and Batholomew Darlington Agoha, before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on a 27-count amended charge bordering on corruption and money laundering. The other companies arraigned along with them were companies through which they allegedly perpetrated the fraud. The companies are Bamaina Holdings Limited, Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Bamaina Aluminium Limited and Speeds International Limited. Lamido and his co-accused had been arraigned before…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, September 18, 2015, arraigned one Okoh Lawrence Nnali (aka Lawrence Oladele) before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja on one count charge bordering on obtaining goods by false pretext. The victim, an American, had alleged that sometime in February this year, he advertised his Laptop valued at $400.00 USD (Four Hundred US Dollars) on the Amazon market place and was contacted by the suspect who purportedly sent him a message from PayPal indicating payment, and directing him to ship the laptop to Nigeria. Following the directive,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on September 17, 2015 arraigned a pastor, Emmanuel Anga, and Atin Victor Generous, before Justice Abubakar Jauro of the Gombe State High Court, Gombe State on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N500,000. Anga and Generous, are alleged to have in November 2013 deceived David Madison, into believing that they were employees of a foreign exchange business – Gora Commanding Resources, which they claimed belonged to Philemon Gora (still at large). Madison was lured into believing that his investment of N500,000 would yield 10…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Alhaji Umar Audu Bida, Chief Executive Officer, Universal Contractors Limited, for alleged possession of some documents of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the supply of crude to his American business partner, Donald Laletta, CEO, North Park LLLC. The 62-year-old suspect, who was picked up by EFCC operatives on Tuesday, September 15, at his residence on Gumel Road, Kaduna, was in possession of fake documents pertaining to the lifting of crude by the vessels, MT Antartic, MT Sonagol Namibe and MT Caped Bowen. The suspects, however, said that he…
Kennedy Izuagbe, a former director of Societe Generale Bank Nigeria Plc and managing director of Carlisle Properties and Investment Limited, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Izuagbe, 45, who is being investigated in a case of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of over N3.6 billion, has gone into hiding and all efforts to reach him have proved abortive. He is linked to the several shady deals and gross financial misconducts that took place in the bank, in which several millions of naira were granted as loan without due diligence. The suspect who…
Emmanuel Osita Okereke, Director-General of the National Task Force to Combat Illegal Importation of Small Arms, Ammunition, and Light Weapons (NATFORCE) has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for jumping bail. Okereke, a former presidential aspirant under the platform of the Nigerian Liberation Party, NLP, is being prosecuted by the EFCC on a six-count charge of impersonation, forgery and obtaining by false pretence. He was arraigned on November 21, 2013 before Justice J. Y. Tukur of the FCT High Court, Apo, Abuja for allegedly forging a document of the Federal Government titled “Restricted, Federal Government of…
Justice Valentine Ashi of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on Friday, September 11, 2015 ruled as an abuse of court process, the bail application brought before it by Emmanuel Ehidiamhem Okoyomon, former Managing Director of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPMC, whose extradition to the United Kingdom, UK, has been ordered by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Okoyomon, whose extradition is being sought by the UK government over his alleged role in the bribery allegation involving officials of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), NSPMC and Securency International Pty of Australia between 2006 and 2008, had…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 arraigned four persons before Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal High Court, Gudu, Abuja, on a 29-count charge bordering on conspiracy, and collecting by false pretence. The four accused persons – Ibrahim Ahmed Mazangari, Muhammed Sani Sulaiman, Hajia Fatima Mazangari and Saleh Yerima Tsojon, are alleged to have obtained N1.2 billion from the Federal Government by false pretence and with intent to defraud, purporting same to be monthly pension payable to M. S. Suleiman, Saleh Yerima Tsojon, Isah U. Adamu, Daniel Mikano, and Abdulahi Garba Musa who were…
The Nigeria Labour movement comprising Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) threw its weight behind Ibrahim Lamorde, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, expressing confidence in the anti-graft agency boss’ competence and commitment to the fight against corruption in Nigeria. Affiliates of the two labour centre, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, during a stopover at the Commission’s headquarters as part of an anti corruption rally in Abuja, urged Lamorde not to be distracted by recent attacks from corrupt elements who are hell-bent on undermining the EFCC’s efforts to tackle humongous…
A staff of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, who attempted to dupe a National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) contractor, Liuideco Global Services Limited, on the pretext that he can help “kill” a pending investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been arrested by the anti-graft agency. The suspected fraudster, Samson Irefin was picked up by operatives of the EFCC in the early hours of Friday September 11, 2015 in the premises of a new generation bank in Abuja, as he attempted to collect the sum of N500,000 which he had demanded…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, September 4, 2015 arraigned Salisu Adamu, Muhammed Hamma and Muhammed Tukur before Justice M. B. Goje of the Adamawa State High Court, Yola on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy, currency counterfeiting and obtaining by false pretence. The accused persons are alleged to have defrauded Shuaibu Usman to the tune of N8, 000,000 having promised to help him covert the said amount to dollars. They had posed as bureau de change operators. But instead of fulfilling their part of the deal, they gave Usman fake dollars notes, even after collecting the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered and returned the sum of 10, 540 Euros to a polish victim of Internet love scam.The victim, simply identified as Jamina, was allegedly duped 40,000 Euros by the suspect, Gabriel Oseremen Xavi who operates a fake Facebook account with the name, Collins Page. The suspect was traced to Benin City, Edo State, where he was arrested by EFCC operatives following a petition by the victim. Speaking on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at the Belgium Embassy, Abuja during the presentation of the sum of 10,540 Euro recovered from the suspected Internet fraudster,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has returned the sum of €10,540 to a Polish victim of internet love scam. This is contained in a statement signed by Head, Media and Publicity of the commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement said the victim, simply identified as Jamina, was allegedly duped of €40,000 by the suspect, Gabriel Oseremen Xavi, who operates a fake Facebook account with name Collins page. “The suspect was traced to Benin City, Edo State, where he was arrested by EFCC operatives, following a petition by…
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report captioned, Alleged N1tn diversion: Senate to probe Lamorde’s alleged diversion of N1tn, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of Monday August 24, 2015 containing salacious claims of corruption against the person of the chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde. The EFCC should ordinarily not dignify the publication with a response as the motives of the promoters and their media allies are to impugn the integrity of the EFCC boss with fabricated stories of corruption. However the Commission is constrained to respond, to expose the…
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has said that a careful study of the Nigerian Constitution is crucial in designing strategies and policies for combating corruption.Speaking at a one-day meeting of heads of anti-graft agencies on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) Review, Recommendations and the Draft National Anti-Corruption Strategy at Barcelona Hotel, Abuja on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Lamorde stated that some relevant laws in the Nigerian Constitution needed to be amended before the adoption of an action plan towards the fight against corruption.According to him, ‘’The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria…