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EFCC South-East Zonal Office Secures 14 Convictions in 10 Months, Says Babalola

Kunle Edun — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:12:23 +0000

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 [...]

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EFCC arraigns Businessman Samuel Ovute for Issuance of Dud Cheque

Kunle Edun — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:14:49 +0000

Samuel Sunday Ovute, a businessman and owner of Obuegu & Sons Enterprises, was arraigned on Monday, 25th July by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheques and obtaining by false pretence the sum of One Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Four Hundred Naira (N1,662,400.00, before Justice K.I Okpe [...]

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Money Laundering: Convicted Suspect Forfeits $86,000 To Federal Government

Kunle Edun — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:02:18 +0000

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday, June 16 obtained conviction on a case of suspected Money Laundering brought against Samuel Duru before Justice M.N Yinusa of the Federal High Court, Enugu. Duru was charged for failure to declare the sum of Eighty Six Thousand United States Dollars ($86,000.00) out of a total sum [...]

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EFCC Launches ‘Clean Hands’ Campaign To Tackle Corruption And Impunity In Nigeria

Kunle Edun — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:14:19 +0000

Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has charged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of ‘living with clean hands’ as a way of stamping out corruption from the society. Magu, who stated that the job of EFCC entails confronting looters of the nation’s commonwealth, taking on impunity and restoring hope to [...]

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N34.5m Land Fraud: Court Sentenced Rtd Colonel Okpala To 7 Years Jail Term

Kunle Edun — Sun, 29 May 2016 09:44:34 +0000

A 62-year old retired colonel, Eugene Okpala, has been sentenced by Justice F. N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu on Wednesday, May 25 to seven years imprisonment in a case of conspiracy, and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N34.5million (thirty-four million, five hundred thousand naira) brought against him [...]

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Court Convicts Businessman Agumandu Nnamdi For Money Laundering

Kunle Edun — Tue, 24 May 2016 23:08:14 +0000

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on May 24 successfully secured the conviction of one Agumandu Christopher Nnamdi, before Justice F.N Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Enugu on one count charge bordering on Money Laundering. The convict was arrested by a team of Presidential Trans-border Task force of the Nigeria Customs Service [...]

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N2.1m Fraud: One Godwin Okeke Bags 3-Year Jail Term

Kunle Edun — Wed, 11 May 2016 21:03:53 +0000

Godwin Nnam Okeke was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday before Justice M.N. Yinusa of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. The convict, who had evaded arrest for several months, was eventually arrested on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 and was arraigned five days after on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining by [...]

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N25.9m Fraud: Court Remands Business Woman for Issuance of Dud Cheques

Kunle Edun — Wed, 04 May 2016 11:45:56 +0000

One Mrs Obiageli Funmilayo Nwagu was on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a six count charge of Obtaining Money by False Pretence and Issuance of Dud Cheques before Justice C. O Ajah of the State High Court, Enugu. The accused person pleaded not guilty on all counts. In [...]

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Police Arrest Suspected Pipeline Vandal, Recover Petrol Tanker

Kunle Atiba — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:59:47 +0000

Officers of the Nigeria Police on Monday nabbed a suspected pipeline vandal and seized a petrol tanker conveying 13,800 litres of diesel in Aninri local government area of Enugu State. Mr Ebere Amaraizu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), told newsmen in Enugu that the suspect was arrested after a tip-off. According to him the police also recovered pipeline drilling [...]

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NGO Alleges Corporate Bodies, FBOs Are Not Doing Enough To Assist IDPs

Kunle Atiba — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:21:21 +0000

A non-governmental organisation, Campaign for Democracy (CD), yesterday observed that corporate bodies and faith-based organizations were not doing enough to assist Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Speaking with newsmen in Enugu, the South-East Chairman of the organisation, Comrade Uzor Uzor, said that the IDP camps scattered in most states, were in dire need of welfare facilities. [...]

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Enugu Anglican Archdiocese Set To Strengthen Evangelism With Sports

Kunle Atiba — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:03:23 +0000

The Anglican Archdiocese of Enugu has disclosed that it will establish a football club as part of efforts to use sports as a tool for evangelism. The church also said that it would use the football club to encourage the development of youth football. Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, who is the Archbishop of the diocese, made [...]

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Governor Ikpeazu Grants State Pardon To 20 Prisoners In Abia State

Ade Adewale — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:42:56 +0000

The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has ordered the release of 20 prisoners convicted in various courts in the state for allied offences ranging from stealing, armed robbery, conspiracy, intent to commit felony, advanced fee fraud, indecent assault, threatening violence among other offences. He made this move to commemorate the Christmas and New Year celebrations. [...]

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Bishop Chukwuma Urges Nigerians To Be Optimistic, Says The Country Is Changeable And Turn-Around Is Realisable

Ade Adewale — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:11:46 +0000

Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Archbishop of Anglican Archdiocese of Enugu, has urged Nigerians and the leaders to be optimistic for a turn-around in the fortune and destiny of the nation. “As it is said in the Holy Book, with God nothing is impossible; it then means that our situation in the country is changeable and turn-around [...]

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