LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has threatened to resign from the position, if he is asked to compromise. Bawa said this when he featured in a NTA interview programme One-on-One on Friday. His words were posted in a statement on the EFCC’s official Twitter handle. Bawa…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation is not investigating All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, the AGF, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said. Malami said this during an interview with Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Tuesday. The AGF, however, said he could not say if the Economic and Financial Crimes…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) In a letter to President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Rivers State government and he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are throwing counter allegations as the anti-graft agency is requesting for the interrogation and the release of three officials of the Rivers State Government, who are implicated in the alleged illegal withdrawal of N118billion public funds. Their action is said…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Before now, I have confidently argued severally on different occasions with so many people that the corruption status of Nigeria have definitely reduced to a manageable level or below average since the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) some years now, hearing news of arrests and thousands of cases…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the permanent forfeiture of N280,555,010.65 “warehoused” in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told the court that the two firms were owned by Obinwanne Okeke, “a strong leader of a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, is again the subject of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for being the alleged mastermind of a mega scam to the tune of over $1 million. Aroke allegedly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer, Mr. Christopher Adejoh, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) demanding the sum of N100 million as damages. Christopher, a College of Education lecturer, in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1950/19, filed by his lawyer, Prince Chijioke Chinewubeze,…