LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said its findings revealed that some politicians were sponsored for elections by internet fraudsters, vowing to expose both the politicians and their sponsors soon. This was disclosed by the Zonal Head of EFCC, Port Harcourt Zone, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Tuesday in Port Harcourt…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has extended to Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, its investigation of the laundered 150 million euros cash-for-poll by associates of former vice-president Atiku Abubakar. It was learnt that the investigators went to the Library on August 8 to authenticate the claims by one of those under…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), is set to arraign a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu for alleged money laundering, the Guardian learnt. It was gathered that Iwu will be arraigned at a federal High Court, sitting in Lagos on a four-count charge bordering…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested one Nelson Emuobosa Omo-Ode, for alleged money laundering. Omo-Ode, 32, Business Administration graduate of the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan College, Malaysia, was arrested on July 18, 2019 at his residence at The Address Homes, Onikani Foreshore Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, following…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGRS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kano zonal office on Friday, June 28, 2019 secured the conviction of a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Auwal Jibrin, and one Garba Ismaila, before Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of the Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, on a six-count charge…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 46-year-old woman, Ittu Affiong Theresa Tommy, is now on the run after allegedly collecting aircraft spare parts valued at over $1.4 million from a Russian company under the pretext of supplying same to a government agency. She is also been hunted for receiving over N1 billion from a government agency to…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, Professor Nelson Brambaifa, was on Monday invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Also invited for questioning by the EFCC over alleged financial impropriety was the Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the NDDC, Chris Oyirindah. It…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is set to start a clampdown on the fraudulent use of Point Of Sale, POS Machines in the country. This was disclosed by the Makurdi Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Johnson Babalola, in an interactive session with Regional Bank Managers…