LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered over N5bn and $10m from contractors and government officials indicted in the fraud in the turnaround maintenance of the nation’s refineries in Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Warri. Sunday PUNCH reliably gathered that the anti-graft agency was working to recover another N10bn and $13m…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has threatened to take legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over Sunday’s raid on its facility. DAILY POST reports that operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, at about 2 a.m on Sunday, stormed the facility and…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have reportedly stormed the Green Legacy Hotel, located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, and arrested some youths suspected to be internet fraudsters. PUNCH online gathered that EFCC operatives carried out the raid in the early hours…
By Emmanuel Udom The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate has secured the conviction and sentence of one Jonathan Wallang before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in Maitama Abuja, for defrauding the Cooperative Society of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, the sum of…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal Lagos Division has discharged and acquitted a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, of a N754.8m fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, via zoom, the three-member panel of the…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, June 13, 2025 arraigned the duo of Halima Buba and Innocent Mbagwu before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja for alleged fraud. The defendants, who are Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of SunTrust Bank Ltd and Executive Director/Chief Compliance Officer of SunTrust Bank Ltd, respectively are being prosecuted…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has officially taken delivery of a 753-unit housing estate formerly owned by the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said that the property was handed over by the Economic and Financial…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has traced over 300,000 dollars, laundered to a suspected internet fraudster. A statement by Mr Dele Oyewale, the Spokesperson of the EFCC on Tuesday in Abuja said the suspect was among the 35 suspects arrested Sunday in Auchi area of Edo. Oyewale said…