LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Socialite, Bobrisky has slammed the EFCC chairman, Olanikpekun Olukoyede, for going after Nigerians spraying money at parties while bandits keep flaunting money on social media. Bobrisky shared a video of bandits flaunting bundles of Naira notes on social media and wrote ‘’EFCC chairman dis is for you. So bandit are the…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mustapha Abdullahi, the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, has been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged money laundering offences. A source within the anti-graft agency, who prefers anonymity, disclosed on Wednesday that Abdullahi is currently in custody following his arrest in Abuja….
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate in Gombe State identified Muhammad Suleiman Kumo has been convicted and sentenced two years and six months imprisonment for receiving N1 million bribe. Kumo who was a magistrate at Chief magistrate Court Pantami received the bribe in November 2024 through an account belonging to one Adamu Ahmed, the registrar in…
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…