LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint Border Patrol Team, comprising the Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army, on Thursday, April 28, 2022, handed over the duo of Ismail Ajibade and John Adewumi, a Beninoise, who were arrested with $285,000 and CFA 18, 925,000 to the Economic…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Nigerian socialite Cubana Chief Priest on charges bordering on money laundering and tax fraud, officials familiar with the matter said. Pascal Okechukwu, his real name, was arrested at the Lagos airport on Thursday, but anti-graft officials hushed the development amidst pressure from his associates…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested grandson for allegedly leading of friends to defraud his grandmother the sum of N15, 708,904( Fifteen Million, Seven Hundred and Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Four Hundred Naira) belonging to a grandmother. The suspects: Badaru Munir (23); Aliyu Falalu…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed that the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has not been released from detention. In an exclusive chat with our correspondent, the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, noted that Obiano was transferred to Abuja on Friday morning. Obiano was arrested by the EFCC on…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Imo State governor, Dr Ikedi Ohakim on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja disowned ownership of a property at the highbrow Asokoro District and $2.29 million linked to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The choice property located at 60, Kwame Nkrumah Street and the $2.29…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-What was anticipated to be the best of Yuletides soon became a gloomy one in 2016, as hopes of millions of Nigerians, including celebrities’ dreams of earning returns on investments, were shattered after Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), by far the largest Ponzi scheme ever recorded in the country, announced that it was…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 24, 2022, secured the conviction of a serial disabled fraudster, Gabriel Chimezie, before Justice M.T.M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court on a four-count charge of obtaining by false pretense. A statement released by Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Friday arraigned a former director of Bank PHB (now Keystone), Funmi Adenmosun, before a Federal high court, sitting in Lagos for alleged N26.6 billion money laundering. Adenmosun was arraigned alongside his company, Home Trust Savings and Loan limited and a private company, Rare Properties and Development…