LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the country. The suspects are Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu. They were arrested by the Kano Zonal Command of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reportedly grilled the newly-appointed Managing Director of First Bank of Nigeria Holdings Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo. It was learnt that Okonkwo’s questioning is not unconnected with his alleged role in the transfer of $153m linked with Nigeria’s former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke from the Nigerian National…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has said that it is holding 12 dockworkers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos because of their significant links to the importation of 32.9 kilograms of cocaine worth over N9.5 billion in street value. A Federal High Court in Lagos had granted an application by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 24 hours after Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana, was arrested in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the businessman has regained his freedom. A social media user, Instigator_ph, disclosed this via Instagram on Tuesday. “Thank u Jesus!! @obi_cubana is free. We gat Jesus!!! . Dis Dance…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Anambra-born tycoon, who arrived the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi Abuja at about noon on Monday, was still being interrogated by operatives of the Commission as at 10:30 pm. Though allegations…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, in connection with the ongoing probe of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah. Anyim, it was learnt, was grilled on Sunday for several hours in connection with the fund which…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, October 18, 2021, arraigned one Olaniyan Gbenga Amos ( aka Crime Alert ) and his company, Detorrid Heritage Investment Limited before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on a 35 -count…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has welcomed the proposed probe of his foreign business operations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a result of the recently released Pandora Papers. Though Obi was not accused of either stealing public…