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…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called for a concerted action by all stakeholders in ensuring an efficient, effective and fraud-free pension system in Nigeria. The agency said urgent reform was needed to deliver an efficient, effective and sustainable pension administration system in the country, adding that it had probed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has dismissed a report that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s wife, Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as mere rumours being peddled by mischief-makers. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, expressed regret that the content of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court has prohibited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from retrying former Abia Governor Orji Uzor Kalu. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order while delivering judgment in an application filed by the former governor seeking an order of the court prohibiting the EFCC from retrying him on a charge…