LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major crisis is brewing at the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over the decision by the retiring Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to sell off the multi-billion naira Police Officers Mess located at Onikan, Lagos State. According to investigation, the Lagos Officers Mess, Onikan, contains about 40 chalets, two big…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Thursday, collapsed in court. Maina collapsed in the dock when his counsel, Anayo Adibe, was addressing the court on his no-case submission before Justice Okon Abang handling his trial. The court had to rise for five minutes to enable…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was on Friday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina on a six count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense. The defendant allegedly used his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Justice Ayo Salami panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, a commissioner of police, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), TheCable can report. The panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, also asked the president to appoint a new EFCC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the revocation of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)’s bail. Okon Abang, the judge, who gave the order in a ruling, also issued a bench warrant for Mr Maina’s arrest “anywhere he is sighted.” The EFCC’s lawyer, Mohammed Abubakar, while…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Markudi Zonal Office has arrested one Ms Patience Simon Robert who allegedly posed as an EFCC official defrauding unsuspecting applicants who were seeking employment in the Nigerian Customs Service (NSC) and EFCC. She was arrested after a victim lodged a complaint that he was duped…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Fowler, a long-time ally of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is currently being interrogated at the Lagos office of the EFCC. SaharaReporters recall that nine senior officials of the agency were detained by the EFCC over alleged multi-billion naira fraud in 2019. Fowler was sacked…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja has rejected a plea by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to issue a warrant of arrest against a former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on Wednesday held that an affidavit with evidence in support to proof that the earlier court summon granted the…