LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has vowed to appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos that discharged and acquitted a former Senior Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, and a banker, Joseph Iwuejo, who were charged with N1.6bn fraud….
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose said he will not honour the invitation by the Ekiti State House of Assembly to come SBD clarify any issue before the lawmakers. Speaking through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, on Thursday, the former governor said he would not dignify an Assembly of clowns who…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has confirmed that some money was indeed given to the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, a transaction that has become part of the larger money laundering probe by EFCC of the €150million brought into the country by Atiku’s failed presidential campaign. But he insisted it was a normal donation…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has extended to Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, its investigation of the laundered 150 million euros cash-for-poll by associates of former vice-president Atiku Abubakar. It was learnt that the investigators went to the Library on August 8 to authenticate the claims by one of those under…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the indictment of 80 suspects in what is termed the biggest internet fraud in America, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has spread its dragnet to nine countries for the arrest of another batch of 57 suspects. Nigeria is one of the countries where accomplices in the e-fraud are currently hibernating….
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has urged his supporters to remain calm and law-abiding as there was no cause for alarm. Ambode, in a statement by his media aide, Habib Aruna, spoke on the search by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on his Epe Country home and Parkview Ikoyi residence…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has urged the court to order the return of her 2,149 pieces of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone, valued at $40m, which were seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Diezani, who is currently in the United Kingdom, accused the EFCC…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Activists and members of a civil society group, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order the arrest and prosecution of a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), in the next seven days for alleged…
