LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-One of Nigeria’s oldest financial institutions, Union Bank, on Friday night admitted ownership of a large consignment of cash which anti-graft operatives said they intercepted at the international airport in Enugu. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission announced in a statement Friday evening that two men were arrested at Akanu Ibiam International…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the Yuletide, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has launched total war on Yahoo Boys who specialise in defrauding unsuspecting foreigners on the internet, Punch Metro reports. The operation codenamed ‘Cyber Storm’, will involve EFCC operatives monitoring suspicious transactions especially by youths who cannot explain their source of wealth….
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pro-Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Entrepreneurs Forum, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, National Leader of All Progressives Congress APC, Ahmed Bola Tinubu and National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomohle to urgently reverse the trend of an obvious witch-hunting of Nigerian private indigenous investors in Nigeria by the Economic Finance…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Office has arraigned twenty four students of Olabisi Onabanjo University and the National Open University of Nigeria who were arrested for alleged involvement in various cyber crimes. Ten of the defendants which include: Agboola Taiwo, Adetayo Tade Ademiluyi, Rabiu Daniel, Sokoya Oluwaseyi, Fredrick Shaibu,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11H (NEWSRANGERS)-The common sense Senator , Ben Bruce reacts after EFCC freeze the account of Anambra former Governor and current Candidate for PDP presidential election. He wrote: “For the good and prudent governance he he oversaw in Anambra, I‘d have expected @PeterObi to have been given a nation honour. People like Peter should…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Below is Press statement from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC clarifying the purpose for the raid on an apartment occupied by Atiku Abubakar’s children. “The recent arrest of Ogbonna Orji, son of Sen. Theodore Orji, over money laundering, has absolutely nothing to do with son of ex-VP Atiku Abubakar. “The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NESRANGERS)-Information reaching the PoliticsNGR newsdesk on Monday morning reveals that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC raided an apartment belonging to sons of the PDP presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar over the weekend. The building also houses an apartment occupied by two sons of Atiku Abubakar and Chiemeka Orji, son of ex-Abia…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on December 6th 2018, arraigned the former governor of Kebbi State, Usman Saidu Dakingari alongside two others before Honourable Justice Basse Onu of the Federal High Court sitting in Kebbi. They were arraigned on a 13 count charge of Conspiracy and Money Laundering to the…