LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, was, Wednesday, arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for alleged spraying and tampering with naira notes at social events. Cubana chief priest, who pleaded not guilty to the charge was, however, admitted to bail in the sum of…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigation of Idris Okuneye, a.k.a Bobrisky, for allegedly spraying Naira notes. The EFCC had invited the 31-year-old following a video report of spraying and flaunting wads of new Naira notes at the premiere of a movie,…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, has accused the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the Economic Financial Crimes Commission of violating his fundamental human rights. Gambaryan, in an originating motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/356/24 sought a declaration that his detention and seizure of his international travel passport, contravened Section 35 (1) and (4)…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two months after the suspension of Dr. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Presidency have left Nigerians in the dark on the next line of action, Daily Trust reports. Findings by our correspondent at the weekend revealed that the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An intense lobbying is ongoing at the highest hierarchy of the Nigerian government as powerful government officials attempt to cover up a multi-billion naira corruption scandal involving senior officials of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), PREMIUM TIMES has gathered. At least 40 NCS personnel, most of them in the service’s highest hierarchy,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane has told President Bola Tinubu to stop chasing shadows with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s recent clampdown on Bureau De Change operators over the fluctuations of Naira against the US Dollar at foreign exchange market. Rewane disclosed this on Thursday…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Captain Nuhu Haruna for an alleged criminal breach of trust to the tune of N1,020,000.000 (One Billion, Twenty Million Naira only) The suspect was arrested when a petitioner alleged that sometime in December 2023, he…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The last is yet to be heard about the allegation of fraud rocking the Ministry of Humanitarian and Social Inclusion as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the issue have uncovered a fresh fraud of N17bn linked to the ministry. Investigations by the Sunday Tribune confirmed on Saturday…