LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has shared an incident where a 17-year-old successfully hacked into his personal computer and bank account while being questioned at the EFCC office in Lagos. Olukoyede invited the young hacker to his office for questioning, saying the teenager was able…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, April 26, 2024 re-arraigned a former Assistant Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bridget Okafor before Justice Venchak S. Gaba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja. Okafor alongside her company Bridkass Investment Integrated Limited is facing trial on 13 amended…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Taiwanese investor in Nigeria, Ivy Hung, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the recovery of an alleged $1.1m fraud suffered by her company, Polleen Corporation. Ivy Hung lamented that all attempts to bring the fraudster to justice over the $1,164,646 fraud has proved abortive, alleging complicity on the…
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,…