Corruption Scandals

Police Arrests NATCOM Director-General For Alleged

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Reports have emerged that men of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested the Director-General of the National Commission against the Proliferation of Arms, Light Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism (NATCOM), Adejare Adegbenro, for alleged fraudulent activitie ...

Revealed: How Kogi Ex-Gov, Yahaya Bello, Paid School Fees Of Pre-School Child At

Friday, April 26, 2024
Agreement documents and payment receipts have shown details of how the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, paid school fees for his children including his pre-school child, Zayyan Ali Bello, in advance up to 2034/35. The payments were made to American International School, Abuja ...

N4.6b Traced To Ex-Sokoto Governor’s Son— EFCC Witness Tells Court  

Friday, April 26, 2024
The Second Prosecution Witness, 2PW, Hamza Abdullahi in the trial-within-trial of former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and four others, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, told Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, that a sum of N4.633billion was traced to the acc ...

Court Orders Arrest of Ex-Director General Of National Institute for Legislative

Friday, April 26, 2024
A Federal High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has ordered the arrest of former Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Professor Ladi Aisha Hamalai for her failure to appear in the corruption case preferred against her by the Independent Corrupt Practices and ...

EFCC Arrests Ex-Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika Over Alleged N8bn Nigeria Air Fra

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former Minister of Aviation under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Hadi Sirika, over allegation bordering on N8,069,176,864.00 money laundering. According to reports, the embattled former Minister of Aviation arrived at the Federa ...

Alleged ₦84bn Fraud: Court Orders EFCC To Serve Charge On Yahaya Bello’s Lawyer

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to serve a copy of the charge against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on his lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohamed. This follows the absence of Bello in court for h ...

No Officials From Humanitarian Affairs Ministry  Have Been Cleared In Ongoing Pr

Sunday, April 14, 2024
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has said no officials from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs have been cleared in ongoing investigations into financial misappropriation. This is as the EFCC disclosed that it has recovered N32.7 billion and $445,000 in the ongoing investigation. It ...

Court Grants Ex-CBN Governor, Emefiele, N50Million Bail

Friday, April 12, 2024
A high court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has granted bail to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in the sum of N50 million. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released details of 18 out of the 26 fresh multi-million-dollar and naira corruption ch ...

Betta Edu: EFCC Recovers N30bn, Places 50 Bank Accounts Under Probe

Monday, April 8, 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said N30billion has been recovered for the Federal Government while it has also placed 50 bank accounts under investigation in the ongoing probe of the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, including the ers ...

With Over N500Billion Liability, Debt, Ganduje’s Penchant For Corruption Brought

Monday, April 8, 2024
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has lambasted his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje in his reply to the latter rsquo;s claims that the governor is a failure. Ganduje is the current National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). A statement issued by Ganduje rsquo;s Chief Press ...
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