A Muslim cleric, twin brothers, 6 students of various institutions and 19 others are among suspects arrested by operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged Yahoo business. The suspects were arrested on Thursday, March 23, 2023 in Ilorin, the Kwara State...
No fewer than 65 persons were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Saturday March 18, 2023 across the 28 states where Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted, for alleged voter inducement. This was disclosed by the Head, Media & Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted four party agents with Hundreds of credit cards, in Ogun State. The agency disclosed this on Saturday, via their twitter handle, @ndlea_nigeria. TheFact Daily gathers that the cards, each containing 10,000 naira, and activated to cash with a code, were...
A property owner has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for fraud to the tune of $298,000 and N40,000,000. According to a statement Thursday, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's Head of Media and Publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the property owner, Mercy Yusuf, was convicted alongside her company,...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has disclosed that it has arrested a total of two hundred and three (203) offenders for their involvement in various electoral offences and sundry crimes, during the February 25 polls. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi...
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command, deployed to INEC Headquarters, Aba Road, have arrested a lawmaker on whose person was recovered the sum of 498,100 US dollars. Rivers State Plice Command's spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, in a press statement today, said Hon Chinyere Igwe, a member House of Representatives...
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned four persons on an amended 11-count charge bordering on purchase of forged bank notes and possession of forged United States Dollars Travellers Cheques. The quartet of Mark Obisean, Olumide Mcintouch, Bolaji Bakare and Goodluck Bazunu, were...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected fraudster for allegedly marrying an American, and defrauding her of the sum of $200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the process. The suspect, Chidozie Kingsley Nwachi (aka Dozie), was arrested in Abuja on Wednesday, February...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Ali Bello, a nephew of the Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello. Ali Bello was arraigend on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court, Abuja. TheFact Daily reports that Bello was docked alongside Abba Adauda, Yakubu...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has set aside the judgment of a lower court barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from initiating either civil or criminal proceedings against the former Accountant General of the Federation, AG-F, Jonah Oguniyi Otunla. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday...