A 29-year-old suspect of internet fraud, Akpojivi Joel Onoriode, arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has begged the commission not tell his children that their father is a “Yahoo boy”. Onoriode, described as kingpin of cybercrime, was recently picked by EFCC Uyo Zonal Officer in Calabar, Cross River State capital. During his … Read more
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has alleged that some state governors covertly promote insecurity as justification to inflate their security vote. Magu, who stated this while presenting a paper on “Imperative of Fighting Corruption/Terrorism Financing in Nigeria,” at the induction of new and returning governors at the Old Banquet … Read more
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has described the alleged conversion of banks into money-laundering institutions in the nation as disturbing. While speaking in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State during a meeting with Compliance Officers of Banks in the South-South Zone on Friday, Magu said the commission … Read more
Former Chief of Army Staff, General Ishaya Bamaiyi, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that he agreed with the suggestion by Fred Ajudua to bribe Justice Olubunmi Oyewole who was then handling his trial in 2006, because he wanted to regain freedom. Bamaiyi stated this under cross-examination by counsel to Ajudua, Olalekan Ojo(SAN). Ajudua, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes … Read more
Despite having been quizzed some of their key officials over financial matters running into billions of Naira, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said, yesterday, that it had not raised any team to probe outgoing Ogun, Imo and Zamfara state governors over alleged graft. Media reports on Sunday had claimed that Ibekunle Amosun, … Read more