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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared former senator and Peoples Democratic party flagbearer for the last gubernatorial election in Osun state, Senator Iyiola Omisore wanted The declaration is in connection with a case of receiving and misappropriating the sum of over...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan may have gone into temporary self-exile in Cote d’Ivoire, following reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may arrest him on his arrival in Nigeria from his overseas tour on allegations of corruption and misappropriation of billions of...

Olisa Metuh, spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is currently at the emergency ward of the national hospital, Abuja. TheCable reports that the PDP spokesman vomited several times in his car on his way to the federal high court, Abuja, on Thursday. “Metuh was rushed to hospital...

Former Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji Lamaran Yero have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Yero was arrested Monday in connection with the Deizani’s N23bn campaign fund. According to DailyTrust, he spent the night at the commission zonal office in Kano, Daily...

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that the anti-graft agency is undergoing investigation before inviting the former president, Goodluck Jonathan and other accomplices in the arms purchase scandal. He said this when he visited the...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has sealed off a mansion allegedly belonging to a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar (retd). PUNCH reports that the house located on 1853 Deng Xiano Ping Street, off Mahathir Mohammed Street, Asokoro Extension, Abuja, observed...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested former Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tom Ikimi. Ikimi, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs to the late Nigerian Head of States, General, Sanni Abacha was arrested by the anti-graft agency over his role in the...

The Federal Government again failed on Tuesday to produce former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for trial on corruption charges brought against him by the government. Although the witnesses in the case were assembled by the...

The presidential panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to probe arms procurement between 2007 and 2015 under the Office of the National Security Adviser has allegedly uncovered massive fraud in the Nigerian Army. According to PUNCH, the panel, which has Air Vice Marshal J. O. Ode (retd.)...

The hearing of an appeal filed by Nigeria’s former National Security adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, has been adjourned to a date that would be communicated to parties in the suit. The Appeal Court could not hear the appeal following the inability of the Federal Government to file its brief of...

A former finance Minister, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, has reportedly refund a substantial amount said to have been given to her by the Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA. A competent source in the Commission confirmed to Vanguard that Usman had been cooperating with the operatives...

The immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), has reportedly returned N2.3bn to the Federal Government purse. An impeccable source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told PUNCH Newspaper that Amosu issued two bank drafts to the Federal Government as part...

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh to open his defence in his trial for money laundering. Justice Abang gave the directive after dismissing a number of Metuh’s applications...

The High Court sitting in FCT has adjourned the commencement of trial of former NSA Boss, Col. Sambo Dasuki to May 3rd, 2016. This is following a directive by the presiding judge, Hussein Baba-Yusuf that the prosecution give full access to the counsel to Dasuki during business hours to enable...

Several former high-ranking officials in the Jonathan administration are begging the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to shelve plans to put them on trial and have started returning looted funds,The Nation learnt According to The Nation, four of such...

A serving Major General during interrogation with the presidential 13-man panel in connection to the arms and other military equipment scandal between 2007 and 2015 broke down in tears as overwhelming facts emerged against him. According to New Telegraph, the two-star general, who once held a...

A committee set up to probe contracts awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) from 2011 to 2015 has indicted more than 300 companies. According to the report of findings released by the Mr. garba Shehu, Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, over N7...

A committee set up to probe contracts awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) from 2011 to 2015 has indicted more than 300 companies. According to the report of findings released by the Mr. garba Shehu, Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, over N7...

There are more revelations from the Presidency on contracts allegedly awarded by the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) from 2011 to 2015. A committee set up to examine the contract transactions has indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens including serving and retired...

Tension in the camp of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan following fears of more arrests of suspects over the $2.1billion phoney arms deals. There were indications last night that more former Ministers in Jonathan’s cabinet and some former public officers might be picked up by the Economic and...