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Seven prime properties spread across Lagos and Delta State, along with 2.045 million dollars in cash and two share certificates linked to former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, have been permanently forfeited to the Federal Government after the Supreme Court on Friday, July 17, 2026, brought a two year legal contest to…
A fresh dispute has broken out over the welfare of former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, with the African Democratic Congress and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission offering sharply conflicting accounts of a hospital visit that has now become the latest flashpoint in one of the most closely watched…
Two men who once ran Nigeria’s most strategic petroleum plants are heading to the dock this week, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission opens formal trials tied to the alleged diversion of funds set aside to revive the country’s ailing refineries. The former Managing Director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd,…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has taken the immediate past Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, into custody over allegations that he forged a university degree and submitted a false National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate during his ministerial screening in 2023. The former minister was arrested…
Former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa has moved to retrieve his international passport from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, seeking to travel abroad for medical treatment even as the agency presses on with its investigation into the alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion in state funds. Sources within the anti-graft agency said the former…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday adjourned a forfeiture suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against nine properties linked to former Bayelsa State Governor and ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, until July 16, citing the anti-graft agency’s failure to file a compliance report on an…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Timi Frank, has called on Nigerian authorities to uphold the rule of law and guarantee fair treatment for former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, currently held in the custody of the Department of State Services. Frank, in a statement issued on Friday, urged security…
The Nigeria Police Force has dismantled a significant railway vandalism ring, recovering stolen infrastructure valued at over N400 million. Operatives from the Force Intelligence Department Special Tactical Squad (FID-STS) arrested two suspects, Chisom Goodnews and Ahmed Adamu, on April 9 in Akwanga. The arrests followed a period of intense intelligence gathering. Police successfully intercepted a…
Nigeria’s anti-corruption landscape has come under fresh scrutiny following the circulation of a viral video alleging a ₦50 billion bribery scandal, a claim firmly rejected by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. The commission, in an official statement released on Monday, described the video as entirely false, stressing that it neither…
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has approached a Federal High Court seeking ₦1 billion in damages against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and three other respondents, challenging what his legal team describes as an unconstitutional invasion of his Abuja residence carried out under a fundamentally defective search warrant….
