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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has again declared Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, wanted, this time over an alleged case of receiving stolen property. The commission announced the declaration on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, in a public notice carrying Maina’s photograph and signed by its Head of Media…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has opened an investigation into a man arrested in Kano with counterfeit United States banknotes valued at 212,200 dollars, in a case that has revived attention on the flow of fake foreign currency through northern Nigeria. According to a statement issued by the commission through its Kano…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a joint investigation into alleged vote-buying, financial inducement, violence and other electoral offences recorded during Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. The demand…
The Nigerian Bar Association challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over its decision to freeze Osun State accounts. The outgoing Bar president, Afam Osigwe, warned that administrative agencies lack constitutional powers to block state bank withdrawals without court orders. The anti-graft agency instructed First Bank to place a post-no-debit order on the state government…
Adeniyi Adeyemi, the detained head of a disputed presidential investment council, is fighting back against accusations that he invented the fake federal agency out of thin air. His legal team insists that key state institutions actively approved, funded, and housed the body over an extended period. The unfolding scandal exposes alarming gaps across Nigeria’s administrative…
Social media personality Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, widely known as Blessing CEO, walked out of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Thursday with bail set at N20 million, closing one chapter of a prosecution that has placed her before three separate courts in Lagos within a span of eight weeks. Justice Rahman…
Bello Bodejo will remain in custody through the judicial summer break. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday refused to hear his plea to soften his steep bail conditions. Justice Inyang Ekwo cited the upcoming court vacation as the primary reason for his refusal. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed a counter affidavit…
A former helmsman of one of Nigeria’s most troubled state owned refineries walked into a courtroom in Abuja on Monday to answer for how hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly moved through his hands outside the banking system, in a case that once again places the country’s refining sector at the centre of an…
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 bench warrant now hangs over Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, after he failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for an arraignment that has stalled five separate times. Justice Mohammed Umar issued the order following an…