Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it is renewing partnerships with the navy and the army to battle oil thieves and pirates in the Niger Delta. The Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the anti-graft agency, Usman Imam, ...

A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), Clean Foundation, has picked the police force as a major hindrance to the effective implementation of the Admission of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015. During a two day workshop for officers of the Nigeria Police Force ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a fresh seven-count charge revolving around money ...

The police have killed two wanted commanders of the Ansaru Terror Group but lost one inspector, Mohammed Abubakar, attached to the Police Special Forces during Wednesday’s operation at Kuduru forest, Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State. According to the police, 13 other officers ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, has secured the final forfeiture of a building belonging to Adebayo Sanni, the immediate past Executive Director of Harmony Holdings Limited of Kwara State Government. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara ...

Nasiru Ingawa, a star witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the alleged misappropriation of N5.7b Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) funds by former Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, says he cannot prove that he collected ...

Absence of prosecution witnesses in court stalled the continuation of hearing in the April 5, 2018 bloody Offa banks robbery case in Ilorin, Kwara State. Prosecution counsel, Bola Gold, told the court that police officers who were the prosecution witnesses ...

Civil rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that it is time to prove that his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of extortion is politically motivated. He was, however, granted N10 million bail and ...

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has announced the recovery of over N800 million from fraudulent deals at the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). He vowed to bring all contractors who failed to renovate or build primary schools, after collecting ...

Former Deputy National Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank has urged the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joy Nunieh, to rid the organisation of corruption. In a statement issued at the ...