Crime

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the Senate, police ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Sokoto Zonal Office has arraigned Aminu Umar Gagi, Ibrahim Ahmed and Aliyu Suleiman before Justice Isah Muhammad Bargaja of the Sokoto State High Court on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy and bribery. Trouble ...

A prosecuting witness has told Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja how a former Revenue Officer with the Kano State zonal office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Aliyu Yakubu, siphoned the board’s N20m. The ...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described the abduction of about nine children in Kano State as worrisome, urging Nigerians to expose perpetrators of evil and criminality in the country. Its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, in a statement ...

The National Social Investment Office (NSIO) in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will on Friday launch a toll-free line to checkmate corruption and truancy in the school feeding and N-Power schemes of the ...

Yakubu, Bello, Wada seek violence-free Kogi guber election The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in Zamfara State and recovered N65.5m. A statement issued in in ...

Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, disclosed that involvement of the commission in ‘arresting’ ghost workers in the civil service led to the redemption of over N4.5 billion monthly. Magu, while delivering a lecture ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured an order of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Bwari, Abuja to detain former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina and his son, Faisal, pending conclusion of ...

General Martin Luther Agwai (rtd.) and Professor Pat Utomi have urged Nigerian youths to brace up for the fight against corruption and be ready to win the fight against the monster to secure the future of the next generation. They ...

The Kaduna State Police Command has hinted that it was negotiating with abductors of the six female students, a teacher and a matron, who were kidnapped from their school on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Commissioner of Police (CP) in the ...