Crime

The Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) is seeking the criminalisation of insecurity and proceeds of illegal maritime activities. Rising from a three-day engagement at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the forum wanted the acts to be treated like the case ...

An employee of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Ukwunna Anthony, has been arraigned at a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly defrauding job seekers of ...

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja has fixed December 11, 2019 for hearing in the trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and four others over alleged misappropriation of N19.4b arms funds. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf adjourned the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has presented the third witness (PW3) in the ongoing trial of former Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Umar Bature Masari. Masari, who was accused of ...

Don’t leave corruption fight to anti-graft bodies, group tells Nigerians Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has revealed that some governors are afraid of organising flamboyant parties because of the commission’s eagle eyes. Magu ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the duo of Brigadier General Tarelah Paul Boroh (rtd) and Hanafi Musa Moriki, before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja. They are being tried on a nine-count ...

Yuguda, Abubakar indicted as govt invites EFCC, ICPC to probe N321b allocations The 21-man panel of inquiry set up by Bauchi State Governor Bala Muhammed to investigate the two previous administrations of former governors Isa Yuguda and Mohammad Abubakar has ...

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu yesterday tasked students and pupils to resist corruption in the country and be good ambassadors of the EFCC in their schools, families and the country at large. Magu, ...

Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja has threatened to close a case initiated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the absence of its witness. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed October 7 for the hearing on the application filed by former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, against the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ...