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A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday permitted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize assets belonging to a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo. Justice Buba Ibrahim ordered the EFCC to take possession of the assets pending when Tompolo will present himself in court to answer fraud charges. EFCC had on Wednesday filed a ...
Court Cases
February, 2016
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18 February
Jonathan ADC Denies Saying ‘Nigeria Will Burn.If He Reveals’
The EFCC said it had obtained a remand order to keep Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, the Aide-de-Camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan in detention pending investigations. A reliable source in the EFCC told our correspondent on Wednesday that with the remand order, Adegbe could remain in custody for the next 20 days. The ex-president’s ADC has meanwhile denied media reports that ...
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17 February
PDP Chair: Ali Modu Choice Deepens Party Crisis
As reported earlier by younews,PDP has run into monumental crisis with the choice of former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff for the top job. Governors elected on the platform of the party and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) endorsed Sheriff’s candidacy for the job, which former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Nuhu Ribadu turned down. The ...
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17 February
Diezani Alison-Madueke’s Show Of Power As Minister Revealed
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke unilaterally extended crude oil for refined products (oil swap) contracts, a former Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director (GMD) Austin Oniwon alleged yesterday. Oniwon alleged that “the minister at the time extended the contract between the Petroleum Product Marketing Company (PPMC) and its trading partners Duke Oil Company Incorporated and Trafigura ...
January, 2016
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26 January
T.B Joshua In Another Problematic Building Construction, Gets Stop Order From Govt
The Lagos State Government has directed the Synagogue Church of All Nations to stop the construction of buildings in Agodo, in the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area after some residents alleged that part of the facility was blocking the main canal in the community. The office of Drainage Services, Ministry of Environment, which served the notice on SCOAN, also instructed ...
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15 January
Olisa Metuh Gets 7 Criminal Charges From EFCC Over #400m Dasuki Shared Loot
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, preferred seven-count criminal charge against detained National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh. Metuh and his firm, Destra Investment Limited, were charged before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court over alleged N400 million fraud. The charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/05/2016, was signed by the Assistant Director, Legal ...
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7 January
Dasukigate Latest: #400M Discovered In Army Officer’s a/c, EFCC To Arrest 9 Top Northerners
A serving army officer has been accused of involvement in the $2.1bn arms procurement scandal under the former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. It was reportedour on Wednesday, January 6, that the 27-man task force investigating the arms deal scandal had traced N400m to the army officer’s account. According to a senior operative of the EFCC, the commission was still probing ...
December, 2015
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9 December
Court Adjourns Dasuki’s Case Till January 2016
The former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) who is standing trial over allegations of illegal possession of arms before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has filed a Preliminary Objection challenging the application by the Federal Government to revoke the bail earlier granted to him by the court. He claimed that the Federal Government move was in ...
November, 2015
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18 November
Dasuki Opens – Up: “Buhari Is Persecuting Me. I Was Not Invited Before Indicting Me”
Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) has expressed his disappointment over reports that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his arrest over alleged siphoning of billions of dollars earmarked for arms purchases. The embattled former NSA, according to Vanguard, disclosed that he was never officially or unofficially invited by the 13-man panel set up by the president to audit ...
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18 November
Reason For Dasuki’s “Persecution” Unveiled – His Shocking Monumental Corruption Revealed!
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received the interim report of the 13-man committee set up by the Office of the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date with a directive that all indicted persons be arrested and brought to book. According to a statement on ...
