The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC slams Betta Edu, suspended Humanitarian Minister, her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, and the Coordinator of the National Social Insurance Programmes (NSIP) Agency, Halima Shehu, while revealing that a combined total of N32.7bn and $445,000 has been recovered so far from the ministry. The commission made the development known on…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed why the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has not been recalled by President Bola Tinubu.
The Nigeria Anti-Graft Agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has confirmed the recovery of N30 billion from the public funds allegedly looted under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, which was overseen by suspended Minister Betta Edu. According to SaharaReporters, this was disclosed in a bulletin titled, “EFCC Alert,” which was made…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has said it will charge popular cross-dresser, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye aka Bobrisky, to court over abuse of the Nigerian naira notes. This is coming in after the operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of Commission, commenced an investigation into Bobrisky’s alleged spraying of naira notes on different occasions….
Justices A. Muazu and M.A Sambo of the Bauch State High Court sitting in Bauch have convicted and sentenced seventeen (17) internet fraudsters aka Yahoo Boys to different jail terms. The convicts were jailed after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges upon their arraignment by the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Sufiyanu Yahaya and Mudassir Rabiu Idris have been arraigned before Justice Ibrahim Musa Karaye of the Kano State High Court on Monday, 25 March 2024, by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on one-count separate charges bordering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of N20,500,000 (Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) only. While…
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, 28 March 2024, arrested seventy-four (74) suspected internet fraudsters popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys in Ogun State. The alleged fraudsters were arrested at the Government Residential Area, G.R.A, Shagamu, in Ogun State following surveillance and intelligence exposing their…
…the money was for the purchase and supply of 1,800 bags of BUA cement at the rate of N3,950 per bag The Sokoto Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, 21 March 2024, arraigned one Ibrahim Salisu Isah before Justice Bashar Ibrahim Tambuwal of the Sokoto State High Court sitting…
Azubuike Mamwu Obasi was sentenced to six months in prison for currency racketeering in Port Harcourt. He pleaded guilty to charges of illegal acquisition of banknotes and conducting banking services without a license. The Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, secured the conviction and sentencing…
A Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State has jailed two Yahoo Boys (internet fraudsters). CONVERSEER learned that the two Yahoo Boys, Omachile Gabriel (alias Priest Tamara Shane) and Micah Njawindumai (alias Edgar David, Oldmangt, Professional Hacker), were jailed on Tuesday. They were convicted and sentenced by Justice J.K Dagat of the Federal High…
