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Why Some BDC Operators Were Arrested- EFCC
The recent arrest of some Bureau De Change operators across the country especially in Lagos and Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was incidental to the Commission's overall efforts in sanitizing the foreign…
IGP Merges Units Into Nigeria Police Cyber Crime Section, Appoints DCP Uche Henry As Head
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate reorganization of the cybercrime units in the Nigeria Police Force to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, and a formidable front against cybercrime-related…
INSECURITY: IGP Orders Total Clamp Down On Non State Actors, Criminals
.... Acquires 3 Armed Drones To Strategic Locations
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba , has acquired three high-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for improved armed surveillance operations to…
Fake Certificates: ICPC To Clampdown On Degree Mills
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, OFR, has enjoined the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) Committee on Degree Mills to submit reports of…
Anti Graft Agency Launches Phase Of Constituency, Executive Projects Tracking Exercise
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to commence Phase 5 of the Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Exercise, following the successful completion of the 4th phase earlier in the…
N1.4bn Bank Fraud: EFCC Moves Atumeyi, NNPP’s Kogi Assembly Candidate To Lagos
The New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja for a mega bank fraud, has been moved to Lagos.…
Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of Diezani’s Abuja Homes, Cars
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja today Monday, October 24, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani…
Politicians Padded Budget With N7bn Empowerment Project- ICPC Chairman
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has disclosed how it uncovered the fraudulent insertion of over N7 billion in the budget by a politically exposed person in the name of empowerment.
The ICPC…
N59.7M FRAUD: Court Jails Pastor Seven Years In Lagos
Justice Sherifah Solebo of the Special Offences Court siting in Ikeja, Lagos has convicted and sentenced Cletus Ilongwo, Presiding Pastor, Power of the Holy Ghost Evangelical Ministry, to seven years in prison for N59.7m fraud.
Ilongwo…
EFCC Files 11- Count Charge Of Alleged Conspiracy , Forgery Against Ogun State Speaker
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed an 11-count charge of alleged conspiracy, forgery and stealing against the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo and three others.
According to a…