The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has appeared before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. Bawa was summoned to give further evidence in a case of one point four-billion-naira fraud against an oil company, Nadabo Energy. The newly appointed EFCC Chairman had earlier testified against Nadabo Energy in the case being…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has again dragged Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia to court over alleged corruption. The EFCC arraigned Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia before Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos. Ofili-Ajumogobia is facing an amended fifteen-count charge of money laundering and breach of public trust. She is alleged to have concealed the sum…
Aisha Alkali Wakil, who is also known as Mama Boko Haram, is to testify orally in her defence in her trial for alleged fraud. Wakil is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged forty-million-naira fraud. Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri agreed for Wakil to testify orally instead…
A Federal High Court in Lagos refused to order permanent forfeiture of assets belonging to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the Federal Government. Justice Mohammed Liman took the decision based on an application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over Senator SARAKI’s two properties located in Ikoyi, Lagos. Justice Liman also set aside its…
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State has ordered one Tom Godswill to be remanded at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for allegedly defiling his sixteen-year-old daughter. The forty-seven-year-old man will remain in the Custodial Centre until March 22, when Chief Magistrate A.O Ajibade expects to have received an advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public…
Chairman of the disbanded Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina, has lost his application for bail over his trial for alleged two-billion-naira fraud Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja declared that Maina does not deserve to be given a second chance, after he jumped bail last year and fled to Niger…