The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has urged media platforms and journalists to expose corrupt practices and persons rather than celebrate them. Mr Bawa gave the charge on Wednesday at EFCC Headquarters in Abuja while declaring open a one-day workshop with financial crimes reporters on the effective reporting of economic and financial crimes. He appealed to the media to take the coverage of economic crimes seriously, and to...

Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced a corps member to two years imprisonment for internet-related fraud offences. The convict, identified as Adetuberu Christopher Adetoyese is currently serving in Ogbomosho, Oyo state. He is an indigene of Ilesha, Ilesha West Local Government Area of Osun State, and was recently arrested at Ogele area of Eyenkorin, Ilorin by the operatives of the Illorin Zonal Command of the Economic...

The Permanent Secretary in the Niger State Ministry of Women Affairs, Hajiya Kaltum Dauda Rufai said the state has recorded 175 rape cases between January 2021 and July 2022. Dauda Rufai, who is the Secretary of the Gender-Based Violence Management Committee in the state disclosed this at a one-day Anti-Gender Based Violence close-out workshop organized with support from the Nigeria Academy of Letters in Minna on Tuesday. “Within the period, 65 cases of husband and...

A 58 year, Hajaratu Sini and mother of 2 killed Kwada Drambi with a stick for allegedly having an affair with her husband. It was learned that on the 31st July 2022 the fateful day, the accused allegedly caught her husband having a love affair around 9:00 pm with the deceased person in a room. Sini has been accused of having affair with the deceased since her husband died some time ago. The accused who hailed...

Hours after he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mompha dished the ‘true story of his battle with the anti-graft agency to the public. In a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday, Mompha, born  Ismaila Mustapha, accused the EFCC of blackmail and intimidation. He explained that the EFCC’s attempts to blackmail him into entering a plea bargain with the agency failed, and out of desperation to force him to do its...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, better known as Mompha, wanted. Mompha and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited were arraigned by the commission over alleged N6 billion fraud on January 12. An eight-count charge bordering on money laundering, conspiracy to launder money obtained through unlawful activities, and laundering of money obtained through unlawful activities were brought against him. Other charges include retention of proceeds of criminal...

ENUGU — Despite the arrests and awareness created against internet crimes, cases of internet fraud has steadily been on the increase; barely four months after 9 and 24 persons were arrested in Ogui Nike, Emene, and Nsukka in Enugu State by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives, twenty-three (23) suspected internet fraudsters were also arrested on Wednesday at different locations within the state based on intelligence reports linking them to internet-related fraud. The Media...