The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on February 5, 2020 secured the final forfeiture of a building belonging to Adebayo Sanni, immediate past Executive Director of Harmony Holdings Limited of Kwara State Government. According to a statement by Tony Orilade, acting head of media and publicity of EFCC, Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin granted the application filed by the counsel to the EFCC, Sesan...

A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced a 23-year old man, Okwudili Ayogu, to 10 years imprisonment for raping the daughter of his master. In his judgment delivered on Monday in Lokoja, Justice Nasir Ajanah, Chief Judge of Kogi, who presided over the matter, found the defendant guilty of the singular charge of rape. Ajanah said that the case: HCL/04C/2019 was determined on the strength of its successful prosecution by Iye Idama, Deputy...

Two persons have been confirmed dead as members of the Oravwe Ogangan confraternity struck at the home of Pastor Amos Ufuoma at express junction, Ovwian, near Warri in Delta State. According to 17 years old Lizzy Ufuoma, daughter of Pastor Amos who witnessed the attack, the cultists numbering 7 armed men were on the trail of two brothers, Ejimi Ken Isaiah and Ejimi Jesse Ejiro and others who, they claimed betrayed the confraternity in line...

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s star witness, on Friday, alleged that Gabriel Suswam, former Governor of Benue State, transferred N3.1 billion  into his account. Mr Abubakar Umar,  an Abuja-based Bureau De Change (BDC) Operator, told Justice Okon Abang at the Federal High Court, Abuja, that the money was transferred through a company, Elixir Investment, in  bits into his company’s account name, Fanffash Resources, at the Zenith Bank. He said the total amount of...

Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke (SAN), is still in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), 24 hours after he was granted security bail. A source at the EFCC told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Abuja that the former justice minister is being detained at the commission’s headquarters in the federal capital. Acting spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Mr Tony Orilade, who confirmed the information,...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Office has arraigned one Shehu Muhammad Aliyu, a former staff of a new generation bank for allegedly obtaining money by false pretense. He was arraigned alongside his wife, Ramatu Abdullahi, before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court on January 30, 2020 for alleged conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence. According to a press statement by EFCC’s acting head of media and publicity, Tony Orilade, the ex-banker was arraigned on a...