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Former FinBank MD, Okey Nwosu, 3 others to appeal jail sentences

Lead Councils to the former Managing Director of defunct Finbank Plc, Okey Nwosu, three former directors of the defunct bank: Dayo Famoroti, Danjuma Ocholi and Agnes Ebubedike, has again indicated readiness to challenge the January 6, 2021 judgement of Justice…

Introduce clause forbidding EFCC from detaining oil vessels in PIB, NASS advised

As all is set for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to hand in the revised Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly in two weeks for passage into law, experts in oil and gas industry has called on lawmakers…

(Special Report) EFCC’s seized Alamiesigha’s Chelsea Hotel rotting away in Abuja

A new report released Thursday in Abuja, by Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU), an independent business research arm of Business Hilights Media Group, has revealed colossal loss on the side of the Federal Government for not running seized Chelsea Hotel…

Jubilation in Abia over 12 years sentence for former Gov. Orji Uzo Kalu

Following Thursday’s judgment in a Federal High Court presided over by Justice Mohammed Idris in Lagos which convicted Kalu on 39 counts of N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),…

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Minister warns Police, DSS against embarrassing Nigerians with laptops, devices

The rise in the  reported cases of Police and DSS operatives swooping on every Nigerian youth either moving along the streets or on transit with a laptop and related devices has caught the attention of the Minister of Communications, Dr…

Okorocha, wife, daughter join Mrs Madueke in forfeiture of assets to EFCC

Former Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, wife and daughter are now on the same page with former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Allison Madueke in suits leading to forfeiture of their assets to the government. Otherwise, the Economic and…

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Like in US, like in Owerri: EFCC nabs 33 yahoo boys Monday

Not less than weeks after the first operation that led to mass arrest of internet fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital, operatives of the Abuja and Enugu Zonal Offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday,…

Confusion in FESTAC Phase II as EFCC swoops on land grabbers

Disquiet has engulfed owners of choice buildings in the controversial FESTAC Phase II following series of petitions and court cases bordering on abuse of allocation papers and several housing developments without due processes. History has it that FESTAC Phase II,…

Just in: EFCC opens up on Okorocha, daughters’ property seizures, exonerates IMSG

For the first time since Tuesday July 23, 2019, raid on some choice landed properties allegedly belonging to the former Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha and his daughter married to his former Chief of Staff, Mr. Uche Nwosu…

Bravo! Senator Victor Umeh on EFCC board members debate

By Fred Chukwuelobe The rowdy session that greeted the Nigerian Senate debate at plenary on Tuesday which followed the failed confirmation bid of board member appointees into the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has come and gone. However, several…