By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, April 8, 2024, arraigned Binance Holdings Ltd and one of its executives, Tigran Gambaryan, before Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, ES/CEO, of the National Lottery Trust Fund, NLTF, Bello Maigari, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for helping to widen the revenue base of the Fund through enhanced remittance inflows from N800million to N2.1billion annually.

By Toye Adeyiba (Anti-Corruption Reporter)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said at the weekend, that the attention of the Commission has been drawn to what it described as "some reckless commentaries made by a former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu on the arrest of Idris Okuneye (a.k.a Bobrisky) by the Commission, describing it as evidence of idleness or an abuse of power".

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has assured that the anti-graft war that he is leading will continue to be broad-based, holistic and unsparing of anyone linked with any form of economic and financial crimes.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja has sentenced one Mr. Apeh Samuel Akogu, a former civil servant who worked in the Accounts department of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to a 7-year jail term, with an option of a fine.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, QS Kene Nzekwe has called for collaboration with the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, to tackle fraud in the construction and infrastructural sectors.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The President, Alumni Association of the National Institute ,AANI, Ambassador Emmmanuel Obi Okafor, has lauded the initiatives, drives and novel ideas of the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede in offering the Commission a new direction, assuring that his Association is fully behind him.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Executive Chairman of the Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, to continually work against glamourisation of internet fraud and mutilation of currencies in films and movies meant for the public.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 18, 2024, arrested one Kayode Cole for issuing a death threat against the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 called on the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, to always make speedy responses to enquiries made by the Commission and other Nigerians on issues referred to it.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 mapped out fresh strategies geared towards Nigeria’s exit from Financial Action Task Force, FATF’s Grey List.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has adjourned the trial of Prof. Uche Chigozie Edwin, a defendant that allegedly defrauded maize farmers the sum of N1.4billion, till May 20, 2024, just as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC opened its case presenting its first witness.