By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court on Monday February 14, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of 24 properties held by fronts and proxies to a top military officer, to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

By Dare Ajayi (Oyo State Correspondent)

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, last Friday, February 11, 2022, arrested one Babawale Daniel Olayinka, a self-style “Personal Assistant to the Oyo State Governor on Media Matters”, and twenty five others at Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, over alleged internet -related fraud activities.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 14, 2022, presented its first witness in the money laundering trial of James Richard Nolan, Goidel Resources and ICIL Limited before Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 14, 2022, secured the final forfeiture of 20 (twenty) landed properties valued at over N3, 007, 000, 000 (Three Billion and Seven Million Naira) belonging to a top military officer but controlled through proxies including late General Aminu Maude, and companies such as Atlasfield Integrated Services Nigeria Limited, Marhaba Events Place, Aflac Plastics and Atlasfield Gas Plant Limited.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Othera Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has docked a former Secretary General of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr. Amaechi Akawu, over his alleged complicity in a $150,000 fraud.

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) says it identified 96 financiers of terrorism and 424 associates/supporters of the financiers in Nigeria in 2020 and 2021.

President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State at the State House, Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Command on Friday, January 28, 2022, returned eleven houses recovered in different parts of Enugu to Chief Arthur Eze.

By Sharon Ngozi Nwabiani (Senior Correspondent, in Lagos)

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, at the weekend, dismissed the no-case submission filed by one Osho Aluko-Kola, who is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N206, 502,490.02 (Two Hundred and Six Million, Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Ninety Naira, Two Kobo).

By Sharon Ngozi Nwabiani (Senior Correspondent, in Lagos)

The €250,000,000.00 fraud trial involving a Malaysian, Tan Ah Chai Richard (now late), and his company, Coastal Asia Investments Limited, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has been adjourned till March 4, 2022 for continuation of trial.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) have entered into a Cooperation Agreement on the implementation of the Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR).

By Bitrus Pam (Kaduna State Correspondent)

The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, January 24, 2022 secured the conviction of one James Ocholi Ogwu before Justice M.T.M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna on a one-count amended charge which bordered on criminal breach of trust.