Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has revealed that Nigeria accounts for 20 percent (about $10 billion) of the estimated $50 billion that Africa was losing to Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs).
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The money laundering trial of former senior special assistant on public affairs to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court Abuja, has been adjourned till April 26 and 27, 2021, for the continuation of trial
* Says Fight Against Corruption Will Be Intelligence-Driven
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The new Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa on Friday, March 5, 2021, officially assumed duties with a pledge to steer the organization towards a proactive and intelligence-led investigation.
By Sharon Ngozi Nwabiani (Senior Correspondent, in Lagos)
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of Temitope Oluwasanmi and Augustine Olayinka before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court, Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.
By Shehu Shinkafi (Sokoto State Correspondent)
Justice Bello Duwale of the Sokoto State High Court today, Thursday, March 4, 2021, convicted and sentenced one Mohammed Buba Amne to one-year imprisonment for obtaining One Million Naira (N1, 000,000.00) under false pretense.
By Shehu Shinkafi (Sokoto State Correspondent)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Sokoto Zonal Office, has arraigned Senator Umaru Tafida Argungu, before Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court on one count charge of criminal misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N419, 744, 612. 30 (Four Hundred and Nineteen Million, Seven Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Twelve Naira, Thirty Kobo).
By Thelma Veracruz (Bureau Chief South-South, in Portharcourt)
The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a Dutch couple: Peiter Borremans and Nkechi Borremans alongside Lagon Trade Limited before Justice E.A Obile of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State for suspected fraudulent dealings involving a marine Tanker Vessel to the tune of $330,000(Three Hundred and Thirty Thousand United States Dollars).
By Muktar Bello (Kano State Correspondent)
Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano on March 2, 2021, convicted one Maryam Abu Shinga on a one-count amended charge of retention of proceeds of crime. She was also ordered to pay the sum of N110, 000,000 in restitution to victims
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama Abuja, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 granted bail to a former Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Benjamin Ezra Dikki and his Company, Kebna Studios &Communications Limited.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, March 1, 2021, arraigned a former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Ezra Dikki, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, on four counts of alleged corruption and abuse of office.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, Enugu State, has struck out a case seeking enforcement of fundamental human rights and an award of damages to the tune of Five Million Naira (N5m) against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for lack of merit.
