In a renewed anti-corruption fight by the President Tinubu administration, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has identified an account belonging to Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother to Hadi Sirika, the immediate-past minister of Aviation in Buhari govt, over alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation. The anti-graft agency made this known after the arrest of Abubakar Sirika over the contract fraud of about N3.2 billion and was traced to his private company account, Engirios Nigeria Limited, where the anti-graft has since frozen the account. 

The House of Representatives Public Account Committee (PAC) on Wednesday instructed the Federal Fire Service to remit the sum of N1.4 billion released to the agency for COVID-19 intervention funds which it failed to account for back to the Federal Government within seven days. This directive was issued by the Chairperson of PAC, Hon. Bamidele Salam, after the failure of the service to honor the invitation to explain the expenditure of the fund. It was revealed that the Federal Fire Service was invited to appear before the committee but the agency never honored the invitation and did not send any letter to the committee on why it failed to respond to the invitations.

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede stated that religious sect was discovered to be laundering money for terrorists. He made this known during a one-day dialogue on ‘Youth, Religion and the Fight Against Corruption’ which was held on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja, where he revealed that another religious body was found to be shielding a money launderer after suspicious funds were traced to the bank account of the organization.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned a suit filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, against the Federal Government until April 22, 2024, for its next hearing. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/462/2022 Kanu alleged that FG kidnapped him from Kenya and forcefully brought him to Nigeria to face a court trial. He also demanded that the court should direct the Department of States Services to release him unconditionally from its custody. 

The Nigerian Police Force has arrested a suspected kidnapper who is linked to the abduction and subsequent murder of one Nabeeha, a girl that was abducted in Abuja and later killed. According to a statement by, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, PPRO, the criminal, Bello Mohammed, 28, from Zamfara state was arrested on January 20, 2024 in Kaduna with N2.25 million cash which is suspected to be a proceed of ransom. 

The Supreme Court has affirmed the five-year jail term handed to Farouk Lawan, a former member of the House of Representatives by the Court of Appeal over his acceptance of a $500,000 bribe from business mogul, Femi Otedola. In an unanimous judgment on Friday by a five-member panel which upheld the 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal and dismissed Lawan’s appeal against the judgment of the lower court over his five year prison sentence.