The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has busted and arrested a syndicate of 193 foreigners and 599 Nigerian suspects in a cryptocurrency and romance scam networks in Lagos state. The anti graft spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, made this known to newsmen in Lagos yesterday.
Finnish authorities have reportedly frozen assets belonging to the controversial self-proclaimed pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, and four other persons over alleged terrorism.
The special brigade of the Nigerian Army (NA) has eliminated several Lakurawa bandits and destroyed about 22 camps in Sokoto and Kebbi states which was disclosed on Friday to news correspondents in Sokoto state by military authorities.
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Abuja has today, remanded the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello in kuje correctional centre after denying his bail pending his next trial. The presiding judge, Justice Maryann Anenih adjourned the hearing in Bello’s case of N110 billion money laundering charges brought against Bello by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to January 29 and 30 and February 25 and 27, 2027, for hearing.
Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has been granted bail by an Ekiti State magistrates’ court for the sum of N50 million, with a surety in like sum. As part of the bail condition, the court said the surety must own landed property while the matter was adjourned to January 29, 2025, for further proceedings.
In anti corruption campaign, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) reveal how corruption has severely battered the Nigeria’s economic and social development. To stem the tide, the commission called on Nigerians to make it a personal practice to fight the scourge as well as summon courage needed to expose corrupt practices.
