Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

February 04, (THEWILL) - On Wednesday, last week, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed that it had uncovered a religious sect in Nigeria involved in money laundering for terrorists. Additionally, he revealed that...

January 15, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Chukwuemeka Ugwuh, for alleged conspiracy and loan fraud of about N3.6 billion. The anti-graft agency, in a statement by...

January 14, (THEWILL) - Suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, was once seen as a rising star in President Bola Tinubu's cabinet. At just 37, she was the youngest minister in the government and...

January 12, (THEWILL) - Justice A. A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna, has convicted and sentenced one Idris Musa to ten years imprisonment for Automated Teller Machine (ATM) fraud. In a statement on Friday,...

January 08, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has reportedly invited the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, over alleged N585 million scam. Edu was suspended by President Bola Tinubu on Monday, to...

January 08, (THEWILL) - A Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has declared the prolonged detention of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emfiele, without trial as a flagrant violation of his...

January 07, (THEWILL) - President Bola Tinubu has directed a thorough investigation to ascertain the accuracy and validity of the allegation of payments made into a private account by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. Minister of Information and National Orientation,...

January 07, (THEWILL) - Some notable national newspapers, television stations and news websites used words like "Raid" and "Gestapo" in their headlines to describe last Thursday's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operation at the Dangote Lagos headquarters in...

January 06, (THEWILL) - The National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), has dismissed reports linking the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, to financial impropriety or any wrongdoing within the agency. A statement issued on...

January 04, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked reports that a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, shunned its invitation. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale,...