By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Arguments over the examination of a subpoenaed prosecution witness in the trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, stalled proceedings before Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal High Court, FCT, Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The President and Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Haruna Yahaya, has commended the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on his remarkable strides in the fight against corruption.

By Yetunde Beecroft (Lagos Island Correspondent, in Ikoyi)

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Yusuf Suleiman, an officer with the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, in the trial of Kavlak Onal, an Austrian national arrested by the NCS for allegedly failing to declare the sums of $800,575 and €651,505 in his possession before Justice Yelim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.

* Calls For Strategic Reform In Constituency Project Funding

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Musa Ibrahim Alkali, Director of Administration and Human Resource at the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has been conferred with the esteemed title of Member of the National Institute (mni) upon his graduation from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau state.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Kano State Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Ahmad Muhammad Wada, Esq, received the Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kano Command, Tahir Ahmad Lawan, on a formal courtesy visit.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Mrs. Ese Miriam Okwong, a Deputy Director in the Planning, Research and Statistics Department of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has been inducted as a Fellow of the Security Institute of Nigeria.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called for a fundamental strengthening of integrity and revenue-collection frameworks within the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), labelling systemic reforms as “essential” for national development.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Justice F. Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja on Monday, February 9, 2026 slated March 23, 2026 for delivery of judgment in the trial of Nicholas Mutu, a serving member of the Federal House of Representatives.

By Cosmas Enahoro (Edo State Correspondent, in Benin City)

The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Mrs Salt Adeaze Udoka for property fraud. Udoka, 48 is alleged to have collaborated with two others to obtain the sum of N165 million under the pretence of selling a landed property to their victim.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, On Thursday, February 5, 2026, ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the Department of State Services, DSS to investigate his court Registrar, Nasiru Onimisi Zubairu as well as the 2nd defendant in an alleged N10billion fraud, Daudu Sulaiman for alleged tampering with Exhibits N and O.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede, has called on the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN and other stakeholders in the real estate sector to safeguard themselves against financial crimes by respecting effective tax administration, financial integrity and clear beneficial ownership disclosures.

By Chinelo Ogbodo (Enugu State Correspondent)

Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigations of one Ibekwe Izuchukwu Emmanuel, a sales representative of Prince OJ Global Services Limited and Miracle Onyekachi Nnaji, a Point of Sale, POS operator for alleged criminal diversion of N70, 030, 450 (Seventy Million, Thirty Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Naira) belonging to the company.