By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has called on the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to design innovative technologies to aid the fight against corruption, assuring the agency of ICPC’s willingness to collaborate in this effort.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

In a strategic move to address corruption in the pension system, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) have agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at combating fraud and other corrupt practices in pension administration.

By Yetunde Beecroft (Lagos Island Correspondent)

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, arraigned a Chinese, Li Kuang Kuang before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. He was arraigned on a one-count charge of alleged cybercrime.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has sentenced a 27-year-old fashion designer, Haruna Musa Tolani, to 12 months imprisonment for impersonating and defrauding Callitus Egwuonwu, an investigating officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Directorate.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Abdulmajeed Agboola, a staff of Access Bank Plc, in the alleged N5,726,994, 110.23( Five Billion, Seven Hundred and Twenty Six Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety Four Thousand, One Hundred and Ten Naira, Twenty three kobo) fraud involving a former employee of the bank, Olajide Ogunmoroti, , Michael Igbomina, David Onyeike and Moses Iruolaje before Justice O.O.Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, presented First Prosecution Witness, PW, William Abimbola in the ongoing trial of a former deputy director, Highways, of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Augustine Ojo Olowoniyan, alongside a surveyor, Sulaiman Abdulkadir Muhammed of the Department of Highways and Planning before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Apo, Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 presented the Ninth and last Prosecution Witness, PW9, Ape Sunday against the former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan.

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

The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 arraigned a businessman, Oviri Oghenebrume Believe and his company, Grant Impex Nig. Ltd before Justice H. A. Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Warri, Delta State for fraud.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

As part of its ongoing investigations of the alleged monumental fraud involving many actors in the infamous Crypto Bridge Exchange, CBEX, fraud, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is gaining important ground in its search for eight wanted persons implicated in the fraud.

By Bashir Borodo (Bureau Chief North West, in Kaduna)

The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one content creator on tiktok and Instagram, Muhammad Kabir before Justice R.M.Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna for abusing and mutilating the Naira.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Mr. Ola Olukoyede has reiterated the Commission’s commitment to the promotion of integrity, transparency and accountability in the country.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

The Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML and the Ogun State Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, Ogun State have resolved to strengthen their collaboration towards effective enforcement of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) laws in Nigeria.