By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, granted an interim forfeiture of 14 properties in Lagos, Abuja and the United Arab Emirates linked to the Kogi State Government.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of Saturday February 25, presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos. The recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Commission.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested an accountant of Oando Filling Station, Dutse Alhaji, Abuja over alleged racketeering of the new Naira notes.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

As part of ongoing efforts at ensuring that commercial banks comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) directive on the distribution of the redesigned Naira note, operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) last Friday, discovered the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty-Eight Million Naira (N258m) stashed in the vault at the head office of Sterling Bank in Abuja.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of a former Permanent Secretary, Peter Ayeni and Director of Finance and Account, Pius Ojemolon at the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (ESUBEB), over allegations bordering on fraud, conspiracy and abuse of office.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

An officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Niger State Command, Anthony Damisa, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for alleged forgery and making of false statement.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

An Operations Manager of a leading Commercial bank in Abuja Central Area was today, February 6, 2023, arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, for refusing to load the Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, of the bank despite having N29 million of the redesigned Naira notes in the branch’s vaults.

* N1000 Denomination Of The New Notes Hidden At The Bank's Vault

By Zakari Muhammed Yusuf (Kano State Correspondent )

The arraignment of the Kano Central Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abdulkarim Saleh Abdulsalam, before Honourable Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa of the Federal High Court Kano, suffered yet another setback today, February 6, 2023, owing to a change of counsel by the defence.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have commenced investigation of Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, an actress and cosmetologist, for allegedly tampering with the redesigned Naira notes, an offence contrary to Section 21 (5) of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Act, 2007.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The first prosecution witness, PW1, Olusegun Falola, in the ongoing trial of Ismaila Yousouf Atumeyi, a Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, on Friday, February 3, 2023, told Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos that one of his co-defendants, Abdulmalik Salau, a former employee of Union Bank Plc, had once been investigated for various fraudulent practices worth “Hundreds of Millions of Naira” by the Police.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

In continuation of its clampdown at elements frustrating efforts in making the redesigned Naira notes available to members of the public, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has arrested an official of one of the commercial banks for alleged sabotage.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has secured the conviction of one Mr. Ojoko Robinson, a Director with Rojoke CNE Services Limited, and the company for contract fraud to the tune of N13, 710,252.44.