By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to dissociate itself from claims by Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, currently circulating in the social media, that he was advised by the Commission to maintain a low profile in the wake of the indictment of his friend, Abbas Ramon alias Hushpuppi in a $1.1m international fraud conspiracy by US Law enforcement.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative (PAGMI) on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, reiterated the need for continuous education and enlightenment of artisanal gold miners and gold sellers in view of their susceptibility and vulnerability to being used to perpetrate acts of money laundering.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has reiterated the Commission’s resolve to sanitize and deal with fraud-related issues in the extractive industries.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Commander of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Onwukwe C. Obiora, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to join hands with the Commission in the fight against economic and financial crimes in the country

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, July 30, 2021, sentenced an undergraduate, one Abdulsalam Oyeyemi, to one-year imprisonment for falsely posing as American Military Officer to defraud unsuspecting victims.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered N5.4billion for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.

By Musa Inuwa (Niger State Correspondent)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and Special Control Unit against Money Laundering SCUML in conjunction with the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative PAGMI, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, held a sensitization and town hall meeting with artisanal and small scale miners in Minna, Niger State.

* Describes It As Game Changer In Anti-Insurgency War

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has applauded the arrival of the turbo-prop A-29 Super Tucano fighter jets which it described as "a light attack aircraft, a versatile tool, rugged, well-armored and available with the state-of-the-art avionics.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has said that the private sector was responsible for over 60 percent illegal movement of funds from Africa to foreign countries.

By Bitrus Pam (Kaduna State Correspondent)

The Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, July 26, 2021, arraigned the duo of Mary Aweh and Olaleye Samuel Oluwadamilare before Justice M.T. Tukur of Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on a six-count charge bordering on advance fee fraud.

By Adewumi Oyekan (Kwara State Correspondent)

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, July 22, 2021, sentenced a self-styled customs officer, Yakubu Azeez Afolayan, to twenty years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on impersonation and job scam.

By Cosmas Enahoro (Edo State Correspondent)

For attempting to use forged documents to induce operatives of the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release suspects on bail, the trio of Ughuoshe Adolphus, Ojeifo Godfrey, and Lewis Ogenkhewe was today July 22, 2021, arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice before Justice (Professor) C. A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State.