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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

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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.

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By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, February 2, 2023, arraigned one Sulaiman Muhammad Dikwa before Justice C.N Nwabulu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jikwoyi, Abuja.

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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.

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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.

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

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Wednesday, arrested a woman, Esther Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, with the Twitter handle Simisola of Lala, offering new naira notes for sale on social media.

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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.

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

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has set aside the judgment of a lower court barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from initiating either civil or criminal proceedings against former Accountant General of the Federation , AGF, Jonah Oguniyi Otunla.

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

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, adjourned further hearing in the trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, over an alleged N6.9bn fraud, till March 20, 2023.

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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.

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By Thelma Dokubo (Bureau Chief, South South, in PortHarcourt)

Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Wednesday February 1, 2023 remanded a Director of a Nigerian Gas Company, Charles Rudolf Epelle in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, pending the determination of his bail application.

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

Following widespread reports of sharp practices allegedly involving bank officials and currency syndicates which has created difficulty in public access to the new redesigned naira notes, a joint task force operation involving the officials of Central Bank of Kenya (CBN), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), have begun to monitor cash disbursement to the citizens by Money Deposit Banks across the country.

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