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•  * Economist Urges FG To Urgently Commence Property Ownership Verification Exercise

• Nigeria Loses $18 Billion Annually To Money Laundering Through Banks

• 6,772 Billionaires In Nigeria Engage In Annual Tax Evasion

• Only 914 Nigerians Pay Between N10m And N20m In Tax Yearly

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Reactions have begun to trail the new EFCC's ultimatum to bank employees and other players in the nation's financial sector to declare their assets or face the full wrath of Nigeria's anti-corruption laws.

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By Idongesit Esuene (Akwa Ibom State Correspondent)

Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Emmanuel Chigozie Eze, a 35-year-old Head of Sales for Procter and Gamble company, for allegedly embezzling over N20m(Twenty Million Naira) company funds, which he claimed to have spent on online sports betting.

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By Muktar Bello (Kano State Correspondent)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Hayatu Abdullahi before Justice Hafsat Yahaya Sani of Kano State High Court on one count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust.

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By Valentine Nnamani (Bureau Chief South East, in Enugu)

JusticeI.N Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State on Monday, March 15, 2021, convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters, Ferdinand Chikelu Iloka, and Chidera Oleka, to one-year imprisonment each on separate one-count bordering on internet fraud.

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By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

The trial of Atiku Abubakar Kigo alongside five others before Justice Hussien Baba of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, with the judge admitting in the evidence, documents which the prosecution had sought to tender at the last adjourned date.

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By Zainab Yusuf (Assistant Editor)

A combination of professional competence, high-level dedication, capability, and a deep sense of the institutional history of the anti-graft Organisation, were the key considerations in the choice of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

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By Dayo Adedibu (Oyo State Correspondent)

Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, convicted five internet fraudsters of the charge of criminal impersonation, contrary to Section 22(2)(b)(ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, ETC.) Act, 2015 and punishable under Section 22 (2) (b) of the same Act.

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• * EFCC Arraigns Sexagenarian Over Land Scam in Ibadan

By Dayo Adedibu (Oyo State Correspondent)

Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, March 15, 2021, convicted one Ajibola Hammed on one court amended charge bordering on impersonation, contrary to Section 22(2)(b)(i) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015 and Punishable under the same Act.

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By Abubakar Goni (Borno State Correspondent)

The ongoing trial of Aisha Alkali Wakil popularly known as "Mama Boko Haram" for alleged N71 million fraud continued on Monday, March 15, 2021 before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its second witness.

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By Thelma Veracruz (Bureau Chief South-South, in Portharcourt)

The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, arraigned Enemo Okoria; Ebhofage Brown; Francis Dapagamo, a Tugboat DP28, and a company, Diesel Power Nigeria Limited before Justice J.K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on two- count charges bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum product without an appropriate licence.

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By Shedrack Onoja (Benue State Correspondent)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal Office on Monday March 15, 2021 secured the conviction of four suspects ; Jacob Adikwe Adayi, Bayode Sunday, Kizito Izichukwu Nwokoro and Emmanuel Tochukwu Nnabuife, before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State on separate charges of fraud.

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By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

The trial of Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, continued today March 15, 2021, before Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja with the tenth prosecution witness, (PW10) Bako Aliyu providing more details on how Sani allegedly extorted Alhaji Sani Dauda, the Chairman, ASD Motors.

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