CRIME

We got money from PDP, say Udenwa, Falae, Fani-Kayode  A former minister has sneaked out of the country as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) closes in on the suspected architects of an alleged […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday vowed that his administration would not show mercy to any person in its ongoing anti-corruption war. He said his administration would pursue the anti-graft war relentlessly until Nigerians began to […]

FINALLY,  former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, is answering to charges of abuse of procurement process and diversion of public funds preferred against him and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it had re-arrested former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, over allegations of obtaining the sum of N240 million by false […]

CONTROLLER-General, Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, Dr Peter Ekpendu, has ordered an investigation into allegation by four kidnap suspects in Police custody in Rivers State that a prison inmate on awaiting trial coordinated their kidnap activities […]

Switzerland has given conditions for repatriating $321m looted by a former military ruler, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, to Nigeria. Part of the conditions is that the fund would be used for projects that would […]

Representatives of the Swiss government are expected in Nigeria on Tuesday to discuss with their Nigerian counterparts the repatriation of another tranche of huge public funds stolen by late Head of State, Sani Abacha. The […]

A former Nigerian chief of defence has been accused of stealing $20m (£14m) from the air force and buying a mansion. Retired Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh denies 10 charges of fraud, criminal breach of […]

No doubt, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, better known as Rev. King, will die many times before his death. Indeed, he has died many times before his death. But when will he really be dead? In other words, […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered $1m cash from one of the houses belonging to the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh(retd.), The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered NN10,061,172,600 from the National Broadcasting Commission(NBC) being alleged inflation of collateral funds meant for Digital Set-Top -Boxes. The commission is set to prosecute a former Director-General […]

The kidnappers of three girls from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary (BMJS) have demanded N200 million ransom. Timilehin Olisa, Tofunmi Popoolaniyan and Deborah Akinayo, all SS2 students, were snatched away from their classroom at about 9:30pm on Monday […]

Nigerian police are hunting for three teenage girls abducted from their boarding school on the outskirts of Lagos city by heavily armed men. Kidnappings for ransom occasionally occur in Nigeria’s commercial capital, but this is […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday accused Mr. Rickey Tarfa of falsifying his age, urging Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos not to allow a further and better affidavit […]

The Federal Government moved a notch higher in its anti-graft war, last night, with a confirmation that it was launching a comprehensive probe into the controversial Halliburton bribery case in which top Nigerian politicians allegedly […]

A 35-year-old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family including seven children with a butcher’s knife before committing suicide outside India’s financial capital of Mumbai, police said Sunday. The attack happened after family members […]