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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned a total of N802.42 million to First Bank of Nigeria Plc after recovering the funds from a fraud suspect linked to the illegal diversion of more than N1.3 billion from the bank. The recovery was formally handed over on Monday by the EFCC’s Benin Zonal Directorate […]
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A WITNESS told the Federal High Court in Abuja in Abuja how $3 million was moved to the account of Oceangate Engineering Oil & Gas Ltd, a company owned by a socialite, Ms Aisha Achimugu. Trinity Usman, a prosecution witness, on Friday, told the court that he received and transferred $3 million into the account […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) grilled the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mr Mele Kyari, on Wednesday afternoon, over multi-billion controversial contracts, including a near $3 billion refinery outlay, during his tenure. He is not the only ex-NNPC chief that has been quizzed. Nearly all the […]
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is, once again, hit by multi-billion naira fraud linked to refinery turnaround maintenance in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna, especially under the administration of its immediate past Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last week recovered more than N5 billion and […]
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited under former Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari, spent nearly $3 billion on the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries, but none of them is working at the moment. In March 2021, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation […]
THE Bola Tinubu-led government must extensively probe the tenure of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mr Mele Kyari, over several allegations handing around his office. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently investigating Mr Kyari and other officials over the $2.896 billion allocated for refinery […]
A REPORT prepared by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has exposed how Nigerian public officials took N721 billion or $1.26 billion in cash bribes in 2023. The report released on Friday by the NBS said that average cash bribe paid to these officials in […]
SPECULATIONS are rife on and off the internet as the visit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, Mr Christopher Asher Wray, coincides with the Abuja court discharge of a Binance executive, Mr Tigran Gambaryan, and a United States’ verdict on the release of President Bola Tinubu’s records by its security agencies. The FBI’s […]
At the heart of Kubwa, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Saturday, a point of sale (PoS) operator withdrew tons of cash from an automated teller machine (ATM) installed by Access Bank. The PoS operator had seven different ATM cards from Access Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Zenith Bank, Eco Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank […]
Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, has claimed the number of deaths from violent crimes and the use of arms have dropped from 2,600 per month to less than 200. He made the claim while addressing journalists at the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting in Abuja recently, stating that the current administration has done fairly […]