The woman, who was fired by President Muhammadu Buhari last week, was summoned by the EFCC to answer questions on how the huge sum of money earmarked by the government for the ministry disappeared under her watch
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Ishaq Salihu, an operative of the EFCC, stated this on Thursday while being led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Adebisi Adeniyi, from the chambers of Rotimi Jacobs (SAN)
Informed sources said his tenure expires this week
The charge reads: “That Ojukwu Nnamdi Rowland on or about the 8th day of October, 2015 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court had in your possession cash in the sum of US$2,917,272 (Two Million, Nine Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy Two United States Dollars) during your outbound clearance for travel to Addis Ababa and failed to declare the said sum of US$2,917,272 to the officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service as required under the provision of section 2(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No.1 of 2012) and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 2(5) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011(as amended by Act No. 1 of 2012).”
Shazali said the figure was grossly higher than the N485 million that was lost through the same channels in 2013
Lamorde said the state-of-the-art recording facilities in the EFCC interrogation rooms would not allow any interrogator to humiliate a suspect
Akpabio’s return to the EFCC office was to complete the statement he started making to the Commission on Friday
Alison-Madueke was arraigned after her arrest and those of four others by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency on Friday in her London home
Information available to The Eagle Online on Friday evening had it that operatives of the EFCC had stormed Alison-Madueke’s house in Asokoro area of Abuja
In a petition written by the chambers of Rotimi Jacobs & Co., dated September 7, 2015, Messrs Sijuwade Holdings Limited stated that in 1993, it purchased a parcel of land measuring 30,000 square metres from the Ojomu Chieftaincy Family at the Lekki peninsula, Lagos, and duly obtained the Governor’s Consent to the transaction
A statement signed by Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, and issued to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja said Okereke is wanted for jumping bail
Kekere-Ekun was jailed for the murder of 18-year-old Marcus Hall in 2001, following a brawl outside Luton’s Atmosphere Nightclub, where the popular music group, So Solid Crew, had performed
The PDP senators had kicked against the scheduled investigative hearing of Lamorde over the alleged diversion of N1 trillion
Larmode, according to a petition before the Senate, was accused of diverting N1 trillion said to have been recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Dipreye Alamieyeseigha; and a former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun
A group, Bayelsa for Good Governance, has said the recent defection of some members of the Peoples Democratic Party to…
The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to also go after the corrupt leaders…
About a week after his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian…
According to Abubakar Jimoh, NAFDAC’s Director of Special Duties, Orhii’s visit to the Commission was voluntary, not that he was arrested
Curiously, most of the beneficiaries have one common feature: the allocation of the houses to them was not done in their individual names but in the names of front-companies and/or faceless companies
The denial is coming after pressure from the national headquarters of the party to the state chapter to rescind an earlier statement on Sunday saying it was the petitioner in the alleged fraud case against Toyin Saraki