Tag: EFCC

NUPENG, EFCC collaborate to combat oil theft
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NUPENG, EFCC collaborate to combat oil theft

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers have joined forces to combat the evil of oil theft. According to The PUNCH, NUPENG appealed for cooperation when its president, William Akporeha, and members of his executive visited the EFCC’s corporate offices in Abuja on Wednesday. William asked […]

EFFC Dangote raid crashes Nigeria dollar bond one week - Bloomberg
Business

EFFC Dangote raid crashes Nigeria dollar bond one week – Bloomberg

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raid last week on the offices of Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person whose empire dominates the Nigerian corporate world, has caused Nigeria’s dollar bonds to fall. According to Bloomberg, Nigeria’s dollar bonds maturing in 2025 have declined for seven consecutive days, the biggest losing sequence since September, indicating that […]

13 Chinese nationals detained in Kwara for illegal mining
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13 Chinese nationals detained in Kwara for illegal mining

13 Chinese nationals have been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly indulging in illegal mining activities in Ilorin, Kwara State. This information was released by the anti-graft organization in a statement on Thursday by its head of media and publicity, Wilson Uwujaren. The 12 male and one female suspects were detained […]

Nigerian banks involved in 70% of financial crimes - EFCC
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EFCC investigates over N317bn Lagos investment, forex fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared that it is presently looking into numerous cases of forex and investment fraud totaling more than N317 billion in Lagos alone. At the same time, it was announced that Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, had turned into the country’s epicentre for all kinds of economic and financial crimes. […]

The Chairman of EFCC
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Naira scarcity: Over N500bn old notes still in circulation, says EFCC

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. AbudulRasheed Bawa, on Wednesday said that over N500 billion of the old N1000 and N500 notes are still out of the Central Bank of Nigeria. This, he disclosed while speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s “The 2023 Verdict” programme. On finding out how prepared […]

NUPENG, EFCC collaborate to combat oil theft
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EFCC, ICPC investigate Nigerians depositing millions of old N500, N100 at Ilorin CBN

Anti-corruption agencies have began investigating the depositors of millions of old N500 and N1,000 notes at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Ilorin branch. According to Daily Post, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, among others are on ground to supervise lodgments and educate depositors on the ramifications involved […]

New naira: Beware of currency hoarders, EFCC warns BDC operators
Business

EFCC retrieves unremitted N900m for NHIS

EfccIThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission  has again retrieved a sum of N900 million for the National Health Insurance Scheme. The EFCC’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the council’s spokesperson claimed that the amount was a part of the money some banks […]

New naira: Beware of currency hoarders, EFCC warns BDC operators
Oil and Gas

Fuel subsidy: EFCC recovers N13bn illegal payments

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission records recovery worth N13bn as proceeds from illegal payments made under the subsidy regime between 2017 and 2021.   This was discovered from the website of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit on the National Inherent risk assessment of money laundering in the Nigerian extractive sector.   The document read, […]

New naira: Beware of currency hoarders, EFCC warns BDC operators
Economy

New naira: Beware of currency hoarders, EFCC warns BDC operators

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has urged Bureau de Change operators to be wary of currency hoarders who would attempt to offload the currencies they had illegally stashed away. The EFCC made this known in a statement released on Wednesday while backing the Central Bank of Nigeria’s plan to redesign the naira notes. While […]

Oil Theft: Nigeria loses $150m every two days
Oil and Gas

EFCC, ICPC should probe oil theft not lawmakers – Falana

Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana said it is not the business of the National Assembly to investigate economic sabotage in the oil sector. Falana who made this revelation on a Channels TV interview monitored by our correspondent on Friday said the probing of economic sabotage in the oil sector is […]

Naira falls N777 against dollar after CBN announcement
Economy

EFCC threatens to arrest dollar hoarders over naira fall

Following the increasingly fall of the Naira, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has threatened to arrest Nigerians hoarding dollars and other foreign currency The Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, said this during a meeting with representatives of the Bureau De Change operators on Friday. Bawa’s meeting with the BDC operator was a […]

New naira: Beware of currency hoarders, EFCC warns BDC operators
Banking

Three ex-bankers connive to defraud bank N20bn

Three former workers of First Bank of Nigeria have been arraigned before a Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja over attempted fraud charges. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the culprits, Ozioma Ugorji, 35; Ugwu Emeka, 32; and Obike Chukwuka, 38, for allegedly attempting to steal N20bn from the bank. PUNCH Metro reported that the […]