A legal practitioner, Kingsley Ekwem, on Tuesday declined to testify as a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the younger sister to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of the immediate past President, Goodluck...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rejected the judgment of the Court of Appeal which quashed the 14 corruption charges it filed against a...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to be in court on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, for alleged fraud...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered an inquiry into the alleged demolition of a property in Abuja linked to the wife of former President Goodluck...
A former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, was absent from the Federal High Court in Abuja for his trial on money...
The Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Ishaq Bello, has returned the bribery case against a former member of the House...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has petitioned the National Judicial Council over the alleged misconduct of three judges. The judges are: Justice...
An advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, says the court has upheld its right to take steps to stop former governors, who are now...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a suspended judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, for alleged corruption...
An official of Stanbic IBTC Plc, Mr. Adedayo Adesanmi, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that the accounts of a businessman, Jide Omokore, with...
The Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has said that he will personally ensure that any corrupt public official in his government is jailed. He said...
The House of Representatives said on Monday it was unimpressed by the slow response by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government to the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Wednesday (today) arraign Mohammed Adamu, the son of the ex-Nasarawa State governor and current lawmaker...
The Lagos State Government has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the final forfeiture of a sum of N28.5m and houses recovered from the Director of...
An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ahmed Yahaya, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday how the N3bn equivalent of the...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the plenary on Tuesday, threatened to dissolve ad hoc committees in the Senate who fail to conclude their assignments...
The Federal Government has appealed to the Supreme Court to restore all the 18 false assets declaration and other related charges instituted against the Senate...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday interrogated former governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State for alleged fraud of over N10bn. Jang, who is...
How would you sum up the year 2017? 2017 was so eventful, there were lots of confusion in the polity but at the level of CACOL we didn’t expect things could...
IN a move that seems to defy logic, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has reportedly gone to court to stop the ongoing parliamentary...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has started a fresh move to seize funds in 15 bank accounts linked with the wife of ex-President Goodluck...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed January 19, 2018 to rule on an application by Union Bank Plc opposing the move to have Flat 7B, Osborne Towers...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Wednesday warned lawyers and other members of the public against making “unguarded comments” on live...
The Senate, on Tuesday, berated the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), for his moves to stop the National...
The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday secured the conviction of a former Chairman, Orolu Local Government Area of...
Over six months after he was invited to testify in the investigations into the controversial sale of Oil Prospecting Licence 245, former President Goodluck...
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has appealed against the December 12, 2017 judgment of the Court of Appeal which reversed his acquittal by the Code...
The Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Sunday that the National Assembly had no legal authority to query state governments...
The Nigerian military has budgeted about N38bn for the purchase of ammunition, fighter jets and helicopters in 2018 as part of its efforts to tackle the Boko...
Following widespread condemnations from individuals and groups particularly from the South-West, a lawmaker, representing Lagos West Senatorial District...
An anti corruption pressure group, Centre for Anti Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was...
The Senate ad hoc committee set up to investigate the November 21, 2017, showdown between officials of the Department of State Services and the Economic and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday denied issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of the ex-Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform...
The National Economic Council, on Thursday, asked the Federal Government to withdraw $1bn from the $2.3bn currently in the Excess Crude Account and use it to...
The Ekiti State Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government to probe financial transactions of the state between 2010 and 2014 has submitted...
The whistle-blower, who helped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission recover the $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 (N13bn) from an Ikoyi apartment on April 12...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed an attack on the property of the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, which resulted in the...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani, on Wednesday said his ministry had compiled the list of about 40 erring contractors that would be sent to the...