DSS/EFCC Archives - Page 3 of 5

Jan

31

2024

The EFCC uncovers religious organisation financing terrorism, links it to another N7 billion fraud.

Economy, Metro, NewsBandits, Crime, DSS/EFCC, Economy, Insecurity, Nigeria, Religion, Security, Terrorism

Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claims that the anti-graft organisation has discovered a religious group that is using money laundering to support terrorists. At a discussion on "Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption" on Wednesday in Abuja, Olukoyede revealed the information. He also claimed that N7 billion in fraud proceeds had been linked to a different religious organisation. He mentioned that the country's religious groups, institutions, sects, and bodies had been proven to be involved in money laundering by the EFCC. Olukoyede claimed that after money laundering was linked to one of…

Jul

28

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

DSS’s request to keep Emefiele in custody longer is denied by the Court

Economy, PoliticsCBN, Court, DSS/EFCC, Economy, Emefiele

A request by the Department of State Services for a "extended detention order" to hold Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, in its custody for an additional 14 days, was denied by the Federal Capital Territory High Court. Emefiele was taken into custody by the secret police on June 10 not long after President Bola Tinubu had suspended him . The DSS brought him before the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday after holding him for more than a month, where he was charged with two counts of illegal guns possession. He was given…

Apr

30

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Timi Frank condemns $15bn illegal Railway MoU by NDDC’s MD, Urges EFCC, ICPC to wade in

Metro, Opinion, PoliticsCrime, DSS/EFCC, ICPC, NDDC, NRC, Opinion, Timi Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, strongly condemned a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a $15billion Trans-Niger Delta Railway Project entered into by the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku, with Atlantic Global Resources Inc. Frank in a statement in Abuja described the action of the NDDC’s MD as illegal and a Yahoo Yahoo abracadabra, that is fraudulently laced with decitful intentions aimed at siphoning the resources of the commission. He called on any of the anti-graft agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and…

Mar

30

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

LP responds to DSS on Interim Govt – We are not intimidated, arrest MC Oluomo, others first

Metro, Opinion, Politics2023, DSS/EFCC, Labour Party, Metro, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

The Labour Party on Wednesday said Nigerians would not be intimidated into abandoning their legitimate and legal right to seek redress in court to reclaim their mandate “which was freely given to its Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi but brazenly stolen by highest bidders.” Yunusa Tanko, Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party, stated this in Abuja while reacting to the alarm raised by the Department of State Services, DSS, over an alleged plot by some politicians or groups of people to create an Interim National Government. Recall that the DSS had alleged that some politicians were plotting to truncate the country’s democracy through…

Mar

18

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

EFCC busts Canadian VISA fraudster in Abuja

Business, Lifestyle, Metro, PoliticsAbuja, Crime, DSS/EFCC, Metro, Nigeria

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday arrested a suspected visa fraudster, Enock Ogungbamigbe. City Round gathered that the suspect specialized in defrauding Nigerians desperate to migrate to Canada either to work or continue their education through fake visas and job offers. The 32-year-old, who owns a garden in Mpape, a suburb of Abuja, was picked up at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja, by operatives of the anti-graft agency when he responded to an appointment to procure a visa for an applicant intending to migrate to Canada. Unknown to him, that it was bait. The EFCC’s Director of Media and…