President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ola Olukoyede as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, announced this in a statement on Thursday. Ngelale explained that Olukoyede’s appointment is for a renewable term of four…
Court convicts crypto trader for fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, October 6, 2023, convicted one Lawrence Success Karinate, a Peer-to-Peer crypto trader for computer-related fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission made this known via an official statement on its…
EFCC grills ex-Benue Gov Ortom
The immediate past Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom is in the Makurdi office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) following an invitation. Ortom arrived at the Makurdi zonal office of the anti-graft agency located at Alor Gordon Street…
Applicant bags 1 year jail term for dating scam
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced an unemployed man, Olanrewaju Abbas, to one year imprisonment for the possession of false documents to defraud people on a dating website. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Rahmon…
DSS storms EFCC Lagos office, blocks officers’ access
Operatives of the Department of State Security have stormed the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, preventing officials of the anti-graft agency from gaining access to their office in Ikoyi, Lagos. Impeccable sources in both agencies told…
Convicts nabbed for kidnapping, Coroner okays Whitney’s autopsy report and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. 4 Lagos ex-convicts nabbed for kidnapping, robbery (Punch) The Lagos State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yaba…
4 arraigned for stealing phones, Man sentenced to death for murder and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Lagos police arraign 4 for stealing phones (Punch) The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned four…
Drug Traffickers forfeit N3m, Couple found dead, 11 arrested for electoral offences and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Convicted drug traffickers forfeit bus, N3m bribe to FG (Punch) A Federal High Court sitting in…
Cultist nabbed for robbery, suspects arraigned for electoral offences and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Suspected cultist nabbed for robbery in Lagos (Punch) The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a…
EFCC re-arraigns 4 men for alleged purchase of forged dollars
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned four men before an Ikeja High Court for alleged purchase and possession of forged U.S. dollars. The defendants were: Mark Obisean, Olumide Mcintouch, Bolaji Bakare and Goodluck Bazunu. They were…