Tag: Bawa
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EFCC recovers N134.3bn, $121m in 10 months – Bawa
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recovered N134.3 billion and 121 million dollars, among others, from proceeds of crime between January and October 2022. The EFCC Chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, while featuring in the 62nd session of State House briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team.
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Finally, EFCC Chairman, Bawa escapes jail as JSC Oji sets aside conviction for contempt
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has set aside the contempt proceedings and all the orders of conviction for contempt against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa. Justice Chizoba Oji set aside the proceedings on Thursday after hearing an application brought by the EFCC Chairman. The application…
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EFCC nabs 12 bankers for allegedly stealing funds from dormant accounts
The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested twelve bankers for allegedly stealing funds from dormant accounts. The suspects are: Odeniyi Anthony, Deki Kingsley Onyekachi, Oguchukwu Ene, Elendu Chizaram, Anyakora Uchenna, Onah Kingsley, Akwe Elizabeth and Chinenye Grace Acibe are being accused of partaking in an insider fraud. Others…
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EFCC chair, Bawa reacts to reports of auctioning $12.5m ‘diamond bra’ seized from ex-minister Alison-Madueke
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has denied that the anti-graft agency recovered and
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EFCC updates on Bawa’s condition after slump incident
The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), has said its chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, is hale and hearty.
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Bawa to Nigerians: Stop asking EFCC to help you recover debts
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has cautioned members of the public not to drag the commission into business transactions gone awry. Bawa gave the advice while speaking as one of the panelists at the Alao Aka- Bashorun Memorial Lecture on Thursday in Lagos, stressing that the commission…
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I will resign if asked to do anything contrary to my conscience -Bawa
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that he will resign if he is pressured to compromise. The EFCC boss made this known this on Friday, March 26, 2021, when he featured in a Nigerian Television Authority interview programme One-on-One. “We are in the habit of worshipping people that…
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EFCC chair, Bawa gives bankers deadline to declare assets
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, says from June 1, 2021, all bankers in the country must declare their assets in line with the Bank Employees Declaration of Asset Act. Bawa stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President…
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EFCC boss, Bawa appears in N1.4bn oil subsidy fraud trial
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja High Court to give evidence in a N1.4 billion fraud trial involving an oil company, Nadabo Energy. Led in evidence by the tribunal counsel, Saidu Ateh before Justice C. A. Align, the EFCC boss analyzed the email correspondences…
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AbdulRasheed Bawa: Nigerian youths’ burden-bearer on the driver seat at EFCC – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu The Nigerian Senate on February 24 confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), marking the beginning of a new era for an organisation that has gone through nearly five years of leadership uncertainties and months of a probe that…