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  • Arewa youths slam EFCC over exclusion of Dapo Segun from N5trn refinery rehabilitation scam probe

    Arewa youths slam EFCC over exclusion of Dapo Segun from N5trn refinery rehabilitation scam probe

    The Arewa Consultative Youth has scolded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for excluding Dapo Segun, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NNPC Limited from the over N5 trillion refinery rehabilitation scam probe.

    The group of youths from 19 northern states asked the anti-graft agency to stop shielding Dapo Segun and harassing northerners over refinery rehabilitation scandal, adding that NNPCL top official also has hand in the OVH acquisition deal.

    In a statement by its President, Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, Arewa Consultative Youth acknowledged the development that EFCC recovered over $10 million and N5 billion from those who mismanaged the refinery rehabilitation and will also be charging the culprits to court soonest.

    They however insisted that Dapo must be part of those offenders to make the case looks real and not just a ploy to witch-hunt northerners and shelve southerners who were actually responsible for the anomalies.

    “Our attention have been drawn to the joyous news that EFCC recovered over 10m dollars and 5b naira from those who mismanaged the refinery rehabilitation and will also be charging the culprits to court soonest.

    “Dear Hard working EFCC, remember Mr. Dapo Segun, a yoruba man who was NNPCL treasury Head, later became NNPCL Executive Vice President Downstream and was incharge over the Refinery rehabilitation as EVP Downstream when all these alleged anomalies happened.

    “He was also incharge of the Ovh/Nnpcl retail controversial acquisition and to make matters worse he was elevated and currently the NNPCL Chief Financial Officer during all these period.

    “So the country will be shocked if the man who was incharge of the refinery activities, gave instructions to the MD of refineries, later became in charge of all payments etc is excluded but the MD he gave instructions, contractors of contract he presided over the award, and if former officers mainly from the North who occupied the position he held and holding is charged and he is exempted, this will lead to national outrage and anger against efcc as engaging in ethnic profiling in the fight against corruption and it will rubbish the good works you are already doing.

    “Nobody is above the law no matter the tribe or else stop the investigation.”

  • EFCC arrests 47 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin

    EFCC arrests 47 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says it has arrested 47 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin, Edo.

    The operatives of the commission also recovered a Pump Action Rifle and live cartridges from one of the suspects.

    EFCC Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

    He said the arrest followed credible intelligence that linked the suspects to fraudulent internet activities.

    “Other items recovered from them include, six vehicles, mobile phones and laptop computers.

    “They will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded,” he said.

  • EFCC nabs 5 suspected illegal miners in Uyo

    EFCC nabs 5 suspected illegal miners in Uyo

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  has arrested five suspected illegal miners involved in the extraction and transportation of ilmenite, locally called ‘black sand’ without the requisite licence in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

    EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

    Oyewale said that the arrest followed weeks of surveillance along the coastal lines of Mkpanak, at Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.

    According to him, the suspects are Samuel Eshiet Akwa, Willie Peter Uboko,  Muhammed Tukur, Salmannu Ibrahim  and Jaafar Adam.

    He explained that as at the time of their arrest, the suspects were conveying 1,200 bags of Ilmenite in a truck without authorisation.

    “All they had was a waybill indicating that the consignment belonged to a certain WillJane Global Ventures Ltd.

    ”Preliminary investigations into the matter showed that the said company, WillJane Global Ventures Ltd, is owned by one of the suspects,  Willie Peter Uboko.

    “He was alleged to have been operating without a mining licence for the past four years and transporting Ilmenite to unidentified destinations,” he said.

    He said that during questioning, the suspect confessed that they were on their way to Onne in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to make a delivery when they were arrested.

    He said that the suspects were making useful statements and would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.

  • Why we involve EFCC, others in recovering Anchor Borrowers loans – MAAN

    Why we involve EFCC, others in recovering Anchor Borrowers loans – MAAN

    The Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN) says it is working with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Department of State Services (DSS), and the Nigeria Police to recover Anchor Borrowers Programme loans from its members.

    Its National President, Mr Bello Abubakar, said this at a news conference after a three-day meeting organised by the association in Abuja on Thursday.

    The meeting includes association’s state chairmen, zonal coordinators, national officers, and other stakeholders in the maize value chain such as researchers, input suppliers, farmers, and the end users.

    The MAAN boss said the purpose of the press briefing was to inform the general public on the efforts being made in recovering the Anchor Borrowers Programme loan given to the association from 2018 to 2021 for maize production,” he said.

    “MAAN understands that the ABP/CBN programme is a revolving loan due for full recovery, depending on the participants (farmers) for compliance.

    “Unfortunately, there was a monumental disappointment as most of the participants/farmers thought that the loan was national cake,” Abubakar said.

    He said due to the recalcitrant attitude of the participants/farmers towards repayment of the loan, MAAN was constrained to write several demand letters to the defaulters as well as seek synergy with the law enforcement and anti-graft agencies like EFCC, DSS, and the Nigeria Police for assistance in line with Federal Government policies of loan recovery.

    “It is most unfortunate that some of the participants/defaulters who tried to evade responsibility to both MAAN and the agencies in support of our loan recovery, took us to various courts for enforcement of their purported human rights which they claimed were violated.”

    The MAAN president said the association took some of the defaulters to court for the recovery of the loan, and most of those cases are still pending in courts.”

    He said insecurity is grossly affecting the association members, saying “some of our farms and farmers were burnt, kidnapped, and killed by bandits on the farms in Niger, Zamfara, Katsina, Borno, Yobe, Sokoto, Ondo, and Ekiti states.

    According to him, flooding has also affected the farmers in Kogi, Benue, Cross River, Jigawa, Katsina, Taraba, Niger, Kebbi, and Kwara states, with drought threatening their members in Oyo, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Ekiti, and Benue states.

    Abubakar urged the Federal Government to create an enabling environment that would give smallholder farmers the opportunity to settle their outstanding loans, produce for domestic needs and exports.

    According to him, government should show compassion to farmers in consideration of the unmitigated and debilitating factors making productive farming and harvest impossible.

    The MAAN boss appealed to the government to either waive or review downward the outstanding financial obligations of the association in the CBN/ABP programme.

    He commended President Bola Tinubu’s administration for its efforts in ensuring food security in the country.

  • EFCC’s invasion; Obasanjo Library demands N3.5bn, gives seven-day deadline

    EFCC’s invasion; Obasanjo Library demands N3.5bn, gives seven-day deadline

    The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has demanded compensation of N3.5 billion from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the raid of its facility on August 10.

    According to the management, the compensation is to atone for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business, and financial standing of ex-Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

    Recall that operatives of the EFCC Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, at about 2 am on Sunday, stormed the facility and arrested 93 youths, seizing 18 vehicles and mobile devices during a “Wet & Rave Splash Extravaganza” party held at the OOPL Rounda fun spot.

    According to the management, the operatives, led by one “Olapade” in a gestapo-like gang of over 50 armed men, invaded the premises, shooting guns and threatening to kill people, thereby causing panic, chaos, and serious injuries among participants who were trying to escape the shooting.

    The Managing Director, Vitalis Ortese, at a press conference on Wednesday, also demanded that those arrested and whose vehicles were taken away receive immediate compensation for the damage they endured, as well as a sum of N1 billion as payment for any bodily injuries sustained.

    Ortese noted that failure to do so within the next seven days would leave the facility with no choice but to seek redress in a court of law.

    They added that EFCC and the Nigeria Police Force must issue separate public apologies to be widely published across all major media platforms, adding that the officers stationed at OOPL were not briefed, respected, or included in the operation.

    He said, “Both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Nigeria Police Force (NPF) are jointly and severally liable for the deliberate embarrassing and utterly malicious damage occasioned by their invasion of the 9th and 10th August, 2025 as aforestated.

    ” We are fully persuaded that the acts are not only aggravated, unconstitutional, oppressive, capricious and arbitrary, the actions are also clearly actuated by malice against the institution of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library and also of its Chief Promoter HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR who was Head of State (1976-1979) and President of Nigeria (1999-2007).

    “The foregoing actions are clearly calculated not only to oppress and brutalise as well as violate in gross terms, the fundamental and other rights of the more than one hundred (100) persons as aforestated; but also calculated to wreak maximum damage on the legitimate, commercial business and financial interests of our Client as well as damage the standing of our Client and its Chief Promoter in the eyes of right thinking members of the public both in Nigeria and internationally.

    “We therefore DEMAND a comprehensive investigation be undertaken by all relevant Security Agencies with their reports openly published, especially regarding the brutalization of our patrons being citizens who had apparently done nothing wrong nor apparently infracted any law other than engaging in a party as allowed under the law.

    “That relevant authorities of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, particularly the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the one hand, and the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force on the other, both issue separate public apologies to be widely published in all major media platforms including television, the print as well as social outfits inclusive of X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, Channels, AIT, NTA, TVC, Arise as well major newspaper and news magazines including Premium Times and Sahara Reporters.

    That immediate restitution for the damage caused, be made to those persons who were arrested and whose vehicle were carted away by the invasion force of the Police and EFCC, as well as for bodily injuries suffered by these persons numbering at least one hundred (100); be paid in the amount of at least one billion naira.

    “We also demand that a further two billion and five hundred million naira (N 2.5 billion) be paid in token acknowledgment and atonement for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business and our financial reputation as well to the reputation of our Chief Promoter (HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR).

  • Invasion: Obasanjo library demands N3.5bn compensation from EFCC

    Invasion: Obasanjo library demands N3.5bn compensation from EFCC

    Management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) has demanded N3.5 billion compensation and public apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    This is coming on the heels of an alleged invasion of the OOPL premises by the EFCC on Sunday.

    EFCC operatives reportedly stormed the library premises, arresting 93 suspected internet fraudsters and seizing 18 vehicles and several mobile devices.

    A number of people were also reported to have sustained bodily injuries during the attack.

    The Managing Director of OOPL, Vitalis Ortese at a news briefing on Wednesday in Abeokuta, described the agency’s actions as “unlawful” and “a direct assault on everything this institution stands for”.

    He said that the EFCC’s actions was a clear invasion of private property and an infringement of OOPL’s rights as a corporate citizen“and indeed a stark and blatant violation of the rights of the people who gathered for the event”.

    According to him, the invasion was an assault on what the institution stands for, and an assault on every rule of law that should be the guide rail for democracy.
    He demanded a comprehensive investigation into the incident, with reports openly published while also demanding a public apology to be published in major newspapers.

    “That immediate restitution for the damage caused, be made to those persons who were arrested and whose vehicles were carted away by the invasion force of the Police and EFCC.

    “As well as for bodily injuries suffered by these persons numbering at least, 100 be paid in the amount of at least, one billion Naira (N1 billion).

    “We also demand that a further N2.5 billion, to be paid in token acknowledgment and atonement for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business and our financial reputation as well to the reputation of our Chief Promoter (HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,” he said.

    Ortese expressed concern over the lack of coordination and “glaring lack of inter-agency collaboration”, saying the police officers stationed at the OOPL premises were not respected nor carried along in the operation.

    According to him, the act undermines the credibility of the nation’s security framework while also putting lives at risk.

    He also called on the EFCC to pursue justice with discretion, professionalism and respect.

    The management further threatened to seek legal redress if these demands were not met within the seven days, beginning on Wednesday.
    “Families and international tourists were holidaying.
 Entrepreneurs were conducting business. Youths were organising musical shows and entertainment events.

    “These are the very expressions of creativity and productivity we are meant to encourage—not criminalise.

    “The indiscretion displayed in this operation has created an aura of fear among youths who are striving to earn legitimate incomes.

    “It sends the wrong message —that creativity and enterprise are suspect, that ambition is dangerous, and that public spaces are unsafe.

    ”We have engaged legal counsel, security experts, and civil society partners to demand accountability, enforce institutional respect, and protect the rights of our patrons and staff,” he said.

  • EFCC investigates undeclared foreign currency at Lagos airport

    EFCC investigates undeclared foreign currency at Lagos airport

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has commenced investigation of one Duru Damian arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over alleged failure to declare 49,000 dollars at Lagos Airport.

    EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

    He said that Damian was intercepted by operatives of the NCS during a routine check at the AML/ CFT Currency Declaration Desk on Monday at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

    “Upon  his arrest, the suspect, who was scheduled to  travel on Emirates Airline to Dubai, claimed he had only 10,000 dollars on him.

    “However, when a search was conducted on him, a sum of 49,000 dollars was discovered undeclared, totaling 59,000 dollars,” he said.

    The Area Comptroller in charge of the NCS at the Airport, Effiong Harrison, while handing over to the EFCC, decried failure of travellers to comply with the currency declaration law.

    “Today, we are having a process that we have been doing  over a period of time now.

    “When we intercept currencies, we do the needful of handing over to the appropriate agencies of government,” Harrison said.

    According to him, sustained sensitization and announcements are being made at relevant airports on the need for travellers to declare their currencies or equivalents.

    “Also, the electronic signages in the halls display these messages.  Yet, at intervals, we also have people who fail to adhere to the extant laws and regulations,” he said.

    On his part while receiving the suspect, the acting Zonal Director, Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, EFCC, Assistant Commander Ahmed Ghali, said the commission would continue to enforce the law.

    “We are here to take over one of the recalcitrant Nigerians who do not want to abide with the law in relation to money laundering.

    “We will not relent in enforcing the law.   All that we are saying is that laws are meant to be obeyed.

    “We will always do our best, in line with our mandate, to ensure that any individual who violates the law does not go scot free,” Ghali said.

  • How public officers make fraudulent declaration of assets to cover up stealing – EFCC boss

    How public officers make fraudulent declaration of assets to cover up stealing – EFCC boss

    Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed how many public officers are now perfecting the art of anticipatory declaration of assets to justify their intended theft of public funds and other acts of corruption.

    TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Olukoyde while delivering a goodwill message at the launch of the Virtual Tool on the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, organised by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in collaboration with the Technical Unit on Good Governance and Anti-corruption Reforms (TUGAR) stated that the commission carried out an investigation and discovered how some public officers engage in various criminal activities.

    According to the Head, Media & Publicity of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, the anti-graft agency’s boss urged the leadership of CCB to take note of such criminality and intensify investigations through innovative means to curb corruption.

    He said, “There is an investigation we carried out and we discovered something not too strange that proves how criminally smart some of our politically exposed persons carry out some of the various activities we investigate them for. I asked my boys to get the CCB form because there is something we were not clear about and we discovered one of the very big properties valued at over N3billion that the person declared in the CCB form carried an address different from the address of the location of the property. I felt something was awry here, we decided to dig further and after more interrogation, we discovered that the person declared the property when the property was not in existence.”

    Also speaking at the event, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, emphasised that the bedrock of public service is adherence to the standards and ethics of service.

    He applauded the virtual tool designed by the CCB as a significant milestone in the digitisation and technological investigation of public conduct, stating that it will promote preventive compliance and awareness.

    Fagbemi also urged public servants to adopt the new tool and improve conduct in public service.

    On his part, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Abdullahi Usman Bello, explained that the tool will make public officers accountable and easy to use.

    He said, “The tool will ensure that public servants carry out their duties in high esteem and educate them on the step to step rules and regulations that guides them.”

  • EFCC releases ex-Gov of Sokoto, Tambuwal from detention

    EFCC releases ex-Gov of Sokoto, Tambuwal from detention

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released ex- Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, a day after he was summoned and interrogated at the agency’s Abuja headquarters.

     

    Tambuwal, a political acolyte of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was taken into custody on Monday following his arrival at the commission’s office around 11:30 a.m.

    He was grilled over allegations of fraudulent cash withdrawals amounting to ₦189 billion.

    According to EFCC sources, the investigation is centred on possible breaches of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022. The transactions under scrutiny were reportedly carried out during his tenure as governor from 2015 to 2023.

  • Tambuwal: ADC cries out says EFCC has launched witch-hunt missile at top leaders

    Tambuwal: ADC cries out says EFCC has launched witch-hunt missile at top leaders

    The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised an alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a witch-hunt missile following the agency’s questioning of senior opposition figures just two years before the 2027 general election.

    Barely 24hours after former Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal was grilled at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Monday, August 11.

    The probe centers on alleged cash withdrawals totaling ₦189 billion, which investigators claim violated the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.

    An EFCC insider told reporters that the withdrawals were “in clear violation of the law.” While the commission’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, declined to give details, he confirmed the investigation was ongoing.

    ADC Cries Foul
    ADC National Publicity Secretary Bolaji Abdullahi said three former governors in the coalition had been invited for questioning, describing the move as a deliberate attempt to weaken the opposition.

    “This is a clear attempt to intimidate our members and weaken our resolve. We are determined to rescue Nigeria,” Abdullahi stated.
    In an official statement, the ADC accused the EFCC of acting like “a department of the APC” by reviving old cases against opposition politicians while ignoring similar allegations against ruling party members.

    “The EFCC is meant to serve Nigerians, not a political party,” the statement read.
    EFCC Denies Bias
    Responding to the allegations, EFCC’s Oyewale dismissed the claims as “untenable and ridiculous.”

    “Where are the facts? Our mandate is to fight financial crime, not to protect or attack any political party,” he said.
    Coalition Cracks Begin to Show
    The EFCC clampdown appears to have worsened internal rifts within the opposition alliance. Some members have distanced themselves, with Obidient Movement National Coordinator Tanko Yunusa accusing the ADC of sidelining Peter Obi’s allies from decision-making.