Crime

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has said the agency recovered N156,276,691,242.30 in the last one year. He disclosed this on Wednesday during the launch of the commission’s zero-tolerance club at the University of Abuja, where he was represented by Mohammed Hammajoda, the commission’s…

Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans got a life sentence and a 21-year to boot after two Lagos courts convicted him of kidnapping and an attempt to murder in 2022. After about two years, the convicted billionaire kidnapper faced another re-arraignment, and decided to ply the law for  a plea bargain. The…

Benjamin Basil had a problem: he had to choose between robbing a bank suicide-fashion or losing his life. And time was his enemy. So he got off the Okada those that sent him paid to ferry him, and picked his way to his target: a UBA branch at Dadindowa, Jos.…

After attacking at Bama, Banki, and Gwoza, a mid-list Boko Haram fighter and son of an ISWAP leader has surrendered. The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno received and profiled Mahmud Albarnawy on May 12, counter-insurgency publication Zagazola Makama reported. The profiling confirmed the 22-year-old Mahmud as the…

In the run-up to the 2023 election, Godwin Emefiele approved N18.96 billion to mint N684.5 million in new notes. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, pressed this charge when it arraigned the former CBN governor in the FCT High Court, Abuja. Emefiele, the commission said, disobeyed the…