Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Monday, February 21, 2022, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to formalize the existing partnership between the organizations in promoting the fight against corruption and economic crimes in Nigeria.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The trial of one Chris Ihebuzo for offences bordering on stealing, demanding property by written threat, attempt to commit a felony, unauthorised access to computer material, unauthorised modification of computer material, and unauthorised access with intent to commit and facilitate the commission of further offences continued on February 18, 2022 before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its third witness.
* Returns Recovered N1.5B TO NHIS
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report by an online news medium, Peoples Gazette, alleging that a certain Jafaru Mohammed whom it claimed stole N10.9billion from the NIA Ikoyi loot, is an accountant of the EFCC.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court on Monday February 14, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of 24 properties held by fronts and proxies to a top military officer, to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
By Dare Ajayi (Oyo State Correspondent)
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, last Friday, February 11, 2022, arrested one Babawale Daniel Olayinka, a self-style “Personal Assistant to the Oyo State Governor on Media Matters”, and twenty five others at Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, over alleged internet -related fraud activities.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 14, 2022, presented its first witness in the money laundering trial of James Richard Nolan, Goidel Resources and ICIL Limited before Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court Abuja.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 14, 2022, secured the final forfeiture of 20 (twenty) landed properties valued at over N3, 007, 000, 000 (Three Billion and Seven Million Naira) belonging to a top military officer but controlled through proxies including late General Aminu Maude, and companies such as Atlasfield Integrated Services Nigeria Limited, Marhaba Events Place, Aflac Plastics and Atlasfield Gas Plant Limited.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Othera Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has docked a former Secretary General of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr. Amaechi Akawu, over his alleged complicity in a $150,000 fraud.
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) says it identified 96 financiers of terrorism and 424 associates/supporters of the financiers in Nigeria in 2020 and 2021.
President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State at the State House, Abuja.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Command on Friday, January 28, 2022, returned eleven houses recovered in different parts of Enugu to Chief Arthur Eze.
By Sharon Ngozi Nwabiani (Senior Correspondent, in Lagos)
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, at the weekend, dismissed the no-case submission filed by one Osho Aluko-Kola, who is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N206, 502,490.02 (Two Hundred and Six Million, Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Ninety Naira, Two Kobo).
