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“The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) commends the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) for the rigorous work it has embarked upon in the investigation and review of ownership of several choice property dotting the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, and especially in Abuja.  We urge the commission to tighten all property ownership investigations. We make the ...

According to Punch, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have visited two mansions in Dubai allegedly belonging to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The properties, located at E146 Emirates Hill and J5 Emirates Hill, are said to be worth 74,000,000 dirham (N7.1bn). Emirates Hill, which has been described as the Beverly Hills of the United ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reportedly uncovered Patience Jonathan’s N6bn plaza in Abuja. According to Daily Post, an uncompleted eight-storey building allegedly belonging to Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan is in Abuja. The magnificent edifice, located within the Central Business District, is between the National Mosque and the Federal Secretariat, Punch reports. The ex-First ...

“The Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG) on Thursday in Abuja, said the stolen funds traced to former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, could fund infrastructure development in the country.”- The Guardian Specifically, the group said in a statement by its Chairman, Mr Austin Braimoh and Secretary, Mr Cassidy Madueke, that government could build six world-class airports in each geopolitical zone ...

“A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has revealed how over N11tr for electricity was allegedly squandered under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. According to the report, “The total estimated financial loss to Nigeria from corruption in the electricity sector starting from the return to democracy in 1999 to ...

According to The NATION, Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of a Banana Island property, Lagos bought for $37.5m in 2013 by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Justice Chuka Obiozor, a vacation judge, made the order yesterday following an ex parte application by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel Mr. Anselem Ozioko. The EFCC, in documents filed in ...

“Wife of former Vice President, Mrs.Titi Atiku Abubakar, has narrated to a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja how her former errand boy, Nsikak Akpan Jacobs, whom she made the Managing Director of her company, THA Shipping and Maritime Services, sold her property for N918 million and used the money to fund his gubernatorial campaign in Akwa Ibom State.”- The ...

“Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), says a prison prison in Sambisa forest, a stronghold of the Boko Haram sect in Borno state for corrupt persons should be established .”- PM News Magu made this known while speaking at the commissioning of the agency’s zonal office in Kaduna on Thursday. He also appealed to ...

“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) disclosed on Tuesday how it found a house in Abuja bought at N240million Abuja house and furnished with N134million for his son, Alex Badeh junior.”- The Nation An operative of the EFCC, Abubakar Madaki, told a Federal High Court in Abuja Tuesday that he was the head of a task force that investigated a ...

“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.” – Signal The anti-graft agency also seized three other properties in Abuja allegedly belonging to Patience. The five-storey hotel is located near Setraco Construction Company, beside Mabushi Kado Expressway. Although the hotel has not been officially valued ...