Ola Olukoyede
17 May 2024
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has expressed the need to review the law that established the Bureau of Public Procurement to reduce corruption that comes with the award of contracts, lamenting that the Act aids corruption.
16 May 2024
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has appealed for patience as it promised a detailed and thorough investigation into the alleged N70 billion corruption case against the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, while he was governor of Zamfara State from 2019 to 2023.
12 May 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused banks of colluding with Point-of-Sale(POS) operators to limit cash availability at Automated Teller Machines(ATM). EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede said this, via the Acting Zonal Director of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC, ACE I Hauwa Ringim, during a stakeholders’ meeting with Compliance Officers of Banks…
7 May 2024
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has unveiled strategies being employed by the agency in the fight against graft, describing them as comprehensive.
4 May 2024
The Court of Appeal, yesterday, granted an ex parte motion for stay of proceedings of contempt application against the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, by the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
26 Apr 2024
A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has ordered the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, to appear in court on May 13, 2024, to show cause why an order of committal should not be made against him for allegedly disobeying court order.
25 Apr 2024
As the whereabouts of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, remain unknown a week after he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and placed on a watch-list by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)
24 Apr 2024
Again, hundreds of Civil Society Organisations took to the streets in Lagos on Wednesday to protest "the continued disrespect for the rule of law and undue harassment of a citizen of Nigeria" by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
24 Apr 2024
chairman of the nation’s anti-graft body, EFCC , Ola Olukoyede, yesterday disclosed sleazy details of their findings, revealing how the embattled ex-governor transferred $720,000 from the state government’s coffers to a bureau de change (BDC) before leaving office to pay in advance for his child’s school fee.
23 Apr 2024
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to resign his position if former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. Olukoyede said this in a chat with journalists at the EFCC Headquarters in the Jabi area of Abuja on Tuesday. The EFCC is seeking to arraign Bello…
16 Apr 2024
In comments widely reported last week in the media, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, claimed that the practice of making payments for goods and services in Nigeria in foreign currency (usually United States Dollars) was against the law and that his Commission was planning to clamp down on it.
9 Apr 2024
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned hotels, supermarkets, restaurants, and schools to stop charging in dollars or any foreign currency within Nigeria. EFCC’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, stated this on Monday, in the latest edition of the commission’s monthly e-magazine, EFCC Alert. Olukoyede said anyone found in the act of dollarization of the…
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