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The Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, has discharged and acquitted four accused persons being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N15 billion fraud. Justice Agatha Analike-Okeke, on Monday discharged and acquitted Abdulmumin Jubril, John Danboyi, Suleiman Ibrahim and Green Forest Investment Limited after accepting an amended charge brought by the commission. The EFCC had ...

The detained Managing Director of the Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Uba, arrested for allegedly defrauding Nigeria of N43.291billion in fuel subsidy fund, was this evening (Friday) released from the custody of the Special Fraud Unit. It will be recalled that Uba and four of his company’s executives were arrested on October 9 by men of the Police’s Special ...

By Wilson Uwujaren-EFCC Media & Publicity Unit The trial of persons and organisations indicted in the mindless abuse of the Petroleum Support Fund in the guise of subsidy for imported fuel continued today, with the arraignment of three more suspects – Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, Habila Thrck and Fargo Petroleum and Gas Limited- by the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said the son of its national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, who is facing charges alongside dozens of others over multibillion naira fuel subsidy fraud is of age to bear his own cross. Mahmud Tukur, the son of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, was among suspects charged with alleged fuel subsidy fraud yesterday ...

The Federal Government on Thursday indicated that prosecution of those found to have benefited from the Fuel subsidy scam would not be based on the report of the House of Representatives but on findings by anti-corruption agencies after carrying out a thorough investigation. This much was revealed by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed ...