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Binance Holdings Limited was instructed by a Federal High Court in Abuja to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with comprehensive information about all Nigerian traders on its platform. The court issued the order in response to an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC seeking information about Nigerian traders on Binance.

Civil Society Organisations, on Sunday, cautioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against politically motivated prosecution. The CSOs also advised the EFCC against acting as “political tools” in the hands of disgruntled politicians. The CSOs under the aegis of Committee for the Defence of Democracy and Rule of Law particularly decried what they described as […]

The Kogi State Government has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to come clean on its prosecution of the immediate past governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, insisting that the funds of the state are not missing. The anti-graft agency on Thursday named Bello in an amended charge filed at the Federal High […]

Atiku Support Organisation, a support group for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has urged President Bola Tinubu to investigate the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. The call was connected to the N3.7tn budget padding controversy which was raised by the now-suspended Senator Abdul Ningi. […]

The EFCC reemphasized that the Anambra State Government was not a defendant in the trial of the former governor Willie Obiano, making the government’s appeal on the matter inconsequential, as he had previously disclosed in a motion dated March 3 that the Anambra state government had filed an appeal to challenge the authority of the EFCC to investigate and try him.

An activist, Wole Oladapo, on Wednesday, lamented difficulty Nigerians have been passing through accessing monies recovered for them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Oladapo, the convener of Nigerians for Good Governance, in an open letter addressed to the chairman of the EFCC, a copy of which was obtained in Osogbo, applauded the anti-graft […]