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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has issued an order to stop the contempt case filed by former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Bello had previously filed a fundamental human rights case against the EFCC to avoid being arrested and detained. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has assured the public that it will continue with the alleged N70 billion corruption case against the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, during his tenure as the Governor of Zamfara State from 2019 to 2023. The EFCC’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwajuren, stated this while […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has denied accusations of not obeying a court order for former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. There is ongoing debate about whether the EFCC disobeyed a court order related to the failed arrest of Bello. In a press statement signed by the EFCC’s […]

The EFCC's scheduled appeal in the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, to overturn the Kogi State court order restricting them from arresting, detaining, and prosecuting the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, was stopped on Monday. A Kogi state […]

The police's Inspector General, Olukayode Egbetokun, has recalled all the police officers assigned to the troubled former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. The directive for the withdrawal was in a police wireless message observed by our reporter on Friday. The official document referenced as “CB:4001/DOPS/PMF/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.48/ 34 stated, “IG has ordered the withdrawal of all policemen attached to His Excellency and former Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

The Federal Government on Thursday placed the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on its watchlist to prevent him from leaving the country. The Nigerian Immigration Service, in a circular dated April 18, 2024 and signed by Assistant Comptroller of Immigration DS Umar, for the Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap, informed the police and […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared that they are looking for Yahaya Bello, a former governor of Kogi State, due to his involvement in economic and financial crimes. The notice was posted on the commission’s official Facebook page on Thursday. “Yahaya Bello, the former Governor of Kogi State, is wanted by the EFCC for offences relating to […]

The Rivers State Police Command announced on Thursday that four individuals were arrested by its officers for their suspected involvement in a kidnapping case in Okocha Community, Igbo-Etche, in the Etche Local Government Area of the State. The arrests came after complaints by the management of Lujo Heights Homes company, regarding some of its workers on […]

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 […]

The Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Alli Bello, and one Daudu Suleiman were on Thursday re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly misappropriating N84bnn. The anti-graft agency had on December 15, 2022, arraigned Bello who is also a nephew of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, and  Suleiman, on 10 counts of alleged misappropriation and money laundering.