Don’t Appoint Olukoyede as EFCC Chairman, NGO Tells Tinubu

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Transparency and Anti-Corruption Campaign in Africa (TACCA) has called on President Tinubu to restraint from appointing Olukayode Olanipekun as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). TACCA made this known in a statement signed by the Country Director of TACCA, Idahosa Osamhanze on Monday (Oct. 9) and made…

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Write-A-Thon: 2 Hours to go, UNICAL Undergraduate Set to Break Another Guinness World Record

Mr Daniel Aiguokhian, a 300-level student of Philosophy at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) is set to break the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest hours of writing fiction and non-fiction by an individual. Aiguokhian who christened his expedition, “Write-A-Thon”, following the the popular “Cook-A-Thon” by Chef Hilda Baci and “Read-A-Thon” by Mr John…

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Love Scam: How I lost £130,000 to “Yahoo Boy” – German Victim

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, October 6, 2023, continued the trial of one Wilson Daphey (a.k.a Jeffrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on 9-count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated and obtained the sum of £130,000 (One…

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EFCC Arrests 48 Yahoo Boys, Recovers 9 Exotic Cars in Asaba

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, October 6, 2023, arrested 48 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys in Asaba, Delta State. The names of the suspects are Chinonso Nnemeka, Chidenbere Ekwealor, Emeka Joseph, Emmanuel Onyeka Onyeukwu, Solomon Omojewe, Miracle Ogonnaya, Pius Innocent,…

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