Maiduguri EFCC Arraigns One For N25m Fraud

The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, April 16, 2026 arraigned one Mohammed Abdullahi Korimi before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri.

The defendant was arraigned on a two -count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation and obtaining by false pretense to the tune of N25,647,000.00(Twenty Five Million, Six Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Naira).

Count one of the charges read: “That you, Mohammed Abdullahi Korimi on or about July, 2025 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud obtained 400 (Four Hundred) bags of beans valued at the sum of N25,647,000.00 (Twenty Five Million, Six Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Naira) from one Maina Hassan Madube, under the false pretense that you will supply same to your customers at Sango-Ota, Ogun State and make payment for it within one (1) week, a representation which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud related offences Act, 2006.”

The defendant pleaded “not guilty” to the charges preferred when they were read to him . In the same vein, prosecution counsel, S.O Saka prayed for a trial date and to remand the defendant in a Correctional facility.

Thereafter, Justice Kumaliya adjourned till April 22, 2026 for hearing of bail application and ordered the remand of the defendant in Maiduguri Maximum Correctional facility.

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His journey to the Correctional facility started when he falsely obtained 400 bags of beans valued at N25, 647, 000 for supply to his customer at Sango-Ota, Ogun State.

Unilorin VC Appaluds EFCC Boss Olukoyede On Impactful Fight Against Corruption

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, SAN has commended the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede for his giant strides in the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption in the country.

He gave the commendation in Abuja on Friday, April 17, 2026 when he led a delegation of the management team of the university on a courtesy visit to the EFCC boss at the Commission’s corporate headquarters.

Egbewole, who noted that the success of the anti-corruption fight was central to a better Nigeria, praised Olukoyede for the massive recoveries of proceeds of crime and the channeling of such recoveries to result-oriented national ventures.

“You are doing a wonderful job in the EFCC. I have followed very keenly because I believe that if we are able to solve the challenge of economic and financial crimes in Nigeria, the country will be a lot better than we currently have it. One of the things that I’ve seen is that one of your cardinal programmes as the Executive Chairman is to ensure that we prevent crime. And of course raising over N500 billion from proceeds of crime means that EFCC is doing wonderfully well. More of the difference now is that when we get these recoveries we see them being channeled to more positive and developmental things. You will continue to make better strides,” he said.

He further noted that Olukoyede’s back-to-back election as the chairman of Network of Anti-corruption Institutions in West Africa, NACIWA is unprecedented and an additional testimony to his leadership qualities. He disclosed that the university authorities were motivated to visit the EFCC owing to the need to forge partnership and synergy with it in the fight against corruption as well as in the reorientation of the society towards ethical electoral behaviours.

“Why do we have to pay this courtesy visit? As a university, we have a Center for Peace and Strategic Studies and we believe that one of the challenges of our society is the fact that violence and corruption bedevil our electioneering process. And we believe that it is important for us to engage the stakeholders in a way that they will call attention of the Nigerian people to those preventive measures that we need to take. And we believe that one of the major critical stakeholders in ensuring that we avoid corruption in our process is the EFCC,” he said.

He expressed faith in the ability of the EFCC to provide the platform to get the critical stakeholders to rob minds “and ensure that never again should we get to that point in our electioneering process.”

Speaking further, he stressed that, “ as a University, we believe that collaborating with anti-corruption institutions will assist us in managing our affairs. Universities are expected to be the epitome of the best of everything in any society. But the roles that the university system plays today speak volumes. We believe that partnership and synergy between EFCC and the academia will also go a long way in reducing the challenges of corruption in Nigeria.”

The EFCC Chairman, who was delighted by the visit disclosed that his interest in the educational sector motivated him to convoke a roundtable with the Committee of Vice Chancellors in July 2025.

“We have other activities to also support the educational sector. From our recovery account, we supported NELFund. In fact it was our recovered funds that served as seed fund for it to take off. The same applies to Credit Corporation,” he said.

He reiterated that fraud prevention was the trajectory of his leadership in the EFCC. “We investigated some situations and I saw the trends, and I said look, it’s better we don’t always have to necessarily wait for money to be stolen before we act. But upon my assumption of office, I made prevention one of the hallmarks of my programmes. That was what necessitated my setting up of a new Directorate called Fraud Risk Assessment and Control.”

The EFCC boss noted that all was not well with the Nigerian university system, particularly with respect to behavioural outlook of the students.

“It’s so sad what is going on among our students today. I went on a working visit to my Benin Zonal Office yesterday and I saw that we had over a hundred inmates in our holding facility and that probably more than 80% of them are university students. More than 80% of them are young people, Yahoo Boys. I had to take almost 10 to 20 minutes to address them,” he said.

Unilorin VC Appaluds EFCC Boss

He pledged the readiness of the Commission to work with the university in the area of the enthronement of electioneering integrity and with the Vice Chancellor as the chair of Association of West African Universities.

“ It is very interesting and gladdening to know that you are currently the President or the Chair of the Association of West African Universities. It’s a good area for us to collaborate, knowing that I’m also leading the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa.

We now operate as one. Our protocol has been approved. Now, we can exchange intelligence, exchange information and be able to monitor money laundering activities across West Africa.

So if you look at what your mandate is and what our mandate is with respect to that, you would see where we can collaborate,” he said.

EFCC Is A Fantastic Organisation- First Bank Manager Commended

Head, Fraud and External Relations of First Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Aluko Joseph, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for “its professionalism and integrity it brings to bear in the discharge of its duties”. Specifically, it described the Commission as a fantastic organisation and one of the nation’s most revered institutions.

Aluko stated this on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 while on a courtesy visit to the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Commission. According to him, First Bank was grateful to the Commission for its many interventions in areas of recovery of funds for the bank. He expressed the bank’s gratitude and called for the strengthening of institutional relationship between the bank and the EFCC, noting that there was a need to deepen collaboration in areas of prevention, investigation and prosecution of financial crimes. “By working together, both organisations aim to make significant strides in combating threats to financial institutions.”

He noted further that sustainable partnership will promote professionalism and enhance efficiency between both organisations in the long term “The objective is geared towards building enduring relationships that support ongoing progress and development.” He called for joint capacity- building, training and knowledge sharing between the two institutions to tackle emerging security threats and financial crimes which according to him will enhance the skills and expertise of the workforce in detecting and preventing fraud in the society.

Accompanied on the visit were senior staff of the bank including Martins Akinsimisi, Group Head, Edo State who also commended the Commission for several successful interventions in recovery of funds including over N1 billion that the Benin Zonal Directorate handed over to the bank in January, 2026 after it successfully recovered same from one Ojo Eghosa Kingsley.

Responding, Ag Zonal Director, Benin Zonal Directorate, Deputy Commander of the EFCC, DCE Sa’ad Hanafi Sa’ad, appreciated the team for the compliments noting that the Commission will not rest on its oars.

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“We are guided by our core values of professionalism, integrity, courage and collaboration in the discharge of our duties. Every staff of the Commission uphold these core values in the discharge of its duties.”

He said the Commission will continue to combat economic and financial crimes in the society without fear or favour until the nation succeeds in totally tackling the menace.