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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Friday, January 9, 2026, arraigned one Kavlak Onal, an Austrian arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly failing to declare the sums of $800,575 and €651,505 in his possession before Justice Yelim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi , Lagos    Onal, who was scheduled to travel on Emirates Airline to Dubai, was intercepted by operatives of the NCS during a routine check at the AML/ CFT Currency Declaration Desk on Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.     He was subsequently handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution.   Upon completion of investigation, the defendant was arraigned on Friday, January 9, 2026, on a two-count charge bordering on money laundering.   Count one reads : “ That you , Mr. Kavlak Onal, on December 13th, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of thi...

  The member representing Oshodi–Isolo Constituency I in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Ogundipe Stephen Olukayode, popularly known as Omoj’omolo, has called on leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oshodi to embrace peace, love, and unity as a strategy to secure a resounding victory for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. Hon. Ogundipe made the call on Friday while addressing party faithful and community members at the Annual Community Development Initiative organized by Alhaji Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. The event, held at Ewenla Primary School, Oshodi, witnessed the distribution of over 2,500 bags each of rice and garri, alongside the disbursement of several millions of naira in cash to beneficiaries across Oshodi and its environs. Reiterating his long-held stance on party unity, the lawmaker stressed that cohesion within the APC remains the most effective means of confronting the pol...

The Government of Nigeria is set to receive more than $9.5 million in recovered funds following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bailiwick of Jersey, marking another milestone in international cooperation against corruption. The MoU, signed in December 2025 by His Majesty’s Attorney General for Jersey, Mark Temple KC, provides for the return of funds adjudged to be proceeds of corruption and forfeited by the Royal Court of Jersey. The repatriated money will be applied to the completion of a major infrastructure project in Nigeria. Court documents show that on 29 November 2023, the Attorney General of Jersey filed a civil forfeiture application under the Forfeiture of Assets (Civil Proceedings) (Jersey) Law 2018, targeting funds held in a Jersey bank account. On 12 January 2024, the Royal Court granted the forfeiture order, ruling that the funds were more likely than not linked to a corrupt scheme involving the diversion of public resources by cont...