Emefiele Archives - Afinju FM https://afinjufm.com/tag/emefiele/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:57:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://afinjufm.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-Afinju_Logo-removebg-preview-32x32.png Emefiele Archives - Afinju FM https://afinjufm.com/tag/emefiele/ 32 32 233669348 Procurement fraud: Emefiele opposes EFCC bid to call more witnesses https://afinjufm.com/procurement-fraud-emefiele-opposes-efcc-bid-to-call-more-witnesses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=procurement-fraud-emefiele-opposes-efcc-bid-to-call-more-witnesses https://afinjufm.com/procurement-fraud-emefiele-opposes-efcc-bid-to-call-more-witnesses/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:57:13 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/2025/02/04/procurement-fraud-emefiele-opposes-efcc-bid-to-call-more-witnesses/ Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has urged the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja to bar the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from calling additional witnesses after 10 had testified in his ongoing procurement fraud trial. Emefiele’s lead counsel, Matthew Burkaa SAN, contended that since EFCC listed only 10 […]

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]]> https://afinjufm.com/procurement-fraud-emefiele-opposes-efcc-bid-to-call-more-witnesses/feed/ 0 8603 Emefiele: Court fixes September 12 to hear applications on forfeited assets https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-court-fixes-september-12-to-hear-applications-on-forfeited-assets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emefiele-court-fixes-september-12-to-hear-applications-on-forfeited-assets https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-court-fixes-september-12-to-hear-applications-on-forfeited-assets/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:43:15 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=5069 Justice Akintayo Aluko had on August 15, ordered an interim forfeiture of $2.045 million and some landed properties linked to Emefiele. The judge granted the forfeiture order after taking the submissions of Rotimi Oyedepo ,SAN, leading Chineye Okezie and Zeenat Atiku-Bala, who moved an ex parte motion for the order on behalf of the Economic […]

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]]> https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-court-fixes-september-12-to-hear-applications-on-forfeited-assets/feed/ 0 5069 EFCC Opposes Emefiele’s Quest For Foreign Medical Trip https://afinjufm.com/efcc-opposes-emefieles-quest-for-foreign-medical-trip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=efcc-opposes-emefieles-quest-for-foreign-medical-trip https://afinjufm.com/efcc-opposes-emefieles-quest-for-foreign-medical-trip/#respond Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:00:48 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=3661 In a statement , the agency’s spokesman Dele Oyewale said thedefence counsel Labi-Lawal had filed an affidavit seeking the release of Emefiele’s passport to enable him to travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatments which was objected to by the EFCC. The  affidavit by the defence and the counter-affidavit by the prosecution was in […]

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]]> https://afinjufm.com/efcc-opposes-emefieles-quest-for-foreign-medical-trip/feed/ 0 3661 Court orders to forfeit N12bn properties linked to Emefiele https://afinjufm.com/court-orders-to-forfeit-n12bn-properties-linked-to-emefiele/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-orders-to-forfeit-n12bn-properties-linked-to-emefiele https://afinjufm.com/court-orders-to-forfeit-n12bn-properties-linked-to-emefiele/#respond Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:48:21 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=3261 The court ordered the final forfeiture of the properties after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ,EFCC, filed a motion to that effect. The judge, Chukwujekwu Aneke,  had ordered an interim forfeiture of the properties on June 5.  The properties are said to be  located in upmarket areas of the federal capital territory ,FCT. Aneke ordered the […]

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]]> https://afinjufm.com/court-orders-to-forfeit-n12bn-properties-linked-to-emefiele/feed/ 0 3261 Emefiele gets N300m bail over new Naira note printing https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-gets-n300m-bail-over-new-naira-note-printing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emefiele-gets-n300m-bail-over-new-naira-note-printing https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-gets-n300m-bail-over-new-naira-note-printing/#respond Wed, 15 May 2024 11:40:34 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=2533 Emefiele pleaded not guilty when the charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ,EFCC, was read.The former Governor of the CBN is the sole defendant in the charge before Justice Maryanne Anenih of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory ,FCT, in Maitama.Other conditions attached to the bail include that […]

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]]> https://afinjufm.com/emefiele-gets-n300m-bail-over-new-naira-note-printing/feed/ 0 2533 Naira Swap: EFCC To Arraign Emefiele On Wednesday https://afinjufm.com/naira-swap-efcc-to-arraign-emefiele-on-wednesday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=naira-swap-efcc-to-arraign-emefiele-on-wednesday https://afinjufm.com/naira-swap-efcc-to-arraign-emefiele-on-wednesday/#respond Tue, 14 May 2024 11:15:14 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=2506 The arraignment was originally scheduled for April 30, 2024, but was rescheduled following the agreement of the court and the parties.In the four-count charge filed against him, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele disobeyed the direction of law with intent to cause injury to the public during his implementation of the naira swap policy of the […]

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