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Houses worth billions of naira belonging to the former Bayelsa state Governor Mr. Timipre Sylva has been seized by The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Thursday in Abuja. Mr. Timipre Sylva is being prosecuted at a Federal High Court in Abuja, for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion state funds, when he was the governor of the state. In a statement signed by the Acting Head, Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, the commission said an interim forfeiture order to attach Sylva's properties was granted by Justice A. R Mohammed of on December 21, 2012. However, last week, another Abuja High Court presided by Justice M.M. Kolo ordered the EFCC not to tamper with property belonging to the former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva. The court gave the order on December 27, 2012 while ruling on a motion filed by the former governor, who is also facing money laundering charges. Sylva had on December 24, 2012 filed a suit at the ...

One of the sons of Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido was arrested with undeclared N6.3 million at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano on Tuesday night, the EFCC said yesterday. This amount is equivalent to US dollars $50,000. Aminu Sule Lamido, 34, was arrested with $40,000 cash which he did not disclose in the Customs currency declaration form. He declared only $10,000 to the Customs who let him pass. However, he was later intercepted along the way to the boarding area by a task force of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who found the additional money on him, as reported in the Daily Trust.  The 2010 graduate of Mass Communication from Bayero University Kano was picked up by the operatives of EFCC at about 11:15pm local time on Tuesday night, on his way to board a flight to Cairo Egypt. According to Daily Trust, he was taken into custody at the EFCC Kano Zonal office near the state hajj camp.