The country’s bank compliance officers have received a call from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) asking them to stop disclosing to their clients about the EFCC’s investigative operations.

This statement was made by the commission’s executive chairman, Ola Olukoyede, in a meeting with bank compliance officers in the capital of Oyo State, Ibadan.

Olukoyede stated that the commission is aware that certain compliance officers are providing information to customers. He made this statement through ACE I Hauwa Garba Ringim, Acting Zonal Director of the EFCC’s Ibadan Zonal Command.

He bemoaned the unhealthy backing that Nigerian banks give scammers.

The head of the commission emphasized that the commission is facing many difficulties and worries as a result of this act.

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He claims that the EFCC is aware that compliance officers inform their clients about “letters of investigation activities” that the EFCC has sent to banks.

He maintained that these kinds of actions typically compromise financial crime investigations and postpone the filing of court proceedings pertaining to corruption.

He bemoaned the unhealthy backing that Nigerian banks give to fraudsters, emphasizing that the Commission is facing significant difficulties and worries as a result.

In order to speed the investigation process and bring the case to a logical conclusion, the head of the EFCC further advised the agency to always reply to letters received from the Commission with certified true copies, including instruments of transactions of beneficiaries or sources.

Speaking further, Olukoyede insisted that illicit transactions and naira-denominated trading with Point-of-sale (POS) operators had to end.

The National Assembly and the Federal Government have been asked to immediately control in the abuses of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kaduna by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Kaduna State branch.

Speaking to reporters in Kaduna on Friday, Pharm. Sunday Ali Okoh, the Chairman of PSN Kaduna State branch, bemoaned the abuses of the NDLEA and urged the National Assembly and the presidency to step in.

In Okoh’s opinion, the Agency occasionally impeded and hindered their roles in an unnecessarily illegal and unprofessional manner.

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He clarified that while the group understood the agency’s responsibilities to apprehend and prosecute drug dealers, they did not intend to obstruct pharmacists from performing their legally mandated duties.

In his words, “All over the planet earth, the rights to medications (life) are fundamental.”

It is worthy of note that pharmacists are licensed to import, export, mix, compound, prepare, dispense, counsel, sell, procure and distribute drugs, (PCN Act 2022,).”

“Time without number, the NDLEA has unduly, illegally and unprofessionally obstructed and hindered these life saving roles only to feather their nests, exploit Nigerians, collect bribes and force their victims to give assent that bail is free after collecting millions of Naira,” he claimed. He claimed that agents of the law have turned into lawbreakers.

On Friday morning, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle landed in Nigeria to begin their 72-hour visit.

The couple took a British Airways aircraft and arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

The Daily Mail claims that the flight, which arrived at around five in the morning, was delayed due to a sick pilot.

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Yesterday, the Duchess of Sussex took a plane to Heathrow to meet her husband at the airport’s private Windsor Suite.

Harry and Meghan are traveling to Nigeria together for the first time.

Other passengers were pulled over as they were led into a waiting van that had been completely darkened.