{"id":78472,"date":"2025-11-10T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78472"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:20:46","slug":"efcc-declares-former-minister-timipre-sylva-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/10\/efcc-declares-former-minister-timipre-sylva-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Declares Former Minister Timipre Sylva Wanted\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has declared former Petroleum Minister and Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, wanted over an alleged $14,859,257 fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Sylva is accused of conspiring to dishonestly convert funds provided by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited for refinery construction.<\/p>\n<p>On November 6, 2025, a Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice D.I. Dipeolu, issued a warrant for his arrest to ensure he appears before the Commission to answer the charges.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC urged anyone with information on Sylva\u2019s whereabouts to contact its zonal offices, the nearest police station, or other security agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has declared former Petroleum Minister and Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, wanted over an alleged $14,859,257 fraud. Sylva is accused of conspiring to dishonestly convert funds provided by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited for refinery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78474,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78472\/revisions\/78474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}