{"id":239707,"date":"2026-07-28T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-hands-over-recovered-n24-million-to-former-senator\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:10:42","slug":"nigeria-efcc-hands-over-recovered-n24-million-to-former-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-hands-over-recovered-n24-million-to-former-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: EFCC Hands Over Recovered N24 Million to Former Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The money was handed over to Mr Obende by the commission&#8217;s Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.efcc.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<\/a><\/strong> (EFCC) has handed over N24 million recovered during an investigation into an alleged conspiracy and fraudulent sale of shares to former senator, Alaba Obende.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Mr Obende represented Edo North Senatorial District during the 7th National Assembly between 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The money was handed over to him by the commission&#8217;s Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 on&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607280005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The money was handed over to Mr Obende by the commission&#8217;s Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 on Thursday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over N24 million recovered during an investigation into an alleged conspiracy and fraudulent sale of shares to former senator, Alaba Obende. Mr Obende represented Edo North Senatorial District during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11129,7888,5118,54977,257,4687,393,5087,7798,254],"class_list":["post-239707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-efcc","tag-hands","tag-million","tag-n24","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-recovered","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}