{"id":5902,"date":"2025-04-30T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:37:21","slug":"efcc-releases-e-money-lagos-socialite-celebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/efcc-releases-e-money-lagos-socialite-celebrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Naira abuse: EFCC releases   E-Money, Lagos socialite\u00a0 celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5891\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OIP-5-178x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OIP-5-178x300.jpeg 178w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OIP-5.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>E-Money<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Publisher<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released Emeka Okonkwo, popularly known as \u2018E-Money\u2019\u00a0 after hours of interrogation over alleged naira and dollar abuse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Lagos socialite and businessman was picked up at his Omole, Lagos home on Monday night.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>E-Money, the 44-year-old CEO of Five Star Music was flown to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja for questioning.However, in a post on his Instagram, he announced and celebrated his release\u00a0 page on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The socialite was seen in the video he posted adorned in traditional clothes, with beads and a staff, posing like a king in his home.<\/p>\n<p>He added Emmanuel Lazarus\u2019s \u2018Thank You for Saving Me\u2019 song to the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo tension, everywhere good, I see all your love and support. God bless you all,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Popular comedian, Okon Lagos, had frownde at the arrest of E-Money over alleged dollar abuse, which he said was unjust and unwarranted.\u201cIf E-money abuses the dollar on Nigerian soil, what\u2019s wrong with it? Is the dollar not abusing the Naira every day? Why not prioritise incarcerating bad, corrupt leaders who ruin the economy and at the same time are cheerleaders while the dollar constantly abuses and pummels the Naira,\u201d he reasoned in a post on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Money By Publisher Kindly share: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released Emeka Okonkwo, popularly known as \u2018E-Money\u2019\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,2],"tags":[1361],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","tag-emeka-okonkwo-e-money"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Naira abuse: EFCC releases  E-Money, Lagos socialite\u00a0 celebrates - 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