By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested a popular Ibadan socialite for alleged fraud. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the suspect was reported to have obtained N25 million from her victims by false pretence....
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Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of former Governor of Adamawa, Murtala Nyako and others until Jan. 24. Justice Abang fixed the date, following the appeal filed by the ex-governor and other defendants at the Court of Appeal, asking the...
A Lagos High Court sitting in the Ajah area of the state has ordered a businessman, Fred Ajudua, to undergo a COVID-19 test at the Yaba Infectious Disease Centre laboratory. Justice Josephine Oyefeso ordered that the test must be conducted in the presence of the representatives of both the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory against granting sick permission to Dr Ngozi Olejeme, aEfcv, fraud,us, Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, Federal High Court Abuja, former aide to Goodluck Jonathan, to travel to South Africa and the United...
Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Bamidele Oleyelogun, on Saturday said he has sufficient proof to clear himself of any shady deal on the alleged N2.4 million seminar fraud being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Speaker, who spoke with newsmen in Akure, linked...
A court of appeal sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has upheld the withdrawal of the Bachelors’ degree certificate of former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, by the Abia State University. The presiding judge, Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie, on Tuesday, thereby, nullified the judgement of a...
The absence of a prosecution witness, Mr Augustine Anosike on Tuesday, stalled the ongoing trial of a popular Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola, a.k.a Naira Marley before a Federal High Court, Lagos. Anosike, a forensic analyst, is testifying as a second prosecution witness in the case. The Economic and Financial...
File photo of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi. The trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), and three others for an alleged N8.5billion fraud continued on Tuesday, with the Economic and...
The Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon Annexe, Lagos, is investigating a prince and two others (names withheld) for alleged $38,200 (about N22.5 million) fraud. The spokesman for the department in Lagos, CSP Oluniyi Ogundeyi, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday. “The said...
A former Managing Director of an aviation fueling company, Star Orient Nig. Ltd., Dare Osamo, and a lawyer, Bisola Olore, were on Wednesday arraigned in Ikeja for alleged N1.6 billion fraud. The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) filed an 11-count fraud charge against the duo before an...
A Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, has sentenced a civil servant, Ma’aji Shettima Arfo, to 28-years-imprisonment for engaging in an N86.1 million contract fraud. Arfo, who was sentenced to jail by Justice Haruna Mshellia, of Borno State High Court, 3, was the General Manager of the state-owned...