African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has called for an independent judicial investigation into the controversy surrounding the alleged Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), insisting that the Federal Government must fully explain the circumstances surrounding the purported agency and its operations. Atiku in a statement issued...
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The Presidency has dismissed claims linking the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, to the appointment of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, describing the allegations as false and insisting that the suspect operated a fictitious presidential agency using forged documents. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29, 2026, arraigned one Usie Otukpa Osang before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja for fraud. He was arraigned on an eight-court charge bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of AUD$8,427,330.83 (Eight Million,...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has reserved judgment until October 15, 2026, in the alleged N6 billion money laundering case involving social media personality, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha. The EFCC arraigned Mompha alongside his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited, on January 12, 2022, on an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy to launder funds allegedly obtained through unlawful activities, retention of proceeds of criminal conduct, failure to disclose assets, and possession of documents containing false pretences, among other offences. Details later…..
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29, 2026, presented its third prosecution witness (PW3), Levi Amanda Opice, a Compliance Officer with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), in the ongoing trial of Ifoma Immanuel before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, over an...
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, June 26, 2026, adjourned proceedings in the alleged $4.5 billion fraud trial involving a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and his co-defendant, Henry Omoile, till July 9, 2026, for...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, 23 and Wednesday, 24 June, 2026 presented two prosecution witnesses, PW1, Babatunde Adebayo, and PW2, Paul Olufemi, in the trial of Ifoma Immanuel, who is facing charges an alleged $1.5 million fraud before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State...
The absence of the National Coordinator of Multi-Sectional Crisis Recovery Projects, MCRP, North East Development Commission (NEDC), Danjuma Mohammed on Thursday, June 25, 2026 stalled his trial before Justice K. N. Ogbonnaya of the Federal Capital Territory, High Court, Zuba, Abuja. Mohammed, the first defendant, is facing prosecution by...
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, alongside his former adviser, Jimi Lawal, and five others over an alleged N8.68 billion CCTV surveillance contract. The defendants were brought before the Federal High Court in Kaduna on an amended...
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) have arrested one Onwughalu Chikodi Godwin, a 30-year old businessman for allegedly stealing vegetable oil belonging to a company, Bro-kenn Agro Allied Industries, worth N30, 853, 800. 00 (Thirty Million, Eight Hundred and Fifty-three Thousand,...
Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, June 22, 2026 re-arraigned Theophilus Madami, before Justice A. Isiaka of the State High Court, sitting in Kaduna for fraud. Madami, a former councillor in Kaduna South Local Government Area was re-arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining...
First Prosecution Witness (PW1), Chinyere Okoroafor in the trial of the Chief Executive Officer of Onome Global Market Resources Limited and Lexicon Multi-concept Media Limited, Osabohein Alex Ologbose and his wife Hope Onome Oghelemu before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, June 22, 2026...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, June 22, 2026, re-arraigned a former Chairman, Board of Directors, defunct Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank Limited) Tunde Ayeni before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, Abuja for an alleged N15.6 billion fraud. Ayeni...
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested one Chukwujindu Goodness Nchekwube, Chief Executive Officer, Goodben Global Travels and Tour Limited alongside Rogers Oluwaseyi Eruku (a.k.a Bakary Rogers Yanni), a suspected fraudster, for allegedly defrauding 24 (Twenty-four) victims the sum of...
Former Benue State Governor, Chief Samuel Ortom, has dismissed the report of the state Income and Expenditure Commission of Inquiry, describing it as a politically motivated witch-hunt aimed at tarnishing his administration’s record. Reacting through his media aide, Paul Zege, on Saturday in Makurdi, Ortom said the commission’s findings...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Directorate, have arrested a Nigerian-American, Adegoke Oluwatobi Adams, for an alleged cross-border vehicle import fraud involving more than $320,000 (approximately ₦434.88 million). Adams, who holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and the United States of America, is being investigated...
Nigerian banks and their customers lost a combined N134.48bn to fraud between 2020 and 2025, according to data contained in the CBN’s ‘Nigeria Payments System Vision 2028 document.’ The document, obtained from the apex bank’s website, showed that attempted fraud across the banking and payments ecosystem amounted to N187.79bn...
Agunloye’s alleged $6b Mambilla project fraud: Witness affirms authenticity of prosecution’s exhibit
Agunloye’s alleged $6b Mambilla project fraud: Witness affirms authenticity of prosecution’s exhibit
The trial of the former Minister of Power, Olu Agunloye, continued on Thursday, June 18, 2026 before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja with the Sixth Prosecution Witness, PW6, Iliya John Iyakwari, denying under cross-examination by defence counsel, Adeola Adedipe, SAN, that there is an...
Trial of the former Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Hadi Sirika continued on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 before Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), High Court, Abuja, with the 12th Prosecution Witness, PW12, Christopher Odofin disclosing that Sirika violated due process in the N299 million...
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) have commenced investigations into the activities of one self-acclaimed prophet, Godwin Sunday Ajuluchukwucheya (a.k.a Prophet Sunday Koboko), for allegedly defrauding his church members to the tune of N70, 391, 600. 00 (Seventy million, Three Hundred...