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N7bn corruption charge: Reprieve as ex-Gov. Kalu’s retrial halted by Abuja court
A former Abia Governor, Orji Kalu, on Monday got a reprieve as a Federal High Court in Abuja temporarily halted his re-trial...
Fashion designer bags four months of community service for Cybercrime
By Boye Ajayi A 32-year-old, Oyelakin Babatunde, a self-acclaimed fashion designer, has been sentenced to four months of intensive community service for...
Faisal, Maina’s son, jumps N60m bail, bolts to U.S.
Faisal, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trial alongside his father, for laundering pensioners’ money to the tune of billions, has...
N7bn graft: Ex-Abia Gov. Orji Kalu back in court for case retrial
A former Abia State Governor and Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, who has been standing trial on a N7.1billion money laundering...
Hundreds of millions of naira and dollars found in ex-Gov. Yari’s account forfeited to FG — Court
A former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, is to forfeit hundreds of millions of naira and dollars traced to his accounts in...
Provide details of N729bn for 24.3m poor Nigerians, SERAP asks FG
… wants EFCC, ICPC to track payments Pursuant to its accountability and transparency mandate, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has...
For defrauding American of N19.6m, Oteyowo Samuel, to spend 14 months behind bars
By Boye Ajayi An internet fraudster, 32-year-old Oteyowo Akinkunmi Samuel, has been sent to jail for 14 months, according to a Federal...
Bartender bags 8 years for stealing his employer’s ATM card, withdrawing N1.07m from his account
By Boye Ajayi A 35-year-old bartender, Godwin Job, is to spend the next eight years in jail for stealing the ATM...
Two Lagos lawyers sent to jail for 24 months each for N24m fraud
For their involvement in financial fraud, two Lagos lawyers — Sogo Akinola and Feranmi Akinluyi — have been sent to jail for two years...
Breaking: Senator Ndume remanded in prison for failing to produce Maina in court
Senator Ali Ndume being led out of the courtroom by an official of the Nigerian Correctional Service, after he was remanded in...
Magu knows fate soon as Buhari gets Justice Salami probe panel report
The final report of the Justice Ayo Salami-led probe panel on the alleged infractions by the suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and...
High Court Registrar jailed for N80m theft, issues cheques in wife’s name
For issuing cheques to his wife to steal N80 million from government’s coffers, Joseph Etefia Udoh, now a retired Registrar...
EFCC quizzes Fowler, ex-FIRS Chair, over N100bn Alpha Beta tax fraud
The immediate past Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr Babatunde Fowler, is now a guest of the Economic and...
N338.8m laundering charge: After three judges’ trial, ex- Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji’s case adjourned until Nov. 25
By Boye Ajayi The trial of a former Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, charged with N338.8 million...
In an Operation Swoop, EFCC nabs nine suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun
In Ogun State, at least, nine suspected internet fraudsters were in the early hours of Wednesday picked up from their hideout by...
EFCC suspect forges own death certificate to escape justice, beaten to his game
A man, who announced his own death and forged death certificate to escape justice, has been beaten to his own game by...
