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Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano today June 13, 2018 refused an application by a former governor of Kano State Malam Ibrahim Shekarau for the release of his international passport to enable him…

Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force, over the weekend, arrested a 35-year-old Togolese man identified as Friday Kojo around Ikeja railway line, for impersonation and extortion with a fake Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC)…

Trial of Marco Ramirez, an American, who allegedly defrauded three Nigerians of $565,000 in an American Green Card scam, was stalled yesterday as a result of the absence of the defence lawyer. On June 22, 2017, the Economic and…

A 34-year-old Nigerian man who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to prison for his involvement in numerous Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes. Samson Olugbenga Oyekunle pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit…

Property developer jailed for 2,670 years for duping 133 tenants of N25m, he is also going to forfeit his building to the state government. A property developer, Alhaji Ayobami Oseni, has been sentenced to 2,670 years imprisonment by…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday closed its case in the trial of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who is being prosecuted for an alleged fraud of N2.9bn. Kalu was re-arraigned on October 31, 2016 by the…

The total sum of N1.6billion illegal bank charges have been recovered from one of the many branches of one money deposit bank (MDB), Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun told the House of Representatives on Thursday in Abuja.Adeosun,…

A Nigerian couple identified as Rejoice Isaac Chibunna, 48, and Isaac Chibunna, 50, have been arrested by the Cambodian Police for digitally stealing more than $400,000 from a bank. The suspects were arrested in Phnom Penh on Monday…

30 bank accounts allegedly belonging to Dr Ngozi Olojeme, former Chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, has been frozen alongside 37 assets by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The agency had earlier…

Operatives of the Nigerian police have arrested one Pastor Charles Mgbe in Calabar, Cross River State capital for allegedly duping his lover and others a whopping seventeen million Naira (N17,000,000). It was gathered that Pastor Mgbe…

A 45-year-old mother of five, Ashile Basirat, paraded by Ogun State Police Command for allegedly conspiring with robbers to dupe passengers in Abeokuta, says she joined the act of duping people because she had once been a victim.…

A 26 year old asthmatic patient, Bose Deborah Bamidele from Ikole, Ekiti State has been arrested by police for manipulated the voice setting of her phone and pretending to be different persons to defraud her best friend, identified only as…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned a former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, and two others in an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan over alleged N11.5 billion fraud. The News Agency…

Former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency, Mr. Raymond Temisan Omatseye, has been sentenced to five years in prison, by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over a N1.5bn contract scam. Ex-NIMASA DG,…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Tuesday, February 28, 2018, arraigned the duo of Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick and Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court…