The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, says he is yet to see or receive a formal extradition request for Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mr Abba Kyari following his indictment by a US Court. Kyari had earlier in the year been accused of being a conspirator in a 1.1-million-dollar fraud deal involving […]
A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Osborne area in Ikoyi has restrained all commercial banks in the country from releasing funds totalling N11.795 billion to Nigerian couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi, who allegedly fled the country after duping investors of over N22 billion. The court also granted an order restraining the couple and […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday, displayed before a Federal High Court in Lagos, a virtual projection of a Compact Disc with 51,933 pages analysis of the iPhone of popular Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley. The EFCC projected the virtual, through its second witness, Mr Augustine Anosike, a forensic analyst. Anosike […]
The US Mission in Nigeria has warned Nigerians not to fall for a scam which promises to facilitate admission into Ivy League colleges. A statement on its website said the scammers use the EducationUSA name to extract payment for placement into Ivy League colleges through the “EducationUSA Ivy League Programme.” The US Mission said the […]
A new, high-risk and extremely-damaging Malware called Flubot is currently in circulation. A malware is a generic word used to describe a virus or software, designed specially to “disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.” In a statement on Friday, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) alerted millions of Nigerian telecom consumers of […]
A High Court in Ibadan on Friday ordered an internet fraudster, Adewale Tosin, to sweep the court premises for six months. Justice Bayo Taiwo sentenced Mr Tosin, after he pleaded guilty to defrauding an American man, Lylian Zamarippa, for $2,400 while pretending to be a female with the name, Zielone Nyson. Justice Taiwo ordered that […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 62,698 cases of double voter registration were discovered in Anambra. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said this on Friday at an emergency meeting with political parties in Abuja. Yakubu said the meeting became necessary in order to brief the parties on the commission’s preparations for the Anambra governorship election […]
Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, wife of Kano state governor, has returned to the state, after interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Daily Trust had reported how she was grilled by crack detectives of the anti-graft agency over a petition written by her son. In the petition, Abdulazeez had said he facilitated the acquisition […]
Police in Ogun State said on Sunday that they have arrested an ex-convict, Segun Ogundeji, who impersonated as a soldier at Sango-Ota Police Divisional Headquarters in Ogun. Police spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the declaration in a statement issued in Ota. Oyeyemi stated that Ogundeji was arrested when he went to Sango-Ota Divisional […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. The vacation judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, refused to hear the bail application which was moved by Maina’s counsel, Mr David Iorhemba, on the grounds that it […]
