Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a 24-year-old woman named Queen Jonathan for alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam in Oghara, Delta State. Ms. Jonathan was also arrested for internet fraud on Friday 26, 2012 by men from the Benin Zonal office of the commission. A statement by the spokesman […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested Ibeh Theophilus Uche, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, 10 Kobo Wine Place, Ikotun, Lagos alongside his mother for their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud to the tune of about N50million in Lagos. The 28-year-old suspect was arrested recently in his room in […]
A celebration over a newly-bought Lexus GX 460 turned sour on Friday night when six suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys, died after ramming the car into a stationary truck along the Agbarho-Ughelli section of the East-West Road near Ekiugbo Junction in Ughelli, North Local Government Area of Delta State. The incident, although […]
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Thursday, convicted a lecturer of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Abdullahi Opashola, and twin-brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo, over offences bordering on personation and internet fraud. A statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the Economics and Financial […]
The Ondo State House of Assembly, on Monday , said only two people in the Assembly are in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission over the allegation of fraud and not four as earlier reported in the media. It was earlier reported that the Clerk of the House , Mr Bode Aladeyelu […]
Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Owerri IMO governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has challenged anyone who alleges non payment of salaries to come to govt house with employment details. He also condemned the continued existence of ghost workers in the state’s payroll. Addressing newsmen on Monday as part of activities marking his first anniversary in office, Uzodinma said […]
THE Economic and Financial Crime Commission has detained the Clerk of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr Bode Aladeyelu , a member of the House, Mr Felemugudu Bankole, and two civil servants over an allegation of fraud . It was earlier reported that the anti – graft agency invited the alleged persons over the fraud […]
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology Offa, Adebisi Ademola, to six months imprisonment over his involvement in love scam. Ademola was among the 33 suspected internet fraudsters arrested on September 14, 2020 in […]
Twenty-eight year old Ogbonnia Paul Chukwudi met his waterloo as his was arrested by security operatives after successfully impersonating as a soldiers for four years in Cross River State. The fake soldier from Ebonyi State has been impersonating for the past four years before his apprehension by NSCDC. Vanguard learned that the suspect was arrested […]
The management of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, has affirmed that it will not respond to enquiries about fraudulent advertisements and job offers or contract awards. The company’s reaction is coming against the backdrop of the recent proliferation of false recruitment and contract information about CNL. […]
