Facts emerged Saturday night that Friday’s circular by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) prohibiting commercial banks and other financial institutions from facilitating payment for cryptocurrency transactions was an immediate reaction to the hijack of a commercial bank’s data and demand for a ransom payment in bitcoins. According to a source, CBN was not against the […]
Justice R.O Dugbo Oghoghorie, of the Federal High Court, Enugu on Wednesday February 4, 2021 convicted and sentenced the duo of Dominic Ozulu and Michael Ogbobe to thirty five (35) years imprisonment each over One Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira(N1.520,000.00) land fraud. The convicts were arraigned on 18th May, 2017 by the Economic […]
A 21-year-old Graduate of the Kwara State University, KWASU, Ahmed Bolaji, was on Thursday, February 4, 2021 convicted by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin over offences bordering on love scam. The conviction followed his arraignment by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, […]
The police in Anambra State have arrested a prophet , Onyebuchi Okocha , aka Onyeze Jesus. PUNCH Metro had exclusively reported on Tuesday that the Anambra State Government would arrest the 32- year -old prophet for alleged indecent conduct. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the arrest on Thursday, but refused to […]
The lawyers representing Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, in his trial for fraud and money laundering in the United States, have applied to withdraw from his case. Gal Pissetzky and Vicki Podberesky said Mr Abbass stopped communicating with them and has now retained new lawyers to defend him in the case. The lawyers announced their decision […]
The Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure , the state capital, on Thursday sentenced a pastor , John Abiodun, to two years’ imprisonment for false allegation against a church founder. Abiodun was arrested in 2019 for lying against the founder of Promiseland Prophetic Ministry , Akure , Pastor Gbenga Akinbiyi , that seven placentas […]
The Economic and financial crimes commission EFCC) has objected to a fresh bail application filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja by the former Chairperson of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Mr Maina had earlier evaded trial and fled to Niger Republic. The defendant, who is being prosecuted on money […]
The Police in Anambra State have arrested 29 illegal revenue collectors in the Onitsha axis of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Haruna Mohammed, stated this in a statement in Awka, the Anambra State capital on Wednesday. He said while 13 of the suspects were arrested on Wednesday, 16 were nabbed […]
The former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday, approached Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, for another bail. Maina, in a motion on notice dated and filed on Dec. 24, 2020 with charge number: FHC/ABJ/CR/258/19 brought by his lawyer, Anayo Adibe, said the application became necessary over […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Court of Appeal in Lagos to set aside a purported pardon granted an Indian businessman, Ashok Israni, and two Keystone Bank officials, Anayo Nwosu and Olajide Oshodi. Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere had, last December, jailed Israni, Nwosu and […]
