Three policemen were yesterday arraigned in Imo State for allegedly impersonating officials of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This came after the state Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede, had confirmed that 11 policemen had been dismissed for corruption while 19 others were under investigation. The cops, who have since been dismissed by the command, […]
Trial of a self-styled herbalist, also known as Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, to defraud a South Korean national, Keun Sig Kim, to the tune of N30million, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday arraigned an Ibadan based lawyer, Adesile Obasa, and four others on an 11-count charge of conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining money under false pretence. The other accused who were docked before Justice Omolara Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court were Temitope Akintunde, Fasuhanmi Omotayo, Batom Golden […]
Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a six-count charge, […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted permission to former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke to travel for a medical check-up in the United Arab Emirate (UAE). In a ruling on Friday, Justice Inyang Ekwo, discountenanced the objection raised by a lawyer to the prosecution, Bala Sanga, […]
The Lagos Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of five illegal oil thieves to one year imprisonment each before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos The convicts, who are all Indian nationals, are: Visal Guleria, Pranjal Singh, Rahul Pathania , […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday dismissed a ‘no case’ application filed by a social media celebrity facing a N32.9 billion fraud charge, Mr Ismail Mustapha, alias Mompha. Justice Mohammed Liman held that the evidence and testimonies of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witnesses established a prima facie case against Mompha, […]
Faisal Maina , who is the son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team , Abdulrasheed Maina , has been arrested. This came barely one week after Maina who had jumped bail in his ongoing N 2bn money laundering trial at the Federal Court in Abuja was arrested in the Republic […]
Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), has collapsed before a federal high court in Abuja where he is being tried on charges of money laundering. Maina slumped few minutes into the trial on Thursday while sitting beside the defendant’s dock. The former pension chief on Wednesday told the court that […]
Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), told the federal high court, Abuja, that he has no case to answer on the allegations levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Maina told Okon Abang, the presiding judge, shortly after the EFCC, through its counsel, Farouk Abdullah, closed […]
