A Federal High Court has ordered Senator Ali Ndume to be remanded at Kuje at Kuje Correctional Centre for failing to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. Ndume, who is representing Borno south, stood as surety for Maina’s bail, who is standing trial on alleged money laundering charges. However,
Two Nigerians, Nosayamen Iyalekhue and Esogie Osawaru have pleaded guilty for defrauding victims using various online scams during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Osawaru pleaded guilty 12 November, Iyalekhue, 33, pleaded guilty to one count charge of wire fraud on Thursday. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel in Boston, Massachusetts has scheduled sentencing for
Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State , on Friday, convicted two fraudsters arraigned by the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The convicts, Okanezi Tamunonengiyeofori and Unuafe Oghenetejiri, were convicted on separate one -count of impersonation and obtaining by false pretence . Oghenetejiri
A popular televangelist and the head Genesis Parish of the Celestial Church of Christ, Alagbado, Lagos, Isreal Ogundipe, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Ikeja High Court for unlawfully converting a woman’s property and stealing. Ogundipe, who has been on trial since 2011, was charged with seven-counts of obtaining by stealing, inducing
A 35-year-old man, Yakubu Mohammed, was on Thursday brought before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly forging court receipts and affidavit. The defendant, who resides at Market Road Rigasa Kaduna, is facing a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and forgery. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Baba, told
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the arrest of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, following his repeated failure to appear for continuation of his trial on money laundering charges. The court, in a ruling by trial Justice Okon Abang, revoked the bail it earlier granted to
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria (EFCC) has reportedly declared the founder of the popular Nigerian cryptocurrency, Pinkoin, and the blokchain project, InksNation, a wanted man following a fraud case to the tune of 32 million Naira (Approx. $82, 700). According to a press release on The Nation newspaper publication dated November 11,
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 12, 2020, arraigned a lawyer, Taiwo Oreagba, before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on alleged corrupt demand and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N4,000,000.00( Four
The Inspector-General of Police, on Wednesday, arraigned former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, for allegedly giving false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa. In the charge marked CR/993/2020, Police, alleged that Ohakim who was governor of Imo state from 2007 to 2011, lied that the lady
These are clearly not the best of times for former Governor Ikedi Ohakim as he is enmeshed in multiple litigations against him. His effort to stave off the legal offensive against him with a contempt application Tuesday suffered a major setback at a High Court in Owerri, the Imo State capital. While Ohakim is still