A federal high court in Abuja has revoked the bail granted Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trial for alleged money laundering. At Tuesday’s sitting, Okon Abang, the judge, ordered that Maina’s son be arrested and brought to court for trial. The judge said Faisal, who is being prosecuted alongside his father, […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday commenced the trial of a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team , Abdulrasheed Maina , in his absence. Maina , who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on N 2bn money laundering charges, had last attended court on July 2, […]
li Ndume (APC, Borno South), who was on Monday taken into custody by officials of the National Correctional Service from Kuje, FCT on the orders of a Federal High Court in Abuja, will appeal the verdict on Tuesday. Counsel to Ndume, Marcel Oru, said the appeal against the remand order will be filed on Tuesday […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. Justice Kolawole Omotosho gave the sentence on Monday after three years of prosecution of the convicts by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
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 […]
