A former political adviser of United States President, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, was on Thursday arrested for his role in an online fundraising scheme. The NBC reports that Bannon was charged with fraud by a Manhattan attorney for defrauding people of millions of dollars. In a statement by acting US Attorney, Audrey Strauss, Bannon was […]
A Federal High court in Benin has ordered the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to appear in court on Tuesday July 14, 2020, over the alleged N700m money laundering case that was preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has uncovered the diversion of a huge sum of money belonging to the Federal Government into private pockets. The money, in the sum of over Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N250m) was diverted from the personnel cost account of the Usman Danfodio University Teaching […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that Nigeria’s most-wanted hacker, Ramoni Igbalode, alias Ray Hushpuppy, has a number of cases to answer with the anti-graft agency. A statement by the EFCC noted that Hushpuppy who was recently arrested by the International Police(Interpol) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), has considerable cases of […]
The Managing Director of Grandi Projetti Construction International Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jack Afara, a Palestinian national,Tuesday, told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts that he worked on Lamonde Hotel, Owerri, owned by Senator Rochas Okorocha. Afara, who disclosed this while speaking from the witness box, said he did not know that the hotel’s parking […]
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, to defend his alleged involvement in the N2.5 billion Digital Switch-Over (DSO) fraud. Kawu, the late Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Limited, Mr. Lucky Omoluwa, and the Chief Operating Officer of the same company, Mr. Dipo Onifade, […]
The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of a fugitive suspect, Joan Uruvbu (alias Jay Jay) on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and intent to defraud before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State. Joan Uruvbu is one of […]
…The Paschal Obi connection While the Imo state Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts continues its investigations into contracts awarded between June 2011 and May 2019, there are emerging documents that may hold former Governor Rochas Okorocha solely accountable for the strings of contract infractions under his tenure. Our correspondent has obtained, from impeccable Government […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on March 4, 2020, arraigned a couple, Oladeji and Omotola Henry, alongside their company, Built Global Concept, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N553,820,000.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty-three […]
A 38-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Azeez Adebowale, has been arrested with a mini coffin containing fetish materials found in his possession, when his house was raided by operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 2, 2020. Adebowale, who claimed to be using the coffin as a […]
