Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes have arrested another set of twenty-eight suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos. EFCC spokesman disclosed in a statement that the suspects were arrested at different locations around the Abule-Egba. The statement noted that the suspects allegedly used different fake names and pictures to defraud their victims. Items recovered from the young…
Faisal Maina, who is facing fraud trial together with his father, Abdulrasheed Maina, has fled to the United States. The EFCC alleged that the son of the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team fled Nigeria through Niger Republic. The agency informed Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja of its investigations after the…
The Nigeria Police High Command is offering ten-million-naira reward for information on two suspected criminals. The names of the wanted suspects have not been released, and there is also no mention of the nature of the crime. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, only released a CCTV photo of two men, which he said was captured…
One Temitope Awobeku has been sent to prison for three years for the stealing over one million naira belonging to one aged Professor Joseph Chike Edozie. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, found Awobeku guilty of the charges brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Awobeku…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Ukaegbu Bright Onyekachi with three point three-zero kilograms of cocaine at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The Airport Commander of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Garba, said Onyekachi was arrested on arrival in Nigeria from São Paulo, Brazil, through Addis Ababa, with the hard drug hidden in T-shirts…
The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, ORJI UZOR KALU, is set to return to court on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, for a fresh trial over alleged seven point one-billion-naira money laundering charges. The fresh arraignment of Senator ORJI UZOR KALU will take place before Justice INYANG EKWO of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The charges…