The Federal High Court in Abuja has revoked the bail granted to former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, ABDULRASHEED MAINA. Justice OKON ABANG, who gave the order, also issued a bench warrant for the arrest of MAINA anywhere he is seen. Justice ABANG granted the orders following an application by a lawyer to the…
Former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, BABATUNDE FOWLER, has appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The EFCC invited FOWLER for interrogation over an alleged one hundred billion Naira tax evasion by a tax collecting company, Alpha Beta Consulting. The allegation was made in a petition to the EFCC in 2018 by a former…
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, MUDASHIRU OBASA, has appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for questioning over allegations of fraud. Speaker OBASA has been facing allegations of fraud, which he denies, except for the approval of eighty million naira for a training programme in Dubai for wives of some of the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned four suspected fraudsters before Justice MOJISOLA DADA of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja. The suspects are facing nine counts of conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of thirty-eight point six million naira. The suspects include JOSEPH NWORHABIKO, JACKSON PRECIOUS KAMALU, GEORGE…
Justice SHERIFAT SOLEBO of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja commenced the trial of a self-acclaimed social media influencer, RUKAYAT ADEDAMOLA ADEWALE, also known as ADEHERSELF. The accused person who is twenty-year-old is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged internet fraud. ADEHERSELF is accused of three counts of conspiracy to…
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has jailed two oil thieves to three years in prison. Justice I. N. OWEIBO found JACOB MOMODU and ANTHONY ONUTU guilty of the crime and sentenced them accordingly. This followed a successful trial of MOMODU and ONUTU by the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…