Justice J.A. Awak of the Gombe State High Court, Gombe, Gombe on Thursday, July 1, 2021, convicted and sentenced one Benson Tivesue, a former staff of Quickpay Digital Solutions to one year imprisonment on one count charge of criminal misappropriation…
By Tina Omoregie A 50-year-old man, Sesan Obasa and his alleged accomplice, Salvation Terhembe, were apprehended by the police over their alleged involvement in impersonation in the ongoing 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination’s (UTME) registration. The suspects were arrested and…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice Peter Affen on March 25, 2021 sentenced one Ogbelegba Emmanuel Abel to three months imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and internet fraud. The…
An agent, Esther Samuel, who allegedly defrauded two people of N2.2 million to secure a Schengen and Japanese visas, on Monday appeared in an Upper Area Court, Mpape, Abuja, for alleged. The police charged Samuel, who resides in Nassarawa State,…
A businessman, Akinwumiju Abayomi, 40, was on Monday brought before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a man of N4.3 million on the pretext of supplying him logs of wood. Abayomi, a resident of Yaba area of…
A 26-year-old businessman, Adedamola Adetoye, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for alleged N500,000 fraud. Adetoye, who resides at the Badagry area of Lagos State, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretenses and stealing.…
Two businessmen, Victor Iheanacho and Innocent Ugama, on Tuesday appeared before a Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly defrauding their neighbour of N350,000. Iheanaoch, 68, and Ugama, 53, who do their business at Dei-Dei Abuja, were arraigned on a…
…As Bawa testifies against Nadabo Energy in N1.4bn subsidy fraud The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a fresh move to sanitise revenue leakages has uncovered N70by oil subsidy fraud. This was announced by the new Chairman of EFCC Abdulrasheed Bawa yesterday while…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday further adjourned until May 26, for continuation of trial of internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (a.k.a Mompha), standing trial for N32.9 billion fraud. Mustapha was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of Temitope Oluwasanmi and Augustine Olayinka before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court, Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. The convicts were arraigned in…
