Justice Jude Okeke of the FCT High Court on Thursday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to put its house in order in the trial of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
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The Peoples Democratic Party has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to come clean on the N5.8 billion National Emergency Management Agency scandal for which he was reportedly fingered by an investigative committee of the House of Representatives.
The management of Keystone Bank Limited has alerted its teeming customers of the activities of one Obinna Onuselogu, who parades a company, Triple C Investment Limited, as an affiliate of the bank with the aim of defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.
In a statement by the lender on Thursday, the bank said Onuselogu, who used to be a staff of the bank, was no longer in its employ.
It added that anyone who transacts any business with him purportedly in the name of the bank does so at his/her own risk.
“Please note further that Keystone Bank is neither related nor affiliated to any company known as Triple C Investment Limited, which Mr. Onuselogu claims to be its chief executive officer. Anyone who transacts any business with him purportedly in the name of Keystone Bank does so at his/her own risk,” the statement said.
It was learnt that the ex-staff has been using the name of the bank and its executives claiming to be in partnership with the bank with the intent of defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.
The bank said it was working on a legal process and with security agents to put an end to the unscrupulous activities of the so-called Tripple C Investment and its agents led by Onuselogu.
Keystone Bank is a technology and service-driven commercial bank offering convenient and reliable solutions to its customers.
A non-governmental organisation, Women for Women, has petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Ahmad Abdurraham, demanding the prosecution of the former State Chairperson of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, Chieso Aninwagwa, for alleged misappropriation of the organisation’s N5 million.
The Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola has sentenced a former Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Jingi Mayo, to five years imprisonment.
The Oyo State Correctional Service says its Controller has not been remanded in Ilorin Custodial Centre over a N25 million fraud.
A 36-year-old banker, Joseph Promise, who allegedly stole N3.6 million from the accounts of two deceased bank customers, was on Wednesday docked in an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 12 suspected internet fraudsters in Calabar, Cross River State; and Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The suspects are: Ahmed Adelakun, Matthew Edafe, Chukwuma Edwin Chisom, Mbang Prince, Ogon Godspower and Nnamdi Ogana.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office on Thursday arrested 48 suspected internet fraudsters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a Pastor, Michael Njoteah, to two years in a correctional centre over an alleged N2.1 million visa scam.
Barely one month after operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s Commissioner for Special Duties, Mukhtar Ishaq, for alleged N86 million fraud, 11 of his others aides have been accused of involvement in assets declaration mess.
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Chukwuebuka Washington Dikeocha, the blogger who admitted to publishing fake pictures of a cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission through his Twitter handle: @TheRealDayne, on Tuesday pleaded to be remanded in the custody of the anti-graft agency following his arraignment.
A 56-year-old businessman, Ahmed Tiamiyu, on Monday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’Court in Lagos State for allegedly defrauding a developer of N20.7 million.
The police charged Tiamiyu, who resides in Olumowewe area Adiyan, Ogun State, with conspiracy, theft and obtaining by false pretenses.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu unveiled the portal at a stakeholders’ meeting held at Eko Hotel & Suites in Victoria Island.
The arrest of the Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Transportation and Construction Services Ltd by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission is not based on fraud, says an official of the company, Cletus Onoja.
Guaranty Trust Bank says it is taking all necessary legal steps to ensure that no illegal or fraudulent execution is carried out over its court case with Innoson Motors.
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday sentenced Air Vice Marshal Tony Omenyi to seven years in prison for receiving N136 million bribe from Nigerian Air Force contractors.
A witness, Fredrick Ugor, Tuesday, told a Federal High Court in Lagos that monies paid into the account of a company, Penniel Engineering Ltd, charged alongside a former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, was said to be meant for intelligence gathering.
Former Czech defender, Tomas Repka, has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for failing to return money he made after selling a luxury car he did not own.
Nyame was found guilty and convicted on 25 of the 41-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, misappropriation and graft, not guilty on 14 others and discharged on two counts.