Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Asaba has sentenced one Tonwerigha Oyintonbra Tombrown to 66 years imprisonment without an option of fine. The jail...
Nigeria, in the last 10 years has lost a whopping N5.5 trillion to fraud, corruption and cybercrime, the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Professionals of...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday adjourned hearing of the alleged N450 million fraud case involving Dele Belgore (SAN) and Professor Abubakar...
A final year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Orimolade, has been sentenced to four months in prison for defrauding an American of the sum...
Justice J. K. Daggard of Federal High Court, Kano has sentenced one Francis Igo to 28 years prison term for defrauding his victims of a total...
Two persons have been arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly duping a bank manager of $200,000 (about N70million). The suspects, Oluba Falaye and...
Four former Executive Directors of the Gombe Internal Revenue Service have been arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, for fraud by the Gombe...
The Nigerian Senate Chief Whip and former Abia State governor on Thursday begged prison warders not to handcuff him. He told them, seeing them approach him...
A former Vice- Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, was on Tuesday arraigned at the Federal High Court for misappropriation of...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned till December 5, judgment in a fraud case involving a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor...
The continuation of trial of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, over an alleged N6.9 billion fraud was stalled on Thursday. This followed the...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the fraud trial of a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, till November 25 and 26. Justice...
The alleged N3 billion fraud trial of former governor of Benue State, Senator Gabriel Suswam, was on Tuesday adjourned by the Federal High Court in Abuja....
The Kwara State Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 16 Local government chairmen who allegedly misappropriated N4 billion loan and 10...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benin Zonal office, on Sunday grilled some officials of the Esan North-East local government area of Edo State. The...
The senator representing Sokoto-North, Aliyu Wamakko has reacted to reports of a move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe him over an...
The controversy sorrounding the award of $9.6 billion against Nigeria by a British court in favour of Process and Industrial Development limited, (P&ID) has taken a...
Three men have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly impersonating the staff of the commission and officials of the Independent...
Six Chinese companies operating in Nigeria have incurred the wrath of the World Bank as they have been blacklisted over alleged fraud and corruption. A publication...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has concluded plans to arraign one Mrs Isabella Oshodin today, Monday, for allegedly receiving the sum of N22.9 billion...
There are indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign Mr. Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said it has secured the conviction and sentencing of Adetunji Abudu, a former Managing Director, New Prudential...
Justice Archibong Archibong of the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced Archibong Effiong Edem to seven years imprisonment over...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded plans to arraign a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu over...
A school proprietress, Josephine Udeh, was on Wednesday convicted by a court based on charges from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). She was sentenced...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Monday said it had arrested Segun Soewu, Director General, Kwara State Bureau of Small and Medium...
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, has announced that it would start delisting dormant or shell companies from the month of September this year. Shell companies...
A 67-year-old businesswoman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. after her arrest for hacking a First Bank Plc account...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday commenced the first phase of investigation of fraudulent procurement practices in the award of...
Spain has extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, following protest from Taiwan’s government. The suspects who arrived Friday morning at...
Senegalese President Macky Sall has said that his administration would uncover the truth after a BBC report alleged his brother Aliou Sall had been involved in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Mr Uno Michael Eke of Micheno Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal...
Amnesty International has suspended its local branch in Zimbabwe after uncovering evidence of fraud, and misuse of donor funds. An extensive forensic audit was conducted in...
By SOC Okenwa Penultimate week a Nigerian young singer, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, was arraigned before a Judge of the Federal High Court...
A former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, Adesina Ogunlana, on Wednesday collapsed in the dock during arraignment by the Economic and Financial...
A pastor with a Pentecostal church, Fisayo Nehemiah, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, after he was convicted of...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has arraigned a director in the Federal Ministry of Education, Victor Igboanugo, for purchasing a property...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a staff of the Nigeria Railway Corporation and two others over alleged fraud and ticket racketeering. The...
In a bid to take the fight against fraudulent activities in extractive industry, especially the oil and gas sector, a step further, the Nigeria Extractive Industries...
The Israeli attorney general’s office has informed that it intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three corruption cases. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit who revealed...
The visitation panel set up by Governor Kayode Fayemi to look into the activities of some tertiary and health institutions in Ekiti State have recommended that...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Tuesday told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that two people who made “crucial statements” during the investigation...
The indicted Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, may have become desperate in his bid to cover up the rot at...
The management of Pinnacle Communications Limited has reacted to a press statement by the spokesperson of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC),...
Although there have been sanctions against telecommunications operators involved in call masking, SIM-Boxing and related fraud, the menace still persists. About this time last year, The...
The Federal Government, Thursday, set up of a nine-man administrative panel of enquiry into the finances of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF). Inaugurating the...
The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, has ordered that the former Chief Justice of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike forfeits the sum of N50 Million to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal High Court in Lagos it is dropping corruption charges against four parties in a case...
A school allegedly belonging to Unoma Akpabio, the wife of the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has been seized by the Economic...
The much-awaited full investigative report on the Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East which is also expected to probe the Secretary to Government of the...
