A member of Lagos State Judicial Panel on #EndSARS, Ebun Adegboruwa, SAN, has given a hint on the content of the report submitted to the Lagos State Government on Monday The report was submitted in a brief ceremony at Government House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, The PUNCH was told. The panel was inaugurated on October 19, […]
Cross-examination of the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, in a case of N761 million fraud was stalled in Lagos on Monday due to the defendant’s absence. The defendant, Abubakar Peters, contracted Coronavirus and is in an isolation centre, according to his counsel, Mr E.O. Isiramen. The News Agency of
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A banker has been convicted by the Enugu State High Court, Enugu on a 32-count charge bordering on forgery and stealing to the tune of N219 million. Oliver Anidiobi was a former manager with Sterling Bank who duped OHHA Microfinance Bank in 2019 while serving as its Account Relationship Officer. The convict convinced the microfinance
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A Registrar with Kwara Judiciary, Fatimoh Olatunji, has been convicted for fraud and sentenced to seven years imprisonment without option of fine. According to the judgment handed down by Justice M.B. Ishiaq of the state High Court, Olatunji is also to pay N7 million to the complainant, an Ilorin-based popular business woman, Sherifat Oloriegbe. The
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The convict repeatedly awarded contracts to a private company where he was a director. A civil servant has been convicted by the Borno State High Court over multiple counts of contract fraud worth N86.1 million. Ma’aji Shettima Arfo was initially arraigned before the court for lining his pockets while serving as the General Manager of
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A Kwara state High court, sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday sentenced one Ayeni Oluwatofunmi, 25, to Correctional Centre, for impersonation and offences bordering on cybercrime. Oluwatofunmi is alleged to have impersonated a white American lady, Daina Patrick, to swindle unsuspecting victims. The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), secured the
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The former governor of Edo State, Mr Lucky Igbinedion, is currently being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over what a source described as alleged criminal diversion of public funds to the tune of N1.6bn. The former governor, who arrived at the headquarters of the EFCC, at Jabi, Abuja, around
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Solebo held that Igwe should be kept at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending perfection of bail she granted him in the sum of N500,000 and two sureties in like sum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Igwe pleaded not guilty to a three-count charge of giving a document with false information, using office to proffer
In hindsight, it seems obvious: Femy’s pilfering of BFL Corp. should have never beenallowed to start, much less last as long as it did.Femy played a lead role in transitioning his old employer onto a new enterprise resourceplanning (ERP) system. A mistake by his new employer created an opportunity for Femyto steal company funds.As a
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation has called for national and international collaboration between governments, law enforcement and the private sector to check the increasing spate of cybercrime in the country. The Head of Information Technology Department of the NDIC, Mr Imade Uhunmwagho, made the call at the 2021 workshop for the Financial Correspondents Association of
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