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FUEL SCARCITY: Private Depots Hike Rates, More Filling Stations May Sell Above N180/litre The cost of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, may hit or exceed N180/litre in most filling stations in coming weeks if nothing is done about a recent hike in its ex-depot price by private depot owners. It was gathered that most private […]

FAKE job offers from cloned government and corporate websites are showing up on the emails of job applicants. Victims are losing money, and financial institutions are turning blind eyes. Last October, Mercy Olayinka, a mother of one, stumbled on an online advert for enlistment into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) with six hours left to

US-based Nigerian Temitope Olaiya, popularly known as Tammy Olaiya has pled guilty to conspiring to import over five kilograms of cocaine and participating in several fraudulent schemes; including bank fraud and health services scam. The 40-year-old business woman who is based in Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.A faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison for

Man bags 18 months jail for love scam in Ilorin A 25-year-old man, Olaleye Olumide Paul, was on Monday, convicted for internet fraud by the Federal High Court in Ilorin, for internet fraud. Olaleye, who pleaded guilty to the two count charge preferred against him by the Ilorin Zonal command of the Economic and Financial

Two nurses on Long Island are under arrest, accused of forging vaccination cards and pocketing more than $1.5 million from the scheme, prosecutors and police said.

Fraudsters have cloned the Facebook account of Chief Pius Akinyelure, a board member of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) representing the South-West zone. The fraudsters with the Facebook profile ‘Pius Oluwole Akinyelure’ usually engage in chats with unsuspecting victims and later send them a mail asking for payment into a dedicated account. The e-mail

A Video of some “stranded” boys who were searching for where to learn yahoo-yahoo (onlie fraud) has gone viral, as reported . From The Information Gathered By NaijaCover, The boys were seen being queried by a man whose gate they knocked at in an Edo community. The boys who are between the ages of 14-16,

A woman was left crying so hard after suspected fraudsters made away with her husband’s hard earned money. It was gathered that the lady’s ATM card was seized by the ATM machine and she was Asked to go and come back on Monday by security men. But she was devastated to discover that after 20

A court in Nyamira County, Kenya, has sentenced a 25-year-old house help to 15 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her employer’s a 2-year-old daughter. The accused; Martha Bosire, was arraigned before Keroka Senior Resident Magistrate Simon Arome for committing the offence on diverse between November 14, 2021, and December 9,

EFCC Docks Man for Alleged N26.6Bn Investment Fraud in Lagos The Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Friday, January 21, 2022, arraigned one Funmi Adenmosun before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a 10-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N26, 600,