Nigeria

A 35-year-old man, Akinwande Ewegbayi, was on Monday brought before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun over alleged N800,000 fraud. Ewegbayi, who lives at No. 26, Oretola St., Iyana-Ilogbo, Ota in Ogun, is facing a three-count charge of fraud, conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Abdulkareem Mustapha, told the court that […]

The accused, Tosin Iyanu Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Justice P. I. Ajoko of the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 sentenced one Ogundiran Tosin Iyanu to four months imprisonment for fraud. Ogundiran was found guilty of one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)As denials go, it was extraordinary and more than a little surreal. The sitting president of Africa’s largest democracy was forced to refute repeated claims that he had died and a clone was now running his office. “This is the real me,” said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissing the allegation as “ignorant rumors”

Social media, particularly Twitter, has been awash with reports that Nigeria has the second highest rate of paternity fraud in the world, with Jamaica leading on the list. But how true is this? Paternity fraud is a deeply problematic issue in Nigeria as fathers have been raising children that are not theirs. It is something