CRIME
NSCDC Nabs 14 Suspected Smugglers In Akwa Ibom, Seizes Adulterated Diesel
The Akwa Ibom State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Tuesday said it arrested 14 suspected smugglers and impounded 1,700 litres of adulterated Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) in the state. The suspects were arrested on March 10 and 14, 2022, in Itu and Onna local government areas of the state, respectively. Parading the suspects on Tuesday, the...
EFCC Confirms Fire Outbreak At Port Port Harcourt Exhibit Dump
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday confirmed a fire outbreak at its exhibit dump located in Iriebi, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, March 14, 2022. The agency's Head, Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren confirmed this in a release on Tuesday, saying the incident happened in the early hours of Monday. According to the anti graft agency, the...
Two Cybercriminals Jailed In Oyo [Photo]
Courts in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, March 14, 2022, convicted and sentenced the duo of Ademuyiwa Basit Olamilekan and Opeyemi John Abiola on a separate one-count charge each of which bordered on cybercrime. Olamilekan was arraigned before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, while Abiola was docked before Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court. The...
EFCC Arraigns Man For N19m Fraud In Maiduguri
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, arraigned one Muhammad Abdullahi Kulloma and Mbuta Criterion Nigerian Limited before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on a two-count charge of obtaining Nineteen Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N19, 950,000) by false pretence. The defendant fraudulently...
Man Bags 2 Years Imprisonment In Lafia for Facebook Scam
The Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 14, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Tarbee Destiny Tyodoo before Justice N. I. Afolabi of the Federal High Court, Lafia, Nasarawa State on one count charge for his involvement in Internet fraud. The charge reads: “That you Tarbee Destiny Tyodoo sometime in...
N1.6m Scam: Court Rules On Lagos Pastor’s No Case Submission April 12
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on March 11, 2022, adjourned ruling on the no-case submission filed by one Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun, a self-acclaimed Lagos-based pastor, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for an alleged $1.6million fraud, till April 12, 2022. Oluokun was arraigned alongside his company, Peak Petroleum Industry...
Suspected Fraudster On FBI Wanted List Osondu Igwilo, 3 Others Nabbed Over $100m Scam
It was the end of road, on Thursday, March 11, 2022 for one Osondu Victor Igwilo, who had been on the watch list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, since 2018, when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Command, swooped on him. Fifty-two-year-old Igwilo, who is the alleged leader of a criminal network of “...
Court Orders EFCC To Pay Abia Journalist, Nora Okafor N3.5m Damages Over Privacy Invasion With Apology
A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State on Monday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to pay the sum of N3.5m to journalist, Norah Okafor for illegally invading her privacy in the dead of the night on 23rd September, 2021. The court presided over by Justice Thomas C Johnson also ordered the anti-graft agency to tender...
Abba Kyari’s Wife Slumps In Court [VIDEO]
A lady, identified as wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, on Monday, fainted at the Federal High Court in Abuja. She slumped on the ground shortly after trial Justice Emeka Nwite deferred ruling on applications that DCP Kyari and six other persons facing drug trafficking charge with him, filed to be released on bail pending...
NDLEA Urges Court Not To Grant Abba Kyari Bail, Says He’ll Escape
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, bail. The agency, in a 21-paragraph counter-affidavit it lodged before the court, insisted that Kyari posed a flight risk. It told the court that Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence Response Team,...
