A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGoF), Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, has been handed down a jail term of eight years, over offences bordering on fraud and corruption. He was sentenced on Monday by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who found him guilty in all the nine …
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An official of the Delta State House of Assembly, John Adjeke Akpoghene, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment over N14.5 million salary fraud. Akpoghene was charged by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before the Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, the state capital. …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Tuesday disclosed that 90 percent of the cases received by the Kano command of the commission bordered on fraudulent withdrawals which is mostly traced to wallet accounts of fraudsters. EFCC Spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren, quoted the Head of Cyber Crime Section of Kano Command, …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has re-arraigned a social media influencer and comedian, Adedamola Adewale, popularly known as Adeherself, before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja for an alleged internet fraud of N7.9 million. The Commission docked the influencer before Justice Mojisola Dada on a three-count charge …
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has secured the conviction of Mr Ojoko Robinson, a director with Rojoke CNE Services Limited, and the company for contract fraud to the tune of N13, 710, 252.44. According to a statement on Friday by ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, the …
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The Federal Capital Territory High Court, Garki, Abuja, presided over by Justice Maryam Hassan Aliyu, has found Professor Magaji Garba, former Vice Chancellor of Federal University Gusau guilty of a five-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery, and sentenced him to 35 years jail term. The …
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On repeated occasions, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has cautioned the general public to be vigilant and circumspect not to deal with scam artists who pose as recruitment agents for the Service and collect vast sums of money from unsuspecting victims with the promise to provide them employment. Again, …
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The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former Commander, Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, was reportedly grilled for four hours by the probe panel set up by the Inspector General of Police over his relationship with a confessed fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi. According to Vanguard, the interrogation by …
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A Nigerian, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, accused of obtaining more than 125,000 stolen taxpayer identities from across the United States has been convicted in federal court in Oregon. He was found guilty on 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. …
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The Federal Government has raised the alarm over an orchestrated plot to discredit the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, and by extension the government’s anti-corruption efforts. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement signed by Segun Adeyemi, his …
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