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Retiree Bags Jail Term for Perjury

Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced a retiree from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, Charles Aiyeyi, to one year imprisonment. Charles Aiyeyi was convicted for charges bordering on conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and making false statement to a public officer […]Continue Reading
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Checking High Rate of Crime Among Youths

The crime rate in the country remains worrisome, moreover, the concern is heightened by the growing involvement of youths and teenagers. Early this month, two teens in Bayelsa State were caught while allegedly attempting to use a 14-year-old girl for money rituals. This no doubt is an indication of the worsening fall in moral values in […]Continue Reading
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EFCC Arrests Ibadan Socialite for Fraud

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Ajayi Oluwabukola Temitope, for allegedly obtaining money to the tune of N24, 955, 000. 00 (Twenty Four Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand Naira) by false pretence. The 42-year-old Ibadan socialite was arrested following a series of petitions in which the Continue Reading
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Court Convicts Seven for Cyber-Fraud in Ibadan

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Command, on November 15, 2021, secured the conviction of seven internet fraudsters before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Ogun State. The convicts are Williams Ikechukwu Williams, Aizoba Opeyemi Stephen, Damilare Godwin Asore, Basit Oladeji Bamidele, Babajide Oluwapelumi Continue Reading
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34 Internet Fraudsters Land in EFCC’s Net

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested 34 suspected internet fraudsters, also known as Yahoo Yahoo Boys. They were apprehended in separate operations in Ibadan, Oyo State and Lagos. Twenty four of the suspects, most of whom claimed to be undergraduates, were rounded up on Thursday April 1, 2021 at their hideout in Apete […]Continue Reading
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EFCC Closes Case against Former Lagos Speaker

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has closed case in the N500m laundering trial of former Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji. The agency closed its case after presenting 2nd witness to testify against the Speaker and his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, on 54 counts amended charge Ikuforiji and Atoyebi are […]Continue Reading
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EFCC Arrests Eight for Alleged Internet Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Ibadan Zonal Office has arrested eight men suspected to be internet fraudsters in Osogbo, Osun State. The suspects Akinrinmade Adepoju Sunday and his brother Akinrinmade Adeniyi were arrested in their room and parlor apartment in Osogbo. Others were arrested during an early morning raid on their hideout at Continue Reading
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Man Docked For Falsely Declaring Self Dead

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dragged one Ajari Oghenekewe before a Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State for presenting self’s fake death certificate to escape justice.  The commission’s prosecutor, Mr Muritala Usman, told the court that the defendant on February 17, 2020, with intention to deceive the EFCC, presented a Continue Reading
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EFCC Arraigns Three for N83,500,000 Loan Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Wednesday, arraigned the trio of Adegoke Johnson Adebayo, Ayodele Elijah Olubunmi Sunday and Adelowo Waheed Adewole, before Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan for Eighty-Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand loan fraud.  The suspects, who are staff of Osun State Continue Reading
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Court Jails Businessman for Stealing N9m

Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Alh. Gbadamosi Sikiru Olarenwaju to two years imprisonment over stealing of N9m. The judge handed down the verdict after the convict pleaded guilty to one count charge of obtaining money by false pretence. Also, the court noted in his […]Continue Reading
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Abeokuta Court Jails Fraudster, Forfeits Assets

Justice Ibrahim Watilat of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State has sentenced one Festus Gbenga Ajayi, to one-year imprisonment for internet fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one-count charge of criminal impersonation, having been arrested on October, 2019 in a raid […]Continue Reading
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16 Internet Fraudsters Bags Jail Term in Abeokuta

A Federal High Court in Abeokuta has sentenced sixteen internet fraudsters also known as yahoo boys to different jail terms. A statement by the spokesman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Dele Oyewole made available to newsmen in Abeokuta explained that Justice Mohammed Abubakar who presided over the court convicted the sixteen accused […]Continue Reading
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Oyo Permanent Secretary Docked for Alleged Fraud

The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a Permanent Secretary in the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture, Alhaji Rasaq Kolawole, for allegedly defrauding one Ibikunle Alonge of N4,400.000 (Four Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira). Kolawole was arraigned before Justice Aderonke Aderemi of the Oyo State High Court on […]Continue Reading