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Category: Crime & Justice

Court jails Mama Boko Haram, two others for N11m contract fraud
Crime & Justice

Court jails Mama Boko Haram, two others for N11m contract fraud

June 26, 2025

Comfort Isaac Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced Aisha Alkali Wakil popularly known as mama boko haram, Tahiru Saidu Daura…

EFCC arrests 19 suspected internet fraudsters in Akwa Ibom, Cross River
Crime & Justice

EFCC arrests 19 suspected internet fraudsters in Akwa Ibom, Cross River

June 19, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has arrested 19 suspected internet fraudsters in both Akwa Ibom and Cross River States. EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale disclosed…

EFCC arraigns Emefiele for unlawful possession of 753 housing units, N7.8bn fraud
Crime & Justice

EFCC arraigns Emefiele for unlawful possession of 753 housing units, N7.8bn fraud

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

By Comfort Isaac Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 16, 2025, arraigned a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele, before Justice…

Sun Trust Bank CEO, ED arraigned over alleged m fraud
Crime & Justice

Sun Trust Bank CEO, ED arraigned over alleged $12m fraud

June 13, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, June 13, 2025 arraigned the duo of Halima Buba and Innocent Mbagwu before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal…

Benue gov accuses top politicians, NASS members of sponsoring banditry
Crime & Justice

Benue gov accuses top politicians, NASS members of sponsoring banditry

June 7, 2025

Isaac Samuel Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has raised alarm over what he described as the direct complicity of top Nigerian politicians in fueling insecurity in the country,…

EFCC arrests three suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo
Crime & Justice

EFCC arrests three suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo

June 4, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said its operatives at the Uyo Zonal Directorate have arrested three persons for alleged Internet fraud. The EFCC’s Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale,…

Suspected employment fraudster hands over self to EFCC
Crime & Justice

Suspected employment fraudster hands over self to EFCC

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

Comfort Isaac A middle aged man identified as Idris Adamu, has submitted himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for prosecution. Adamu who walked into the Gombe Zonal…

Courts jail 11 Internet Fraudsters in Uyo, Calabar
Crime & Justice

Courts jail 11 Internet Fraudsters in Uyo, Calabar

May 30, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC says it on Wednesday secured the conviction and sentence of eleven internet fraudsters before Justices Maurine…

Victims of Ponzi Investments Schemes to lose their money to FG
Crime & Justice

Victims of Ponzi Investments Schemes to lose their money to FG

May 30, 2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned that victims of Ponzi investment schemes and other forms of unregistered and unregulated investments would lose their money to the federal government…

Police bust criminal hideouts, arrest suspected cultists, recover firearms
Crime & Justice

Police bust criminal hideouts, arrest suspected cultists, recover firearms

May 29, 2025

Comfort Isaac Akwa Ibom State Police command says its operatives have busted a criminal hideout in Ibesikpo Asutan local government area of the state and arrested some suspected cultists. The…

EFCC secures conviction of Kano Tiktoker, Murja Kunya for Naira Abuse
Crime & Justice

EFCC secures conviction of Kano Tiktoker, Murja Kunya for Naira Abuse

May 28, 2025

Comfort Isaac. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has secured the conviction and sentence of a social media influencer, Murja Ibrahim Kunya, arraigned before Justice Simone Amobeda…

EFCC hands over 753 recovered housing units to Ministry of housing
Crime & Justice

EFCC hands over 753 recovered housing units to Ministry of housing

May 21, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said it has handed over 753 units of houses recovered by the Commission at Plot 109 Cadastral Zone C09, Lokogoma District,…

N275 million Fraud at Ubotex: EFCC arrests Auditor, Cashier
Crime & Justice

N275 million Fraud at Ubotex: EFCC arrests Auditor, Cashier

May 16, 2025

Comfort Isaac Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Sylvanus Edet Akpan, Auditor of Ubotex Limited, Uyo and Akaninyene Enefiok…

Alleged N3.1b Fraud: EFCC Presents Ninth and Final Witness against Ex-gov Suswam
Crime & Justice

Alleged N3.1b Fraud: EFCC Presents Ninth and Final Witness against Ex-gov Suswam

May 15, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 presented the Ninth and last Prosecution Witness, PW9, Ape Sunday against the former governor of Benue…

Court fixes June 27 to deliver judgement on Natasha’s suit against Akpabio, Senate
Crime & Justice

Court fixes June 27 to deliver judgement on Natasha’s suit against Akpabio, Senate

May 14, 2025

Comfort Isaac The ‎Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed June 27, 2025, to deliver judgment in a suit instituted against the National Assembly by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan challenging…

Court jails 9 over internet fraud in Akwa Ibom
Crime & Justice

Court jails 9 over internet fraud in Akwa Ibom

May 12, 2025

Comfort Isaac Justices Ijeoma Ojukwu and Rosemary Oghoghorie Dugbo of the Federal High Court Calabar have convicted and sentenced nine fraudsters to jail. The convicts are: Nsofor Charles Ochiabutor, Aneikan…

EFCC arrests 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo
Crime & Justice

EFCC arrests 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo

April 15, 2025

Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has apprehended 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The EFCC Spokesperson Dele Oyewale disclosed this in a statement…

Alleged N1.38bn fraud: EFCC presents first witness against ex-Psquare manager
Crime & Justice

Alleged N1.38bn fraud: EFCC presents first witness against ex-Psquare manager

April 15, 2025

By Comfort Isaac The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, April 14, 2025, presented its first prosecution witness,…

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