Alleged N13.3 bn Subsidy Fraud: EFCC Set To Prosecute 7 Companies, 12 Individuals
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has released a list of the 1st batch of alleged fuel subsidy fraudsters to be prosecuted in court. In the released list, seven companies and 12 individuals are to face prosecution any moment…
Forgery: Innoson Motors Boss, 4 Others Faces Criminal Charge
A Lagos Federal High Court, has fixed May 31, 2016, for the arraignment of Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, and four others over alleged offences bordering on forgery. The court presided over fixed the date after ordering the Attorney-General of Federation (AGF),…
Industrial Court Stops NLC’s Strike
The Abuja Division of National Industrial Court, presided over by Honourable Justice Babatunde Adeniran Ademjumo,OFR, President of the Court, today’s morning granted an Interim Order of Injunction restraining the Defendants/Respondents, their agents, privies, employees, workmen, or servant from embarking on…
NIMASA Fraud:Akpolobokemi’s Aides Changed N111m To Dollar Through Unlicensed Bureau De Change Operator
An unlicensed Bureau De Change operator, Mallam Sulaiman Oseni, on today, Monday, narrated before a Lagos Federal High Court, how he changed the sum of N111 million to United State of America Dollar for an official of Nigerian Maritime Administration…
Nigerian Army captures Niger Delta’s Avenger leader
Fierce looking members of the Nigerian Army invaded Oporoza, the traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom again in wee hours of today (Sunday) in search of Niger Delta Avengers’ members. After members of Niger Delta Avengers bombed another oil facility belonging…
Tax Evasion: FIRS Seals Briscoe Motors, Other Firms In Lagos, Aba, Owerri
The enforcement arm of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), on Friday, May 13, continued its closure of big companies in Lagos and across the country over non-payment of a variety of taxes. In Lagos, FIRS officials the shut down…
4-Storey Building Collapses In Abeokuta
Part of the ultra-modern shopping complex being built by the Ogun State government at the popular Itoku market in Abeokuta, the state capital has collapsed. Unconfirmed reports have it that about ten people suspected to be workers in the building…
Banker Narrates How NAMA Officials Diverted Funds Into Several Accounts
A Compliance Officer with the Stabic IBTC Bank, Babatunde Adenekan, yesterday, gave vivid details before a Lagos Federal High Court, of how funds belonging to Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, were distributed into various bank accounts. Adenekan, a Prosecution witness…
N1.9 bn Subsidy Fraud: EFCC Urges Court Dismiss Wagbatsoma’s ‘Extraneous’ Application
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, urged an Ikeja High Court of Lagos State, to quash an extraneous aplication brought before it in the ongoing trial of some oil marketers accused of fuel subsidy fraud that has got…
NIMASA Fraud: Akpolobokemi’s Aide Paid Me N342.5m For Job I Didn’t Do -Bureau de Change Operator Tells Court
A witness, One Chima Anyasor, today informed an Igbosere High Court of Lagos, that between February 2015 and June 2015, a total sum of N342. 5 million was transferred into two of his companies accounts from National Maritime Authority. Anyasor,…
Land Scam: EFCC Arrests Human Rights Lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa
A prominent Lagos-based civil rights attorney and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, was arrested yesterday afternoon at his Lekki office by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Adegboruwa is being accused of obtaining money under false pretence…