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…
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…
Court Orders Remand of Tompolo’s Lawyer, Adegboruwa –If He Failed Meeting Bail Conditions
Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Lagos Federal High Court, today, ordered that a Lagos based -lawyer and social critic, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, be remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), pending when he is able…
Court stops Southwest PDP zonal congress
A Lagos Federal High Court, today, restrained the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and its national chairman Ali Modu Sherrif from conducting any election into the party’s Southwest Zonal Executive Committee. Justice Ibrahim Buba also barred PDP from recognising any such…
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,…
Builder Arraigned Over Alleged N7m Fraud
Police in Lagos have arraigned a building contractor, Ojelabi Olawale, 50, before an Ebute-metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauded his client the sum of N7 million. The contractor was arraigned before the court presided over by Chief Magistrate…
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…
Alleged N1. 767 bn Fraud: Afromedia’s GMD Suspected of Food Poisoning
A prosecutor with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. A.B.C. Ozioko, today, informed an Igbosere High Court of Lagos State, that the Commission’s principal witness, Akinlola Olapade, in N1. 767 billion fraud charge filed against a former non-executive…
How We Lost Several Millions To Fraudster — Afromedia Plc’s GMD
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of foremost outdoor advertising company, Afromedia Plc, Mr. Akinlola Irewunmi Olapade today, testified before an Igbosere High Court of Lagos State, how his company was allegedly defrauded of millions of United State of American’s Dollar…
Court Dismisses Suspected Kidnapper’s Bail Application
An Igbosere High Court of Lagos State, today, dismissed a bail application filed by a housemaid, Funmilayo Adeyemi, accused of kidnapping five children from two families in Lagos state. The court presided over by Justice Raliat Adebiyi held that the…