Pastor Adefarasin, if Nigeria is a scam; then we’re all scammers

It is the bounden duty of every citizen to hold the government to account. In fact, citizenship is a call to duty – for the state. And there is no compelling duty that supersedes citizens subjecting their employees – the government – to scrutiny and constant vigilance. Criticizing the government is within the rights of […]

N9m ‘Juju’ Scam Lands Man In Prison

Justice A .A. Demi-Ajayi of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Wednesday sentenced Ogungbemi Taiwo to Eight months imprisonment for fraud. Taiwo who was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had in August 2020 defrauded one Alkairu Sani of the sum of […]

500-Level-Student Jailed Over $104,500 Romance Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has secured the conviction and sentencing of an Internet fraudster, Adebowale Taiwo Abiola, to one-year imprisonment before Justice O.A. Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The convict, a 500-level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, was arrested […]

Socialite Docked for N35m Scam in Ogun

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Monday, arraigned one Mary Maisirat Akerele on a five-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of Thirty-Five Million Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira (N35,520,000:00) before Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of the Ogun State High Court 4, Abeokuta. Trouble started for the 46-years-old socialite, […]

Kwara Bursary Scam: I Did Not See List of Beneficiaries – EFCC Witness

The trial in the alleged mismanagement of scholarship funds to the tune of N100million involving the immediate past chairperson of Kwara State Scholarship Board, Hajia Fatimoh Yusuf and two other principal officers of the Board resumed on Tuesday with a prosecution witness, Lawal Abdulwahab, telling Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting […]

16 nabbed for romance scam in Lekki

The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has effected the arrest of 16 young men in Lekki, a cosmopolitan area in the state, for allegedly engaging in internet fraud, popularly known as yahoo yahoo. The suspected internet fraudsters are: Habeeb Adebayo, Marcus Wisdom, Caleb Triumphant Ezikiel, Akinduro Henry, Osarobo Osasere, […]

Kaduna Man Bags Ten Years Jail Term Over N742,000 Farming Scam

Justice Darius Khobo of State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced one Kamilu Tukur Ruma to Ten years imprisonment for obtaining N742,000 (Seven Hundred and Forty-two Thousand Naira) from one Zainab Garba as investment in a phony farming business. After paying the said sum, Garba discovered that the farmland situated at Rigachukun […]

Counsel’s Absence Stalls Trial of Alleged N100m Kwara Bursary Scam

The trial of the immediate past Chairperson of Kwara State Scholarship Board, Hajia Fatima Yusuf and two others slated for today could not go on. Although all parties in the case were present in court, however, the case could not hold as counsel to Hajia Yusuf, Y. O Ahmed was conspicuously absent. No reason was […]

EFCC Docks Two for N3m Land Scam in Gombe

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe Zonal office today arraigned the duo of Karah Emphriem and Abdullah Adamu before Justice Fatima Musa of Gombe State High Court on four counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and forgery. The defendants sometime in 2014, allegedly forged documents with which they sold a plot […]

EFCC Arrests Varsity Student for N850,000 Investment Scam

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Office, have arrested an undergraduate: Nnamdi Henry Chimezulem a.k.a. Dessey Marvel, for running a phony investment scheme and in the process, defrauding his victims a sum of N850,000 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only). In a statement on Wednesday, the EFCC said […]