A former Nigerian government official, Abidemi Rufai, has admitted stealing the identities of 20,000 Americans to claim $2million in disaster relief including $350,000 in COVID benefits. Rufai, 45, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Tacoma to stealing Social Security…
The Supreme Court has affirmed the six-year jail term handed the former Assistant Director in the Federal Civil Service, John Yusufu Yakubu convicted for his complicity in the conversion of about N24billion from the Police Pension Fund. The Court of…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has halted the planned trial of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah and two senior Army officers over their alleged complicity in the diversion of public funds estimated at N13,8billion. The…
How Many People Did Fulani Herdsmen Kidnap In The South To Have Warranted Secession Calls By Kanu, Igboho?’—Sheikh Gumi Man dupes APC of N70 million [PHOTO] Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion, former governor of Edo State, has been arrested and is…
Al-mushahid Initiative for Transparency and Accountability (AITA), an Abuja based non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization has uncovered and exposed Alhaji Ibrahim Yahuza aka BBC (a native doctor) in Kurgwi of Quaanpan Local Government Area of Plateau State who applied native…
The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has on Wednesday arraigned a Bureau De Change, BDC operator, Yusuf Yakubu before Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Sanusi Ma’aji for a charge bordering on…
Four years after he began trial for allegedly stealing N156.4million, a former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Haruna Jauro, faced re-arraignment yesterday for the same offence. Jauro, Dr Dauda Bawa and a firm, Thlumbau Enterprises…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities’ Cooperative Society, Alhaji Iliasu Abdulrauf, for alleged N1, 126,156,000 fraud. Abdulrauf was arraigned before Justice S.C Oriji of the Federal Capital…
A prosecution witness, Johnson Abidakun, a former Head of Operations, Zenith Bank Plc, Ado-Ekiti branch, in the ongoing N2.2bn fraud trial of a former governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, has told Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting…
The U.S Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday advised professionals and young people including students to desist from clicking on any site except those considered secure to guard against cyber fraud. Ms Kathleen FitzGibbon, Chargé d’ affaires, U.S. Embassy, Nigeria gave…
