Tag: fraud trial
Yahaya Bello: Witness narrates how N46.5m was transferred to Abuja school
Reading from Exhibit 37, PW8 identified several major transactions, including an NIP transfer of ₦700 million from Keyless Nature Limited…
Witness refutes Oyo-Ita’s claim in ₦3bn fraud trial-within-trial
With the permission of the court, the prosecution played the video recording of the statement-taking process in court, in which…
Yahaya Bello: Witness reveals ‘suspicious’ cash movements from Kogi LGs’ accounts
While being led in the continuation of his testimony by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, the prosecution counsel before Justice Emeka Nwite…
Emefiele: Court ordered examination of WhatsApp messages deadlocked
This was as a result of Emefiele's lawyer's application on the necessity of subjecting the phone device to forensic examination…
Prison sentences handed down in fraud trial involving Vatican choir
The trial revolved around allegations that Palombella and Nardella had allegedly pocketed proceeds from the choir’s concerts. The case also…
Lagos Court hears shocking testimonies in £1M fraud trial involving spiritual claims
Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, N. K.Ukoha, during the sitting on Friday, Wasiu identified the suspects in the…
Appeal Court rejects bid to retry Orji Kalu for N7.6bn fraud
A Federal High Court had on Dec. 5, 2019 jailed the former governor now s a senator representing Abia North…
Absence of Obanikoro stalls Fayose’s N6.9bn fraud trial
As a result, Justice Aneke granted the defendant's application to travel for medicals. He rescheduled the trial for the previously…
Obanikoro: How I gave Fayose N1.2bn from Lagos security account for Ekiti election
Obanikoro spoke as the 12th prosecution witness in the prosecution of Fayose by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
Why ICPC re-arrested ex-JAMB Registrar Dibu Ojerinde
ICPC had, on July 8, 2021, arraigned the former JAMB registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde on an 18-count fraud charges bordering…
N6bn money laundering: Court okays Mompha’s trial in absentia
The EFCC charged Mompha and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Ltd., on eight counts of six billion Naira laundering.
‘How ex- AGF Idris compromised FG’s systems for N109bn fraud’
EFCC showed that, Idris while in office, compromised key units under his care like the TSA, GIFMIS and IPPIS that…
N6.9bn fraud: Judge stalls Fayose’s trial
Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for N6.9billion fraud and money laundering charges.
N185m land fraud: Rep Gabriel Zock gets N200m bail
EFCC alleged that Gabriel Zock under false pretext, collected N185 million from Adeyemi Kamar for a plot of land in…
N5.2bn fraud trial: Personal lawyer testifies against ex-JAMB registrar
By Taiye Agbaje A legal practitioner, Peter Oyewole, on Wednesday, testified against the former Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board…
Again, Dasuki’s Absence Stalls N13.5bn Fraud Trial
For the second time in a week, trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), at a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High…
Court registrar key player in Ajudua’s $330k fraud against Bamaiyi
A prosecution witness, ACP Abdullahi Garuba, on Wednesday confirmed that a court registrar, Oluronke Rosulu, accused of conspiring with others…
Ajudua seeks fresh bail over $1.69mn fraud trial
A Lagos socialite, Fred Ajudua, on Wednesday filed a fresh bail application before Justice Kudirat Jose at an Ikeja High…
Court to rule on Ajudua’s objection over $8.4mn scam
Henry Ojelu& Irene Nwaro Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Ikeja High Court, today fixed March 3, 2014 for ruling on…
Ajudua turns accuser in fraud case with Gen. Bamaiyi
Fred Ajudua, the Lagos lawyer facing several fraud charges, has turned the accuser in one of the cases he is…
Spain’s princess charged with fraud in a historic first
Spanish King Juan Carlos’s daughter Cristina entered court smiling under the gaze of the world’s media Saturday to answer fraud…
Medical doctor charged with fraud
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned a 61-year-old medical doctor, Michael Adekunle, over alleged $243,500 (about…
Ex-bank chief, Wilcox, others get bail
Akin Kuponiyi Justice Yunusa Ibrahim of the Nigerian Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday granted bail to the former…
Ex-Gov Nyame denies statement at fraud trial
Rev. Jolly Nyame, former governor of the Nigerian north eastern state of Taraba has added a new twist to his…
Ex-Governor Audu’s son docked for fraud
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arraigned the son of Abubakar Audu, former…
Ikuforiji’s aide gets bail
A Nigerian High Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos on Friday granted bail to an aide to Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji of…
College provost jailed for 4 years over N3.3m fraud
A day after Nigerians expressed outrage over the light sentence given to a former director of the Police Pension Fund,John…
Lagos Speaker’s aide remanded in prison
A Nigerian Court on Friday remanded Atoyebi Olabode, the Personal Assistant to Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the Speaker, Lagos State House of…
Rep Azubuogu Absolved By EFCC Witness
strong> Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A witness called by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at the resumed trial…
Man Collects Lover’s Money, Then Dumps Her
A midddle aged woman, Amusa Taiwo, has been left in the lurch after she allegedly gave her lover, Adesokan Ifeoluwa,…