Category: Fraud
Police drag Gov’s aide to court over alleged N2.5m dud cheque
The Bayelsa State Police Command has dragged the Special Representative of the Bayelsa State Governor in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the State, Obuma...
BREAKING: NDLEA files 8-count charge against DCP Abba Kyari, 6 others
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Thursday, filed an eighth-count criminal charge against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police,...
Job scam: Federal Psychiatric Hospital staff jailed for 7 years
A senior staff of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Mrs. Stella Acharra has been sent to prison over an employment scam. Nationnewslead reports that...
How fraudulent sellers of penis enlargement products rip off Nigerians with spurious claims
The penis enlargement products market, in recent years, has been growing in leaps and bounds. The sellers of the products make bogus claims to convince...
Probe: Between Gbajabiamila and Aregbesola
The House of Representatives under the dynamic leadership of Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila has been exceptionally performing its constitutional role of...
Alleged N6.9bn fraud: Fayose’s trial further adjourned until March 3
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, further adjourned until March 3, continuation of trial of embattled former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose,...
Police arraigns varsity professor, 4 others over alleged forgery
The Nigeria Police Force, on Tuesday, docked a Professor, Obiajulu Obikeze before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged involvement in the...
Reps Probe Aregbesola Over Misuse Of N165 Billion Prison Fund
The House of Representatives has ordered an immediate investigation over the usage of over N165 billion budgeted to the Nigeria Correctional Services (NCS)...
Cocaine Scandal: Heads To Roll As More Senior Police Officers To Be Arrested After DCP Abba Kyari
More senior police operatives and other security agents would be arrested following the detention of DCP Abba Kyari, the suspended commander of the...
Abba Kyari’s brother received N279m from Hushpuppi, others – Police report
POLICE investigations have revealed how members of a syndicate led by international scammer, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi paid N235, 120, 000...
IGP should publicly hand over Abba Kyari to NDLEA to prove his innocence – Lawyer
An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to immediately hand over suspended Head of...
EFCC arrests 26 internet fraud suspects in Oyo State
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Babawale Daniel Olayinka, a self-styled “Personal Assistant to the Oyo State Governor...
Ekiti varsity student in court over N4.7m fraud
A 400-level student of the Department of Philosophy, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Ayodeji Aderobaki, has been arraigned before a...
Alleged N5b fraud: Why ex-JAMB Registrar Ojerinde’s plea bargain failed
Fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the plea bargain of a former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Adedibu Ojerinde,...
Court convicts five online fraudsters in Ogun, Osun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of five internet fraudsters in Ogun and Osun States respectively. The anti-graft...
Court adjourns trial of man indicted for hacking 2,000 bank accounts
Justice O. O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos State, has adjourned the trial of Chris Ihebuzo, who faces multiple counts. ...
Court remands BDC Operator in prison custody over $950,000 fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Awka and presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, has remanded in prison custody a Bureau De Change operator, Chibueze Ojeh,...
Man docked for defrauding POS points of N500,000
A 25-year-old man, Wasiu Oderinde was arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for defrauding Point Of Sale (POS) operators sum of N500,000 in Osun...
Man docked for allegedly defrauding five parents of WASCCE fees
A 47-year-old man, Emmanuel Apeh, was on Wednesday docked before a Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, for allegedly defrauding five parents of...
‘White American prostitute’ jailed 12 months for N57.8m fraud in Kwara
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, sentenced a 20-year-old man, Fawas Oyelowo, to 12 months’...
