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EFCC arrests 30-year-old for defrauding Emir of N33m
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command, has arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly defrauded the Emir of Okuta in Kwara State...
Police arrest lodger over fake credit alert
The Rivers State Police Command on Friday said it arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly purchasing goods with a credit alert. It said the suspect, one...
POS fraudster arrested in Jigawa
Police in Jigawa State has arrested 27-year-old Mohammed Mohmmed who specializes in defrauding POS operators using counterfeit money. The Command’s Public...
Osun policemen accuse Cyprus-based student of Internet fraud, extort $504 crypto from victim
A Cyprus-based Nigerian, Ifeoluwa Lawal, has accused men of the Nigeria Police Force, Osun State Police Command, of extortion. Lawal said he had visited...
EFCC grills Cubana Chief Priest on tax fraud, money laundering allegations
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reportedly arrested popular socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, known better as Cubana Chief Priest for alleged...
Court jails dog seller two years for cyber fraud
A 23-year-old dog seller, Omoteji Tomiwa, on Wednesday bagged two years jail term for impersonation. He was convicted and sentenced by Justice Muhammed Sani of...
Hushpuppi caught in $400k fraud case while in US prison
A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in the United States has alleged that Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, received fresh charges as the...
EFCC arraigns Nigerian banker for alleged N452m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a banker Judith Nneka Nwagwu for alleged fraud. She was docked before Justice D. A. Onyefulu of...
Police arrest UK’s ‘most wanted woman’ for €1bn mobile phone fraud
Britain’s “most wanted woman” has been arrested in Spain after more than nine years on the run, police said. The 47-year-old suspect identified as...
NCC warns Nigerians on new ways hackers steal banking details from phones
The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has discovered a newly-hatched malicious software that steals...
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...
Eyewitness Narrates How Policemen Killed Young Man, Labelled Him Fraudster After Stealing N700,000 From Him
A young man, whose identity could not be ascertained yet, has been killed by operatives of the Oyo state police command in the Apata area of the state....
How Disgraced DCP Abba Kyari’s ‘Romance’ With Serial Fraudster, Hushpuppi, Other Scandals Sank His Police Career
A Bloomberg Businessweek report has detailed how the “romance” between the serial internet fraudster, Ramon Abass, better known as Hushpuppi, and...
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...
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,...
‘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’...
Son Of Former Kwara Poly Deputy Rector, Others Jailed For Cybercrime
The son of a former Deputy Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Olaoye Jamiu Olarewaju, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with...
How Covenant University Graduate, Tobi Ifabiyi, Squandered N80million Investors’ Money
Some Nigerians investing in Fabz Capital have accused its owner, Tobi Ifabiyi, of squandering over N80million belonging them. Fabz Capital, a foreign...
N57.8m Fraud: Boy sent to prison after posing as ‘American prostitute’
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Friday convicted 20-year-old Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas. The native of Atiba Local...
Nigerian man scammed my heart, my soul, my finances, American woman alleges
Following Nationnewslead Special Report titled, FILTHY RICHES: The audacity of ‘Yahoo Boys’, published on October 24 and 31, 2021, an American woman,...
