LAGOS – Former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu; a consulting firm, Alpha-Beta, and a former commissioner in the state, Akin Doherty, have been accused by a Nigerian chartered accountant, Dapo Apara, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and sundry corrupt practices. According to the claimant, in a writ of summons deposed to at
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has begun questioning Mudashiru Obasa, speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly, over corruption allegations against him. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, confirmed the development to TheCable. “He responded to an invite from the commission this morning,” he said. Obasa was accused of embezzling public funds and abusing
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The Nigeria Customs Area Command in Kano has handed over one Sanusi Abdullahi Labaran, arrested as he attempted to smuggle 5,342 Automated Teller Machine cards out of the country, to the Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation. Custom Area Controller, Kano – Jigawa Command, Nasiru Ahmed who
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The Nigeria Police Force has filed a three-count criminal charge against former Governor of Imo State, Mr. Ikedi Ohakim, for fraud. Ohakim was governor of the state from 2007 to 2011. In the charge marked CR/993/2020 and dated September 23, 2020, which was filed before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, Ohakim was
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Aminu Hayatu Tafida aka Jaffa, the son of a Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Tambuwal has been remanded in prison for allegedly raping a minor. Jaffa who was arraigned before a Sokoto magistrate court on Monday October 5, pleaded not guilty to the charge. While he was remanded in the Sokoto Correctional Centre to enable
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Aminu, son of Special Adviser to Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal on Social Investment, Alhaji Hayatu Tafida and three others have been arraigned by the Police for alleged rape, criminal conspiracy and character defamation before a Sokoto Magistrate’s Court. They were also charged for act of gross indecency, abasement, sale of obscene book and printing or
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Ibadan Zonal headquarters , on Friday , arrested 10 suspected internet fraudsters . The suspects are Isaac Ogundayo ; David Ayodele; Etiowe Kelvin ; Seun Afolabi ; Saheed Olalekan ; Oluwatobi Damilola ; Sukanmi Odofin ; Ademola Okunola ; Joseph Damilare and Abass Sodiq . They were said
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The Delta State Police Command has declared a former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi wanted over the alleged assault of some workers at his Signatious Hotel. Daily Vendor had earlier reported that Gbagi, who is the chairman of the hotel, had allegedly ordered that four of his workers – three women and a
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The suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has denied admitting guilt at any time before the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel, probing him of corruption. An online report had claimed that Magu confessed to guilt and pleaded with the panel to save his career. But in a statement on
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned a former Director of Physical Planning, and currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Architect Pius Ugochukwu over an alleged N27 million contract scam. He was arraigned before a state High Court sitting in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government
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The Benue State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of 96 persons for alleged house breaking, theft, armed robbery and cultism in Makurdi, the state capital. The command’s spokesperson, Catherine Anene, who disclosed this in a statement, said the suspects were arrested following complaints from residents of Welfare Quarters, Yarkiyo, Wadata, Ankpa Quarters, NUJ
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A Chief Magistrate in Onitsha, S.N Emejulu, has demanded a letter from the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, to continue hearing on murder charge against two defendants, Afam Obiekezie, (a.k.a. Kapuyaukwu) and Tochukwu Emmanuel. Recall that the Magistrate’s absence on several occasions stalled hearing on the matter until Wednesday when the accused persons were arraigned. When
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More trouble lay in the wait for Instagram celebrity and alleged cyber scammer Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi after new evidence was submitted against him in the US city of California. In the new evidence submitted against him on Wednesday, Hushpuppi was accused of using his personal email to register on a website “whizzlog” which is
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it had concluded arrangements to arraign in court, some University lecturers involved in electoral malpractices in Akwa Ibom State, during the 2019 general election. This was disclosed by the Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, while speaking with reporters in Uyo, the state capital.
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Men of the Ebonyi state Police Command yesterday arrested a 40 years old man for allegedly defiling an 11 year old girl, (names withheld). The incident according to Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Police, Loveth Odah said that the incident happened in Ekoli-Edda, Afikpo South Local government area of Ebonyi state. The Police Spokesperson gave
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