THE trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and three others for an alleged N8.5billion fraud before Justice Ayokunle Faaji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos continued on July…
THE Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three bankers for an alleged case of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence. The suspects, Kagha Emmanuel Uchenna, Okoro Chinasom Davidson and Egbogu…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Office has secured the conviction of one Jacob Samuel on an amended one count charge of cheating. Justice J.O. Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja convicted the defendant after…
JUSTICE Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, July 8, 2021 sentenced Giwa Nurudeen, a 25-year-old final year student of the University of Ilorin, to three years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences…
A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Company Ltd and Polaris Bank from tampering, howsoever, with funds standing to their credit up to $6,759,000 (about N2.8 billion) or its equivalent in any currency…
A FORMER Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said the ruling of the Federal High Court that she could serve without the certificate of the National Youth Service Corps has vindicated her. Taiwo Taiwo, a judge at the court…
JUSTICE C.L. Dabup of the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, today July 7, 2021 sentenced three internet fraudsters, Nbubuisi Kerian Ozomba, Paul Obide and Samuel Chukwuebuka Nduchukwe to one-month imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretence through the…
FORMER US President Donald Trump said he is filing class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Google, and Twitter and their executives, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai respectively. The former President alleged that they censor users. Trump announced the suits during…
A NATIONAL advocacy group, the Coalition of Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa (CGGEJA), has offered a commendation of Hon. Peter Akpatason, the Akoko Edo Reps member, over his swift reaction to concerns expressed by constituents on the quality…
A GOMBE State High Court presided over by Justice Fatima Musa on Monday July 5, 2021 convicted and sentenced one Bala Bello, a former employee of Ashaka Cement, Bajoga, Gombe State to one year imprisonment on two separate one-count charge of stealing brought against…
