Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, head of the Port Harcourt office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has described impersonation as a threat to national security. He made the assertion on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State while speaking on Wave. 91.7 F.M. According to him, impersonation pertains to identity theft and others poses serious threat to the security of the nation. He added “Impersonation is a threat to the security of the nation. Impersonators tarnish the image of our nation, distort the economic parameters of the country and kill genuine businesses”. Bawa, explained that advance fee…
Author: Admin
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned a fake native doctor and two others before Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court 1, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State. Justice Ajoku has ordered the remand of the fake native doctor, Fatai Olalere Alli (a.k.a. Baba Abore, Baba Oshun), and two others – Adigun Fatai Olusegun and Olufemi Kolawole – in prison custody pending the filing, hearing and determination of their bail applications. The accused persons were arraigned on criminal charges bordering on conspiracy, money laundering and obtaining money by false pretense. The court…
A 24 years old cyber crime suspect who is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Zonal office in Ilorin, before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court on four counts of internet fraud today informed the court of his decision to enter into a plea bargain negotiation with the prosecution. The defendant, Babatunde Muhammad Bashir, had on October 8, 2019 pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the four count information brought against him by the EFCC. Count one of the charge reads, “That you, Babatunde Muhammad Bashir on or about the 20th day of September…
Salisu Kabiru Abdulsalam has been convicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice M.T Tukur of Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna, on one count of cheating. The convict sometime in October 2018, allegedly approached the complainant, with a proposition to supply a total of 11 tons and 580kg of waste paper carton to Nixin Paper Mill Nigeria Limited, Ibadan on his behalf with the understanding that he will receive payment and remit same to the supplier. After the supply, the defendant received the sum of N752,000 from Nixin Paper Mill Nigeria Limited but only remitted the sum…
The duo of Ugbede Hassan Ocholi and Ngbegha Job Aondona were arraigned today by the Abuja Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven count charge bordering on internet fraud and obtaining under false pretence. One of the counts reads: “That you Ugbede Hassan Ocholi and Ngbegha Job Aondona sometime in 2019 at Abuja within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did conspire between yourselves to commit an offence to wit: computer related fraud and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 14 (1)(b) of…
The Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today arraigned one Mustapha Ilyas Abdulwasiu, a Lecturer with the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on a nine count charge bordering on employment scam and obtaining money by false pretence. The defendant, who teaches in the Accounting Department at the polytechnic, allegedly defrauded many job seekers, on the pretext of helping them secure employment at the institution. Count one of the charge reads, “That you Mustapha Ilyas Abdulwasiu between June and July 2018 at Offa,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal office has arrested a councillor representing Kakuri Hausa, Ward, Kaduna South Local Government of Kaduna State, Hon Theophilus Madami for offences bordering on alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of Eleven Million Eighty Thousand Naira. The suspect, allegedly approached one, Ibrahim Ringim Haruna, Chief Executive Officer of Pyramid Supplied Services Limited, a distributor of pasta products, with claims that his council needed pasta products for distribution to its citizens. Consequently, the company, sometime in November, 2018, supplied products worth sixteen million, eighty thousand naira only…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Zonal office in Enugu State yesterday announced the arrest of 27 suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects were arrested on Thursday, October 24, 2019 in Eura Hostel, Naze-Obibiezena Road, Nekede and Bloomnesdays Plaza Hostel, Nekede, all in Owerri, Imo State, following intelligence and diligent surveillance carried out on them. Intel established that the suspects were living above their means from proceeds of their alleged fraudulent activities, following which a team of operatives executed a coordinated raid in their residences. Items recovered from them include: mobile phones, laptop computers, three Lexus E350 cars with registration…
Request by Gabriel Suswam, a former governor of Benue State, to adjourn proceedings pending the determination of his appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the court at the Court of Appeal, has been refused by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today. Citing Section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, Justice Abang ruled that the law forbids a stay of proceedings in respect of criminal matters, adding that the defence also failed to obtain a leave of the court before appealing its ruling on jurisdiction. He therefore refused the application for adjournment and asked…
“To be passionate about Africa is to believe in Africa, understand Africa” The above words from Jean Claude Bastos De Morais, the Founding Board member of African Innovation Foundation (AIF) were enough motivation for Justus Nwaoga, the Chief Technologist in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry University of Nigeria Nsukka to begin the journey of changing Nigeria’s electricity supply via renewable energy. Pharmacist Justus Nwaoga set out a project solely focused on Africa’s Solar energy market, believing that it is possible to have clean, renewable solar energy powered by African solar panels. He arrived at an understanding that Mimosa…