Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja has adjourned to June 4, 2014 for ruling on whether the court has jurisdiction to hear the N1.4 billion oil subsidy case involving the duo of Helyn Aninye, Chizobam Aniebonam and their company, Pon-specialized Services Limited. The accused persons who are alleged to have fraudulently obtained the sum from the Federal government as subsidy for the importation of premium motor spirit, are challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter.The ruling which was originally slated for today, March 25, has been moved to June 4.The accused persons…
Author: Kunle Edun
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 24, 2014 told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that an application filed by Wole Olanipekun, SAN, counsel to a former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, challenging the jurisdiction of the court, was premature and a ploy to delay his trial. Akingbola is facing trial, alongside Mr. Bayo Dada, on a 22-count charge bordering on allegedly stealing N47.1billion belonging to Intercontinental Bank (now Access Bank).Counsel to the EFCC, E. Ukala, SAN, prayed the court to hold Akingbola’s application in abeyance till the end of trial. According…
Justice B.O.Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe today March 24, 2014 sentenced one Abubakar Dan-Inna alias Goni Bukar to 2 years imprisonment with hard labour. The convict, who was arraigned on October 3, 2013, was convicted on each of the two count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence. The sentences are to run concurrently. Dan-Inna was alleged to have fraudulently obtained monies to the tune of about N2, 051,800 from one Alhaji Adamu Hassan, a businessman, by fraudulently representing himself as capable and possessing the power to bring Adamu out of his business misfortunes through the medium…
A Laboratory Chemist, Idris Tahir who is a witness in the on-going trial of a police officer, Dodo Chilla Bulus, an Assistant Superintendent of Police today, March 24, 2014 told Justice E.S Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja that the result of the analysis of the product allegedly siphoned by the accused and his cohorts confirmed that it was crude oil Bulus is currently being prosecuted by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 2-count charge bordering on oil theft and pipeline vandalism. At the resumed hearing of the case today, Tahir who was led in evidence by counsel…
An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde, was on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, knocked down by a Honda Accord car, desperately driven by a fleeing suspect, Tajudeen Oluwanishola, who was trying to escape arrest over a case of fraud being investigated by the Commission. Barde sustained serious injury and was subsequently rushed to the Military Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos for medical attention. Not only was Barde injured, a Toyota Hilux van that took the investigative team to the Gbagada Estate neighbourhood where the suspects reside was badly damaged as the suspect rammed his car into…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 20, 2014 opposed an application filed by Mr. Charles Edosomwan, SAN, counsel to Mr. Fred Ajudua, before a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, seeking bail for Ajudua, who is standing trial for defrauding two Dutch businessmen, Messrs Remy Cina and Pierre Vijgen of the sum of $1.69million. EFCC Counsel, A. P Sanusi, urged the court not to grant the request for bail. “My Lord, this is an eleven years old case that is still to be finalized; giving bail now without considering his past record will delay trial”, she…
The arraignment of Timipre Marlin Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa State and six others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice A. Y Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja could not go on today. Though the ex-governor was present in court, counsel to the third accused person, Chukwuma Ochu told the court that he has a pending motion before the court which seeks the disqualification of the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN from standing as counsel in this matter for breach of the rules of the legal profession. “The motion touches on the integrity…
The withdrawal of defence counsel, Mahmood A. Magaji, SAN today ( March 20, 2014) stalled further hearing in the ongoing trial of Aliyu Bello, a former special assistant to the director of administration, Pension Account, office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and Abdullahi Omeiza, a sokoto-based school teacher, alongside their companies Fafama Estate Developers and Fafama Oil and Gas Limited. The accused persons who were arraigned in May 2013, are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before a Federal High Court on a 5-count charge bordering on criminal conversion and obtaining over One…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on March 19, 2014 arraigned one Emmanuel Sunday before Justice P.I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Benin, Edo State on an 8-count charge bordering on conspiracy, impersonation and obtaining money under false pretence. The accused who paraded himself as a serving military officer of the rank of Captain allegedly obtained the sum of two million naira from one Endurance Igue purportedly to facilitate her enlistment into the Nigerian Army.One of the charges against the accused reads, “That you Emmanuel Sunday ( also known as Umoh Sunday and Inyang Samuel Chukwudi ) on…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested four undergraduates and three others for alleged involvement in Internet scam. They were arrested in two different locations in Ibadan, Oyo State. The undergraduates are: Otuyalo Damilola, a 400 level student of Computer Science of Lead City University, Ibadan; Adegbuyi Michael, an undergraduate of University of Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; Ibrahim Aruna, a student of Mineral Resources Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State and Adeosun Matthew, a 200 level student of Banking and Finance, University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Others are Afolabi Ayodele, Balogun Olumuyiwa and Abiola Okunola. Five of the suspects:…