Pastor Emmanuel Markus Anga and Atin Victor Generous were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on July 11 before Justice Abubakar Jauro of Gombe State High Court on two count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretense. Anga and Generous are alleged to have in November 2013, deceived David Madison, into believing that they were employees of Gora Commanding Resources, a foreign exchange investment concern allegedly owned by Philemon Gora (who is still at large) and tricked their victim into expecting that his investment of five hundred thousand (N500,000.00) would yield ten percent (10%)…
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The duo of James Edwin Ehiaghe and Aimienmwona Osahon were arraigned on July 4 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice O.O Tokode of the Federal High Court Benin, Edo State on four counts bordering on ATM fraud, forgery, Impersonation, conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretences; possession of scam documents contrary to section 1, 2 and 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006. Ehiaghe and Osahon are alleged to belong to a syndicate of fraudsters who specialize in defrauding their victims through text messages. They were separately charged with two counts…
The trial of Barrister Azibaola Robert, a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan continued yesterday with the first witness, Ibrahim Mahe, telling Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal HIgh Court Abuja that the Special Services Office had three accounts (Naira, US Dollar and Pound Sterling) running for the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA. Mahe, a retired permanent secretary, special services in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, told the court under cross-examination that, while he was the Permanent Secretary for some months, there was an inflow into the dollar account which he (Mahe) was…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Jide Omokore; Victor Briggs, former managing director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited; Abiye Membere, former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; David Mbanefo, manager Planning and Commercial of the NNPC; Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a 9-count bordering on money laundering and procurement fraud. Omokore is alleged to have used the Strategic Alliance Agreement signed between the NPDC and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited to swindle the NPDC…
Gabriel Daudu, the convicted former Caretaker Chairman of, Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State, yesterday lost his post conviction bail bid as a Federal High Court sitting Lokoja refused his bail application. Daudau was convicted by Justice Inyang Ekwo on April 25, 2016 after he found him guilty of 77 counts of fraud and sentenced him to 154-year imprisonment. In his ruling, the trial judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, and sentenced Mr. Daudu to two years on each of the 77 counts. Since the sentences are running concurrently, Mr. Daudu is expected to spend two…
Justice M. S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos yesterday 2016 granted bail to Femi Fani-Kayode and Nenadi Esther Usman, both former ministers and directors in the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2015 general election. Also admitted to bail is Danjuma Yusuf, the third accused in the 17- count charge that borders on conspiracy, stealing, corruption and making cash payments exceeding the amount authorized by law preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The defendants alongside Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited are alleged to have diverted about N4.9 billion belonging to the Federal…
A bail has been granted to Obaje Musa Mohammed, one of the three accused persons charged for conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N220 million by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday, July 1, 2016 granted the bail. Mohammed and his co-accused – Dayo Jimoh and Victor Ochola were arraigned on June 22, 2016 on a 27-count for allegedly defrauding one Mohammed Jibrin, Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Suntrust Savings and Loans Limited, with a promise that they could help…
Two former ministers and directors of Media and Finance respectively of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation in the 2015 general election, Femi Fani-Kayode and Nenadi Usman are to remain in prison till July 4, 2016 as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today reserved ruling on their bail applications. Fani-Kayode and Usman alongside Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited were on June 28 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice M. S. Hassan on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, corruption and making cash payments exceeding the amount authorized by law. The…
A former acting governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, was on on Friday July 1 granted a bail by Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja. He was charged June 30, 2016 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his company, Mayim Construction and Properties Limited on a 5-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N2.9billion Ruling on the bail application, Justice Mohammed held that,” since the EFCC, being the complainant, had already released the defendant on administrative bail since June 15, 2016, with no complaint of defaulting contained in their counter affidavit, there…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on June 28 presented two more witnesses at the continuation of the trial within a trial, in a N2 billion fraud case involving a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, and Osarenkhoe Afe, managing director of Federick Hamilton Global Services Limited. They are charged along with Cluster Logistic Limited; Kangolo Dynamic Cleaning Limited, and Drew Investment & Construction Company Limited, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court, Abuja. Oluwole Aladedoye, counsel representing Afe, had on June 14, 2016 argued that the statement obtained from his client was…
A school teacher, Idris Buhari was on June 30 convicted and sentenced by Justice J K Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Kano to seven years imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence. The convict who was prosecuted on a three count charge brought against im by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was arrested following a complaint by Abdullahi Salisu Muhammad alleging that he gave the convict the sum of N500,000.00 for the processing of Hajj ticket in April, 2012, after he presented himself as a registered travelling agent. But the convict allegedly diverted the funds to his personal use and…
Former Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and Mayim Construction and Properties Limited was arraigned on June 30 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice A.R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 5-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N2.9billion. Fintiri, a former speaker, who also served briefly as the acting Governor of Adamawa State, allegedly laundered monies through his naira and dollar accounts domiciled at Ecobank Plc., and making a large cash payment for the purchase of a property at Plot Number 7, Gana Street , Maitama,…
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on June 30, dismissed a no-case submission filed by a former Imo State governor, Ikedi Ohakim, through his counsel, Awa Kalu, SAN, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ohakim is facing trial for allegedly making a cash payment to the tune of $2, 290,000.00 (about N270,000,000) for the purchase of a property situated at Plot 1098 Cadastral Zone A04, Asokoro District, otherwise known as Number 60, Kwame Nkurumah Street, Asokoro in Abuja. One of the counts reads: “That you, Ikedi Ohakim, on or about the January 26, 2013 in…
Sanda was alleged to have presented himself as an adhoc staff with the Saudi Arabian Embassy and also a travel agent with the capacity to secure visa for the complainant, one Bello Isah and 49 others who wanted to perform the 2014 Hajj. However, the suspect gave the petitioners photocopies of the visas and asked for full payment after which he promised that they will get the original copy from one Musa Ibrahim. The said Ibrahim collected the photocopies from the complainant and vanished into the thin air. Efforts to get him or recover the money proved abortive. One of…
Air Vice Marshal John Adeniyi Kayode-Beckley was arraigned on on Wednesday, June 29 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Olubunmi Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja on one count charge of bribery to the tune of N10million (ten million naira). AVM Beckley while serving as the Director of Armament with the Nigerian Airforce allegedly collected the sum of N10million as gratification from a contractor, one Mr. Hima Abubakar, of Societe D’Equipments Internationaux Nig. Ltd. One of the charges reads: “That you, AVM John Adeniyi Kayode-Beckley whilst serving as Director of…
Pastor Moses Oluwapelumi Iduye was on Monday, June 27 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice M. O. Ishola of the Oyo State High Court sitting at Ibadan on a 10-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence and forgery. Moses, who claimed to be a pastor was arrested by the anti-graft agency sequel to a petition alleging that he collected over N1.2million (one million, two hundred thousand naira) from one Adeyemi Ronke Bola under the pretext that he would help her to secure traveling documents, but later gave her fake airline ticket and visa. The…
The trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh, continued on Tuesday, June 28 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with the prosecution witness, Mustapha Yerima, further stating how he was pressured by the defendants to claim the property allegedly acquired with the proceeds of crime. Badeh is standing trial alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited for allegedly abusing his office as Chief of Defense Staff by using the dollar equivalent of the sum of N1.4billion (One Billion, One Hundred Million Naira) removed from the accounts of the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, June 28 arraigned Nenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance and Director of Finance PDP Presidential Campaign Organization in the last general election; Femi Fani-Kayode also a former Minister and Director Media/Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization; Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited before Justice M. S. Hassan of the Federal High Court Lagos, on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, corruption and making cash payments exceeding the amount authorized by law. The accused were alleged to have stolen and illegally disbursed about N4.9 billion Naira belonging…
A former member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Geoffrey Teme, on Monday, June 27 told a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gudu, Abuja, that it was wrong for Joshua Dariye, a former governor of the state, to divert the state’s ecological fund for personal gains. Under cross-examination by prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, Teme, the second defence witness, admitted that “it was wrong for anybody to pay government money into his personal account”. Dariye, who is being prosecuted by the EFCC, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, is alleged to have diverted about N1.162 billion ecological fund meant for…
The duo of Nneka Okechukwu and Nkiru Celine Okor were on Monday, June 27 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere on 15-count charge bordering on stealing and forgery. Okechukwu and Okoro are alleged to have converted the sum of N119, 788, 610.36k (One hundred and nineteen million seven hundred and eighty eight thousand six hundred and ten thirty six kobo), proceeds of sale of shares of Blue Chip Companies belonging to the estate of late Cyril N. Ukachukwu, to their own use. When the charges were read to the defendants, they…