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Alleged fraud: Onyeama distances self from extradition suit

Ihesiulo Grace 27 November 2019 0

Mr. Allen Onyeama Chairman of Air Peace, has said that he did not instruct Mr. Johnmary C. Jideobi to institute any action on his behalf or dragged the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged move to extradite him to the United State.

News

2 in court over alleged N4.8m Canadian visa fraud

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2019 0

Lagos – Two businessmen, Kehinde Sokefun, 45, and David Adeshina, 20, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for  allegedly obtaining N4.8 million in the guise of securing a Canadian visa. The defendants, whose addresses were not provided, are standing trial on a three-count charge of obtaining money under false pretences, conspiracy and […]

Sports

Athletic federation scribe arrested over $130,000 ‘fraud’

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2019 0

Abuja The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arrested the Secretary General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Mr Amaechi Akawu, for allegedly misappropriating 130,000 dollars. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, in Abuja on Monday, the commission said the money belonged to the

News

Alleged $8.4m fraud: Ajudua’s lawyer probes source of Bamaiyi’s money

Ihesiulo Grace 17 October 2019 0

Ikeja – The Defence Counsel to Fred Ajudua, a Lagos socialite accused of defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, on Wednesday raised probing questions on the source of the $8.4million that Ajudua allegedly collected from Bamaiyi. Addressing an Ikeja High Court, Ajudua’s lawyer, Mr Olalekan Ojo (SAN), disputed Bamaiyi’s claims […]

News

Internet fraud: Surety arraigned for failing to produce lover in court

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2018 0

A 23-year-old man, Onanuga Rasheed, who stood as surety for his girlfriend and failed to produce her in court, was on Wednesday hauled up before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The surety-turned accused, a resident of Igando area of Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of attempt to pervert the course of justice […]

News

Not All PDP Defectors Are Looters – Lai Mohammed

Ihesiulo Grace 4 April 2018 0

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who allegedly looted the country blind to return their loot if they want the party’s apology to Nigerians to make any impact.       Was it panic that caused you to release the list of alleged […]

News

Looters’ List: Stella Oduah reacts, says Lai Mohammed is childish

Ihesiulo Grace 3 April 2018 0

Former aviation minister, Senator Stella Oduah has reacted to the news of her name included in FG’s looter’s list. The senator reacted via a statement released on the 2nd of April. Read her statement below. My attention has been drawn to the illusionary list of looters released by Lai Mohammed in which, by treachery or […]

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Reno Omokri counters APC, releases list of alleged looters in Buhari’s cabinet

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2018 0

Reno Omokri, a spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan, has released his own list of alleged looters in Buhari’s cabinet after the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed released two lists of alleged looters in the Goodluck Jonathan led administration.   Mr. Lai Mohammed had on Sunday circulated a statement containing a list of individuals undergoing trials

Entertainment

‘My name is used to scam people’ – Actor Femi Adebayo cries out

Ihesiulo Grace 30 March 2018 0

Nollywood actor,  Femi Adebayo, in a one minute video he shared on Instagram warned his fans to stop having deals with internet fraudsters who use his name to perpetrate their fraudulent activities.     According to the actor, the video became necessary after he was hinted that many of his fans have fallen victim of the heinous crimes […]

Crime

N3.2b fraud: How six cheques totaling N436m were issued- Witness

Ihesiulo Grace 23 January 2018 0

A Prosecution witness, Mr Yakubu Braimoh, on Monday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos how six different cheques totaling N436 million were issued in favour of New Republic Newspapers. It was at the resumed trial of former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu were Braimoh was the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s witness. […]

News

LASG restates zero tolerance for fraud in real estate sector

Ihesiulo Grace 20 December 2017 0

The Lagos state government on Tuesday restated its commitment to stamp out fraudulent practices in real estate transactions in the state. This assertion was made by the Commissioner for Housing in Lagos, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, at the second edition of the 2017 Stakeholders Forum in Alausa, Ikeja, with the theme: ‘Prevalence of Fraudulent Practices In […]

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N400m fraud trial: “I received N7. 4m from Metuh,” says AIT director

Ihesiulo Grace 7 December 2017 0

The Director of News of the Africa Independent Television (AIT), Mr. Adebayo Bodurin on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh paid Daar Communication PLC the owner of AIT and Ray Power Radio the sum of N7,492,250 million for public sanitization […]

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Suswam’s trial: Prosecution lawyer declares witness hostile over N3.1bn fraud evidence

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2017 0

Justice Ahmed R. Mohammad of the Federal High Court in Maitama Abuja on Wednesday fixed December 11, 2017 to decide whether or not a prosecution witness that was declared hostile by the prosecution counsel Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) can be cross – examined to clarify his own contradictory evidence. The witness, Abubakar Umar the owner of […]

Business Money

UBA reverses self on ATM card restriction

Ihesiulo Grace 25 August 2017 0

In response to reactions towards its restricting customers from using their ATM cards for several transactions, the United Bank of Africa (UBA) appears to have reversed itself. In an email sent by Chukwuma Nweke the bank’s Executive Director, Group COO, the bank apologised for the restriction and said customers could freely use their cards on […]

Politics

Ganduje accuses predecessor’s Govt of fraud

Ihesiulo Grace 13 January 2017 0

Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has alleged the overseas scholarship scheme of the immediate past administration in the state was a scam, carried out with the connivance of a contractor. He argued that instead of following due process to secure admissions for the students, the government engaged the services of what he called […]

Crime

Fraud: Pastor, others remanded over illegal sale of property

Ihesiulo Grace 20 December 2016 0

A pastor identified as Akintoye Joseph, has been arraigned before an Ado Ekiti Magistrate court alongside one Ogundipe Sunday and others at large on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, false pretence and conduct likely to breach public peace.  The pastor, alongside others who were said to be specialist in fraudulent sale of property without […]

Headlines News

IDP funds: Senate uncovers N2.5billion fraud

Ihesiulo Grace 7 December 2016 0

About N2.5billion fraud was on Tuesday uncovered  by the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East  in the activities of the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE) aimed at reconstructing and rehabilitating communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgency. The discovery of the alleged fraud came at a time, women in […]

Crime

Four arrested for fraud in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 27 November 2016 0

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos state Police Command, have arrested four suspects for allegedly swindling members of the public of various sums of money. They were picked up separately by the operatives in three incidents of fraud in Maryland, Ojodu Berger and Ajegunle between Tuesday and Thursday last week. The […]

Crime

SEE THE PICTURE OF A PASTOR WHO WAS ARRESTED FOR N22.4M FRAUD

Ihesiulo Grace 4 November 2016 0

The EFCC, has arraigned Pastor Nimi West and his company, Nimak & Company Nigeria Limited before Justice U.N. Agumoh of the Federal High Court Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a four- count charge of obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of Twenty-Two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N22,400,000.00). West is alleged to have […]

Headlines News

Drama in UK Court over N6.3b Assets of Ibori’s Mistress

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2015 0

The language was acerbic; tempers flared, somewhat. Lawyers de­ployed harsh words against each other. That was the hallmark of the hearing at Courtroom 8 of the Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday in Lon­don, the United Kingdom. At issue was the hearing into the planned confisca­tion of assets worth N6.3 billion (£21 million) traced to Udoamaka […]