A State High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sentenced a former Commissioner for Transport under the Rochas Okorocha administration, Laz Okoroafor-Anyanwu, to three years imprisonment having been found guilty of a three-count charge bothering on fraud, looting public funds and stealing. Delivering the judgment in Court 14, the presiding Judge, Justice...
Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, admitted in evidence several documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Haruna Baba Jauro, and two others. Jauro alongside Dr. Dauda...
A Federal High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 heard how a former minister of power, Mohammed Wakil and others shared a sum of N450million meant to influence the outcome of the 2015 presidential election in Borno State. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
Justice Modupe Oso-Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Gudu, Abuja, has ordered sureties to James Nolan to produce him before the court in September 2023, or risk forfeiting their bonds to the Federal Government. Nolan, an Irish and a Director in the Process and Industrial Development Limited, P&ID, is facing trial on 11-count...
A former Accountant, Pensions Account, Office of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Garba Abdullahi Tahir, also known as Tahir Garba, was today, March 3, 2023 convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for stealing N26.1million meant for pensioners. Abdullahi was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at a...
Justice Adegboyega Adebusoye of Ondo State High Court, Akure on Wednesday February 22, 2023 dismissed the application of Hon. Oleyelogun David Bamidele, Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Felemu Olusegun Gudu Bankole, Chairman, House Committee on Tertiary Education and Oyadeyi Olusegun Kayode, a staff of the Ondo State House of Assembly which...
Following the violent protests that rocked Sagamu on Monday over the scarcity of the new naira notes, the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday, visited Sagamu for on-the-spot assessment of buildings and property affected by the unrest, with a declaration that the state government would go after those involved in the arson and wanton...
An Igala Chief, George Kadiri, who stood surety for James Nolan, the Briton at the centre of the ongoing $9.6bn Process and Industrial Development Scam trial, has until March 7, 2023 to show cause why his N100,000,000 bail bond should not be forfeited to the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court...
A Chief Magistrate Court in Ogba, Lagos State has jailed the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank PLC, Nneka Chinwe Onyeali-Ikpe, and Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje. The Magistrate, Lateef Owolabi jailed the Managing Director and Company Secretary six weeks each on Monday morning. Lateef jailed Onyeali-Ikpe and Unuigboje for disobedience of a garnishee order of court...
Gunmen opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday at the weekend in a township in South Africa, killing eight and wounding three others, police said Monday. The birthday celebrant was among those gunned down in the mass shooting in the southern port city of Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth. “The owner of the...
