An Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a 25-year-old man, Babatunde Shittu, to one year in jail for engaging in and benefitting from $5,000 cryptocurrency...
Operatives of the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Ibrahim Abubakar, managing director of Shariff Agric and General...
by Ganiu Bamgbose, PhD While “scam” means a dishonest scheme or fraud, this lexical item has a semantic extension in Nigeria to mean anything irrelevant or...
*By Prince Charles Dickson * *The sentence ‘a nut for a jar of tuna’ is the same when read backwards. * Ademola Babalola wrote on his...
Former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, has claimed the fraud allegation against him was work of people against his presidential ambitions. Speaking in an...
An Upper Area Court in Zuba, Abuja, on Friday, sentenced a dismissed police officer, Benjamin Tanko, to four years imprisonment for fraud. Tanko, who resides in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned that hotel owners can be charged as accomplices or be jailed for accommodating internet fraudsters also referred...
A senior special assistant to the Ogun state Governor, Abidemi Rufai has been arrested in the United States for alleged identity theft and fraud. the 42-year-old...
Abdulrasheed Maina has on Friday been ordered to be kept at Kuje Correctional Centre till his trial is concluded. Mr. Maina, who is the former Chairman...
Two Nigerians have been arrested by the police for their involvement in a major multi-million Euro scam bordering on procurement of COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). According to...
By ELFREDA KEVIN-ALERECHI Fraudsters, with an eye on the wallets of unsuspecting members of the public, have lately upped their strategises on moves to swindle unsuspecting...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Captain Ezekiel Agaba, of N1.5bn fraud...
