by Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected impersonator posing as the former Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde. The suspect, Promise Tochi Nwalozie was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a sting operation that yielded the arrest of six other internet fraudsters. One of the fraudsters, Onukagba Uche Prosper, is a youth corps member serving in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. Nwalozie was using the identity of Lamorde to send scam mails to foreigners, mostly Europeans and Americans and in the process extorted sizeable amount of foreign currencies from them. His weapon of fraudulent interaction with his victims was a fake electronic copy of the identity card of the former EFCC’s boss. Besides, he was also posing as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council, NJC in Nigeria. As a lawyer, he was defrauding his victims by assuring them that he would help in the recovery of money lost to different Nigerian cyber fraudsters. To do this, Jackson was collecting various sums of money as service charges from his victims. Some of his victims are: Betty. G. E, an American and Georgina M, an Australian. In addition to all these, Nwalozie had multifarious electronic scam documents in various folders in his e-mail box, ostensibly for the payment of a spurious N12,500,000.00( Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira only) to one Robert Giese, an American, by the “Office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja”. To further deceive Giese, he swore to a fictitious ” Affidavit Of Claim of Federal...
by Admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI According to the Punch News, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the remand of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and two others in prison over an alleged fraud of N4.6bn. Justice Suleiman Hassan gave the remand order shortly after Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman and Danjuma Yusuf were arraigned before him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The judge said the three accused persons were to remain in the prison custody pending the determination of their bail applications, the hearing of which has been fixed for July 1, 2016. Joined with Fani-Kayode, Usman and Yusuf in the 17 counts filed by the EFCC was a company, Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited. The charges bordered on conspiracy, unlawful retention of proceeds of theft and money laundering. Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign organisation in the 2015 general election, was accused of conspiring with the others to directly and indirectly retain various sums which the EFCC claimed they ought to have reasonably known were proceeds of them. The accused persons were said to have allegedly committed the offences between January 8, 2015 and March 25, 2015 in the build-up to the general election. In one of the counts, the EFCC alleged that Fani-Kayode, who it listed as the seconnd defendant in the charge sheet, and his co-defendants conspired among themselves to “indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00, which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.” The EFCC prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the said conspiracy...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Few days after Toyin Aimakhu wished her estranged husband, Niyi Johnson well in a birthday message, pictures arriving recently shows he has proposed to another woman. He is yet to confirm if this is a real proposal or a scene from a Nollywood movie. The lightening of the location however doesn’t look like that from a shooting set. If these are real, then it is further proof that anything is...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Maroko Police Division in the Lekki area of Lagos State has arrested a self-acclaimed Alfa, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahamido, for allegedly defrauding a trader, Sarah Moses. Our source, learnt that Ahamido collected N350,000 from Moses, promising to boost her business by turning the money to N5m. He was, however, alleged to have fled with the money, after giving his girlfriend, Hawa Musa, N100,000 to “renew their love”. A source explained that the victim had been introduced to Ahamido sometime in December, 2015, in a restaurant in Lekki. Ahamido was said to have boasted special powers that could make him multiply money after prayers. The source said, “The woman initially did not believe. So, he promised to help her bring out her child, who at the time was arrested by the police for an offence he committed. “He prepared some concoction for her, and just like that, the woman’s son was released which convinced her to trust him She was said to have asked him for help concerning her business, which was not doing well. The suspect reportedly asked her to give him N350, 000 so he could turn it to N5m which she gave to moses She said, “ i told him I would be travelling to Ghana in December 2015, and I would return in January 2016. He gave me something to put under my pillow. He said when I return from my trip, I should check the pillow and the N5m would be there. “When I returned, I checked under the pillow, but I did not see any money. I called him to inform him, and...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, has shifted the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on the 13-count corruption charge filed against him by the Federal Government to March 11. The Justice Danladi Umar-led tribunal, which initially gave Federal Government the nod to open its case against Saraki on March 10, deferred the proceeding by a day, following a letter from his new lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN. A statement by the Head of Press and Public Relations at the CCT, Mr. Ibraheem Al-Hassan, revealed that Agabi had in a letter dated February 26, pleaded for an adjournment on the ground that he had other cases fixed for March 10. Al-Hassan quoted Agabi’s letter as stating: ‘I write as lead counsel to the above defendant to apply that the matter which is now scheduled to come up on the 10th day of March 2016, subject to the convenience of the honourable tribunal and learned counsel for the prosecution, be taken on the 11th day of March, 2016, due to my earlier and urgent commitments in other courts on the 10th. The Supreme Court had on February 5 okayed Saraki for trial over allegations that he falsely declared his assets.” In a unanimous judgment, a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, held that the Senate President had a case to answer before the CCT. The apex court, while dismissing the appeal that Saraki lodged to stop his trial, affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which...
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