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Council Director Convicted of Employment Scam in Sokoto
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
Justice Aminu Garba Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court sitting in Sokoto, today Wednesday 22nd September, 2021 convicted and sentenced Aminu Mohammed Gobirawa, Director Planning, Research and Statistics Sokoto South Local Government Education Authority, to six months imprisonment for employment scam.
He was prosecuted by the Sokoto Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a one count charge of cheating.
Two Suspected Illegal Oil Dealers in EFCC’s Net
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Uyo Zonal Command, on Tuesday September 21, 2021 took custody of two suspected illegal petroleum products dealers, Godtime Edet Bassey (50yrs) and Edet Asuquo (43yrs) from the Nigerian Navy Ship, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Akwa Ibom state.
The suspects were handed over by Lieutenant Commander SI Olowookere along with a wooden boat and 6000 litres of product suspected to be Premium Motor Spirit, stored in 20 plastic drums.
EFCC Arraigns Man for N23.8m Contracts Scam …Two Others for N2.9m Get-Rich-Quick Scam in Maiduguri
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The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 arraigned one David Asigbe Irumekhai before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on three separate charges bordering on obtaining by false pretence and cheating to the tune of N23, 870,000.00 (Twenty Three Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira).
In the first charge, Irumekhai was docked for N5 Million fraud. He was alleged to have obtained the money on the pretext of executing a purported contract awarded by Terres Des Hummes, a Non-Governmental Organization, and converted the money to personal use.
Lagos Prince, One Other Jailed in Ilorin for Cybercrime
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Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has imposed a 6-month jail term on one Oyekan Abdulbaqqi Adedoyin, who claimed to be a prince from Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, for offences bordering on cybercrime.
Prince Oyekan, 25, was jailed alongside one Oni Stephen Oluwaferanmi from Ilesha, Osun State.
EFCC Arraigns Man for N5m Contract Scam in Zaria
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, September 21, 2021 arraigned one Dogara Liman before Justice Rabi Salisu Oladoja of the Kaduna State High Court sitting Zaria on a one count charge bordering obtaining by false pretence.
Dogara was arrested by the Commission following a petition by an acquaintance who alleged that, sometime in 2014, the defendant tricked him into paying him (defendant) N5m in project financing support towards the execution of a purported contract awarded to him by NEMA, Abuja with the understanding that he will be entitled to N 1,500, 000 as return on investment. He later discovered that the defendant diverted the money to personal use.
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