The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified Izunna Okonkwo, the Pastel tech start-up co-founder who made the Forbes 30-under-30 list in 2023, as a person of interest and co-conspirator in an insider trading and money laundering scheme that generated $41 million (approximately N59.5 billion) in illegal profit over five years. According to Peoples Gazette,…
Opute (R), with Divido Authorities in the United States have arrested a Nigerian Afrobeats entertainer after he was indicted by a grand jury that examined his criminal activities on the Internet, documents obtained by Peoples Gazette said. Chinedu Opute recorded several songs in the late aughts through at least 2013 with another Nigerian thespian, David…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have jointly requested a 90-day extension to produce documents related to an alleged drug probe involving President Bola Tinubu dating back to the 1990s. The request was submitted on Thursday through a joint status report in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…
Three Nigerians have allegedly been arrested by FBI agents operating in Ghana for kidnapping an American woman and demanding a ransom of $150,000 from her family. This was revealed in a statement made by a lady in a post currently trending on the popular social media platform, X (formerly Twitter). In the post, the woman…
