A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Wednesday, sentenced a social media influencer, Murja Ibrahim Kunya, to six months in jail for abuse of the naira. The Kano Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arrested Kunya for allegedly spraying naira notes for fun during her stay in a hotel room…
The Court of Appeal in Calabar, on Wednesday, affirmed the conviction of Prof. Peter Ogban, a university lecturer who was jailed in 2021 for rigging a senatorial election in Akwa Ibom State. Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar and a returning officer in the 2019 general elections in Akwa Ibom…
The police on Thursday arraigned a Lagos-based legal practitioner, Chinwe Onuoha, and a company, Eihcrim Nigeria Limited, for allegedly presenting a false document to defraud the Bank of Industry. He was thereafter sent to jail until the next adjourned date. He and his company were arraigned before an Ikeja High Court on a 12-count charge…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of Ugenyi Kalu, a former banker, for fraud. The Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, sentenced Kalu to four years and two months in prison. The ruling was delivered by trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi. Kalu, who served as the Head of the…
Dr. Orok Ita A Federal High Court, sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, presided over by Justice Rosemary Oghogho-rie has convicted and sentenced Dr. Geraldine Orok Ita to prison for fraud. Ita was prosecuted by the Uyo Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on a twelve-count charge, bordering on forgery and diversion…
The family of Sunday Morakinyo, one of the Osun indigenes involved in the infamous ‘death-for-fowl’ case, has appealed to the government and well-meaning individuals for assistance in addressing the mental illness he has been battling. According to the family, Morakinyo was in good and stable condition before his arrest by the police in November 2010…
