A chief magistrate’s court on Tuesday ordered that a former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Idris Wada-Saleh, be remanded in Kano State Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission(PCACC) Custody over alleged N1 billion fraud. The defendant, a commissioner to former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, is charged with giving false information and cheating. Chief Magistrate Tijjani Sale-Minjibir ordered the defendant’s remand in …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, arraigned one Wilson Daphey (aka Jefrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on a nine-count charge bordering on obtaining money under pretense and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated and obtained the sum of £120,150 from one Ms Petra Goschenhofer with the assistance of Evans Nnamdi …

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of a woman identified as Oluwayemisi Samuel, and her son, Joshua, before the Kaduna State High Court on separate count charges, each bordering on false information. In a statement on Wednesday, EFCC said that Oluwayemisi and Joshua squandered N5.6 million on sports betting and …

A 28-year-old man, Ekene Itodo, who allegedly obtained N1.2 million from three people under false pretences of securing jobs for them, on Thursday appeared at an Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Itodo is standing trial on five counts bordering on conspiracy, fraud and breach of peace. He, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Assistant …