The National Judicial Council (NJC) has raised the alarm over repeated attempts by some fraudsters to defraud retired judicial officers of their pensions. The council claimed that the fraudsters had been bombarding retired judges with phone calls demanding various sums of money to help them fast-track the payment of their retirement benefits. In a statement on Sunday, the NJC Director …

The Chief Justice of Ogun State, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, on Wednesday, lamented the way touts and fraudsters posed as bondsmen and presented fake documents to stand sureties for defendants facing trials in the state. Justice Dipeolu disclosed that these sharp practices and corruption encouraged perversion of the cause of justice with many defendants jumping bail and evading arrests since what …

The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday paraded some suspected drug and food fraudsters. In a statement on Friday, the agency’s Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye said one Mr. Okeke Francis of No. 28 Otigba Crescent, G.R.A. Onitsha, Anambra State, was arrested with expired G-Man organic energy drink in Onitsha, Anambra State. She said: …

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of 2 fraudsters, Aso Morrison and Frank Biobarakuma. The suspects were first arraigned sometime in March 2013, before Justice B. Georgewill of Rivers State High Court on a 17-count charge of conspiracy, forgery, and obtaining by false pretence. They were convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment each this month. …