Crime & Metro

Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arraigned a company, Quintessential Investment Company Limited, before Justice Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. According to the Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Mr. Dele Oyewale, the company is being prosecuted on a two-count…

Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arraigned a Ponzi scheme operator, Adonu Kingsley Ifeanyi, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. According to the Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Mr. Dele Oyewale, Adonu was arraigned on a five…

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos adjourned till September 26, 2025, for further hearing in the case involving a music promoter, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu ThankGod, also known as Eezee Tee. According to the Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Dele Oyewale, ThankGod, alongside his company, Eezee…

Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, issued a warrant for the arrest of one Ayodele Toyosi, promoter of Reaprite Global Limited and Agrorite Limited, for failing to appear in court for his trial. According to the Head, Media and…

Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, handed over 753 units of houses recovered by the Commission at Plot 109 Cadastral Zone C09, Lokogoma District, Abuja to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. According to the Head, Media…

Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Awolowo on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, arraigned the duo of Kehinde Odeyemi and Matthew Adeniyi Damilola, who are both employees of Premium Trust Bank, before Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. According…

Justice O. A. Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, convicted and sentenced one Ajanaku Oluwatomilola to three years imprisonment for N14.5m fraud. The convict was re-arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 14, 2024, on…

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kano Zonal Directorate, has arraigned one Abubakar Iliyasu Saminu before Justice Nasiru Saminu of the Kano State High Court on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining the sum of N31m by false pretence. According to the Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Mr. Dele Oyewale,…

Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, on a one-count charge bordering on alleged cybercrime to the tune of N2.4m, before Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. According…

Stanley Ihedigbo Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman attempting to traffic cocaine at Port Harcourt International Airport. The suspect, Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi who was disguised with hijab to export large consignments of cocaine allegedly concealed the illicit substance in her private parts, stomach,…