A court of appeal sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has upheld the withdrawal of the Bachelors’ degree certificate of former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, by the Abia State University. The presiding judge, Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie, on Tuesday, thereby, nullified the judgement of a high court in Isikwuato, Abia State ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Abdulrasheed Maina, the former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team to eight years imprisonment. Maina was convicted after he was found guilty of money laundering. In a judgement delivered on Monday by Justice Okon Abang, the court held that the prosecutor, the Economic and Financial ...

The trial of a couple, Oladeji and Omotayo Henry, alongside their company, Built Global Concepts, for an alleged N555M cryptocurrency fraud will continue on 13 December in Lagos. Justice Mojisola Dada of the Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos adjourned proceedings after another witness presented by the EFCC gave evidence. The EFCC on 4 March 2020, ...

Justice Lifu, after listening to the argument of the EFCC counsel, Chineye Okezie, held that the application was meritorious and subsequently ordered the interim forfeiture of the houses and vehicles.

According to USAO, they are being tried for stealing more than €2.54 million from the New York State Early Intervention Program (the “EIP”), including more than €841751.21 from Medicaid and more than €1693674.63 from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“NYC DOHMH”), an agency that receives federal funds.

A report by Premium Times indicates the United States government has gathered over 2,700 electronic files as part of the evidence for trial in the €0.93million fraud case involving a top Nigerian police officer, Abba Kyari. The newspaper cited a court document which it said also shows other sets of investigative reports and “new discoveries” ...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, AbdulRasheed Bawa was at the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Tuesday for the trial of an oil marketer, Abubakar Ali Peters over an alleged N761m fuel subsidy. Bawa is the star witness in the case of Abubakar who is being tried by the EFCC alongside ...

He asserted that this would eradicate instances of cloned identification being submitted to the CAC.

Cryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and others, that can be used to buy goods and services.

A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court has discharged and acquitted the immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul Usoro, of the N4.2billion fraud charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Judge, Rilwan Aikawa, held that the anti graft agency failed to establish any prima facie ...