Category: Metro
NEXIM bank staff, Ugenyi Kalu bags 4-year jail term for fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of a banker, Ugenyi Kalu, who was sentenced to four years in prison [...]
How Peter Akpanke, Philip Agbese, House of Reps members, others demanded $150m bribe me – Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan reveals
Formerly incarcerated Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan has opened up about his ordeal in Nigerian custody.
In January 2024, Gamba [...]
Nuhu Ribadu wanted me to fund his political ambition, demanded billions from me – Binance executive, Gambaryan
Former Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Binance, Tigran Gambaryan, has accused Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, of demandin [...]
3 unruly passengers onboard Air Peace flight arrested by security agents
Security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday, 12th February 2025, apprehended three unruly passengers aboard [...]
Andy Uba, 2 others to stand trial for orchestrating a N400m grand deception
The Federal High Court in Abuja has sounded the gavel, fixing March 5 as the day of reckoning for Andy Uba, a former senator of Anambra South, who now [...]
FCMB dragged to court for refusing to pay $60,000 commission to businessman, Michael Ogbole
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Osborne, Ikoyi, has adjourned the hearing of a Case Management Conference (CMC) till March 26, 2025, in a suit [...]
Businessman Abdulrahman Bashar sent to jail on Dubai for fraud
Abdulrahman Bashar, owner of Rahmaniya Group and Ultimate Oil & Gas has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by a Dubai court for finan [...]
Police drop charges of N1.3bn fraud against Gbolahan Obanikoro, Adejare Adegbenro, others
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dropped all charges of N1.3 billion fraud levelled against Gbolahan Obanikoro the son of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro [...]
Zenith Care’s fraudulent act in USAID project forces Chemonics to pay US govt $3.1m in fine
An American company known as Chemonics International Incorporated has agreed to pay a $3.1 million fine to the government of the United St [...]
FG orders final forfeiture of about N2bn stolen from ex FirstBank employee, Muiz Tijani Adeyinka to FG
The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N1,168,602,877.44, $392,818.01 and £35,070 recovered from Muiz T [...]