An attempt by a suspected internet fraudster to disguise as a female to evade arrest has been foiled by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The suspect, Owoseni Gabriel, alongside 32 others was arrested in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state during a sting operation by the operatives.
The Commission’s Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, who confirmed the
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 Election, Atiku Abubakar has declared that despite what the ruling All Progressives Congress would like Nigerians to believe, he did not lose the presidential election.
Atiku said this in an address to outgoing and incoming Governors Elected on the PDP platform, at a reception and award ceremony organised by the PDP Governors Forum, in Abuja, on Thursday.
At the event which was held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Atiku equally advised party members to take stock and unravel the mystery behind how the PDP slipped from being the oldest and dominant political party in 1999 to its present unenviable position.
A Canada-based Yoruba art and culture promoter, Mr Joel Olaniyi Oyatoye, has asked a Lagos High Court to compel Sacked Fraudster Nollywood actress, Mrs Elizabeth Anjorin Lawal, popularly known as ‘Lizzy Anjorin’ to pay him N30 million for alleged defamation
Oyatoye, popularly known as Baba Asa, is the plaintiff in the suit numbered LD/ADR/3481/2021, while Lizzy Anjorin is the sole defendant.
Sarah Sidebottom, 54, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has spoken of her relief after her father Arthur William Bowditch, 73, and her brother, Arthur Stephen Bowditch, 54, was jailed for a total of 32 years.
President Muhammadu Buhari has added an additional week to his stay in London over an appointment with his dentist.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this in a statement on Tuesday.
King Charles III was caught on camera applauding Tiwa Savage’s performance at his coronation concert held on Sunday night .
CityNews Nigeria recalls, the king was officially crowned on Saturday, May 6, followed by a Coronation Concert which took place on Sunday, May 7th 2023.
A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till May 15 and May 16 the continuation in the trial of Oluwafemi Thomas, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Thomas is standing trial alongside a bureau de change operator Kabiru Sidi, on a four counts charge bordering on 2.2 million dollars money laundering.
The are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and were first arraigned in 2016, before Justice Saliu Saidu.
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned a businesswoman, Saadatu Ramallan-Yaro, Director, April 1616 Investment Limited and Amsaymay Limited, both Designated Non-Financial Institutions, on alleged money laundering before Justice Nicholas Oweibo
One of the counts against her reads; “That you, Lizzy Anjorin, sometimes between April, 2022 and December, 2022, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, did fraudulently impersonate one Charlotte Brain, a purported owner of Digitrades.Ltd/Digitrades.Net/Swiss-Earnings/Craystal-Trade investment platform on Telegram and in that assumed character obtained crypto currency worth $592,000.00 from your victims through your bitcoins wallet address-333…. Domiciled with Coinbase, a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22(3)(b) Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention) Act, 2012 and Punishable under the same Act.”
Akure—A 56-year-old ex-Lagos State boxer, Moses Olapade, has given reasons he punched his wife, Atinuke, who later collapsed and went into coma.
A public affairs commentator, Reno Omokri, has called out the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, accusing him of failure to call his followers, known as Obidients, to order.
Omokri said Obi’s supporters have insulted all Nigerian icons, including the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
