Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, on Friday declared that one of the cardinal direction of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode led administration is to invest in capacity development of government officials who are major stakeholders in articulating his plans, programmes and policies for the development of the state. Ayorinde said that Ambode is…
A final year student of the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu, Muonwuba Valentine, has bagged a two-year imprisonment for conspiracy, uttering, impersonation and attempting to steal. Valentine was brought before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside one Frank Joseph, who also committed the same offence. The trial judge,…
A former staff of the defunct All States Trust Bank, Adonye Roberts, on June 17, 2016 told a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gudu, Abuja, that a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, illegally operated an account with the bank in the name of Ebenezer Retnan Ventures, ERV, with the aim of concealing…
An internet fraudster also called Yahoo Boy has been sentenced by Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Justice H.A. Nganjiwa, on Friday, sentenced the fraudster, Frank Emem, to 10 years imprisonment for internet-related offenses. The judge found him guilty of two-count of obtaining money by false pretences brought against him by the…
The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Waziri Adio, has expressed the readiness of his agency to collaborate with the EFCC, in tackling corruption in the Nigeria by reporting serious infractions that violate the country’s constitution. Adio made this disclosure on Friday, June 17, 2016 during a courtesy visit to the acting Chairman…
Justice Fatun Riman of a Federal High Court, Kano, on June 9, 2016, granted the application of the EFCC, to try a former Skye Bank staff, Yagana Bukar, in absentia. Bukar was arraigned by the EFCC on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering. The accused was first brought before the court in October 2013…