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    Politics PDP Criticizes 2016 Budget of President Buhari

    Opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the N6.8 trillion 2016 federal budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, December 22 as a big fraud and executive conspiracy tailored towards mortgaging the future of the nation. The party, in a statement queried...
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    Metro Court's Registrar Jailed 10 Years for Defrauding Ex-Army Chief, Bamaiyi of $330,000

    Lateef Lawal-Akapo, justice of an Ikeja high court on Monday sentenced a court registrar, Oluronke Rosolu, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding Ishaya Bamaiyi, a former chief of army staff, of $330,000. Rosolu was convicted on all the two counts charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by...
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    Metro Massive Fraud in Nigeria Over Rice Importation Scheme [Premuim Times]

    Premium Times reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2014 disclosed that Nigeria spent an average of N800 Billion annually on the importation of rice. Unofficial import receipts through the Cotonou corridor was not captured in the CBN figure. But the business of importing rice, a...
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    Metro Arms Deal: See Photos of Officers That Allegedly Mismanaged And Looted $2.1bn

    Here are the pictures of those that mismanaged and looted the $2.1billion meant for arms and ammunition for the Nigerian Soldiers to battle insurgents in the country. They were arraigned together with the former National Security Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Abuja court...
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    Metro Court Grants AIT Boss, Dokpesi N200m Bail

    Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications Plc, bail in the sum N200m and two sureties in like sum. According to the judge, one of sureties must be a director in the civil service while the defendant must deposit...
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    Politics Dasuki, Others Plead Not Guilty to Criminal Charges

    The former National Security Adviser, (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki, a Director of Finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu and Aminu Baba Kusa have entered a not guilty plea to 19 count charges of stealing, criminal breach of trust, misappropriation, conspiracy and diversion of public...
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    Politics Arms Deal: PDP Leaders Panic As FG Digs Deeper Into The Scandal [NewTelegraph]

    The arrest of some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed the former ruling party in a panic mode. Many prominent leaders of the party, New Telegraph learnt, have become apprehensive that anyone could be...
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    Metro 70-Year-Old Man Docked For Defrauding Step-son in Lagos

    A 70-year-old man, Muyili Akande has been arrested and arraigned before Isolo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding his brother’s son, Samson Akande to the tune of N1.3m in Lagos State. Muyili allegedly sold a property belonging to samson’s late father and deceived Samson that he kept the...
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    Metro WAEC Withholds Over 100,000 Results Over Alleged Exams Malpractice

    The Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said that they are withholding result of 118,101 candidates over allegations of examination malpractice. it was reported by Daily Sun that the candidates were found copying from textbooks, use of mobile...
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    Metro I Ran N2bn Illegal Accounts For Ex-Pension Boss, Maina - Female Banker

    A female banker has told detectives how she ran five accounts used to perpetrate a N2bilion pension fraud in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. Former Pension Reform Task Team chief Abdulrasheed Maina is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
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    Politics List of Prominent Nigerians On EFCC Watch

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recently woken up from its slumber and started the prosecution of some prominent Nigerians for alleged fraud, illegal contract awards, mismanagement and financial impropriety. Here are some of the Most Prominent Nigerians on the EFCC...
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    Metro Court Jails 3 'Yahoo Boys' Over N1m Theft in Lagos

    An Ikeja High Court has jailed three internet fraudsters popularly called ‘Yahoo Yahoo Boys’. They are Ihechi Charles Okeke (alias Owolabi Sunday Sunny), Mayowa Afolabi Adigun and Etop Udeme Smith. They were accused of stealing 1million Naira belonging to one Osunkoya Mary in Lagos, Daily post...
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    Metro Nigeria Lost N6.2 Bn to Cyber Crimes In 2014

    In 2014, Nigeria lost about 6.2 billion to cyber crimes, according to an official. Ibrahim Shazali, an official of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Bank Section disclosed this at the ongoing Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) workshop for financial journalists in...
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