January–July 2025: OPay caught in web of fraud allegations and legal controversies
OPay, one of Nigeria’s most prominent fintech platforms, is under increasing public and regulatory scrutiny following a series of fraud-related...
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NAHCON Chairman In EFCC Net Over Alleged N50b Hajj Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an investigation into Prof. Saleh Abdullahi Usman, the Chairman...
Law School Graduates Petition EFCC, Accuse ICMC , MTI Institutes Of Training Fraud
Some law graduates, who passed out from the Nigerian Law School during the 2024/2025 academic session, have petitioned...
Alleged $4.5b fraud: Emefiele Gets Court’s Nod For Phone’s Forensic Examination
Justice Rahman Oshodi of an Ikeja Special Offences Court yesterday granted the application of former Central Bank of...
$7.2bn Alleged Fraud: EFCC Grants Ex NNPC GMD Mele Kyari Bail
The economic and financial crimes commission has granted administrative bail to the former group chief executive officer of...
EFCC Drills Sujimoto CEO Over Alleged N5.7bn Fraud, Freezes Accounts, Seizes Passport
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, September 8, grilled real estate magnate and Chief Executive...
30 Years Nigerian Pleads Guilty To Wired Fraud In USA
James Junior Aliyu, a 30-year-old Nigerian national residing in South Africa at the time of his criminal conduct,...
Nigerian Businessman Oluwasegun Elusoji Denies Fraud Allegations, Insists He Is Not a Fugitive
Legal representatives of U.S.-based Nigerian Information Security Engineer, Mr. Oluwasegun Rolland Elusoji, have issued a strong rebuttal to recent police...
PASSEC Uncovers Forgery, Fraud under ASSBIFI President, Petitions Labour Minister
The Pan-African Society for Social and Economic Change (PASSEC) has formally appealed to the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment,...
FG Drops N60bn Fraud Charges Against ex-AMCON MD
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, has struck out a N60bn...
Security Lapses Exposed As Sterling Bank Admits Error In Fraud-Linked Account Opening
Sterling Bank Plc has attributed the controversial opening of a bank account in the name of a Lagos resident, who...
From Fraud to Freezes: OPay Faces Mounting Legal Woes and Credibility Crisis
OPay, one of Nigeria’s most prominent fintech platforms, is under increasing public and regulatory scrutiny following a series of fraud-related...
Alleged $1.04m Fraud: Court Refuses Ajudua Fresh Bail application
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday, refused the fresh bail application by Fred...
Alleged N10bn Fraud: Court Grants Ponzi Scheme Operator in Lagos ₦50 Million Bail
The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, presided over by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, granted...
Top MTN Partner, Kingsley Adonu Risks Jail Term Over Alleged ₦10Billion Fraud Charges
A prominent telecommunications entrepreneur and a leading partner of MTN Nigeria from Enugu State, Kingsley Ifeanyi Adonu, is set...
“Sun Trust Bank” Top Executives Arraigned By The EFCC Over Alleged $12m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, June 13, 2025 arraigned the duo of Halima Buba and Innocent...
Court Jails Four for Internet Fraud in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 26, 2025, secured...
N95m Fraud: Moniepoint, Kuda, Opay other CEOs risk prison for defying court orders
PRO International Concept Ltd. has filed an application at the Federal High Court in Lagos seeking to commit the managing...
CEOs of Moniepoint, Kuda, Opay May Face Prison Time Over N95m Fraud Allegations
We reports that Nigerian company, PRO International Concept Ltd. has filed an application at the Federal High Court in Lagos...
Court Arraigns FCMB, Yemisi Edun, Others Over Alleged Mortgage Fraud Scheme
A Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Tuesday arraigned First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and three other defendants...
Fraud At Brila FM Latest: Babafemi Raji’s Subterfuge Apology Condemned
Followers of the multi-million-naira fraud and cyberbullying cases involving some former staff members of Brila FM, particularly Mr Babafemi Raji,...
Alleged N33.8bn Fraud: Mamman Paid me N200M in Dollars for Abuja Property-Witness Tells Court
The Fourteenth Prosecution Witness, PW14, Mohammed Ashelk Jidda in the trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman on Wednesday,...
Alleged N4bn Fraud: How the Sum of N860m paid into My Account without Binding for any contract by Anambra State Government – Witness
The Tenth Prosecuting Witness, PW10, Udochukwu Okparache, in the ongoing trial of former Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano on...
Alleged N80.2bn Fraud: Court Admits American int’l school’s Account Statement over Yahaya Bello’s Trial
The N80.2bn fraud trial of the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, continued on Monday at the Federal...
Court Jails Multi-Purpose Cooperative CEO, Uno Eke For N2bn Fraud
The Chief Executive Officer of Micheno Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, Uno Eke, has been sentenced to one year in prison for...
Fraud at Brila FM: Another Suspect Babafemi Raji aka Topmost Striker, Arrested
The last has not been heard about the bursted Multi-Million Naira scam involving some ex-staffers of the Brila...
EFCC Freezes 67 Bank Accounts Over N52.9m VFD Microfinance Bank Fraud
A customer of VFD Microfinance Bank Limited, Advance Development Services Engineering Limited, has lost N52.9 million to fraud, the Publisher...
