Crime & Court

Photos: 40 suspected ‘yahoo boys’ nabbed in Port Harcourt

Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested no fewer than…

3 years ago

EFCC secures jail terms for 4 yahoo boys in Ibadan

Justice Sherifat Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court 12, sitting in Ibadan, last Friday, convicted four internet fraudsters of charges bordering on obtaining…

3 years ago

Civil servant bags 28 years jail term over N86.1m contract fraud

A civil servant, Ma’aji Shettima Arfo, has been convicted and sentenced to 28 years imprisonment for engaging in an N86.1…

3 years ago

Cyber fraud: 21-year-old auto mechanic sentenced to six-month community service in Ibadan

Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo High Court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced an internet fraudster, Adebayo Saheed Modebola, to six months community service after…

3 years ago

Army hands over 20 suspected ‘yahoo boys’ to EFCC, recovers cars, phones, hard drugs

Officers of the 12 Field Engineering Regiment of Nigerian Army, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, last  Friday, handed over 20 suspected…

3 years ago

Popular socialite, Obi Cubana in EFCC net

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a socialite, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana.  Obi Cubana,…

3 years ago

Court sentences man to death for murder of two journalists in Iraq

Iraq’s supreme court on Monday sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of two journalists covering anti-government…

3 years ago

Former New York governor, Cuomo charged with sex crime

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo was on Thursday charged with a misdemeanor sex crime for forcible touching, a court…

3 years ago

Several credit card numbers were extracted from Naira Marley’s phone – EFCC witness tells court

Augustine Anosike, a forensic expert with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday gave his testimony in the…

3 years ago

Colombia to extradite drug lord ‘Otoniel’ to US

Colombia’s government announced Sunday it is working towards extraditing the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” to the United States, a…

3 years ago