Investigations
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Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High court sitting in Lagos, today November 1, 2019, remanded the Managing Director of 606 Autos Limited, Sarumi Samusideen Babafemi in Ikoyi Prison. Babafemi was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC alongside three of his companies; 606 Autos Limited, 606 Music Limited and Splash Off Entertainment […]
MTN Nigeria Communication Limited has filed a 9,100-page document in court to prove its N3bn claim against the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. Copies of the bulky document were brought in a coaster bus and delivered to the registry of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday. The telecommunications firm had last […]
The trial of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose on charges of fraud and money laundering continued today at the Federal High Court, Lagos with the testimony of a second prosecution witness, a former Executive staff of Zenith Bank Plc, Sunday Oluseye Alade. The witness told Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke that it took the […]
About three months after his re-arraignment, the trial of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has resumed at the Federal High Court, Lagos with the testimony of the first prosecution witness. Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering. The first witness, Mr Lawrence Akande, […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday 21st of October 2019, ordered the interim forfeiture of two properties located at Ikoyi area of Lagos state belonging to the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
A witness, Patrick Obilo has revealed how two Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) officials tried to prevent an auditor from carrying out a financial audit of JAMB Makurdi zonal office by offering him a bribe. Obilo told the court that the officials involved – Samuel Saleh Umoru, Chief accounting officer of the Zonal Office […]
The Senate has directed its committees on Petroleum, Finance, and Judiciary to investigate the reasons for the failure to review the provisions of the Production Sharing Contract Act which has cost Nigeria about 7trillion Naira over a period of 20 years. The Committees are to identify the best fiscal regime for the production sharing contracts […]
The Senate has moved to invite the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and other stakeholders to brief the relevant Senate committees on the award of 9.6 billion dollars by a U.K. court to P&ID. Mr. Malami is to explain to the Senate, what the Federal Government’s team is doing […]
Former Germany and Real Madrid footballer Christoph Metzelder, 38, is under investigation for allegedly sharing child pornography via the messenging service WhatsApp, German prosecutors confirmed Wednesday “We can confirm an investigation against Christoph Metzelder on suspicion of sharing child pornography, including digital images,” a spokeswoman for the Hamburg prosecutor’s office, Liddy Oechtering, told AFP. […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has requested a Federal High Court, Abuja, to order the interim forfeiture of N840 million traced to a retired President of the Benue State Customary Court of Appeal, Mrs. Margaret Igbeta. The Commission, in an ex-parte motion filed at the court, said that the order […]
