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Ex-Port Harcourt refinery MD, Ahmed Dikko arraigned, granted bail over ‘money laundering’

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a former Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company…

FULL LIST: Names, crimes of 4,000 Nigerians jailed in U.S. prison from 2016 to 2025

In the past 10 years, a total of 3,968 Nigerians have been convicted and jailed for different crimes in the…

EFCC Arraigns IIHL Boss Over Alleged $1.5m Investment Fraud as Mauritius Suit Seeks 22.4% Shareholding Recognition

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of IIHL over an alleged $1.5 million…

Stanbic IBTC Pension, PenCom, Bank Ordered to Pay Damages Over Delayed Pension Withdrawal

A court has awarded damages against Stanbic IBTC Pension, the National Pension Commission (PenCom), and a bank over alleged delays…

Bukky Olukoga Pleads Guilty in US Case, Loses Multimillion-Dollar Illicit Proceeds

Nigerian businesswoman Bukky Olukoga has pleaded guilty in the United States and agreed to forfeit multimillion-dollar proceeds connected to an…

Anambra Politician Franklin Nwadialu Jailed Five Years in US Over $3.5m Romance Scam

Anambra politician Franklin Nwadialu has been sentenced to five years in a United States prison after being convicted in connection…

NDLEA Begins Trial of Billionaire Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson Over Alleged 322kg Tramadol Possession

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday commenced the trial of billionaire businessman, Chief Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson, alongside…

Former Skye Bank MD Tunde Ayeni re-arraigned over N15.6bn fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, June 22, 2026, re-arraigned prominent businessman Tunde Ayeni, former Chairman of the…

EFCC Arrests Travel Firm CEO Chukwujindu Nchekwube Over Alleged N68m Visa Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the CEO of Goodben Global Travels and Tour, Chukwujindu Goodness Nchekwube, and…

Nigerian officials are notorious for forging documents, USCIS tells court

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has told a federal court that concerns about Nigerian documents being unreliable and public…

UK Sanctions Pilot Finance for Ties to Russian Network

The UK government on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Nigerian financial services and investment company, Pilot Finance Limited, and other…

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Shooting of innocent motorists will attract severe punishment -Abia CP warns Policemen

The new Commissioner of Police in Abia State, Wilfred Olatokunbo Afolabi has warned that any officer who unjustifiably shoots a…

Police arrest 56-yr-old suspect for alleged distribution of illicit drugs in Delta community

Operatives of Delta State Police Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit, VCRU, have arrested a 56-year old suspect, Lucky Oyiboka for…

Niger: Police arrest 20-year-old over alleged midnight attack, attempted kidnap of two women

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old man, Tukur Bello, over an alleged midnight invasion of a residence…

Bauchi Police begin crackdown on traffic offenders

The Bauchi State Police Command has launched a statewide enforcement operation targeting motorists and other road users who violate traffic…

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AMCON Takes Legal Action Against Caronc Investments MD Christopher Alabi for Unpaid Debt

The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON has sued Christopher Alabi, the group chairman of Caronc Investments Limited and five…

How Cardoso’s Women Turned CBN into a Dressing Table

Trouble Looms as External Force Seizes Control of Banking Regulator’s Boardroom · A Bank Held Hostage: Consultants Earn More than…

Audit Scandal Forces PwC Out Of Nine African Countries

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s leading professional services firms, has shut down operations in nine Sub-Saharan African countries as…

How SunTrust Bank MD, Halima Buba ‘swapped $12m’ for Achimugu in 10 days

The First Prosecution Witness, PW1, in the trial of Halima Buba and Innocent Mbagwu on Thursday, July 17, 2025 narrated…

Court orders UBA to pay Kogi ex–deputy gov N1.07b

The National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja has ordered United Bank for Africa, UBA bank, to pay a total of…

Six OPay top executives risk jail over alleged disobedience to Court orders

Union Bank has filed a committal proceeding application before a Federal High Court in Lagos, against six top executive officers…

BUA Rice Relaunch Faces Controversy Over Market Control, Scholarship, Nepotism Allegations

The relaunch of BUA Rice has sparked public debate following allegations and concerns surrounding market control, scholarship claims and accusations…

Otudeko, Bisi Onasanya’s ‘shady deals’ that almost recked First Bank

Fresh details have emerged over the un-ending crises rocking Nigerian lender, First Bank of Nigeria Limited and its parent company, FBN…

U.S. Secret Service seizes $1.5m linked to fraudster Avwerosuo Omokri’s Binance crypto account

The U.S. Secret Service seized $1.5 million from the Binance wallet of Nigerian serial fraudster Avwerosuo Omokri after numerous complaints…

Mamuda Beverages dragged to court for trademark infringement with POP Power Energy Drink

Mamuda Beverages Limited a Kano-based beverage company, has been dragged to court again with its Pop Energy drink, for allegedly…

Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, ex-NNPC staff charged with $2.1m bribery in U.S.

Former employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Paulinus Okoronkwo, now risks a maximum of 25 years’ imprisonment for…

Chimamanda Adichie sues Euracare hospital over son’s death

Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie has served Euracare Hospital in Lagos with a legal notice alleging medical negligence and professional…

Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock sentenced to 500 months in jail

Aimee Bock has been sentenced to 500 months in prison for her lead role in a $250 million fraud scheme…

Unity Bank Is Diverting Electricity Bill Payment In Its Account And Paying N100 Million To Government Official Monthly As Cover Up – ALSTDI

ALSTDI alleges that Unity Bank diverted electricity bill payments and paid N100 million monthly to a government official as a…

Union Bank Ordered to Pay Damages in Pension Lawsuit

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, ordered the temporary freezing of 21 bank accounts domiciled in some commercial…

Disgraced CEO Mustapha Mohammed of MB Lugga Global Travels and Tours Faces Court Over Shameful N144m Fraud Scandal

The Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Mustapha Mohammed, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…

List of Access Bank Accounts Linked to Simon Ekpa for Terrorist Financing

Facts have emerged on how the self-styled leader of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), Simon Ekpa, used Access…

LEAKED VIDEO: Fidelity Bank MD Onyeali-Ikpe Confesses To Paying ₦5Billion To Avoid Police Detention Amid Over ₦19Billion Fraud Probe

The Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Dr. Nneka C. Onyeali-Ikpe, has allegedly confessed to paying N5 billion to secure…

Travevo Travels Drags SFPL MD, Alexander Anyanwu To Court Over Alleged N41M Visa Fraud

A Lagos-based travel and migration agency, Travevo Consulting Limited, has dragged Smart Flights Partners Limited (SFPL) and its managing director,…

OPay customers panic as FG places fintech firm under scrutiny

Thousands of Nigerians who are customers of fintech platform OPay Digital Services Limited have been thrown into anxiety following reports…