Two suspected internet fraudsters (popularly Yahoo Boys) with a link to singer and rapper, John Njeng Njeng a.k.a Skales. CONVERSEER learned that the suspects, Chukwuemeka (a.k.a Jody) and Jamal Jamiu Onasola (a.k.a. Jamal) were arrested at the residence of Skales at House F10, Victoria Crest 4, Lekki, Lagos. They were arrested by Operatives of the Lagos Command of…
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Transparency and Anti-Corruption Campaign in Africa (TACCA) has called on President Tinubu to restraint from appointing Olukayode Olanipekun as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). TACCA made this known in a statement signed by the Country Director of TACCA, Idahosa Osamhanze on Monday (Oct. 9) and made…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, October 6, 2023, continued the trial of one Wilson Daphey (a.k.a Jeffrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on 9-count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated and obtained the sum of £130,000 (One…
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, October 6, 2023, arrested 48 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys in Asaba, Delta State. The names of the suspects are Chinonso Nnemeka, Chidenbere Ekwealor, Emeka Joseph, Emmanuel Onyeka Onyeukwu, Solomon Omojewe, Miracle Ogonnaya, Pius Innocent,…
Justice Malami Dogondaji of the Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced Ahmad Abubakar Ahmad, a Fake Bureau De Change Operator (also known as Black Marketer) to 87 years imprisonment, for criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N325,800,000 (Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Naira)….
…saved by car airbag after car somersaulted three times. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Secretary, Dr George Abang Ekpungu and his wife, Mrs Aggie Abang Ekpungu have escaped death. CONVERSEER learned that Ekpungu and his wife were bashed by another vehicle on Saturday, May 20, 2023, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. According…
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Calabar Municipal State Constituency in the 2023 general election, Mr Stanley Nsemo has been arrested for suspicion of vote buying. CONVERSEER gathered that Nsemo, who is vying for the seat of Calabar Municipality State Constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly was arrested…
