A Nigerian man, Lawrence Olanrewaju Folawunmi, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja over a US extradition request linked to alleged cybercrime. American authorities accuse...
A Nigerian businessman, Invictus Obi Okeke, has been released from a US prison after serving six years for his involvement in an $11 million fraud scheme. Okeke, 38, was arrested in August 2019 at Dul...
A Chinese national has been jailed in the UK following the country’s largest-ever cryptocurrency seizure, involving bitcoin worth more than £5.5 billion at the time of her conviction. Zhimin Qian, 47,...
The Managing Director of Bonghe Microfinance Bank, Grace Andreas Karka, has been convicted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by Justice Benjamin Lawan Manji of the Adamawa State High Court. Th...
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in collaboration with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has completed the deportation of 192 for...
FORMER Director of Finance and Administration with the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Mr Garuba Duku, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for diverting N318 million belonging to th...
THE United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a reward of up to $10,000 (approximately N14 million) for credible information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nigerian na...
A former legislative aide and banker, Mr Goni Yilkan, has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by an Abuja High Court after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) found him guilty ...
A Nigerian father and his son, including six others, have been charged in Minnesota for allegedly defrauding a state housing programme of millions of dollars intended to support vulnerable residents. ...
THE Lagos State Police Command has thwarted an elaborate plot to stage the installation of a self-acclaimed “Obi of Lagos” and unveil a bogus ₦1.5 billion palace, arresting the alleged mastermind, 65-...
