An Engineer, Five Others Jailed for Internet Fraud in Ilorin, Kwara State

An Engineer, Five Others Jailed for Internet Fraud in Ilorin, Kwara State Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 sentenced a Civil Engineer, Abeeb Uthman Jasola to six months imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of crime. Jasola was prosecuted alongside Oladimeji Abubakar Oseni and Victor Anuoluwapo Kayode by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on separate charges, to which they pleaded guilty. Three other internet fraudsters: Parakoyi Raihan Tobiloba, Morenikeji Mazeed Ayomide and Solihu Abubakar Sodiq were also jailed, while…

Fraud: EFCC Threatens To Involve Military In Yahaya Bello’s Arrest

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and bring him before the Federal High Court Abuja for arraignment to answer to the charges preferred against him. This came on the heels of Bello’s counsel, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN, refusing to be served in the place of his client who is on the run from the EFCC. The anti-graft agency, while addressing a Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday through its team of lawyers led by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, stressed that operatives would execute the arrest warrant against the former…