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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two brothers and three others in Ibadan, over their alleged connection with internet fraud. This was contained in a statement signed by the commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
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Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, on Thursday, September 4, 2020 sentenced 24-year old undergraduate of University of Ilorin, Salau Olumide to three months of sweeping road and clearing of gutters for internet fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes
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By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has convicted one Timileyin Awojodu, over internet fraud of 2,500USD. The convict, who was docked before Justice Peter Life, was said to have fraudulently obtained the money from his American victim. The Prosecutor from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives have arrested two siblings and 13 others for alleged Internet-related fraud in Ibadan, Oyo State. The Acting Head of Media and Publicity for the EFCC, Tony Orilade, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspects, whose ages ranged from 16 to 48 years, were arrested at
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) Ilorin Zonal Office on Tuesday secured the conviction of Chibueze Meshak and Babatunde Muhammed Bashir before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on offences bordering on internet fraud. The convicts, who were prosecuted on a two count charge, were convicted and
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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, says the agency is planning to rehabilitate young people who are engaged in Internet fraud, popularly known as Yahoo Yahoo boys. Magu stated this in Lagos on Thursday while delivering a paper titled, ‘Strategic change administration and innovation to curb corruption in
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Ola Ajayi – Ibadan The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, yesterday arraigned six alleged internet fraudsters before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Ibadan Judicial Division. The accused persons are Hammed Muftau Adewale, Hammed Adebola Tobiloba, Olagunju Olayiwola Ojo, Adeagbo Adedeji Rasheed Abiodun, Arowojobe Taoreed Oluwaseun and Babatunde Abdulkudus
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The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, says the collaboration between the Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has led to the recovery of the sums of $314,000 and about N373 million from perpetrators of computer-related fraud.
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The Nigerian embassy in Washington DC on Monday condemned the criminal act by 77 Nigerians for alleged fraud in the U. S.
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Three Nigerian youths that posed as foreigners to defraud their supposed foreign lovers, through Internet, have been convicted and sentenced to prison by Justice Fatun Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
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