LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, is again the subject of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for being the alleged mastermind of a mega scam to the tune of over $1 million. Aroke allegedly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The EFCC, Lagos Zonal Workplace, has uncovered that Hope Olusegun Aroke aka H-Cash, a convicted web fraudster presently serving a 24 years jail time period, continues to be in energetic communication with different excessive valued targets which can be presently being investigated by the Fee for numerous offences regarding pc fraud and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday disclosed that Imo State has recorded the highest number of cybercrimes in the South-East geo-political Region. The commission also declared that it has convicted over 90 suspects for various financial crimes within the South East this year alone. Regional Commander of the EFCC in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohammed Bello Adoke, a former Nigerian attorney-general, has been held in Dubai by Interpol. People familiar with the development said Mr Adoke was arrested shortly after arriving in Dubai on November 11. He had travelled there for medical evaluation after a court warrant for his arrest was vacated in October. Justice D….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer, Mr. Christopher Adejoh, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) demanding the sum of N100 million as damages. Christopher, a College of Education lecturer, in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1950/19, filed by his lawyer, Prince Chijioke Chinewubeze,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has accused Western Union of defrauding Nigerians. Magu also said fear of the EFCC has curbed the waste of public funds and expensive lifestyles by public officers and Nigerians living abroad. “We have been able to curb excesses of Nigerians…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was on Thursday wheeled into a Federal High Court in Abuja. Maina is in court for the hearing of his bail application. This is following his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N2 billion fraud. Maina was on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The next set of people on the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are medical doctors who connive with suspected criminals to issue fake medical reports. This is according to the acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, during a briefing in Abuja. He explained that the antigraft agency is…