CRIME

By Nwafor Sunday The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has arrested thirteen Nigerians, over alleged $30 million money laundering scheme in the United States. Disclosing this in a statement obtained by Thecable, the US department […]

Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the last Senate, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr Sani was arrested for allegedly collecting money in […]

Fresh facts on how the Hungarian wife of Gildas Tohouo, Managing Director of Maersk Nigeria Limited, Bernadette, was murdered by two men who invaded their Ikoyi, Lagos abode, last Sunday, have emerged. This followed revelation […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested two prison officials for giving exaggerated medical reports that warranted jailed internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, being given a referral to be treated […]

The United States department of justice has indicted Allen Onyema, Air Peace chief executive officer, in bank fraud and money laundering. In a statement on Friday, US authorities said Onyema moved more than $20 million from Nigeria […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) said it has observed that some civil servants convicted of fraud return to their former position. The Chairman of ICPC, Bolaji Owasanoye, said this Tuesday […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed off the Kaduna residence of one Emmanuel Oluwatosin, declared wanted by the FBI. Two Mercedes-Benz cars (Models C550e and C450) were found at Oluwatosin’s house located […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has uncovered how a jailed fraudster masterminded an internet scam worth $100 million from prison. The suspected fraudster is Hope Olusegun Aroke, a convicted internet scammer who is […]

Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says the arrest of Ismaila Mustapha better known as Mompha and Hamza Koudeih, his associate, is a landmark achievement. Mompha was arrested in […]

The Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has described the recent arrest of an internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha and his Lebanese accomplice, Hamza Koudeih, as a landmark achievement in the […]

US Federal prosecutors said an Atlanta, Georgia-based Nigerian, Olufolajimi Abegunde has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for his role in an internet fraud scheme that stole an estimated $15m through computer […]

A 27-year-old Nigerian, Segun Prosper Otaru, who lived in St. Robert, Missouri, United States has been sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison without parole. According to US Department of Justice statement, […]

Nigerian Jessica Edosomwan was listed on Friday by Europol among 18 most wanted female fugitives. Jessica, who is 26 years-old is wanted by French authorities. She is alleged to have been part of a gang […]

Modernity encompasses improved, innovative, and recent changes that occur in society, as opposed to technological atrophy. Not to be confused with the word is the art movement known as modernism, which falls outside the range […]

A Nigerian Olumide Ogunremi who lived in the Newark area of the United States helped run a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that ordered about $1 million in office products after stealing personal information […]

In what appears to be a massive crackdown on internet fraudsters countrywide, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested no fewer than 53 suspects in Lagos, Abuja and Enugu. All the arrests were […]

Two separate but similar reports that left me lost in the maze of high voltage confusion in the past few weeks or thereabout are; the FBI’s release of the names of eighty suspects involved in […]