The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a billionaire, Hyginus Nkwocha, for alleged internet fraud and money laundering in Abuja. The EFCC’s Head of...
The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentence of the proprietor of Uyo Cybercrime Training Centre,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 34 persons, including four brothers for alleged internet fraud in Enugu State. The EFCC’s Head of Media...
Justice A.A Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna, on Wednesday, November 30, 2023, convicted and sentenced a fake United States military officer,...
A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) crypto trader, Lawrence Success Karinate has been convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for computer related fraud. According to...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arrested 56 suspected internet fraudsters in Rivers State. The commission’s Head of Media and Publicity,...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 19 students of Akwa Ibom State University for alleged internet-related offences. This was disclosed on...
A professional footballer, Jacob Wisdom Chukwuemeka, was on Monday, October 4, 2022 convicted and sentenced to six years imprisonment, for offences bordering on internet fraud and...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Enugu Zonal Command on Tuesday arrested 45 suspected internet fraudsters from different locations at Trans Ekulu, Enugu....
A wire fraud suspect, Fatade Idowu Olamilekan on the wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation )FBI) was on Thursday July 14, 2022, extradited to...
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 92 suspected internet fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) in a...
Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin- City on Thursday, convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters: Eghaghe Etinosa and Osaretin Kelly...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal Command, have arrested eight suspects for alleged involvement in computer-related fraud. The suspects are: Okoha...
A court in the Northern District of Oklahoma, United States, has sentenced a 36-year-old Nigerian, Afeez Adebara, to four years in prison for internet fraud. Adebara...
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Wednesday sentenced two students to one year imprisonment each for internet fraud. The convicts –...
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned five suspects before Justice Hannatu A.L Balogun of the Kaduna State...
Justice F. A. Olubanjo of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State on Thursday July 22, convicted and sentenced Gift Kenneth, Dora Animam and...
A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has sentenced twelve students arrested for Internet fraud to two years’ imprisonment. The students were arraigned before Justice I.M....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos Zonal Office, has commenced investigation into an alleged case of conspiracy, computer-related fraud, obtaining by false pretense and...
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested two siblings for their alleged involvement in internet fraud. The...
Justice E.A Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced Chibueze Okenwa (a.k.a Rodriguz), a fake United States...
A lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Abdullahi Opashola, and twin brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo, on Thursday, were convicted by Justice...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have apprehended nineteen suspects allegedly involved in internet and related criminal activities. They were reportedly arrested at...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 16 young men in Lekki, a cosmopolitan area in the state, for allegedly engaging in internet fraud,...
The Osun State Police Command has arrested one Musa Mohammed Musa, a 400 level student of the Political Science Department of Oduduwa University, Ipetu Modu, Osun...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos zonal office, have arrested 10 persons for their alleged involvement in internet fraud. The suspects are...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested three suspected internet fraudsters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The trio were arrested by the...
Operatives of the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 15 suspected internet fraudsters in the Lekki area of Lagos...
Operatives of the Port Harcourt zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested four students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT)...
The Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, presided over by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, has convicted and sentenced one Abiona Akinyemi Festus to two years imprisonment for...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday arrested a soldier, Lance Corporal Ajayi Kayode, and 26 others for suspected internet fraud in the Lekki...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 32 alleged internet fraudsters including three corps members and 19 undergraduates. A statement by Dele Oyewale, EFCC...
A 22-year-old Computer Science Undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Kenneth Gift, his girlfriend, Dandy Spice and mother, Dorah Aninah have been arrested for suspected...
Another 11 Nigerian nationals in the United States have been charged over alleged involvement in $6m internet fraud, barely two weeks after six Nigerians were also...
Sixteen internet fraudsters have been sent to jail for criminal impersonation and possession of documents containing false pretences. A statement by Dele Oyewale, the Economic Financial...
Four young Nigerian have been sent to jail in Ogun State over internet fraud. Three of them, Tosin Simeon Abayomi, Ifedapo Ayeni and Daniel Nnorom, were...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned $4,040 it recovered from an internet fraudster to a Brazilian victim. A statement by the EFCC’s Head,...
The owner and promoter of “Wear It All Boutique” in Lekki, Lagos, Babatunde Rufai, also known as Richard Abben has been sent to jail for internet...
Internet fraud popularly referred to as Yahoo-Yahoo has landed three undergraduates including a female to seven years imprisonment. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Enugu...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 30 students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, as well as those...
President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned officers and men of the Nigeria Police against harassing young people in their bid to arrest `yahoo criminals.’ Buhari, Represented by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that it arrested Joseph Oyediran, one of the suspected internet fraudsters wanted by the United State’s Federal...
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday revealed that the collaboration between the commission and Federal Bureau of Investigations...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of two internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of a...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned five suspected internet fraudsters before Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects...
Nine internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys were convicted on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of...
A suspect in the murder of Barrister Emmanuel Agundu, 39-year-old Kenechukwu Eze, has said the lawyer was killed because he withheld the N18 million they realised...
Two weeks after being granted bail, Nigerian artiste, Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley has finally been released from prison custody. A Federal High Court...
An institution dedicated to the training of internet fraudsters, also known as “yahoo boys” has been busted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The United Kingdom has convicted six Nigerians over offences bordering on internet fraud activities. The convicts were reportedly involved in the theft of millions of pounds...
