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Court jails unity bank's service manager, one year for stealing N11m meant for ATM

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A former banker, Adam Kaka Adam, is to spend one year of his life in prison custody for stealing money meant for Automated Teller Machine, ATM. The convict was sentenced on Monday to a year imprisonment by Justice Ibrahim Jauro of the Yobe State High Court sitting in Damaturu for stealing 11,657,500 Naira (Eleven Million Six Hundred and Fifty-seven Thousand Five) from Unity Bank, Plc. According to reporters, the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, secured this conviction following the prosecution of Adam on one-count of theft of the said sum. The convict was a former service manager in charge of vault room and Automated Teller Machine in Unity Bank Plc of Damaturu Branch, Yobe State when he diverted the said sum which was meant to to be fed to the ATM of the branch. The count reads: “That you, Adam Kaka Adam while being the Branch Service Manager with Unity Bank Plc Damaturu, Yobe State, in charge of Vault Room and Automated Telle...

N180m Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Ex-Imo State Commissioner

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office on Thursday, November 26, 2020, arraigned a former Commissioner of Transport and Chairman of Imo state Transport Company, Prince Lasberry Okafor Anyanwu, before Justice E.F Njemanze of the Imo State High Court for alleged fraud. According to a statement released by the antigraft agency, Anyanwu who served in the Rochas Okorocha’s administration is being prosecuted on four-count charges, bordering on conspiracy, abuse of office, stealing and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N180 million. According to our reporters Trouble started for the defendant following a petition in which it was alleged that he used his position as Imo State commissioner for Transport to transfer the ownership of the state’s transport company to his private company, Oma Oil/ Industries Ltd. Investigation by the  EFCC  showed that the defendant through an opaque concession agreement with the former governmen...

Prophet Israel Oladele’s Walk To Prison

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  It came as a great shock when the news broke that Prophet Oladele Israel of   Genesis Global   was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment (in actual sense one year imprisonment for two offenses meant to run concurrently) because it was not in the mainstream news the media trial that brought this judgement. A lot of reactions spurred both online and offline because of the judgement which was hinged on fraud. This article is not to contend the decision of the courts but to help people see from the context of the truth because when lies become coloured with the garments that looks like the truth it might be accepted as the truth. The woman in question is Laide Williams who came into the picture in the year 2002 and was well known by all members of the Church back then because of the way she relates with the prophet who was in the confluence of God’s favour and human help. She was always available for Church events (harvests, anniversaries and other events) and everyone thought ...

Court Jails Popular CCC Prophet ‘Genesis’ For Fraud

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 The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Wednesday convicted a popular Lagos-based cleric, Prophet Israel Ogundipe, of fraud charges. Ogundipe, who is the Shepherd-in-Charge of Celestial Church of Christ Global Genesis parish, had been dragged to court on the complaint of a London-based architect, Mrs Olaide Williams-Oni, who accused him of obtaining a total of N17m from her with the promise to help her procure some landed property. In her testimony before the court, Williams-Oni had told the court that she met the cleric in 2002 during her visit to Nigeria, when she was taken to his church for prayers by her step-sister. The trial judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade sentenced Prophet Oladele after she found him guilty of two count charges out of the seven he was charged with. Justice Akinlade in a judgment that lasted for about four hours sentenced the defendant, prophet Oladele to a year imprisonments for count two and four. She however discharged him of counts 1,3, 5 ,6 and 7 for lac...

Malawi Police Arrest Prophet Bushiri, Wife

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  Millionaire flambouyant preacher, Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, have been arrested. They were wanted in South Africa for fraud and money-laundering charges. They were arrested in his native  Malawi  on Wednesday, police said. Shepherd Bushiri, a self-proclaimed prophet known for “miracles” and an opulent lifestyle, skipped to Malawi last week in breach of strict bail conditions imposed by a South African court. Malawian police launched a manhunt for the fugitive on Tuesday after Interpol issued an arrest warrant in Pretoria. “The prophet and his wife handed themselves over to the police on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, when they got wind of their impending arrest,” police spokesman James Kadadzera said in a statement. He said the couple will be taken to court. Bushiri’s spokesman, Ephraim Nyondo, denied the couple’s arrest was sparked by the warrant. He said Bushiri had vowed to present himself to the Malawi police to demonstrate “commitment that he is not a fugitive.”...

Maltese Passport :EFCC re-arraigns man over alleged 40,000 euros scam

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  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned one Abiodun Sodiq, before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, for allegedly defrauding a businessman of 40,000 euros over   Malta citizenship . Sodiq was re-arraigned on a seven-count charge involving forgery and conspiracy of a Maltese passport to which he pleaded not guilty. According to Mr Nkereuwem Anana, the EFFC prosecutor, the defendant known with the alias, Bunmi Sodiq, committed the offences between May 14 and July 23, 2019. “He defrauded a businessman, Mr Babatunde Emmanuel of 40,000euros under the guise that the funds would be used for the Malta Government Citizenship Investment Programme as well as procurement of Malta international passport. “Within that time, he also forged various international passports in the names of Oyinlola Vincent, Ashinedun Vincent, Emanuel Babalola, Olayinka Babatunde and Adekunle Babatunde. “He fraudulently claimed that the forged international passports emanated from t...