Dasuki Loses Bid to Consolidate Charges

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court sitring in Maitama, Abuja today dismissed the application by Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) , former National Security Adviser , NSA, seeking to consolidate the two separate charges preferred against him by the EFCC.

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EFCC Arraigns Two for N20m Employment Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 9, 2017 arraigned the duo of Tomoloipre Tarigha and Ayooluwa Nuga before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence and forgery.

Tarigha, a staff in the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, and his co-accused allegedly conspired to defraud their victims to the tune of N20million under the pretext of securing employments for them in the federal civil service.

N220m Faud: Abuja Federal High Court Grants Man N10m Bail, Denies Two As Lagos State Highh Couth Sentence One to Imprisonment

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Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday, July 1, 2016, granted bail to Obaje Musa Mohammed, one of the three accused persons charged for offences of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N220million by the EFCC.

Mohammed and his co-accused, Dayo Jimoh and Victor Ochola who were arraigned on June 22, 2016, on a 27-count for allegedly defrauding one Mohammed Jibrin, Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Suntrust Savings and Loans Limited, with a promise that they could help him secure some government houses purportedly being sold by the Ad-hoc Committee on sale of Federal Government houses.

Arms Deal: How Badeh Wanted Me to Claim Own Property - Witness

The trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh, continued on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with the prosecution witness, Mustapha Yerima, further stating how he was pressured by the defendants to claim the property allegedly acquired with the proceeds of crime.

 Badeh is standing trial alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited for allegedly abusing his office as Chief of Defense Staff by using the dollar equivalent of the sum of N1.4billion (One Billion, One Hundred Million Naira) removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force to purchase properties in choice areas of Abuja between January and December, 2013 - an offence which contravenes Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act..