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Abuja, FCT – In the ongoing investigation of the alleged fraudulent actions that took place under Godwin Emefiele’s nine-year tenure as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, new information has started to emerge. The former Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) and forensic auditor Jim Obazee are in charge of the special investigations, according to a story by The Guardian. According...

Atoyebi Bamidele, commonly known as Bam-Bam, a Bureau De Change operator, was charged by the police on Tuesday before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding traders in Alaba Market of N157 million. Bamidele, who conducts business as Prosocial International Limited, is accused by the police of three charges each of conspiracy, acquiring, and stealing. The Force Criminal Investigation Department in Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, brought the accusation against him before the court. Following a...

The police in Ekiti State on Tuesday arraigned a 22-year-old man, Joshua Edet, before an Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court for suspected fund conversion. Inspector Olubu Apata, the police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant committed the crime between July 12 and September 7 at LAZORA Bar, opposite Fayose Market in Ado-Ekiti. According to the prosecutor, “the defendant, a sales boy, fraudulently converted the sum of N250,400 belonging to his boss, one Babafemi Damola,...