Author: TheScrutinyNG

By Bayo Onanuga Don’t be fooled: the malcontents planning to stage nationwide protests are supporters of Peter Obi, the failed presidential candidate of the Labour Party. And he should be held responsible for whatever crisis emanates from the action. The protest planners are also the same people who were instigated by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to launch the destructive ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020. ENDSARS began as a genuine protest by youths against the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, notorious for its high-handedness. IPOB members planning to extricate the South East region from Nigeria infiltrated the protest and hijacked…

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, July 19, 2024 arraigned one Rufus John Isip, a self-acclaimed forex broker before Justice C. S. Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Isip was arraigned alongside his company, ITM-IT Resources Limited on an eight-count charge bordering on fraudulent conversion, money laundering and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N2,022,081,172 (Two Billion, Twenty-two Million, Eighty-One Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-two Naira). Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Rufus John Isip while being the Director of ITM-IT Resources…

WhatsApp has said its parent body, Meta, will be appealing the $220 million fine imposed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) regarding its violation of Nigeria’s data privacy laws. The organisation, WhatsApp, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos. It said: “We disagree with the decision today as well as the fine and Meta will be appealing the decision. “In 2021, we went to users globally to explain how talking to businesses among other things would work and while there was a lot of confusion then, it…

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the Delaware beach home where he is in Covid isolation. “I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week,” Biden added, as his doctor said the president was bouncing back from the symptoms of the disease. But Biden’s political health appeared to be in far worse…

The Joint Committee of the House of Representatives investigating arbitrary rise of cement prices in the country has asked major producers in the industry to tender documents on cost production to justify the price of cement in the market. The committee resolved to visit production plants of the companies after going through their books to ascertain the cost of production with a view to determining a fair price of cement for all Nigerians. The Chairman of the Joint Committee, Rep. Jonathan Gaza (APC-Nasarawa), made the demand on Friday at a public hearing while quizzing Dangote Cement Company and Lafarge Africa…

By Olawale Olaleye Nigeria is in trouble. Take it or leave it. But many do not seem to know yet. This, evidently, is not a federal system but a monarchy, and what you have up there is King Bola Ahmed Tinubu – the supreme ruler of Nigeria. One would have thought that in a federal system, the different arms of government were independent. A lot of the people must have been wrongly taught in school. The other arms in Nigeria’s presidential democracy are totally reliant on the Almighty presidency. A principal officer of the senate, Ali Ndume, spoke not just…

Justices R.M Aikawa and Hauwa’u Buhari of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna have convicted and sentenced five persons to prison for fraud. The convicts, Ibrahim Haruna, Abdullahi Yahaya, Daniel John (a.k.a Julieta), Benjamin Andrew Zagni (a.k.a Andrew Williams), Kenneth Barau (a.k.a Aisha Mohammed) were prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The duo of Haruna and Yahaya faced a one-count charge of currency counterfeiting to the tune of $81,700 (Eighty-one Thousand Dollars, Seven Hundred Cents ) before Justice Justice Aikawa, while John, Zagni and Barau were prosecuted on separate one-count charges…

Justice O. J. Enobie of the FCT High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja has convicted and sentenced the director of Asher Trust Investment Limited and Fifteen Network Limited, Daniel Ungbo Silas to five years imprisonment for fraud. Silas and his companies were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on two-count charges, bordering on criminal breach of trust and dishonest conversion of property to the tune of  N128 million (One Hundred and Twenty-eight Million Naira). Count one of his charge reads: “That you Daniel Ungbo Silas, being the Director of Fifteen Network Limited, sometime between the fifth day of October, 2016 in Abuja, within the…

Justice Rosemary Ojukwu of the Federal High Court Calabar, Cross River State has convicted and sentenced the trio of James Emmanuel Ime (a.k.a David Young), Kingsley Friday Ime (a.k.a Alex Wan) and Udeme Clement Edward (a.k.a Suchi Wan) to various jail terms for internet fraud. The convicts were prosecuted by the Uyo Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on separate two-count charges, bordering on money laundering, impersonation and obtaining by false pretence. The charge against Ime reads: “That you James Emmanuel Ime (a.k.a David Young), sometime in 2024 within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did directly…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, July 19, 2024, presented its 14th prosecution witness, PW14, Sahibu Salisu, a former Director of Administration and Finance, Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, in the trial of alleged N6.9bn fraud involving a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, before Justice Chukujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC had, on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, re-arraigned Fayose and  Spotless Investment Limited on an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering and stealing to the…