January 28, 2020

Kessington Adebutu, Nigeria’s gambling mogul whose business empire has enjoyed decades of patronage as a household name across the country, has become a new target of a vast corruption investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), NAN can report.

As part of the investigation on Tuesday, anti-graft detectives at the EFCC office in Lagos detained and questioned Segun Adebutu, son of the octogenarian, questioning him on matters ranging from alleged tax fraud to economic sabotage, sources familiar with the development told NAN.

Anti-graft officials said Mr Adebutu’s business activities recently became a subject of their suspicion following a …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says smugglers have devised new means of carrying out their illegal activities inspite of the partial closure of borders.

Mr Mohammed Garba, the Coordinator of the Joint Border Drill Operations, North Central Zone, stated this on Tuesday while addressing officers at a sensitisation programme in border communities in the zone.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the zone covers Kwara, Niger, Kogi and Benue.

Garba, a Comptroller of Customs, revealed that smugglers now use bushpaths, motorcycles and camels to carry out their illegal activities.

The coordinator, who decried the attitude of the …

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, convicted and sentenced a woman, Alaba Kareem Adeyemi and her son, Damilola Ahmed Adeyemi, to three years imprisonment over fraud amounting $82,570.00.

The court convicted and sentenced the duo to the jail terms after they pleaded guilty to a four-count charge of conspiracy, internet fraud, obtaining under false pretence and impersonation levelled against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The convicts were arrested and brought before the following a report released by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Arraigning them before the court, the EFCC counsel, Bilikisu Buhari, …