•Trump and Tinubu United States has frozen the assets and properties of eight Nigerians accused of having links with Islamic sect – Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL. The over 3,000 page document released at the weekend by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, also identified […]...
Publisher and editor, Realnews Magazine, Maureen Chigbo, has called for urgent reforms to halt Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) in Africa. Speaking at the 13th Anniversary Lecture of the magazine recently in Lagos, Chigbo said the choice of IFF as a theme was to identify one of the continent’s gravest development threats, which accounts for over...
Nigeria has been grappling with cybercrime challenge for a while now. More challenging, however, is the fact that the landscape now deeply involves foreign nationals. While the law enforcement agencies have intensified their efforts at tackling the challenge, the rise in the level of sophistication of the illegal digital operations has contin...
•Some of the suspects arraigned at the Federal High Court Ikoyi, today The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today convicted three internet fraudsters who admitted to cybercrime-related offences, while ordering the remand of a fourth defendant who pleaded not guilty. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu delivered the verdict after the convicts pleaded g...
•Screenshot of one of the suspects The two suspects who were arrested by the Delta State Police Command after appearing in a viral video smoking what is suspected to be marijuana while sitting on a police patrol van and making obscene gestures at law enforcement officers have been charged with cyberbullying and cyberstalking. This was [&hellip...
•Some of the suspects in court today The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned another set of foreigners comprising Chinese and Filipino nationals before the Federal High court in Lagos on charges of cybercrimes, cyber-terrorism, possession of documents containing false pretence, identity theft, among others. The foreig...
•The suspects arrive court premises in Lagos today Almost two months after it announced the landmark arrest of 193 foreigners and 599 Nigerians, in one fell swoop for offences bordering on Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud and Romance Scam, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun the prosecution of some of those arrested. A...
•Speed Darlington and Burna Boy A Federal High Court in Abuja today admitted the detained singer, Darlington Achakpo, popularly known as Speed Darlington, to a N20 million bail with one surety in the like. Justice Ekerete Akpan gave the order in a ruling on the singer’s bail application moved by his lawyer, Marshall Abubakar, after […]...
•The suspects Three Nigerians have been arrested in Delhi and face a minimum of three years imprisonment for allegedly defrauding an Indian woman of over Rs 2.62 lakh. A report by The Times of India on Saturday stated that the cybercrime police apprehended Lezhu John, Gibril Mohammed, and Egboola Ekena in connection with a case […]
•FG arraigns 130 foreigners, others for alleged cybercrime The federal government has arraigned 109 suspects predominantly of Chinese, Indonesian, Thailand and Malaysian origin and their Nigerian collaborators for their alleged involvement in high-level cybercrimes, hacking, and activities that threaten national security. The suspects who were...
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