Author: Staff Editor
A lawyer who retains a retired judge for the purpose of reaching a serving judge is as culpable as the person who accepts the assignment. Law firms must, therefore, review the manner in which they engage retired judicial officers. Any consultancy arrangement should be transparent, properly documented and confined to legitimate services. A retired judge who provides an opinion should not participate in any communication with the judge handling the matter. Litigants must also be warned. The desperation to win a case at all costs is one of the factors corrupting the administration of justice. Some litigants appear less interested…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, September 4, 2026, arraigned Osaretin Osagiede before Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over an alleged ₦700 million fraud. Osagiede is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on unauthorised access to computer material and receiving stolen property involving ₦700 million. Count One reads: “That you, Osaretin Osagiede and Zacharia Lorshe (at large), between March 2025 and January 2026, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, intentionally caused the Ravenpay user accounts’ two-factor authentication (2FA) method to…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has intercepted two persons in Adamawa State with ₦34 million in cash, with the suspects allegedly linked to a kidnapping syndicate. The suspects were intercepted with the cash during an operation in the state. The Comptroller of Immigration Service, Sani Sule-Jega, disclosed this at a media briefing in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. According to him, preliminary investigations showed that the suspects claimed the money was intended to pay ransom for their abducted brother. In a separate operation, the Adamawa State Command of the NIS also intercepted 17 irregular migrants at Rumde Baruw in Yola…
Justice Friday Ogazi of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday adjourned until September 21, 2026, the hearing of pending applications in the case involving detained businessman and social media influencer, Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popularly known as KC Luxury. The adjournment followed submissions by counsel to Kazeem, Abdulakeem Labi-Lawal, SAN, and counsel to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Abu Ibrahim, that the court should await the ruling of a sister court on an application challenging its jurisdiction to entertain the matter. At the proceedings, Labi-Lawal told the court that although the NDLEA had obtained an order authorising it…
Justice Muhammed Danjuma of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, affirmed the conviction and sentence of former Managing Director of the Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Robert Orya, by Justice F.E. Messiri of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja. Orya was convicted and sentenced to 490 years’ imprisonment for bank fraud on Thursday, February 5, 2026. The convict was arraigned in 2021 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 49-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery, and advance fee fraud involving ₦2.4 billion. Dissatisfied with the judgment, he approached…
The Akinole-Oshiun family of Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos State, has petitioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over an alleged attempt by the member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, and the Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA) to dispossess it of an approximately 8,000-square-metre parcel of land along Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi. The family, in an open letter dated September 4, 2026, and addressed to President Tinubu, alleged that Faleke and OORBDA were using political influence and government machinery to interfere with its possession of the property, despite a series of judgments by superior courts…
Justice K.A. Jose of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Tapa, Lagos, on Thursday, September 3, 2026, convicted and sentenced five persons to seven years’ imprisonment for their involvement in an alleged ₦117.7 million fraud involving Chi Limited. The convicts—Yinka Salawu, Joshua Oluremi Daramola, Raji Ahmed, Afolabi Israel Olusegun, and Muraina Olanrewaju Abdullahi—were prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain money by false pretence, obtaining money by false pretence, and forgery. One of the counts reads: “That you, Yinka Salawu (aka Mr.…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, September 4, 2026, arraigned Ali Bala and Yusuf Umar Anka before Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, for alleged fraud involving £110,000 and ₦500 million. The defendants are standing trial on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering, stealing and retention of stolen property. One of the counts reads: “That you, ALI BALA (a.k.a. Barrister Ahmed) and YUSUF UMAR ANKA, sometime in 2025 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conducted financial transactions involving proceeds of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has broken its monetary asset recovery record in both local and foreign currencies during the 34 months of Ola Olukoyede’s leadership. The disclosure was made on Monday, August 31, 2026, when the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, addressed the media on his stewardship. Available records showed that recoveries in naira hit an all-time high of ₦1,233,612,040,411.11 (One Trillion, Two Hundred and Thirty-Three Billion, Six Hundred and Twelve Million, Forty Thousand, Four Hundred and Eleven Naira, Eleven Kobo). In dollars, recoveries hit $684,478,457.32 (Six Hundred and Eighty-Four Million, Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that the anti-graft agency recovered more than ₦1.23 trillion and $684.47 million in proceeds of crime within the first 34 months of his administration, while securing 10,872 convictions from 14,476 cases filed in court. Olukoyede disclosed this on Monday, August 31, 2026, while presenting his three-year stewardship report at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja. The EFCC Chairman, who assumed office with a pledge to reposition the Commission and strengthen its fight against economic and financial crimes, said the past 34 months had been characterised by…