Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Kano Court Jails Woman Five Years for Investment Fraud

The Kano Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one Janet Theophilus Danjuma before Justice S. M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano for investment fraud to the tune of N22,350,000 (Twenty-Two Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira). The defendant was arraigned on Monday, February 16, 2026, on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense. Count one of the charge reads: “That you Janet Theophilus Danjuma being a staff of Taj Bank Limited, Nai’bawa Branch Kano, sometimes in O…