Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

$91,000 Fraud: Court Jails Man Nine Years for Stealing, Issuing Dud Cheques in Lagos

Justice Ismail Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced one Obinna Kingsley Anijiofor to nine years imprisonment for offences bordering on stealing and the issuance of dud cheques. Anijiofor was arraigned on February 10, 2025, by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an amended three-count charge involving the sum of ₦9,500,000 (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) and $32,000 (Thirty-Two Thousand United States Dollars) part of a total $91,000 (Ninety-One Thousand United States Dollars) belonging to…