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EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Bank PHB MD, Francis Atuche, Two Others For Forgery in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, December 16, 2024, re-arraigned a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit felony and forgery before Justice O. O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
Atuche alongside Nnosiri Joachim, a.k.a Ifeanyi, and Uguru Onyike had first been arraigned before Justice Habeeb Abiru, who has now been upgraded as a Judge of the Court of Appeal.
The case consequently started de novo before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, who has now been transferred to another division of the Lagos High Court.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Mr. Francis Atuche, Nnosiri Joachim (a.k.a Ifeanyi) and Uguru Onyike, on or about 4th day of March, 2013, in Lagos, with the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud conspired to commit felony to wit: forgery of a document titled: “BOARD RESOLUTION” of Future View Securities Limited dated 17th December, 2007.”
Another count reads: “ Nnosiri Joachim (a.k.a Ifeanyi), on or about 4th day of March, 2013 in Lagos, within the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, knowingly and fraudulently used a false document titled “Board Resolution of Trajek Nigeria Limited” dated 15th December 2007, which you purported to have been duly signed by one Elizabeth Ebi (a Director of Trajek Nigeria Limited) to Keystone Bank Limited as genuine.”
The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges when they were read to them.
In view of this, the prosecution counsel, Fanen Anum, told the court that the matter was starting de novo and also prayed the court for a trial date.
Counsel to the first defendant, Anthony Ejere, however, prayed the court to allow his client, who has been convicted over another matter, to continue to enjoin the earlier bail granted him by the court.
Also, counsel to second and third defendants, Clement Onwuenwunor, SAN, prayed the court to allow his clients to continue to enjoy the earlier bail granted them by Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo.
In a short ruling, Justice Fadipe upheld the prayers of the defence counsel that the defendants be allowed to continue on the bail granted them by Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo.
The Judge adjourned the case till May 6, 7, 8, 13, 20 and 27, 2025 for commencement of trial.
Atuche’s fresh issues with the EFCC started when he recently contacted Nnosiri, an Office Assistant with Keystone Bank’s Central Sharing Services Centre in Lagos, to deliver some alleged forged documents to the Bank’s corporate headquarters in Lagos for onward presentation in court as exhibits in an on-going case between him and the Commission before Justice Lateefat Okunnu.
The forged documents that had been missing since October 2009 are the Board’s resolutions of Future View Securities Limited, Extra Oil Limited and Trajek Nigeria Limited.
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Drama As Groom’s Mother Clashes With Asoebi Girl On Dance Floor Over Money Sprayed On Bride (Video)
In what we come across as a rather dramatic development, a mother-in-law has been captured on video confronting one of the asoebi girls at her son’s wedding.
The bride was dancing with her groom on the dance floor, while the bride’s ashoebi girls picked the money guests sprayed the couple.
A woman, said to be the groom’s mother, is soon seen dragging with one of the young women who make up the ashoebi. It appears they were fighting over money sprayed on the couple.
It took the intervention of the MC and another young man to pull the mother-in-law off the ashoebi woman.
See video below.
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His kinsmen sang songs chanting how they were glad he d!ed – X user reveals what allegedly transpired during burial of g@y man k!lled by h0m0phobic men in Port Harcourt
An X user, Papi of the Buj, has revealed that kinsmen celebrated the m8rder of a 23-year-old g@y Nigerian man, Hillary Ikechukwu Emereole, during his burial.
Hillary was laid to rest in his hometown, Umuihugba Umuodu Autonomous community, Owerri, Imo State on Saturday, February 7 2026.
LIB reported that d!ed after he was allegedly pushed from a two-storey building by h0m0phobic men in Port Harcourt.
According to the X user, Hillary’s kinsmen sang songs, chanting how they were happy he was k!lled for allegedly being gay.
“Hillary was put to rest over the weekend, And it hurt me so much because word got to his kinsmen that he was k!lled on the basis of homos3xuality. They sang songs chanting how they were glad he d!ed on the basis of homos3xuality. It was such an eyesore,” he wrote.
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Two Presidents, Many Dignitaries In Attendance As Defence Minister Matawalle’s 10 Children Get Married In One Day (Photos/Video)
Several top dignitaries from Nigeria and beyond gathered in Abuja on Friday, February 6, for the wedding fatiha of ten children of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, all of whom were married on the same day.
The wedding ceremony held in the National Mosque Abuja after which they proceeded to a big hall where the reception for all 10 children took place.
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu was in attendance and even received the brides on behalf of the Matawalles into the family.
The President of São Tomé and Príncipe, Carlos Vila Nova, also attended the ceremony alongside Tinubu.
Also present were the Deputy Senate President, Senator Jubril Barau, and Senior Special Assistant to the President on Politics and Other Matters, Ibrahim Masari.
Governors at the event included Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto State, Umar Namadi of Jigawa State, and Nasir Idris of Kebbi State.
Matawalle, a former governor of Zamfara State, gave out five of his daughters: Maryam, Safiyya, Farida, Nana Firdausi, and Aisha, in marriage.
Five of his sons: Ibrahim, Abdul Jalal, Surajo, Bello, and Fahad, also got married on the same day.
The officiating Imam, Prof. Luqman Zakariyah,
prayed to Allah to bless the marriages, grant success to the couples in their life journeys, and bless their parents and grandparents.
On X (formerly Twitter) Matawalle thanked Tinubu for serving as “Wali” at his children’s wedding fatiha which held at the National Mosque Abuja.
Nigerians took to the post to express outrage that Tinubu attended the wedding but did not go to Kwara State where terrorists k!lled scores of innocent citizens just hours earlier.
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