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A Kwara High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday convicted one Basheeru Seyi, a student of Kwara Polytechnic, Ilorin for offences bordering on internet fraud.
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A Kwara High Court in Ilorin, on Tuesday, sentenced a 400 Level student of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Joshua Ogizien, and three other persons, for offences bordering on internet fraud.
The Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the convictions.
The three other convicts are Toheeb Muritala, a 200 Level Computer Science student, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, and Rasheed Temitope, a graduate of Bartholomew College of Health Technology, Shao.
Also sentenced is Olaoluwa Samuel of Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Delivering judgment, Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar said the court relied on the plea of guilt entered by the defendants, the unchallenged testimonies of the prosecution witnesses and all the exhibits tendered.
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February 12, 2021
A Kwara High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, has convicted a serving corps member in Kogi, Sam Abiola, over offences bordering on attempted cheating and love scam.
Convicted along with Abiola was one Sodiq Adebiyi.
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on February 1 arraigned the convicts, Abiola, 26 and Adebiyi, 18, on separate charges.
While the one-count charge was preferred against Abiola, Adebiyi was prosecuted on a four-count charge, which the EFCC said was contrary to 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same law.
They both pleaded guilty to the charges.