RismadarVoice Reporters, February 9, 2026
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 9, 2026, arraigned Gidado Ibrahim and Halimat Adenike Tejusho (now at large) before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged ₦603.4 million job scam linked to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The defendants were arraigned on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining by false pretence and forgery, contrary to relevant provisions of the law.
At the proceedings, prosecuting counsel, Y. Tarfa, drew the court’s attention to the amended charge and urged the court to allow the defendant to take his plea.
One of the counts alleged that Ibrahim and Tejusho, between August and October 2024, within the jurisdiction of the court, fraudulently obtained the sum of ₦603,400,000 from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye under the false pretence that they would facilitate her appointment as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, a claim the EFCC said the defendants knew to be false.
The offence was said to be contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
Another count accused Ibrahim of using as genuine a forged document titled “Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser” in August 2024 in Abuja, knowing or having reason to believe the document was forged.
The offence is contrary to Section 366 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 364 of the same law.
When the charges were read to him, Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts.
Following the plea, prosecution counsel requested a trial date and asked the court to remand the defendant in a correctional facility pending trial.
Counsel to the defendant, B. B. Alhaji, informed the court that a bail application had been filed but was not yet ripe for hearing. He urged the court to remand the defendant in EFCC custody rather than a correctional centre, citing his client’s health condition.
Justice Muazu adjourned the matter to February 17, 2026, for hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Facility, Abuja.
The second defendant, Halimat Adenike Tejusho, remains at large.
