ALLEGED $1.5M FRAUD: WITNESS TELLS COURT FUNDS CAME INTO DEFENDANT’S ACCOUNT IN MULTIPLE TRANCHES. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Alleged $1.5m Fraud:   Witness Tells Court Funds Came into Defendant’s Account in Multiple Tranches The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, June 29, 2026, presented its third prosecution witness (PW3), Levi Amanda Opice, a Compliance Officer with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), in the ongoing trial of Ifoma Immanuel before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, over an alleged $1.5 million fraud. Immanuel is standing trial alongside his company, Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery involving the sum of $1.5 million. According to the EFCC, investigations revealed that the defendant allegedly induced Adebisi Adebutu of R28 Holdings Limited to invest $1.5 million by claiming that the funds would be used to finance projects linked to Chappal Petroleum Development Company Limited, Intermediate Investment Holdings Limited, and Chappal Ener...

GOV. SANWO-OLU REAPPOINTS GAWAT, AJETUNMOBI AS SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANTS.(PHOTOS).#PRESS RELEASE.




 SANWO-OLU REAPPOINTS GAWAT, AJETUNMOBI AS SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANTS



Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reappointed two media aides, Jubril Gawat and Wale Ajetunmobi.


The duo’s appointments were approved by the Governor in separate letters to them and signed by the Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola.


According to the HOS, the two appointments take immediate effect.


Gawat, a celebrity digital media influencer and strategist, served as the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on New Media during Sanwo-Olu’s first term. He returned to the senior role.


Ajetunmobi, a versatile and decorated reporter with The Nation newspaper, had initially served during the Governor’s first tenure as Special Assistant on Media (Print).


Sanwo-Olu reappointed Ajetunmobi to the position of Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Press (Print Media).


In the letters confirming the development, Muri-Okunola noted that the reappointment demonstrated the Governor’s high-level confidence and trust in the appointed media aides.


“In reappointing you, the State Government expects you to demonstrate a high level of dedication, diligence and selflessness in the discharge of your duties to justify the confidence and trust reposed in you,” the HOS said.

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