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...

GHANA: STUDENTS NOW HIDE PHONES IN THEIR PRÎVATÉ PARTS TO BRING TO SCHOOL – SHS HEADMASTER SOUNDS ALARM. (PHOTO).


 Students Now Hide Phones in Their Prîvaté Parts to Bring to School – SHS Headmaster Sounds Alarm


Zebilla Senior High School headmaster, Richard Akumbasa, has expressed concern over the growing rate at which Senior High School students smuggle mobile phones into their dormitories.


He stated that some even smuggle these telecommunication gadgets in their prîvaté parts just to make calls in their dormitories.


Speaking in an interview on Dreamz FM’s Breakfast Today show, he said,  “There are times the girls will hide it [phone] in their prîvaté parts, others hide it in their shito and gari and enter school.”


 Mr Akumbas is expressing bewilderment at students’ determination to circumvent school rules.


According to him, he is worried for Ghana’s future, considering the character development of these young ones who are said to be Ghana’s future leaders.


This disclosure follows the brawl that has led to the closure of Zuarungu Senior High School after a vîölént confrontation erupted over phone theft.


Following police intervention turned into vîölént as the students are reported to have fought the police back, with one grabbing the police’s magazine.


The Upper East Regional Minister, in consultation with REGSEC, has since closed down the school till further notice.

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