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Trump issues pardon to former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer after insider trading conviction    President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer, who served nearly two years in prison after being convicted of insider trading tied to post-congressional consulting work. Buyer was sentenced in 2023 to 22 months in prison for illegal stock trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000 in ill-gotten gains and pay a $10,000 fine. He was released from custody in 2025 after his conviction was upheld, with the Supreme Court declining to take up his appeal earlier this year. In issuing the pardon, Trump described Buyer’s service as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Army and his time in Congress as “distinguished and highly productive.” The pardon, dated Thursday and released by the White House on Friday, grants Buyer “a full, complete, and unconditional pardon.” Buyer has maint...

EFCC ARRAIGNS LAWYER, COMPANY FOR ALLEGED N27M LAND FRAUD IN LAGOS. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE


 EFCC Arraigns Lawyer, Company for Alleged N27m Land Fraud in Lagos


‎The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  on Thursday , October 23, 2025, arraigned  one Victor Azubike Awah, a lawyer, for an alleged N27m fraud before Justice O.A.OKunuga of the Lagos  State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.


Awah, alongside his company, Sparkan Ives Limited, is being prosecuted on a six-count charge bordering on stealing , obtaining money by false pretence, using false documents and issuance of dud cheque to the tune of N27m.


One of the counts reads: “ That you, Victor Azubike Awah, sometime between October, 2024 and February, 2025 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of 27,000.000.00 (Twenty Seven Million) from Mrs. Onwuekwe Chioma Genevieve under the false pretence that you have a plot of land advertised for sale, which pretence you knew or ought to have known to be false thereby committed an offence Obtaining Money by False Pretence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.”


‎The defendant pleaded “not guilty “ to the charges when they were read to him.


‎In view of this, prosecution counsel,A. M. Dambuwa, asked  the court for a trial date and also prayed for the remand of the defendant in a Correctional Centre. 


The defendant represented himself during the proceedings.


Justice Okunuga adjourned the case till December 17 and 18, 2025, for the hearing of the bail application and the commencement of the trial.


The judge also ordered that the defendant be remanded in the  EFCC’s custody.

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