The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned Gidado Ibrahim alongside Halimat Adenike Tejusho, who is currently at large, before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged N600 million job scam.
The defendants are being tried on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining money under false pretences, and forgery, involving a total sum of N603,400,000 (Six Hundred and Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira).
In the first count, the EFCC alleged that the defendants received the money from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye between August and October 2024, under the false claim that they could secure Tejusho’s appointment as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The offence is said to violate Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
The second count accused Gidado Ibrahim of knowingly using a forged document purportedly issued by the Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser, an offence punishable under Sections 366 and 364 of the Penal Code Law.
When the charges were read, Gidado Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts.
After the plea, prosecution counsel Y. Tarfa asked the court to fix a trial date and remand the defendant in a correctional facility. Defence counsel B.B. Alhaji, however, told the court that a bail application had been filed and requested that the defendant be kept in EFCC custody on health grounds pending the hearing of the application.
Justice Muazu adjourned the case to February 17, 2026, for the hearing of the bail application and ordered that Gidado Ibrahim be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Facility.