A Lagos High Court has heard from how a Polaris Bank Account Officer, Keshinro Babatunde, allegedly stole the sum of N12.6m from a customer’s account through forged request forms and cheques.
A prosecution witness, David Areyo, who is a colleague of the defendant and also an employee of the bank, told the court that Babatunde transfered funds belonging to a bank customer by signing request forms and cheques pretending to have been authorized by the customer.
Babatunde is currently standing trial on a 9 count charge bothering on stealing, forgery and fraudulent false accounting with a customer’s account.
The alleged offence contravenes Sections 287, 365, 337 and 411 of the Criminal laws of Lagos state of Nigeria, No 11, 2015.
However, testifying before the court, Areyo, who works at internal audit department of the bank, narrated how the bank found out about the alleged criminal activities of their then staff.
While being led in evidence by the prosecutor for the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Rotimi Oyedepo, the witness said, “Sometime last year 2020, we got an invite from EFCC to the head of internal audit requesting to come with the statement of account of one of our customer.
“Upon the request, the bank also carried out it own investigation looking into the involvement of the staff.
“We found some fund transfers. When we confronted the defendant, he told us that the customer instructed him to transfer those funds”.
When asked if it was the procedure of the bank for a staff to sign the instruction form or cheque on behalf of a customer, the witness replied “No my Lord! No staff has the right to sign a customer’s instruction or customer’s cheque”.
The Witness was further shown Exhibit C (Termination of Fix deposit) to affirm if after the bank investigation the document carried the signature of the customer.
In his response, the witness said, “our findings showed it was not the customer that signed the document
Meanwhile, the EFCC had alleged that Babatunde forged a Skye bank cheque No.47423262 dated 16/08/2018 in the sum of N340,000 and purported same to have been signed by one Kola Oseni.
The defendant, on or about the 14th of December 2016, while in the employment of Polaris bank plc falsfied account number and dishonestly converted the total sum of 10,000,000 naira property of Alh. Ganiyu Kola Oseni
The matter was further adjourned the July 30, 2021 for continuation of trial at 12 noon.

EXPOSED: How Hon. Enoch Ajiboso’s Son, Adedeji Defrauds People Online




+Why his dad is mute over his lavish lifestyle

Adedeji Ajiboso popularly called and addressed as Omoba Wahab among his friends and associates has been alleged of being a cyber-fraudster. He is alleged to be living a luxurious lifestyle, spending lavishly at 5-star hotels and other happening centers in the south-west region of Nigeria.

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Information filtering in has it that, embattled preacher, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua has acquired a private jet.

But news of this development is currently kept heavily guarded.

Informants attribute the ‘keeping a lid’ on this mega purchase to present ‘unfavourable atmosphere’ decorating the celebrity healer and his Synagogue Church Of All Nations.


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To us at SocietyGists, it was like a joke of the year but when we read further we find some interesting facts in the article.
Papermacheonline posted a mind blowing article on Mr Folly Coker, enjoy this…..

Reliable sources alleged that Folly Coker, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Government on Central Business District is the sole financier of the popular Mavin Records and is instrumental to the overnight success of the record label.


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Nigerian rapper, Olamide, who is gearing up for the release of his 4th studio album titled Street OT has just shared a hilarious picture across his social media accounts. Olamide shared a picture of the Alaafin of Oyo lounging with his four wives at an airport with the caption: ‘When I grow up, I want to be like this Oh God.’


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ENUGU GOVERNOR, SULLIVAN CHIME IMPREGNATES “RUNS” GIRL
…WIFE REFUSES TO RETURN

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As Enugu state gears up for a near landmark electoral exercise in the coming 2015 political round, the intrigues surrounding the would-be political candidates and shot callers have begun to clarify themselves gradually into the public arena.
This is following a recent public declaration by a famous and controversial Christian minister in Enugu, Reverend Mbaka that political leadership ought not to be handed to persons with unstable homes and/or are unmarried or unable to keep their wives.
According to Information recently made available, the Christian minister had made the pronouncement based on new information concerning the State governor of Enugu, Sullivan Chime and his latest sex romp with nearby University students and the resultant effect on his wife’s refusal to return home.

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Yesterday, Self acclaimed most intelligent woman in Nigeria, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, has dropped a shocker by revealing the photos and names of men who begged her for s*x.

According to her the self acclaimed international journalist cum doctor has validated her threats of exposing the men who have been hiding under the social media to beg her for s*x.

The controversial and ‘non-conforming’ daughter of a former governor of Oyo State, Victor Olunloyo, has made it known that she is not a woman who can be used or played with by some ‘left over husbands’ who use the social media in the wrong way by soliciting for s*x from her.

She however did not only mention names.


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NOT minding her stupendously rich background, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, aka, DJ Cuppy, decided to pick a career in the world of music;waiting in line like everyone, picking the pieces of her life, to create a new world for herself. In this interview, the billionaire’s daughter, who has touched all facets of entertainment, from Disco Jockeying, to music, scriptwriting amongst others, talks about her journey into entertainment and her personal life.

HOW was growing up like?
I will say that growing up was actually colourful. I used to be a very playful, naughty child that always asked questions. I am always intrigued by things. There was a time I turned my living room into a studio. I was always very playful. I grew up here in G.R.A, Ikeja Lagos. I had fun growing up.

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Access Bank Plc, has been ordered by the Enugu Court of Appeal to refund a total sum of six hundred and thirty-six million, three hundred and seventy-nine thousand, two hundred and five naira, fifty six kobo (N636, 379,205.56) to F.G. Onyenwe motor Nig. Ltd, for fraudulently perpetuating excessive and unlawful charges on the customer’s account in the course of transactions with the bank.

The appellate court, according gave the order while dismissing an appeal brought before it by the bank challenging the judgment of a federal high court Enugu which found the bank liable for making false debit entries into the customer’s account.


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Zenith Bank, UBA, Skye Bank, GT Bank and Diamond Bank Customers Groan As their Funds transfer Platforms Break Down

Bank customers had agonising experience conducting inter-bank transfers last week due to breakdown of the funds transfer platforms of some major banks. SocietyGists investigations revealed that the breakdown was prevalent among the top five banks namely, Guaranty Trust Bank, United Bank for Africa, Zenith Bank, Skye Bank and Diamond bank.

Investigation also revealed that the problem started as incessant breakdown on Wednesday, became severe on Thursday, making it difficult for bank customers to transfer money from one bank to another or receive money transferred to them from other banks. Also, many bank customers could not use their debit cards to withdraw money from ATM.

On Friday, At the Allen Avenue branch of GT Bank, a male customer who refused to mention his name, told SocietyGists he had been at the bank since it opened for business, waiting for his account to be credited with money transferred to his account the previous day.

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ETISALAT and OPTIMA MEDIA GROUP have courted huge trouble with multi-talented star artiste, PAUL PLAY.

One of Nigeria’s biggest Reality TV show, ‘Nigerian Idol’, funded and staged by ETISALAT and OPTIMA GROUP respectively, might be forced by a law court to cough out a sum of N200m for the copyright infringement and unauthorized usage of “Mosorire” – a copyright work by Paul I.K. Dairo popularly known as Paul Play.

The artiste, Paul Play is suing EMERGING MARKETS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES LTD. (EMTS) popularly known as ETISALAT for the unauthorized usage of his works which were registered with MUSICAL COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (MCSN) when the artiste was still a member.

In year 2008, Paul Play terminated his contract with MCSN and subsequently joined BROADCAST MUSIC INCORPORATION (BMI) with membership number CAE/IP: 295878298.

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