The {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC) has arraigned a businessman, Wilson Opuwei, alongside his firm, Dateline Power Providers Ltd., over an alleged $550,000 fraud.
The arraignment passed off on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, earlier than Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Particular Offences Courtroom sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, in keeping with a press release by the EFCC.
The case pertains to alleged offences relationship again to 2011 and centres on claims of acquiring cash beneath false pretences linked to petroleum product allocations.
The anti-graft company mentioned Opuwei and his firm had been docked on a four-count cost bordering on acquiring by false pretences and stealing.
Based on the fees, the defendants allegedly obtained funds from a businessman, Prince Donatus Okonkwo, on the declare that the cash was cost for the allocation of 5,000 metric tonnes of Twin Function Kerosene from the Petroleum Merchandise Advertising and marketing Firm.
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The EFCC mentioned the defendant pleaded not responsible to all costs once they had been learn in courtroom.
Counsel to the defendant knowledgeable the courtroom that Opuwei had earlier been admitted to bail on Might 22, 2012, and urged the courtroom to permit him to proceed beneath the identical bail circumstances.
In his ruling, Justice Abike-Fadipe ordered that the defendant ought to proceed on the sooner bail phrases and adjourned the matter to March 19, 30, and 31, in addition to April 1 and a couple of, 2026, for trial.
The EFCC has charged a number of enterprise and company entities in recent times over alleged fraud and associated {financial} crimes.
Yesterday, they arraigned Sarumi Samusideen Babafemi, Managing Director and Chief Govt Officer of 606 Autors Restricted, 606 Music Restricted, and Splash Off Leisure Restricted, over an alleged N206 million fraud.