The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, February 9, 2026, arraigned Gidado Ibrahim and Halimat Adenike Tejusho (at large) before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged ₦600 million job scam.
They were arraigned on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining under false pretence, and forgery involving the sum of ₦603,400,000.00 (Six Hundred and Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira).
At Monday’s proceedings, prosecution counsel Y. Tarfa drew the court’s attention to the amended six-count charge and urged the court to allow the defendant to take his plea.
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Gidado Ibrahim and Halimat Adenike Tejusho (now at large), between August 2024 and October 2024, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, obtained the sum of ₦603,400,000.00 (Six Hundred and Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye under the false pretence that you would facilitate her appointment as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which pretence you knew to be false, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
Count two reads: “That you, Gidado Ibrahim, sometime in August 2024 at Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did use as genuine a forged document titled ‘Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser,’ when you knew or had reason to believe it to be forged, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 366 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 364 of the same Law.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all six counts when they were read to him.
Following his plea, prosecution counsel Tarfa asked the court for a trial date and for the defendant to be remanded in a correctional centre.
However, defence counsel B. B. Alhaji informed the court of a pending bail application. Although the application was not yet ripe for hearing, he requested that the defendant be remanded in EFCC custody, citing his health condition, pending the hearing and ruling on the bail application.
Justice Muazu adjourned the matter to February 17, 2026, for the hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Facility.
