The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 9, 2026, arraigned Gidado Ibrahim before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged N603.4 million job scam.
Ibrahim was arraigned alongside Halimat Adenike Tejusho, who is currently at large, before Justice H. Muazu on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining by false pretence and forgery.
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At the proceedings, prosecuting counsel Y. Tarfa informed the court that the charges had been amended and urged the court to allow the defendant take his plea.
According to the EFCC, the defendants allegedly obtained the sum of N603,400,000 from one Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye under the false pretence that they would facilitate her appointment as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
One of the charges 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 N603,400,000 from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye under the false pretence that you would facilitate her appointment as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, a pretence you knew to be false.”
The offence, the prosecution said, is 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.
Another count alleged that Ibrahim used a forged document purportedly issued by the Office of the National Security Adviser.
The charge states:
“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,’ knowing or having reason to believe it to be forged.”
Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts when they were read to him.
Following his plea, Tarfa asked the court to fix a trial date and order that the defendant be remanded in a correctional facility.
However, defence counsel B. B. Alhaji told the court that a bail application had been filed, though not yet ripe for hearing, and urged the court to remand the defendant in EFCC custody on health grounds pending the hearing of the application.
In his ruling, 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.
