{"id":174371,"date":"2025-08-14T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:49:00","slug":"efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library","title":{"rendered":"EFCC to Arraign Suspects Arrested at Obasanjo&#8217;s Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confirmed that it will on Friday, August 15, arraign the suspects arrested at a hotel within the former President Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, for alleged internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC operatives on Sunday raided the premises of the OOPL and arrested 93 suspects for alleged involvement in internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, in a statement issued on Thursday, said that out of the 93 suspects, 23 would be arraigned before Justice D. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Oyewale, who revealed that other suspects would be arraigned in batches, said that upon profiling, almost all of them were indicted for alleged offences bordering on impersonation, identity fraud, and internet fraud.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were arrested at a pool party in a hotel within the OOPL premises, where they were believed to be using the event as cover for their crimes, stressing that the former president\u2019s facility was not the target, but the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Oyewale said the suspects had already confessed to their involvement in internet fraud, adding that other batches would be arraigned in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confirmed that it will on Friday, August 15, arraign the suspects arrested at a hotel within the former President Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, for alleged internet fraud. EFCC operatives on Sunday raided the premises of the OOPL and arrested 93 suspects for alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[68,254,479],"class_list":["post-174371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-efcc","tag-nigeria","tag-obasanjo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EFCC to Arraign Suspects Arrested at Obasanjo&#039;s Library - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confirmed that it will on Friday, August 15, arraign the suspect ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EFCC to Arraign Suspects Arrested at Obasanjo&#039;s Library\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confirmed that it will on Friday, August 15, arraign the suspect ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T20:34:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T21:49:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195674.221739.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"EFCC to Arraign Suspects Arrested at Obasanjo&#8217;s Library\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T20:34:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T21:49:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755195674.221739.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"EFCC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasanjo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/efcc-to-arraign-suspects-arrested-at-obasanjos-library\",\"name\":\"EFCC to Arraign Suspects Arrested at Obasanjo's Library - 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