EFCC Arraigns Gidado Ibrahim, Halimat Tejusho over Alleged N603.4m NNPC Job Scam

EFCC Arraigns Gidado Ibrahim, Halimat Tejusho over Alleged N603.4m NNPC Job Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 9, 2026, arraigned Gidado Ibrahim alongside Halimat Adenike Tejusho, who is currently at large, before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged N600 million job scam.

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The defendants were arraigned on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining money under false pretence, and forgery, involving a total sum of N603,400,000 (Six Hundred and Three Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira).

At the proceedings, prosecution counsel, Y. Tarfa, informed the court of the amended six-count charge and urged the court to allow the defendant to take his plea.

According to count one of the charge, Gidado Ibrahim and Halimat Adenike Tejusho allegedly obtained the sum of N603,400,000 from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye between August and October 2024, under the false pretence that they would facilitate her appointment as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The prosecution stated that the defendants knew the claim to be false, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

Count two further alleged that Gidado Ibrahim, in August 2024 in Abuja, knowingly used as genuine a forged document titled “Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser,” an offence contrary to Section 366 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 364 of the same law.

When the charges were read to him, Gidado Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts.

Following the plea, the prosecution requested a trial date and asked the court to remand the defendant in a correctional facility. However, defence counsel, B. B. Alhaji, informed the court that an application for bail had been filed but was not yet ripe for hearing. He requested that the defendant be remanded in EFCC custody, citing his client’s 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.

EFCC Arraigns Gidado Ibrahim, Halimat Tejusho over Alleged N603.4m NNPC Job Scam