Tag: FCMB

Customer accuses FCMB staff of stealing N.3m from account

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

An account holder with the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr. Saka Adebayo Jimoh, is literally crying from the rooftop on how a sum of the N300,000 was fraudulently transferred from his account to a WEMA bank account without his consent. On account of this, he has asked FCMB to return his money. Mr. Jimoh narrated his ordeal to NATIONAL WAVES on Saturday. He said his money was stolen from his account. He said ” I changed my phone to a new one and wanted to transfer the sum of…

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FCMB Sex Scandal: Board bows to pressure, ready to probe CEO, Adam Nuru

Jasmin Ekua, Banking & Finance

As more people signed the electronic petition to Compel the Central Bank of Nigeria and board of FCMB to dismiss Adam Nuru on ethical grounds (marriage scandal), the board of the bank has commenced a probe into the scandal. As at the time of filing this report, a 6pm Sunday evening, 2,362 people have signed the petition asking the CBN to sack Nuru Adam over the illicit affair with Moyo Thomas, now an ex-staff of the bank with Nuru allegedly fathering the two kids Moyo had for Tunde Thomas. Tunde…

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How FCMB duped Niger State N231m, aggrieved party petitions EFCC

Jasmin Ekua, Banking & Finance

While the First City Monument Bank, FCMB and its Shareholders defied the COVID 19 lockdown directives last week, to hold it’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) by proxy and celebrate its N20.1 billion profit for the 2019 financial year, little did the shareholders know that a petition with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has exposed the underbelly of FCMB Over N231Million Fraud. According to the document received by the Nigerian Guild of Investigative Journalists, NGIJ on FCMB over a N231Million Fraud. Niger State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello in a letter dated…

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EFCC docks FCMB, 2 staff for fraud and criminal negligence

Jasmin Ekua, Banking & Finance

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned a new generation bank,  First City Monument Bank, FCMB alongside two of its employees-Timothy Shoon, an account officer and Obende Thomas, head of operations-before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State on three-count charges bothering on advance fee fraud and criminal negligence.  One of the charges reads: “That you, First City Monument Bank being a financial institution, sometime in February, 2018, in Makurdi within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, as a result of your negligence, failed…

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