The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Gidado Ibrahim before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, for allegedly defrauding a woman of over N600 million, while a second suspect, Halimat Adenike Tejusho, remains at large.

Ibrahim faces six counts of fraud, obtaining money under false pretence, and forgery, with the alleged offences said to have occurred between August and October 2024.

The EFCC claimed the suspects collected N603.4 million from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye by promising to secure her appointment as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) – a claim they allegedly knew was false.

One of the charges also states that Ibrahim used a forged document claiming to be from the Office of the National Security Adviser at the Presidential Villa as genuine.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to all six charges. Following the plea, the prosecution requested a trial date and that Ibrahim be remanded in a correctional facility. His lawyer, however, said a bail application had been filed and asked that he be held in EFCC custody due to health concerns until the bail hearing.

Justice H. Muazu adjourned the case to February 17, 2026, for the hearing of the bail application and ordered that Ibrahim be remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre until then.