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, Maitama, Abuja, over an alleged job scam involving more than N600 million.

The defendants were charged on an amended six-count charge bordering on fraud, obtaining money under false pretence, and forgery, involving a total sum of N603,400,000.

At the proceedings, prosecution counsel, Y. Tarfa, informed the court of the amended charge and urged that the defendant be allowed to take his plea. Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to all six counts when they were read to him.

According to the EFCC, the defendants allegedly collected N603,400,000 from Oluseye Yomi-Sholoye between August and October 2024 under the false pretence that they would facilitate her appointment as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), a claim they allegedly knew to be false.

One of the counts further alleged that Ibrahim, in August 2024, used a forged document titled “Presidential Villa State House, Office of the National Security Adviser”, knowing it to be forged, an offence contrary to provisions of the Penal Code Law.

Following the defendant’s not guilty plea, the prosecution requested a trial date and asked that Ibrahim be remanded in a correctional facility. Defence counsel, B.B. Alhaji, informed the court that a bail application had been filed but was not yet ripe for hearing, and requested that the defendant be remanded in EFCC custody due to his health condition.

Justice Muazu adjourned the matter to February 17, 2026, for hearing of the bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Facility.