The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned Gideon Bakpa Aghogho and Oscar Ebere Chukwuebuka before Justice F.N. Ogazi of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over the alleged unlawful supply of bank access credentials.
The duo appeared alongside a third suspect, identified only as Scott, who remains at large, on an eight count charge bordering on the illegal supply of access codes to a bank database, contrary to the Cybercrimes Act of 2015 as amended in 2024.
Prosecutors allege that between July 24 and July 26, 2026, the trio conspired to supply Aghogho’s administrative access code to the FCMB system, credentials capable of unlocking the bank’s Virtual Centre Platform, with intent to commit an offence. A separate count claims Aghogho had earlier, between April and May 2025, disclosed the bank’s server IP and domain credentials without authority in exchange for fifteen thousand dollars.
Aghogho pleaded not guilty, while Chukwuebuka entered a guilty plea when the charges were read. Prosecuting counsel Bilkisu Buhari asked the court to fix a trial date for the first defendant and to remand him in custody, while seeking to review the facts of the case against the second defendant following his admission.
Justice Ogazi adjourned the matter to August 27, 2026 for further proceedings and ordered that both men be held at a correctional centre in the interim.
By Asiwaju Adekunle Saheed
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