{"id":233529,"date":"2026-05-17T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-n36m-fraud-efcc-arraigns-blessing-ceo-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:18:55","slug":"nigeria-alleged-n36m-fraud-efcc-arraigns-blessing-ceo-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-n36m-fraud-efcc-arraigns-blessing-ceo-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Alleged N36m Fraud &#8211; EFCC Arraigns Blessing CEO in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The latest arraignment adds to a string of controversies that have trailed Blessing CEO on social media in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialEFCC?lang=en\">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<\/a><\/strong> (EFCC) has arraigned social media influencer and self-styled relationship therapist, Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N36 million fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Ms Okoro was arraigned on Friday before a trial judge, D.I. Dipeolu, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money under&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest arraignment adds to a string of controversies that have trailed Blessing CEO on social media in recent years. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned social media influencer and self-styled relationship therapist, Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N36 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4305,10182,12712,7213,11129,8666,2477,54412,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-233529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-arraigns","tag-blessing","tag-ceo","tag-efcc","tag-fraud","tag-lagos","tag-n36m","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}