The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has continued the trial of social media influencer Blessing Nkiruka, popularly known as Blessing CEO, on Monday, October 12, 2026.
A prosecution witness, PW1, Dr Onuoha Okeigwe, told Justice R. A. Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, that he paid N69,150,000 for a five-year lease of property allegedly presented to him as the influencer’s property.
Recall that the Lagos Zonal Directorate of the anti-graft agency first arraigned Blessing CEO on 9 June 2026 on two counts bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing.
Count one reads in part: “That you, OKORO BLESSING NKIRUKA, on or about March 21, 2025, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, induced Hope Chiropractic Health Clinic Limited to confer a benefit of N69,150,000 (Sixty-Nine Million, One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) on you under the representation that the property located at No. 1 Tunbosun Osobu Street, Lekki, belonged to you and was leased to the company for a period of five years, a representation you knew to be false.”