The Guardian says Justice Irele Ifijeh sentenced Chinedu Francis Nwabuisi to two years and ordered restitution of N21,939,732.27. Dateline Nigeria's first sentence drops the word years.

Restitute, on The Guardian and on Dateline Nigeria, and refund, on the Peoples Gazette, are not the same verb. Spent, on the Gazette, and converted, on The Guardian and on Dateline Nigeria, are not the same verb. N21,939,732.27 and N21,939,237.27 are not the same figure. Two years is the term all three pages reach. A headline that says stealing, and a body that says converting, are not the same offense word.

The Guardian, by Azeez Kareem, 10 November 2026 at 12:06 p.m. WAT, reported an Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City sentenced Chinedu Francis Nwabuisi to two years in prison for converting N21.9 million mistakenly credited to his bank account to personal use. It says Justice Irele Ifijeh convicted and sentenced him following his arraignment by the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It says that, according to the EFCC, he converted N21,939,237.27 which was erroneously credited to his account by First Bank Plc following a system glitch, and that the commission said he was prosecuted for converting the funds to his personal use instead of reporting the erroneous payment or returning the money to the bank. The Peoples Gazette, by Yunusa Umar and Opeyemi Olabode, November 10, 2026, on a page that did not print a clock, headlines him as an Edo POS operator and says an Edo State High Court, Benin City Division, sentenced him to two years' imprisonment for converting N21.9 million. Sitting in Benin City, on The Guardian, and Benin City Division, on the Gazette, are not the same court styling. A POS operator, in that headline, is the Gazette's label. The Guardian's lede does not call him one. The Gazette says Justice Irele Ifijeh gave the sentence after convicting him, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and that the EFCC said the convict spent N21,939,237.27 erroneously credited to his account by First Bank Plc due to a system glitch. Spent, on the Gazette, and converted, on The Guardian, are not the same verb. Following a system glitch, and due to a system glitch, are not the same phrase. The Gazette does not print the Benin Zonal Directorate, and it does not print the sentence about reporting the payment or returning the money. Dateline Nigeria, by Kabiru Abubakar, November 10, 2026, with no clock, headlines that he was jailed for stealing N21.9 million. The first sentence says Justice Irele Ifijeh convicted and sentenced him to two imprisonment without an option of fine for converting to personal use the sum of over N21.9 million. Two imprisonment, in that sentence, does not contain the word years. A later sentence on the same page says two years imprisonment without an option of fine. Stealing, in the headline, and converting, in the body, are not the same word. Over N21.9 million, in that first sentence, is not the kobo figure the next sentence prints. The Commission, on Dateline Nigeria, is not spelled out as the EFCC in the body fetched here. It says he was arraigned by the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Commission. 12:06 p.m. WAT is The Guardian. The Gazette and Dateline Nigeria do not print a clock.

The Guardian says prosecution counsel M.S. Dahiru called two witnesses, including a senior official of First Bank and an operative of the EFCC, and tendered documentary evidence which was admitted. The Gazette says M.S. Dahiru presented two witnesses, including a senior bank official and an EFCC operative, while presenting documentary evidence admitted by the court. Dateline Nigeria says M. S. Dahiru, with a space after the M, presented two witnesses, a senior First Bank official and an operative of the Commission, and tendered documents which were admitted. Called, and presented, are not the same verb. A senior official of First Bank, a senior bank official, and a senior First Bank official, are not the same title. The Guardian says that in his defence Nwabuisi told the court he believed the money represented benefits arising from his operation of a Point of Sale business with the bank. The Gazette says he claimed he believed the money was a benefit arising from his operation of a point-of-sale business with the bank, and it spells out POS. Dateline Nigeria says he claimed that he thought the money was the benefit of operating a POS with the bank. Benefits, a benefit, and the benefit are not the same noun. Believed, and thought, are not the same verb. With the bank is The Guardian and the Gazette. It is not in Dateline Nigeria's defense sentence. The Guardian says the court found him guilty and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment without an option of fine, and that Justice Ifijeh ordered him to restitute First Bank Plc the sum of N21,939,732.27. The Gazette says the court found him guilty and sentenced him to two years in prison without an option of fine, and that Mr Ifijeh ordered him to refund First Bank Plc N21,939,732.27. Justice Ifijeh, and Mr Ifijeh, are not the same title. Restitute, and refund, are not the same verb. Two years' imprisonment, and two years in prison, are not the same phrase. Dateline Nigeria says Justice Ifijeh ordered him to restitute the complainant, First Bank Plc, of the sum of N21,939,732.27. Of the sum, on Dateline Nigeria, is not the wording on the other two pages. The Guardian says the restitution figure is slightly higher than the N21,939,237.27 the statement identified as the amount credited. Slightly higher is The Guardian's description. The Gazette and Dateline Nigeria print both figures and do not print slightly higher. N21,939,732.27 and N21,939,237.27 are not the same figure. The Guardian says the EFCC statement did not provide further details on when the erroneous credit occurred, how much of the money he spent before his arrest, or whether any part had been recovered before the restitution order. The Gazette and Dateline Nigeria do not print those details either. None of the three pages prints an age. The two-year term is the sentence those pages describe. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.