Category: Crime/Health

Meet Prigozhin, Wagner Chief Taking On Putin, Russian Military

ADEOLA YUSUF

His victory for Russia in Ukraine, his military might and great U-turn against Putin: What to know about Yevgeny Prigozhin qnd his “march of justice” He is on a “criminal escapade” and an “armed mutiny,” he will suffer terrible punishment – Vladimir Putin     Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group, has risen to prominence after taking an increasingly visible role in the war in Ukraine, where his mercenaries are fighting on behalf of Moscow after regular troops suffered heavy attrition and lost territory…

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Court Convicts Popular TikTok Musician, Others For Internet Fraud

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of TikTok music celebrity, Crown Uzama, and five others before Justice A.A Isiaka on separate one count charge bordering on criminal impersonation. The offences against them are contrary to Sections 142 (1), 57 and 308 of the Kaduna Penal Code Law, 2017. They and punishable under Section 309 of the same Law. READ ALSO: Hajj 2023: Mercy Aigbe Greets Fans From Makkah Napoli Set Victor Osimhen Asking Price Nigerians To Pay More For Electricity As…

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ExxonMobil’s Ex-Spokesman, Yemi Fakayejo, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

  “How he died days after his 60th birthday” – Family   “A thoroughbred communication professional, a brilliant lawyer, a good and friendly man who never looked down on anyone,” Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf extols Fakayejo’s virtues     A Nigerian lawyer and oil industry communication specialist, Adeyemi Fakayejo is dead, Platforms Africa reports. Fakayejo, a prominent face, then, at the corporate communications and media relations department of ExxonMobil Nigeria, died, according to the family, on June 17, 33 days after his 60th birthday. He was born…

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Bad boys, Soft Life And Used Girls, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Dear mothers, my dear sisters and daughters, this ugly trend is heartrending. It’s not a matter we can invite the police into or a case we can prove in court.”     Remember the good old days of Finance Houses in Nigeria? Our young men achieved success overnight. One minute they were marketing officers and the next, they were on management floor. Those places were real magic places. And you know how young men who come into money early run things. They simply remember their long gone ancestor, the prodigal…

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42 Pupils Murdered In Rebels Attacks On Ugandan School

ADEOLA YUSUF

THE bereaved Ugandan border town of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha began burying the victims of a horrific attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that claimed the lives of 42 people, mostly students. As security forces increased patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo, the town solemnly laid to rest the victims of the brutal assault. Selevest Mapoze, mayor of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha, announced that one of the eight people wounded in the Friday night attack, which resulted in the deaths of 38 students, passed away overnight. ‘Most of the relatives have come…

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Till Further Notice: Tinubu Orders CBN To Stop Payment To MDAs

ADEOLA YUSUF

….Suspends Assistant Director In Charge of IPPIS, others in OAGF for salary padding   As part of the ongoing efforts at taking firm control of his Administration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly directed the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to stop further payments to the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs, of the Federal Government till further notice. A presidency told the Saturday Tribune in Abuja on Friday that the Presidential order was issued before the embattled CBN boss Godwin Emeifiele was suspended and handed over to the Department of…

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BREAKING: DSS Summons Bawa Minutes After Suspension

ADEOLA YUSUF

The suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has arrived at the facility of the Department of State Services. This is following an invitation by the service after his suspension was announced. President Bola Tinubu had suspended Bawa over what he described as weighty allegations against him. However, in a statement on Wednesday night by the service spokesperson, Peter Afunanya the time Bawa arrived was not stated. Afunanya explained that his invitation was on “investigative activities concerning him”. The statement read, “The Department of State Services…

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Indefinite Suspension: Tinubu Removes Bawa As EFCC Chairman

ADEOLA YUSUF

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION 14th June, 2023 PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU SUSPENDS BAWA INDEFINITELY FROM OFFICE AS CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,GCFR, has approved the indefinite suspension from office of Mr. AbdulRasheed Bawa, CON, as the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to allow for proper investigation into his conduct while in office. 2. This follows weighty allegations of abuse of office levelled against him. 3. Mr Bawa has been directed to immediately handover the affairs…

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Woman Nabbed For Improper Waste Disposal

ADEOLA YUSUF

…sentenced to 144 hours of community service LAGOS, Nigeria – In a stern reminder of the importance of responsible waste management, a woman has been apprehended by the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) enforcement team, for illegally emptying her waste bin into a drainage channel. The arrested woman, Rukayat Oderinde of number 17, Hassan Ogumola Street, Ahamadiyya, Lagos, was caught red-handed on camera while she was disposing of her household waste directly into the drainage channel, an act strictly prohibited under existing waste management regulations in the state, as they…

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UPDATE: We’ve Picked Him, DSS Says Emefiele Now In Custody

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Department of State Services (DSS) has disclosed that Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is now in its custody. Platforms Africa reports that the secret service, which earlier said in a terse statement posted on Twitter on Saturday morning, that the suspended CBN governor was not in detention, declared in a statement that Mr. Emefiele is now in its custody. Here below is the fill statement EMEFIELE, NOW IN DSS CUSTODY The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby confirms that Mr Godwin Emefiele,…

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