BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

N7 MILLION ADVANCE FEE FRAUD: MAN SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS IMPRISONMENT TODAY AT AWKA ANAMBRA STATE.{PHOTO}.

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                   The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,today wednesday May 3,2017 obtained the conviction of one Adekunle Yakub Asuni who has been sentenced to four years imprisonment without any option of fine by Justice I.B Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka Anambra State for attempting to transfer the sum of {N7,000.000.00} Seven million naira belonging to a customer of a new generation bank.Asuani who was earlier arraigned on Monday 11 April,2016 on a four count charge of attempted stealing contrary to section 8 {b} of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act.2006,had pleaded not guilt to the charge leading to the trial.According to investigations by operative of the commission,officials of the bank stated that Adekunle gave his name as Abduhhahi Adamu with funds transfer form requesting to transfer the sum of N7,000.000.00 {Seven Million Naira only} from account No,0046119649 Abudullahi Adamu to accoun No.0020220860 belonging to Salisu Abubakar all in the same bank.Suspecting foul play,the branch manager asked the suspect to sign on the transfer form again,but he said that he couldn't sign that his PA signs for him,he was asked to call his PA,and he requested to make the call outside the bank premises.His intention was blown open when he was asked the last he withdrew money from the account but he could not provide an answer which led to his subsequent arrest and further investigation.In his ruling,Justice Gafai had held that it would have been naivety on the part of the defendant to think that the court would believe that he never took part in series of event leading to the commission of the offence in the face of overwhelming evidence that refutes all his claim.The trial judge had actually discharged him on the fourth count bothering on altering of transfer form and sentenced him to three years on the first count,four years on second count and three years on the third count all to run concurrently.
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