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     The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu today, Friday, August 23, 2019, disclosed that the Commission had commenced investigation into the circumstances leading to the $8.9billion arbitral award against Nigeria by a United Kingdom Court over alleged breach of gas contract agreement between it and Process and Industrial Development Limited. Desc ribing the process leading to the judgment as "day light robbery", Magu vowed that the Commission will forensically investigate the transaction and bring anyone one found wanting to justice. He spoke while playing host to a delegation from the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, led by the Chairman and Chief Executive, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa, who sought for collaboration with EFCC towards effective combating of cyber crimes, being committed by Nigerians in the Diaspora. Erewa-Dabiri decried the rate at which Nigerians particularly the youth get involved in all manners of fraudulent a...

    A man in China has regained consciousness from a five-year coma after his partner dedicated him for more than 20 hours a day for almost 2000 days a day.Li Zhihua, from Xiangyang in Hubei Province, suffered a serious brain injury in 2013 in a traffic accident. His wife then became his sole caretaker, and she slept only two to three hours a day to clean, feed, and talk to him. The first thing Mr. Li said to his wife after waking up was: & # 39; Woman, I love you! & # 39.Li Zhihua listens to a song his wife played on August 21 in his hospital ward in Hubei, China.The man woke up last year from a five-year coma after his wife looked after him day and night.His wife, 57-year-old Zhang Guihuan, said she was unwilling to accept the fact that her husband was in a persistent vegetative state and wanted to prove that doctors were wrong.According to reports, Mr. Li was knocked down by a motorcycle in August 2013 while driving to work.Dr. Wan Qing & # 39; an described h...

      President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30, 2019. President Buhari’s participation will be his second, having attended TICAD6 in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. With the theme, “Africa and Yokohama, Sharing Passion for the Future,” the Opening Session of TICAD7 will be performed by the Japanese Prime Minister and host, Shinzo Abe. President Buhari will deliver Nigeria’s Statement during Plenary Session Three in which he will appraise Nigeria-Japan relations and takeaways from TICAD6. He will attend a State Banquet and also honour the invitation of Emperor Naruhito to a Tea Reception at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo. In addition to a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Abe, the Nigerian President will also attend some side-events and meet chief executive officers of some Japanese companies with huge inves...

     No fewer than 1000 residents of Lagos State have so far benefited from the free surgical intervention, including orthopaedic surgery, eye surgery, dental procedure and ENT surgery amongst others, being offered by the Lagos State Government and a non-governmental organisation, BOSKOH Lagos Healthcare Mission. The surgical intervention which is an offshoot of the free screening conducted in designated primary health centres across the state is being carried out simultaneously in seven general hospitals. First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who visited beneficiaries of the free medical intervention in five of the centres today expressed delight at the impact the interventions had on the lives of beneficiaries. She said: “I have gone round five general hospitals today to observe what has been done for the past few days. I was at the Massey Street Children’s Hospital, General Hospital, Lagos, Onikan General Hospital, Gbagada General Hospital and the ...

        The decomposing body of a woman was found at a refuse site along Aggrey road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the woman went missing last Sunday. Who knows who killed her and dumped her there like a chicken, what a painful way to die.. Rip to her.More photos below.

     A 46-year-old Nigerian man, Obinna Stanley Ayanele, has been killed in South Africa. A statement released by the president of the Nigeria Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, says Ayanele who hails from Uruala, Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, was murdered in cold blood by some criminals in his shop in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg, on Tuesday evening August 20th. The armed robbers attacked the deceased with the intention of stealing his money and items. “With deep sorrow in our hearts, the Nigeria Union South Africa regrets to announce the gruesome murder of another Nigerian, the late Stanley Ayanele from Uruala, Ideato North LGA, Imo, aged 46. Until his death, he was a small scale business owner, a stockist of petty goods. Ayanele was accosted by some criminals at his shop in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg in the evening of August 20, 2019 with the intention of robbing him of his money and wares. In the process, he was murdered in cold blood. He was ...

      A little girl less than 10 years old was allegedly beaten to death by her father in Akure, Ondo state yesterday August 21st. Twitter user @YemieFASH who shared the shocking story online, said a woman took the girl's corpse to the state hospital in Akure but fled with the corpse after the girl was certified dead. Efforts are currently being made to identify and arrest the woman who brought the child to the hospital See his tweets below.More photos below.

     Yesterday newsmen reported that the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrest of 80 suspected internet fraudsters. An update served on the arrest, revealed that 77 of the arrested suspects are Nigerians. They were accused of conspiring with federal and state agents to perpetrate the crime. Asides being involved in schemes that resulted in the transfer of at least $6 million which was obtained fraudulently, the suspects were also allegedly involved in the attempted theft of at least an additional $40 million. US attorney, Nick Hanna said the suspects handed a total of 252 count charges bordering on “conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, aggravated identity theft”, had nicknames such as “Thank You Jesus”, “Son of God”, American Man”, God is God”, “He is Risen”. Here is the full list below... S/N SUSPECTS 1 Valentine Iro 2 Chukwudi Christogunus Igbokwe 3 Jerry Elo Ikogho 4 Izuchukwu Kingsley Umejesi 5 A...

      Dino Melaye's election as the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District has been annulled by the Kogi State National Assembly/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal. APC candidate in the February 23rd election, Smart Adeyemi, filed a petition before the tribunal challenging Dino's victory. He cited irregularities, over voting and non compliance with the electoral acts. Delivering judgement in the petition this morning Friday August 23rd, the three man panel led by Justice A. O. Chijioke, unanimously annuled the election and ordered a re-election into the senatorial district.

      The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has warned employees of financial institutions in the country to guide against any act of complicity with looters of our commonwealth saying, “negligence is not an excuse”. Magu gave the charge on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 while playing host to a group of trainees from Ecobank Nigeria Plc on a visit to the Lagos office of the Commission. The anti-graft czar who spoke through the Head of Cybercrimes, EFCC, Lagos office, Dein Whyte, further emphasized the need for financial institutions to know their customers very well, adding that “the identities and addresses of your customers must always be updated, so as not to be blind-folded, especially in situations that result in criminal matters”. He added that: “It is also important to know the Money Laundering Act and the laws governing all financial institutions. “Money laundering is making dirty money look clean and it can be do...

       The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,   # EFCC , Lagos Zonal office, on Thursday, August 22, 2019, arraigned one Taofik Oladipo Elias, a lawyer, before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N20.4million. The complainant, Gunther Uche Maduike, allegedly approached the defendant to sell a property in the Obalende area of Lagos for him. The defendant, however, allegedly failed to remit the proceeds from the sale of the property to the family of the complainant. One of the counts reads: "That you, Taofik Oladipo Elias, on or about 13th February, 2015 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with a dishonest intent, converted to your own use the sum of N10,000,000.00k (Ten Million Naira) property of Gunther Uche Maduike." The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him. In view of his plea, the prosecution ...

       A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has given the order to remand nine suspected internet fraudsters in Ado-Ekiti prison pending the hearing of criminal charges filed against them. Justice Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge and designated vacation judge for the Federal High Court in the Southwest, gave the order on Thursday, August 22, 2019 when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal  office, arraigned the suspects before the court. The suspects are Jejelowo Blessing, Charles Ilesanmi Omobolade, Adelanke Adesola Abiodun, Jejelowo Samson Olanrewaju and Quadri Adewale Ayuba. Others are Raphael Sunday, Omoniyi Ifeoluwa Ajayi, Adebola Kazeem Adeyemi and Adeyeye Rasheed. They were charged for sundry internet related offences including obtaining money by false pretence, impersonation and being in possession of forged and fraudulent documents to defraud unsuspecting foreigners. The accused persons were...

     President Buhari receives in courtesy visit Traditional Leaders from the North in State House on 23rd Aug 2019 Northern Trad Rulers 3: President Buhari with Emir of Kano H.H. Muhammadu Sanusi II as he receives in courtesy visit Traditional Leaders from the North in State House on 23rd Aug 2019 Northern Trad Rulers 6: President Buhari with Emir of Daura Alh. Farouk Umar Farouk as he receives in courtesy visit Traditional Leaders from the North in State House on 23rd Aug 2019. WHAT WE ARE DOING TO BATTLE SECURITY CHALLENGES – PRESIDENT BUHARI President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja said the entire structure of the Nigerian Police Force is being overhauled, re-positioned and primed with modern technological gadgets to meet rising challenges across the nation, while an intelligence loop among all security outfits has been created. The President, who received traditional rulers from the North led by His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar II...