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      The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Thursday vowed to bring down the full weight of the law on lecturers who take advantage of their students or sexually harass them. His administration, he said, would not condone any form of sexual immorality or other vices in any of Ogun State-run institutions of higher learning. Prince Dapo Abiodun, who made this known at the 11th Convocation Ceremony of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, said that the much talked about whistleblower going around higher institutions on the sexual harassment issue is a thing of shame that shouldn't happen in any tertiary institution where discipline is taken seriously. Abiodun commended the Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof.Abayomi Arigbabu for the sensitization and warning publications embarked upon on the pages of national dallies, saying that the zero tolerance of the Institution is a pointer that indiscipline from any staff will not b...

       Nigerian supermodel Avatar us proud at the just concluded Dubai Fashion week held at the Sofitel Dubai palm resort and spa organised by the Opulence Ecents LLC,Organizers of Internation Fashion week Dubai,Paris/Milan/London and New York.Designers Avatar worked with are Mona,Sarenefu,Sawsan skied,Rita Massage,Twisthead,Waletty,Rimma Benetton,Zaid Omari,Ivan Roopaak and Ali Asaad.More photos below.

      Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has announced an inter-agency collaboration of all security and law enforcement agencies within the State to bring about lawful order. He said The Monitoring and Enforcement Coordination Committee to be headed by former Commissioner for Transport in the state, Comrade Kayode Opeifa is to monitor and enforce all the new executive orders and other existing laws of the state with high sense of responsibility and the seriousness they deserve. Speaking to newsmen after a meeting of the committee with the Governor, Odumosu said the team, which is ready to annihilate all forms of crimes across the State has the backing of the Governor to move into action immediately. He also warned that there is no longer any hiding place for miscreants using any of the agencies as shield or fronts to perpetrate crime(s) in the State as the new synergy formed would allow each agency to act on behalf of the other for efficiency. ...

     The EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Thursday, November 28, 2019 arraigned the duo of Kayode Phillip and Hamza Koudeih before Justice Muslim S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a 25-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering. The defendants, who are high-valued targets in Organized Cyber Syndicate   Network, OCSN, were arrested for their alleged involvement in various cyber crimes and money laundering. The duo of Kayode Phillip (a.k.a Voice of the King) and Hamza Koudeih (a.k.a. HK) sometime in May, 2019, conspired among themselves to commit an offence to wit: conversion of the aggregate sum of $7, 069, 000 (Seven Million, Sixty-Nine Thousand United States Dollars), £1, 000, 000 (One Million Pounds) and €80,000 (Eighty Thousand Euro), which sum they reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of fraud and thereby committed an offence contrary to Sections 18 (a), 15 (2)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition ...

      The EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has commenced investigation into the allegations of over N150, 000, 000 (One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) fraud involving Stephen Oshinowo, a former Executive Secretary, Lagos State Scholarship Board; Shobaloju Akinwunmi, Director, Accounts and one Kasali Kamoru Amoo. The suspects are being investigated for alleged stealing, money laundering and  abuse of office to the tune of over N150, 000, 000. Investigations revealed that the suspects fraudulently converted the money to their personal use through two companies: Julikam International Limited and Orsimolu Trading Solutions, while also using some pseudo names that benefited from the scheme.

       A business man in Abia State, Ezeala Emmanuel Chiedozie, whose hope of recovering his N5, 360, 000 (Five Million, Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) eight years ago through a bank fraud perpetrated in his name in one of the new generation banks, have stated that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is indeed, the last hope of the common man in Nigeria. Ezeala made the assertion on  Wednesday November 27, 2019 while being presented with a bank draft of N5, 360, 000 by the Zonal Head of the Commission in the South East, Usman Imam, on behalf of the Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu in Enugu. “I am very glad for what you people have done for me. In fact, for eight years now, I have been doing one thing or another to survive as it has not been easy, you are indeed the last hope if the common man,” he stressed.

      The Oodua Youth Parliament, OYP, on Thursday, November 28, 2019, presented the Acting Chairman of the EFCC with the award of Excellence, in recognition of his contribution in the fight against corruption, especially the war against cyber crime in the country. The award ceremony held at the Arewa House, Kaduna, on the programme: National Youth Summit with theme: Role of South in Nation Building, organised by Oodua Youth Parliament. Magu who was represented by Kanu Idagu, Head, Advance Fee Fraud Section, EFCC Headquarters, Abuja presented a paper tittle: Anti-corruption and Cyber crime.More photos below.

       It would be recalled that on the 2/10/2019, a Keke Rider one Dumebi Oforkansi 'm' aged 25 years of Ubarunisionye village, Nando in Anambra East LGA was kidnapped by unknown persons and taken away along with his tricycle (Keke)while operating it for commercial purpose. 2. Following the report, Police operatives attached to the Command State intelligence Bureau (SIB)swung into action and arrested one Chizoba Nwoye 'm' aged 29years of Achalla-agu village Nteje in Oyi LGA of Anambra State who confessed that himself and one EZENNIA NWEKE 'm' alias 'ABADA" aged about 25 years of Achalla-Agu allegedly conspired and killed the victim, buried the corpse inside the bush along Achalla-agu Nando road and made away with his keke. 3. Consequently, suspect led a team of Police detectives to the scene where the victim was buried in a shallow grave and his decomposing body was exhumed,certified by a medical doctor in the presence of the deceased parents who ...

       The combined troops of Sector 3 Operation LAFIYA DOLE and Sector 2 of the Multinational Joint Task Force (Chadian Forces) led by Commander Sector 3 Operation LAFIYA DOLE on 28 November 2019, dealt a decisive blow on the criminal ISWAP terrorists at Duguri Island in the extreme Northern Borno area. The resilient troops, supported by the Air Task Force OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE, while marching against extreme odds posed by marshy flooded terrain to clear NJARWA and DUGURU Villages made contact with the criminals who were hibernating in the area. The troops, having successfully cleared both villages, took up a harbour position at which remnants of the criminal ISWAP terrorists decided to cowardly attack them from their rear. The dogged troops immediately responded with superior firepower, outmanoeuvred the criminal insurgents and handed them a well deserved defeat in the process. The Boko Haram criminals who were mounted in 4 Gun Trucks with the intention of over...

        After 34 years of meritorious service to his fatherland, the immediate past Commandant, Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Major General Adeniyi Oyebade has retired from military service with a high ovation. General Oyebade who retired as the 28th Commandant of NDA was honoured with a colourful parade which was attended by the high and mighty in the Nigerian military, captains of industry, the academia, of ficers, staff, cadets and the NDA community. It was held at the NDA parade ground Afaka. Speaking during the pulling out parade, Major General Oyebade attributed his success to God Almighty. He gave thanks to God for giving him the privilege of ending his military career as a two star General in the same location where it all started. He stated that it has been an honour to serve as the 28th Commandant of NDA and be entrusted with over 2000 cadets, adding that it would always remain an indelible memory for him to be involved in shaping the career of yo...

      The Federal Government has launched the Campaign For The Return and Restitution of Nigeria's Looted and Smuggled Artifacts from around the world. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, launched the campaign at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday. “With this announcement, we are putting on notice all those who are holding on to Nigeria's cultural property anywhere in the world that we are coming for them, using all legal and diplomatic instruments available. Gentlemen, we are under no illusion that this will be an easy task, but no one should also doubt our determination to make a success of this campaign,” he said. Alhaji Mohammed said Nigeria cannot imagine by what logic an Ife Bronze or a Benin Bronze or a Nok Terracotta can belong to any other part of the globe except to the people of Nigeria, whose ancestors made them. “We have never laid claim to the Mona Lisa or a Rembrandt. Those who looted our heritage resources, especiall...