“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...
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TWO CONVICTED FOR FRAUD IN MAKURDI. (PHOTOS).#PRESS RELEASE

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Two Convicted For Fraud in Makurdi

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal Command, on Monday, July 10, 2023, secured the conviction of one Agbo Julius Agbo before Justice Abdul Dogo of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State on one count charge bordering on impersonation.
 
Agbo, presented himself as a female American citizen through Goggle Chats with the username 'Nick Lance' and procured various gifts cards and Bitcoins worth $200US Dollars (Two Hundred United States Dollars) from one Tasha Little, a United States citizen, whom he misled into believing that he was into Bitcoin Investment.
The charge against Agbo reads: "That you, Agbo JuliusAgbo "M" sometime between 2022 - 2023, in Makurdi, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud sent electronic messages to one Tasha Little,  an American female citizen through Google Chats, where you disguised as a foreign national in the name "Nick Lasce" by procuring various Gift cards and Bitcoins worth $200 US Dollars from her and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 22(3) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition  Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under the same Section of the Act".
 
Following his guilty plea, Justice Dogo convicted and sentenced Agbo to one year imprisonment with an option of N500, 000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) fine.
 
Justice Dogo also ordered that his iPhone 11 which he used to commit the crime and the sum of N100,000.00 in his account be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. 
 
In the same vein, Justice Dogo also convicted one Eze Joy Ada following her guilty plea to one count of fraud.
Eze was sentenced to one year imprisonment with an option of fine of N250, 000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira Only). She also forfeits a phone to the Federal Government of Nigeria.  
  
The charge against Ada reads: "That you, Eze Joy Ada "F" sometime in 2022, at Makurdi, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly sent messages (nude pictures and videos) by means of a computer system to Foreign Nationals that are pornographic, which you knew to be grossly offensive, indecent and obscene and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 24(1)(a) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under Section 24(1)(b)of the same Act".

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