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...
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COURTS JAIL SEVEN FRAUDSTERS IN BAUCH, GOMBE, TARABA. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 Courts Jail Seven Fraudsters in Bauch,  Gombe,  Taraba

 

The Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC,  have secured the conviction and sentence  of seven fraudsters  for offences of cheating and obtaining under false pretences.


 

The convicts are: Yusuf.O. Muhammed  , Joseph Opeoluwa , Samuel Chukwudi Okonkwo. , Rotimi Tobi Samuel , Oladimeji Mubarak , Blessed Johnson and Usman Lari.


 

Samuel and Mubarak were arraigned on.May 6,2025  before Justice  Muazu Abubakar of the  Bauchi State High Court.  Muhammed , Opeoluwa and Okonkwo were arraigned on May 5, 2025 before Justice Shafa'u ladan Yusuf of Bauchi State High Court while  Lari and Johnson were arraigned before Justices Kereng  Abdulhameed and Ludukiya Bulila Ikharo of Gombe and Taraba State High Courts respectively  between April 3 and April 16, 2025.


 

The charge against Rotimi Tobi Samuel reads: That you Rotimi Tobi Samuel sometimes in March 2024 at Bauchi State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud created fake social media account on telegram with the user name, paigeandpaigechannel and represented yourself as a  female bearing the name Paige residing in Alabama USA , induced jack Phillips and Martinfred ( United States of American citizens ) to deliver to you $300 through gift card and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 and punishable under Section 324 of the penal code law.


Upon arraignment, the defendants pleaded guilty to their respective charges prompting the prosecution counsel M.A. Aliyu and others to pray the court to convict and sentence the defendants accordingly.   However,  counsel to the defendants pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.


Having listened to both prosecution and defence counsel, Justice Muazu Abubakar convicted and sentenced Samuel and Mubarak to seven years imprisonment or a fine of  N500,000 (Four Hundred Thousand Naira only) respectively. 


On May 5, 2025,  Justice Yusuf convicted and sentenced Muhammed to four months imprisonment with an option of  fine of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira)


Okpelowa baged six months imprisonment or a fine of N300, 000(  Three Hundred Thousand Naira while  Okonkwo is to pay a fine  of N50,000  (Fifty Thousand Naira)  in lieu of six months imprisonment  .


On April 3,  2025, Justice Ikharo convicted and sentenced Johnson to four months  imprisonment or a fine of N50,000.


 

On April 16, 2025  Justice Abdulhameed convicted and sentenced Lari to  twelve months imprisonment with an option of fine of N50,000.


 The courts ruled that the aggregate sum of $735 ( Seven Hundred Thirty Five United States Dollars),  being proceeds of crime  recovered from the convicts during investigation  be used to restitute the victims of crime while the mobile phones of the convicts,  being instruments of crimes, be  forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.


All the convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested for obtaining money under false pretences.  They were subsequently prosecuted and jailed.

More photos below. 








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