Day: 14 August 2019

EFCC to question 2 ex-ministers, 16 other top govt officers in OBJ’s $16bn power project probe

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has listed 2 former ministers and 16 other former and serving government officers for questioning as the anti-graft agency begins the probe of $16 billion power project of the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. There had been conflicting figures on the exact cost of the project as some people put it at $16 billion while others say it is $13.8 billion. It was gathered last night that the anti-graft agency may arrest key contractors involved in the power project scam which extended…

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Shi’ite raises fresh alarm over El-Zakzaky

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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Wednesday, raised an alarm that the federal government has prevented doctors from treating its leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky in India. The Secretary-General, Academic Forum of the IMN, Abdullahi Musa, who briefed reporters in Abuja on the development disclosed that the security agents that accompanied El-Zakzaky have just given him two hours to accept to be treated.

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EFCC arraign Atiku’s son-in-law, lawyer for money laundering

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arraigned Abdullahi Babalele, said to be a son-in-law of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly laundering $140,000 in the build-up to the 2019 general elections. Also, Uyiekpen Osagie-Giwa, said to be Atiku’s lawyer, was separately arraigned for allegedly laundering $2m, in connection with the polls. Atiku contested against President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. Both Babalele and Osagie-Giwa were arraigned before the Federal High Court in Lagos. They pleaded not guilty to the charges. Justice Nicholas Oweibo adjourned…

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Photo: Soldier who raped 300level Ondo Varsity student arraigned in court

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Sunday Awolola, the soldier who allegedly raped a 300-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State, was on Wednesday arraigned at the Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo state capital. The 33-year-old soldier is charged for committing rape which is contrary to section 357 and punishable under section 358 of the criminal code cap 37 vol. Laws of the Ondo state of Nigeria. Awolola, a soldier attached to the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigeria Army, allegedly raped the student at a military checkpoint along…

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How Union Bank’s top manager committed suicide

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 A 46-year-old banker Mr. Onyechere Ibeakanma from Umunemeze Afugiri in Umuahia North LGA, Abia state, a relationship manager with Union Bank Plc., has committed suicide by drinking a substance suspected to be Sniper. According to report, Mr. Ibeakanma is married with a daughter and is said to be living peacefully and comfortably with the family until the evening of Friday 9th of August 2019 when he was discovered lying lifeless in his room in Victoria Island, according to close family sources Mr. Ibeakanma left a suicide note for his wife…

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