Day: 23 November 2019

“Its all lies! I didn’t do it” – Air Peace boss, Onyema reacts to US fraud story

Jasmin Ekua, Banking & Finance

The Chairman/CEO of Air Peace,  Allen Onyema has denied allegations of bank and money laundering levelled against him by the United State Justice Department. The US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia had in a charge accused Onyema of money laundering “for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes.” According to the US Department of Justice statement released on Friday, Onyema’s Chief of Administration and Finance, Ejiroghene Eghagha, has also been…

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Air Peace owner, Onyema accused of fraud and money laundering

Jide Ige

Weeks after he was hailed as a national hero for evacuating hundreds of Nigerians caught in xenophobic cross-fire,  Allen Onyema, the CEO and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, plying local and international routes is currently entangled in a web of bank fraud and money laundering to the tune of about $20m. The Nigerian airline owner was accused of moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through US bank accounts in a scheme involving “false documents” based on the purchase of aeroplanes. Onyema was indicted alongside Ejiroghene Eghagha, the…

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Meet Super Eagles’ top 10 earners in Europe

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

Leicester City’s Wilfred Ndidi is the highest-paid Super Eagles player in Europe this season, Sports Extra reports. The 22-year-old, who joined the Foxes from Genk for £17m in 2016, earns £3.9m per annum, (approximately £75,000 a week) according to a study by Spotrac. Ndidi, barring any last-minute hitch, will play his 100th game for Leicester City in Saturday’s clash against Brighton & Hove Albion at the King Power Stadium. He is also the fifth highest earner at Leicester behind Jamie Vardy (£7.28m), Kasper Schmeichel (£6.76m), Johnny Evans (£4.16m) and Adrien Silva (£4.16m).…

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Bizzare! Bank staff captured on CCTV stealing money during bank robbery

Jide Ige

Ekiti State Police Command says it has arrested 2 staff of United Bank For Africa over allegations of connivance in the robbery incident that occurred in the bank’s branch in Oye Ekiti, the headquarters of Oye Local Government, last week Thursday.  The bank was attacked by a seven-member robbery squad around 3pm in two utility vehicles through Ayede Ekiti while a policeman and a seven-years-old girl killed.  The sum of N25m and foreign Currencies were discovered to have been stolen by the daredevil robbers who gained entrance into the banking…

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How ex-Ifako-Ijaiye LG Boss, Toba Oke, ran into trouble

Jide Ige

Mismanagement, financial recklessness, abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds were the major reasons Oloruntoba Oke, Chairman of Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State was suspended indefinitely by the state House of Assembly. The suspension was announced on Friday, 22 November 2019 by the Assembly at its plenary session. Sources at the local government hinted that the suspension was the outcome of a 5-man Ad-hoc Committee set up by the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa, to investigate allegations of abuse of office and financial…

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EFCC docks Union Bank, staff for cyber fraud

Jide Ige

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi Zonal Office, has arraigned one Amos Richard Chimaobi, a compliance and internal control staff of Union Bank Plc and, his employer, Union Bank Plc before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue State. The defendants were arraigned on a four-count charge that border on criminal negligence and cyber-crime to the tune of N1, 245, 000.00 (One Million, Two Hundred and Forty-five Thousand Naira). One of the charges reads: “That you, Union Bank Plc, being a financial institution and you…

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