The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered $169,850, N92 million and four exotic cars from 167 Yahoo Boys in 38 days in a joint operation with the United States’Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The operation, tagged ‘Operation Re-wired & Cybercrime-related Fraud’, was initiated following the indictment of 77 Nigerians for alleged cybercrime in the US.
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Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to deliver judgment on Wednesday ( September 11, 2019), in the petition by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar.
They are by their petition, challenging the outcome of the election won by President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (PDP).
Sources close to the court revealed this a moment ago. Information to that effect has also been sent to parties.
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A former Chief Press Secretary to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state, John Maiyaki has said that it was the people of Edo state and not the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that is opposed to a second term for Governor Godwin Obaseki.
In a statement made available to The Nation in Abuja, Maiyaki said those who worked for the election of the governor in 2016 were disappointed that Obaseki abandoned the developmental agenda on which he was elected and has subjected the people of the state to abject poverty.
He said the recent interview by Comrade Oshiomhole, that he has nothing to gain by opposing Obaseki’s second term should be enough to dismiss speculations surrounding the issue of Obaseki’s second term.
He alleged that it was indisputable that Governor Obaseki has refused to implement the continuity agenda promised to the Edo People in 2016, describing it as a needle to the bubble of lies created by agents of underdevelopment and poverty in the state.
Maiyaki who also headed the media campaign team of Gov. Obaseki said: “That the National Chairman said he, personally, has nothing to gain if Obaseki is denied a second term is nothing new. The opposition to Obaseki’s attempt to railroad everyone into endorsing him for another term, even though the present is doomed to end in abject failure, was never hinged on personal bitterness or enmity.
“On the contrary, it is a decision made after a clear evaluation of the competence, actions, and intentions of Godwin Obaseki who, although admitted to the success of the administration he succeeded, has merely reversed the gains recorded in a futile attempt to create a political dynasty founded on nepotism, ethnic division, corruption, and disregard for the rule of law.
“Certainly, no right-thinking member of society would support this. It is therefore not a surprise that Edo citizens, high and low, young and old, have abandoned personal sentiments or affiliations, and resorted to logic and core hard facts in their collective rejection of the Governor.
“This simple truth is backed by the fact that Godwin Obaseki is presently fighting to earn the approval of his own family members who have since embraced the party and the Edo People’s Movement in the mission to kick out the inept leader from office.”
There was pandemonium in Bakin Ruwa area of the Nnamdi Azikwe expressway, bypass of Kaduna State capital on Tuesday, as Police and members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) clashed.
A 14-year-old girl (names) withheld on Monday narrated how her mother Mrs. Florence Ifelaka lifted no finger after she reported the sexual abuses her father was putting her through.
The victim who was brought to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Lagos command headquarters in Alausa said the sexual assaults started when she was 11 and her mother knew about it.
According to her, the last of the incestuous rape occurred on August 9, at their Mapowu Street, Ojo residence while her mother was away.
She added that she has not seen her period since August, raising suspicions she could be pregnant.
She said: “It happened twice when I was 11 years and I reported to my mother but she did nothing about it. Then, on August 9, he woke me up around 2:25am and started touching me inappropriately and then he raped me.
“My mother was not around. She went to my grandmother’s place. I reported it to her still but she did not do anything,” the teenager said.
Asked why she did not take steps to protect her daughter from her husband, the woman said she was scared, adding that he threatened to deal with them should anyone hear of it.
She further claimed she did not belief her daughter when she told her in 2016 that her father was molesting her.
The woman said: “I was not around because I lost my child and went to my mother-in-law’s house. It was when I came back that my daughter again said her father had slept with her. I confided in my sister and she insisted we must report it.
“It was my sister who reported the matter at Ojo Division of NSCDC on Friday.
The suspect, Chinedu Ifeleka, 46, confessed to raping the girl once claiming he was influenced by alcohol.
He said he had a faint picture of what transpired, adding that he saw his daughter lying down with a whitish substance showing in her private part.
“I woke her and asked what that was. I told her she has started sleeping with men. She denied it and said she was having Candida.
“I asked her how she knew it was Candida and that I wanted to inspect it.
That was how I put my hand in it and then I penetrated her. It was only on August 9 that I did it, I have not done it before. It was alcohol that caused it,” he said.
Parading the suspect, Commandant NSCDC Cyprian Otoibhi said he would be handed over to the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) for further investigation and prosecution.
He said: “The suspect will face the full wrath of the law and will be
handed over to DSVRT for further investigation and prosecution.
“Rape and incest are heinous crimes and perpetrators of such, when caught, will be made to pay dearly.”
Otoibhi, who took over headship of the command from Tajudeen Balogun, said the NSCDC would continue in its core mandate of protecting critical infrastructure, lives and properties in the state.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with His Royal Highness, Major-Gen. A. B. Mamman (Rtd.)
The meeting started at the President’s office around 12.30pm.
The meeting, according to sources, may not be unconnected with the proposed African Security Leadership Summit.
It was still in progress at the time of filing this report.
Negotiation between the Federal Government and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) on the new minimum wage has again rescheduled for Sept. 16.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the last negotiation between the government and the JNPSNC was to hold on Sept. 4, but was suspended.
Mr Alade Lawal, JNPSN Secretary General, confirmed to NAN on Tuesday in Lagos that the meeting was rescheduled at the instance of the officials.
The organised labour and the Federal Government have been in conflict over the implementation of the new minimum wage which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18.
Negotiation between the government and the JNPSNC, representing labour in the technical committee set up to negotiate the consequential adjustment of workers’ salaries as a result of the new minimum wage, had broken down due to unresolved differences in their proposals.
While the Federal Government proposed 9.5 per cent salary increase for employees on grade levels 07 to 14 and five per cent for those on grade levels 15 to 17, labour is demanding 30 per cent increase for officers on grade levels 07 to 14 and 25 per cent increase for grade levels 15 to 17.
President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, had told journalists that the congress would support any position taken by the JNPSN on the new national minimum wage. (NAN)
The 2020 to 2022 fiscal years will be very challenging, especially with respect to revenue generation and rapid growth in personnel costs, the federal government has warned.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Esama of the Benin Kingdom, Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, on his 85th birthday billed for September 11, 2019.
He saluted his high sense of patriotism, love for humanity and dedication to helping the poor and underprivileged.
As the Esama of Benin turns 85, the President, in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, noted with pride, his contributions to the nation’s development as a serial entrepreneur who finds joy in investing in sectors that directly impact the livelihood of Nigerians, including education, health, transportation and the media.
While joining his family, friends and associates to celebrate the milestone, the President believed Chief Igbinedion’s active role in Nigeria’s business space inspired many younger people to start-up companies that have continued to buoy the economy, and his contributions to national development will remain appreciated.
He prayed that Almighty God will grant the Esama of Benin good health, strength and longer life to continue the good work.
Another suicide has been averted in Nsukka, Enugu State as a woman allegedly drank a substance believed to be ‘Sniper’ insecticide.
The victim, identified as Chinwendu Odoh, 24, is a 200-Level student of Microbiology at the University of Nigeria.
She hails from Enugu Ezike in Igboeze North Local Government Area of the state.
Neighbours who noticed she was in pain promptly rushed her to Royal Cross Hospital Nsukka where she was being revived, it was learnt.
The state police spokesman, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu said operatives of the Nsukka Division of the command were investigating the matter, though he added “information from some sympathizers are pointing towards depression over an unresolved issue. The victim is now responding to treatment.”