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A faction of Assemblies of God Church has been dragged to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Assistant General Superintendent, accusing the factional General Superintendent and six others of alleged fraudulent conversion of funds running into billions of naira. •File photo: Show of shame… Security men battle to break up a fracas involving factional members of the Assembles of God church The Assistant General Superintendent, Rev. Ramsey Ogagaoghene in a petition addressed to the EFCC noted that the factional General Superintendent, Rev. Dr. Chidi Okoroafor and six others allegedly embezzled over N100 billion belonging to the church, adding that Rev. Okoroafor was the Assistant General Superintendent until March, 2014 when he could not account for funds of the church and formed a parallel group that threw the church into crisis. On account of the petition dated September, 2015 submitted to the Commission by Mr. Eli Ugwu, counsel to the pe...

The Stallion Group and Olam International, two companies involved in rice importation are owing Nigeria whopping N44 billion as unpaid import duties on rice they imported since May 2014. This disclosure was made yesterday while the two companies appeared before the Senate ad-hoc Committee on Rice Waivers probing the flagrant abuse of rice import duty waiver policy in the country. The invitation of Stallion and Olam by the committee was the offshoot of a motion by Senator Adamu Aliero, in July where he drew the attention of the Senate to alleged abuse of waiver policy on rice. According to him, some government officials, hiding under the cloak of the waiver policy of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, granted arbitrary waivers to rice importers. The trend, he noted, was denying Nigeria of huge revenues derivable from import duties as well as local production of rice by Nigerian farmers. The motion led to a resolution setting up the ad-hoc committee by the ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old banker, Daniel Makanjuola, for using a cloned West African Senior School Certificate and Lagos State University’s statement of result to secure employment at the Wema Bank Plc, Marina branch, on the Lagos Island. Fake LASU result; Makanjuola The police said Makanjuola had paraded himself as a degree holder in marketing with Second Class, Upper Division, before his arrest. He was also said to have tendered a forged National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate and a  reference letter to the bank. He claimed to have obtained the letter from United Bank for Africa, his purported former workplace. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect, who hails from Ijero Local Government Area in Ekiti State, had joined the bank in 2013, before he was sacked in July 2015 after the documents were confirmed to be fake. It was gathered that the fraudulent act was discovered after the management sent a letter to the UBA to verify ...

Former Governor of Kebbi state Usman Dakingari has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations that he laundered N3.8 billion from the state. Mr. Dakingari was detained at the EFCC headquarters around 10 AM Nigerian time. He is currently undergoing interrogation at the hands of EFCC investigators.  Mr. Dakingari is an in-law to late Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’dua.  Recently, the EFCC arrested Mr. Dakingari’s wife, Zainab. She was accused of laundering N2billion for her husband.  Mr. Dakingari was elected governor of Kebbi state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2007. Sahahrareporters extract.

A college student has been charged with murdering the psychiatrist who had him committed to a mental health institution. Christopher Frick, 21, confessed that he broke into the home of Dr. Caroline Ekong at 4am last Wednesday and stabbed her to death - three years after she ordered him placed him into a facility. DR EKONG After he admitted to killing her, officers found a journal belonging to Frick that revealed he had been plotting to kill Ekong for at least the past year, they said. FRICK The News Journal  reports that Dr. Ekong worked at the Rockford Center, a mental health facility in Stanton, Delaware.  Frick was committed there involuntarily on Dr. Ekong's orders when he was 18-years-old.  In 2014, Flick wrote about his experience in a letter to The News Journal, saying: 'The staff framed me as suicidal, as well as everyone else I saw the night I was "evaluated". 'The commonplace involuntary commitment at Rockford Cente...

Sandra Aguebor is Nigeria's first lady mechanic. Growing up in a polygamous family in Benin City, her mother actively discouraged her from following her dreams, sometimes beating her when she would be out tinkering with an engine instead of doing her chores in the kitchen.  She has built a network of female mechanics that is spreading from city to city, and training former sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking to be mechanics.  Sandra believes that women are better suited to high quality, technical work on motor vehicles.  "Our clients keep coming back - they prefer us because we are determined to be better than a lot of mechanics who take their job and their salary for granted," she says. Sandra's Lady Mechanic Initiative has now spread to the north with its first project in Kano City where the response from Muslim women has been unprecedented. Culled from Al Jazeera

Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, granted an indefinite adjournment in the suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to stop the Federal Government from opening its case against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki is facing charges for alleged false declaration of assets. Though the appellate court initially slated yesterday to deliver judgment on whether or not Saraki should submit himself before the Justice Danladi Umar-led panel of CCT tomorrow, a senior registrar of the court, Mrs. Christine Aruna, informed all the parties that the judgment has been deferred indefinitely. Effort by newsmen to confirm why the Justice Moore Adumein panel decided to postpone the judgment met a brick wall, yesterday. The main entrance to the court was kept under lock and key as lawyers, Senators, journalists and supporters of the Senate President, who besieged the appellate court premises in their numbers, could not gain entrance into the court room. ...

International transparency group, Global Witness, yester-day, stated that Nigeria, Angola, Republic of Congo and the Democra-tic Republic of Congo lost about $4 billion (N800 billion) in shady oil and mining deals. Global Witness, in a recently released report, disclosed that anonymous companies facilitated the loss of national wealth on an epic scale, while it questioned the role of international oil companies that facilitate such deals. The report revealed how oil and mining assets worth $4 billion have been allocated to companies whose ownership is obscure. According to the report, in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, lucrative oil and mining licences were awarded to companies with hidden owners, diverting vast resource revenues to unknown private pockets. It added that in the Republic of Congo, a company whose beneficiaries remain uncertain – and which has historical connections to high ranking public officials — has recently received lucrative stakes in s...

Fake LASU result; Makanjuola The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old banker, Daniel Makanjuola, for using a cloned West African Senior School Certificate and Lagos State University’s statement of result to secure employment at the Wema Bank Plc, Marina branch, on the Lagos Island. The police said Makanjuola had paraded himself as a degree holder in marketing with Second Class, Upper Division, before his arrest. He was also said to have tendered a forged National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate and a reference letter to the bank. He claimed to have obtained the letter from United Bank for Africa, his purported former workplace. PUNCH Metro  learnt that the suspect, who hails from Ijero Local Government Area in Ekiti State, had joined the bank in 2013, before he was sacked in July 2015 after the documents were confirmed to be fake. It was gathered that the fraudulent act was discovered after the management sent a letter to the UBA to v...

The Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday engaged in war of words over President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade following the grilling of former Akwa Ibom State Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The opposition party while describing the anti-graft war as selective and a sham, said President Buhari is a dictator and urged him, if he is sincere, to go after former All Progressives Congress, APC governors, who had petitions against them for alleged corruption. EFCC INTERROGATION OF APKPABIO In a quick counter,  the presidency declared that the PDP is a party that needs pity because it has run out of ideas. Go after former APC Govs, PDP  tells Buhari Taking  a swipe at the APC-led government’s alleged persecution of Akpabio, the national leadership of the PDP said that the move is politically designed to weaken the PDP ahead of 2019 presidential e...

The maiden edition of Miss Bikini Nigeria International beauty pageant held penultimate Saturday in Lagos amid roller-coasting  pomp and pageantry. The event which took place on Saturday October 10, 2015, at Terra Kulture, was hosted by ex-BBA housemate, Melvin  Oduah. It was organised by Nollywood actress, Seyi Hunter. cross section of participants The beauty queens put up a great show, beginning with their choreographed session, to the time they strutted the runway in their bikinis.  ‘Miss Kwa’,  in the person of Blessing Williams emerged winner of the pageant, while Lolade Badmus emerged Miss Bikini Nigeria Ambassador and South-West Queen; Maryjane Balogun, Edith Hunter and Cynthia Chineme emerged North-Central, Niger-Delta and South-East Queens respectively.. The crowned queen of the bikini pageant, Blessing Williams, was presented with a brand new Kia Rio car and a cash prize of N1.5 million.  She will also represent Nigeria at the World Biki...

The red chambers of the national assembly resumes its screening of ministerial nominees today october 20,2015. Anxiety has gripped the senators and nominees. While nominees are bothered over the outcome of the exercise, the senators were unsettled by the decision of the court not to stop the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT from proceeding with its hearing of the false assets declaration suit against Senate President Bukola Saraki. The nominees for screening include Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Khadijah Abba-Ibrahim (Yobe); Claudius Omoleye Daramola (Ondo); Anthony Anwuka Gozie (Imo); Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan Ali, retd (Zamfara); James E. Ocholi (Kogi); Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed (Kaduna); Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno); Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto); Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa); Adamu Adamu (Bauchi); Pastor Usani Usani Uguru (Cross River) and Abubakar Bwari Bawa (Niger) There is  uncertainty that  former Governor of Rivers State, Ho...

Although, he is yet to fulfill his bail conditions. IPOB’s lawyer, Mr. Egechukwu Obetta lamented that Nnamdi Kanu was put in the same cell with terrorists despite his life threatening health challenges. He said Kanu is selective to delicacies, adding that he (Kanu) vowed never to eat any food served by the Federal Government of Nigeria. However, midway into the chat with his lawyer, a call came in, indicating that Kanu has been granted bail in the sum of N2 million or with surety of N2 million with a civil servant of grade level 16. Obetta further said that “Last week, the Afenifere threatened to secede but nobody was vilified. I am talking about the recent Olu Falae’s kidnap case. The militants in the Niger Delta has done same.” More details soon