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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