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A 31-year-old hacker from Nigeria admitted in federal court his participation in a scheme to hack into computers and email accounts, and steal roughly $6.5 million from American companies last year. Obinna Obioha pleaded guilty to wire fraud and now faces 20 years in prison. “As part of his guilty plea, Obioha admitted that, while in Nigeria, he worked as an hacker, with others to hack into computers and email accounts used by dozens of victims in the United States and around the world,” U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Vadim D. Thomas, special agent in charge of the Albany…

Authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have reinstated two rusticated students, one of them visually-impaired, arising from a 2015 protest over official neglect of the halls of residence. The management had come under wide condemnation since the decision to rusticate the visually-impaired student, Lawrence Unezinwa Success and his colleague, Ochuba Chichebe Polycarp, who already obtained his certificate upon his graduation. Some student activists protested the university’s action, but the Vice Chancellor, Professor Rahman Bello, using Lagos Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni, framed those students and had them arrested and arraigned before a mobile magistrate court that was supposed to…

The Ohaneze Youth Parliament and Arewa Youth Parliament on April 19, 2017 passed a vote of confidence in Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the vigour he has brought to the operation of the anti-graft agency. Okonkwo Patrick, Speaker of the Ohaneze Youth Parliament, who led a team to the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC, also presented a meritorious Certificate of Credence to the EFCC boss. “The EFCC under the leadership of Ibrahim Magu has recorded tremendous achievements since he assumed office,” he said. While assuring Magu of the group’s support, he…

Tennis superstar Serena Williams has been confirmed pregnant and she will be taking maternity leave through the rest of 2017. Her spokeswoman said Serena is expected to give birth this fall, in an announcement that upended a sport the 35-year-old athlete has dominated for the past decade. The confirmation came hours after Williams, due to regain to the No. 1 world ranking next week, set off a day of frenzied speculation with a short-lived selfie posted on social media – posing for a photo in a yellow one-piece swimsuit on Snapchat with the caption: “20 weeks.” Williams deleted the photo…

The Presidency has commenced efforts to strengthen the mechanism of the Whistle blower policy following breakthroughs in the war against corruption and unaccounted wealth, an official has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this development to State House correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja. He noted that the enthusiastic response of Nigerians to the whistle blower policy had boosted the tempo of the anti-corruption crusade of the Buhari administration. According to him, the government is considering ways of enhancing the structural capacity of the whistle blower mechanism. “The government is considering empowering…

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has pumped a total $380million within two days into the Foreign Exchange Market. And the effect: a further strengthening of the Naira. The first tranche of $280m was released on Tuesday, On Wednesday, the bank offered additional $100 million to authorised dealers to meet the 7 to 15-day forwards requests of customers. The acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Mr Isaac Okorafor in a statement on Wednesday disclosed that the banks and authorised dealers were only able to pick up $68.51 million, out of the $100 million offered. Okorafor attributed the inability of the…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed to be having an upper-hand in the country’s stained relationship with U.S. when a video simulation of a North Korean nuclear missile attack was featured destroying what appears to be an unidentified American city. This occurred when Jong Un celebrated his grandfather’s birthday on Sunday with a rousing concert. According to reports, a full orchestra played alongside the video, which depicted missiles soaring over the Pacific and engulfing a city on the U.S. west coast. The videos ends with an American flag and a cemetery superimposed with flames. The propaganda video was reportedly…

The UN and AU have signed a new agreement to better respond to the changing dimensions and evolving challenges of peace operations on the African continent. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the Chairperson of AU, Moussa Mahamat, described the new agreement as a landmark framework to strengthen partnership between the two organisations on peace and security pillars. Guterres, in his remarks to newsmen after the event, noted that the region was in crisis. He, however, said that “Africa is a continent of hope and potential”. “We no longer have the traditional peacekeeping operations, where peacekeepers separate two countries or two…

Tennis superstar Serena Williams revealed on Wednesday that she is pregnant, posting a photo of herself in a yellow one-piece bathing suit on the social media site Snapchat with the caption “20 weeks.” The 35-year-old, who will return to the No. 1 ranking in the world next week, deleted the photo shortly after it appeared, and she had not commented further several hours later. A representative for Williams declined to comment on whether the post was a confirmation that she is pregnant. If Williams is indeed 20 weeks into her term, that would mean she was approximately two months pregnant…

The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday commenced the demolition of shanties within the creeks in Isawo community in Ikorodu, where suspected criminals hide to carry out their activities. No fewer than 13 suspected kidnappers were arrested in the operation and were currently helping the police to track down the remaining suspects still on the run. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, confirmed the operations to newsmen in Isawo. He said that the ongoing demolition was to clear the creeks of militants and other hoodlums hiding in them. Owoseni said that the operation was being conducted by a…