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Former head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar on Thursday denied that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) searched his house in Minna, Niger State. A statement by his Military Assistant Captain J. Mfon (rtd), said: “The attention of His Excellency, Gen. A A A Abubakar has been drawn to reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) searched his house in Minna, Niger State, on the orders of its Acting Chairman, CP Ibrahim Magu, and he feels the need to put the record straight: his house has never been searched by either EFCC or any security agency. “However,…

Suspended Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Ibrahim Magu says he never mentioned Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s name, speak less give him N4 billion. Magu is grilled by a Presidential Panel led by Justice Ayo Salami for allegations of misconduct levelled against him by Minister of Justice and Attorney-General Abubakar Malami. Grilled alongside Magu are 16 top officials of EFCC and the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). Others grilled are: Secretary to the EFCC Mr. Ola Oloyede, Director of Operations Mr. Mohammed Umar and a former Director of Organisational support – now a Commissioner of Police – Bolaji Salami.…

Notorious fake news merchant, Jackson Ude has been exposed yet again for his lies after he claimed Kiki Osinbajo, daughter of the Vice President of Nigeria owned a N800 million building in Abuja. Ude had claimed that Kiki owned the building and was probing how she could have had so much money to own such a building. In a tweet he wrote, “How did Kiki Osinbajo, VP Osinbajo’s daughter, earn N800million she invested in the property housing her Glam’d Africa Beauty House in Abuja on 10 Durban Street, Wuse 2. Abuja? In response to his fraudulent tweet, Kiki took to…

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden has laid out his rescue plan for the coronavirus-crippled US economy, while berating President Donald Trump as incompetent. Mr Biden said his $700bn (£560bn) plan would be the biggest investment in the US economy since World War Two. The “Build Back Better” agenda, he said, would spur a manufacturing and technology jobs boom. The Trump campaign responded that the plan would inflict “catastrophe”. Mr Biden is all but guaranteed to face off with Mr Trump in this November’s presidential election. Speaking at a metalworks firm near his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Mr…

Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has introduced the new UBA Naira Credit Card to its teeming customers in fulfilment of its promise to ease accessibility to funds and improve the overall standard of living. With the new UBA Naira Credit Card, customers whose salary accounts have been domiciled with the bank for a minimum of three months and are employees of corporates under UBA’s approved counterparty list with minimum net monthly income of N250,000 are in for a stress-free business and personal lifestyle. They will be qualified to access up to N3m credit, with extremely…

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Kosofe Constituency II, Hon. Tunde Braimoh is dead. Confirming his death, Hon. Sanni Ganeey Okanlawon from Kosofe Constituency 1, wrote on Facebook “One death too many, Tunde Braimoh, Sun re o, (sleep well),” he wrote. Until his death, he was the chairman, Lagos House of Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy and Security. Kwara Chief Of Staff, Logun, dies of COVID-19 He was also a former chairman of Kosofe local government and the Bamofin of Ketuland.

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he cannot leave Mason Greenwood out of his team after the teenager scored for the third straight Premier League game. The English forward, 18, took his tally to 16 for the campaign by netting in United’s 3-0 victory at Aston Villa. Only George Best, Brian Kidd and Wayne Rooney – all with 17 – scored more as teenagers in one season for United. Solskjaer said “it’s up to him [Greenwood] how far he wants to go”. Academy product Greenwood has shown during his breakthrough season why he is rated so highly at the club,…

A first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dauda Lawal, Executive Director, First Bank Plc, has told Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how he delivered 12 padlocked bags containing $70m to an Abuja-based banker on the instruction of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. The witness, a former Group General Manager, GGM, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, gave the testimony before Justice Hassan on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Lawal is facing trial for allegedly handling the sum of $25m, out of a total of $153m doled out by Diezani in…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 499 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Thursday. The 499 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 30748. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 173 patients from isolation centers across the country with four new deaths reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria topped the number of confirmed cases with 157 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 11827. Nigeria announces 460 new coronavirus cases Edo state recorded 59…

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain has said their new strategy is to link Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to corruption. The chieftain who spoke to this newspaper off the record said Osinbajo had become increasingly popular among All Progressives Congress (APC) personalities for 2023. “Nigerians generally see Osinbajo has a man who has integrity and are tipping him to succeed his boss who has failed woefully but we won’t allow that to happen. “We will deploy all strategies available to rubbish him by linking him to multiple corruption cases. The PDP chieftain said that the party also plans to unearth…