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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one Okoye Bethel Makuochukwu before Justice R.M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on one count of money laundering. Court jails Bureau de Change operator 2 years for $169,350 scam in Rivers Bethel, an undergraduate, was arrested in Zaria, Kaduna State, by security personnel and handed over to the Commission for further investigation. The investigation revealed that he assumed the identity of a foreigner, Violetqmartinez, and, in such character, defrauded unsuspecting victims by luring them into fake social relationships using…

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, under Justice E. A. Obile, has convicted and sentenced Felix Chiwendu to two years imprisonment for illegally operating a Bureau De Change business without a requisite licence. The offence contravenes Section 57 (1) of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, 2020, and is punishable under Section 57 (5) (b) (i), (ii), and (iii) of the same Act. Chiwendu was jailed on June 13, 2023, after pleading “guilty” to a one-count charge bordering on obtaining under pretences preferred against him by the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes…

Britain’s King Charles celebrated his first official birthday parade as sovereign on Saturday, riding on horseback to inspect soldiers in a ceremony that has been an annual event since 1760. The parade, known as “Trooping the Colour,”, comes just weeks after King Charles’s coronation on May 6, another ceremony featuring soldiers marching in scarlet coats and bearskin fur hats in central London, accompanied by music played by military bands. By appearing on horseback, King Charles, 74, revives a tradition that his mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave up in 1986 when she was 60. In what is the British military’s annual tribute…

Nigerian chef Damilola Adeparusi, popularly known as Chef Dammy, has disclosed plans to go on another 150-hour marathon cooking marathon to replace Hilda Baci as the world record holder for the longest cooking marathon by an individual. Chef Dammy, who recently concluded a 120-hour marathon cooking session on Wednesday morning, made this known in a statement shared on her Twitter handle on Saturday. She stated that the completed 120-hour marathon cook was not registered with Guinness World Records and that she intends to embark on another 150-hour cook-a-thon that will be registered with Guinness World Records. My 120-hour Cook-a-thon was…

A social media influencer who was trying to lose more than half her body weight as an inspiration to her followers has reportedly died while attending an intensive weight-loss boot camp in northwest China, fueling a debate over how to regulate the influencer industry. The death of the 21-year-old influencer, who posted under the name Cuihua, has prompted state media to warn about the safety risks involved in weight-loss camps and renewed concerns over the pressures women are under to conform to mainstream beauty standards. It has also intensified scrutiny of the influencer industry, coming just weeks after a young…

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the Babuyan Islands in the northern Philippines on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 34 km (21.13 miles), the USGS said. The Philippines’ state seismology agency said it was expecting aftershocks but no damage as a result of the offshore quake. The Southeast Asian nation lies within the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where volcanic activity and quakes are common. Reuters

Senator Hope Uzodimma, Governor of Imo State, has launched the 2023 Imo Muslim Pilgrimage for Hajj. Governor Uzodimma admonished the 200 Muslims in the state heading to Haji to be real ambassadors of the state and to be of good conduct at the Government House Exco Chambers in Owerri. Imo: Suspense as 13 Gov aspirants move to unseat Uzodimma The governor thanked the state’s Muslim population for their understanding and promised them of continuing peace for everybody. Some of the recipients took turns praying and thanking the governor for supporting their spiritual success and rejoicing with them. “I am the…

Nigeria’s immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will arrive in Sierra Leone today, Saturday, June 17, as Chairman of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), preparatory to the country’s general elections. Osinbajo, a professor of law, will lead the Commonwealth election observers to the parliamentary and presidential elections in Sierra Leone, scheduled for Saturday, June 23, 2023. According to the constituted body, the Commonwealth, Osinbajo’s COG is made up of 12 distinguished members from more than 10 different countries across the Commonwealth, with international expertise in law, politics, election administration, human rights, media, gender, and diplomacy. It also informed…

The National Population Commission (NPC) said yesterday that if the population and housing census fails to take place within the next 12 months, information that has been gathered across the country will become stale. It said that if the exercise is not held within the shortest possible time, it could mean that it will be started anew and the money already spent will be wasted. The Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti State at the NPC, Ayodeji Ajayi, stated this yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, during a meeting with media executives and other stakeholders on the postponement of the 2023 census. According to him,…

Canada’s population has reached more than 40 million, Statistics Canada said. The milestone comes amid a wave of new immigrants as part of Ottawa’s promise to bring in 500,000 people a year by 2025. The 40-million mark came faster than expected, Statistics Canada said, as the country added 1.1 million people in 2022, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants. That’s more than twice the federal government’s plan to welcome more than 430,000 new permanent residents last year. Last year was the first year population grew by more than a million people in a 12-month period, Statistics said, with 95.9…