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The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 15, 2023, arraigned one Godwin Chukwuzubelu Godwin before Justice I.O. Ijelu of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Abdulkarim Chukkol named acting chairman of EFCC The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, contrary to Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006. He pleaded “not guilty” to the offence. In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, Ebuka S. Okongwu, prayed the court for a trial date and the…

The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, will meet President Bola Tinubu on Monday at the State House, Abuja. Dangote disclosed this after a closed-door session with Tinubu at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Friday. Tinubu tells journalists to report govt excesses “I did not come to do much. I only came to inform the President about our visit with Microsoft co-founder and my friend Bill Gates. We will both see the president on Monday when we come together,” he told State House correspondents. Although Dangote did not reveal the purpose of Monday’s visit,…

President Bola Tinubu congratulated the newly elected President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Eze Anaba, his executives, and other Guild contestants that lost out. Tinubu encouraged the journalists to place the profession in prime position to continually fulfil its constitutional obligation of serving as a watchdog for the people by checking the excesses of government. In a statement released on Friday by Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications, and Strategy. INEC wrong in declaring Tinubu winner – Dino Melaye tells PEPC “The last biennial convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) was…

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