November 2019

Fraud

6 Indian Students Jailed In U.S. Over Immigration Fraud

November 11, 2019 1:10 pm
A U.S. court has sentenced six of the eight Indians arrested in the Farmington University immigration fraud case, as per U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations.

The Indian students were arrested on charges of running a “Pay to Stay” visa racket wherein they were assisted hundreds of immigrants in illegally prolonging their stays in the US.

Six were arrested in Detroit, one in Florida and one in Virginia on orders of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.

All eight defendants, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India, pleaded guilty, Khaalid …

Aisha Buhari To Nigerians: Be The Change You Want To See

November 11, 2019 1:09 pm

The First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has advised Nigerians to be the change they want to see in the country.

This is even as she entreated heads of families to wake up to their responsibilities in the society.

She made the call at a special prayer session for the nation hosted by her office and the Chief Imam of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mrs. Buhari said: “Let us manifest in ourselves the change we want to see in our society and our nation.

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“I therefore call on heads of families to …

Railway Wagon Assembly’ll Generate 5000 Jobs – Amaechi

November 11, 2019 1:08 pm

Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that the railway wagon assembly plant under construction at Kajola in Ogun State, would generate about 5,000 jobs when completed.

The Minister said this at the weekend during the plant’s ground-breaking ceremony performed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the project site in Kajola.

Amaechi described the plant as one of the gains of the Federal Government’s partnership with the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) under the ongoing rail construction projects, particularly the contract for the supply of rolling stock for the Abuja-Kaduna, Warri-Itakpe and Lagos-Ibadan rail lines.

He said:

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DBN Disburses ₦100bn To MSMEs In 2019

November 11, 2019 1:07 pm

In its efforts to grow the economy, the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) said it has so far disbursed over ₦100 billion to about 95,000 MSMEs cutting across various sectors of the economy. The bank said 70 per cent of these loans went to women-owned/managed businesses, while 51 per cent so far were disbursed to youth owned businesses.It said it remains set to boost disbursements to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across the country, with a focus on the identified underserved areas.

Speaking on the development during the first DBN MSME Summit held recently in Maiduguri, Borno State, the …

NUFBTE Suspends Picketing Of Deli Food

November 11, 2019 1:06 pm

The National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) has suspended picketing and other industrial action planned against Deli Food for the company’s alleged anti labour activities.

Recall that the union had shut down the operation of the company recently alleging that the company was proposing to sack over 300 workers without compensation.

After hours of intense negotiations, the management of Deli Food and the union  have reached agreement over the way forward in the crisis.

The union has also accused Deli Food management of stopping gratuity for the workers since 2012, adding that there has been a lot …

Govs, Dangote Head To Seattle For Healthcare Roundtable

November 11, 2019 11:58 am

In a bid to improve healthcare delivery across Nigeria, Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed alongside the Governors of Borno, Lagos and Gombe states, accompanied by the President of the Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, headed for the United States on Monday for a crucial meeting in Seattle.

A statement signed by the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media, Muktar Gidado, and made available to Daily Sun, disclosed that Mohammed and others in the Nigerian delegation would be participating in a round table discussion on healthcare interventions for their respective states with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and …

Otedola Doles Out ₦5bn For North-East Intervention

November 11, 2019 11:58 am
Billionaire entrepreneur and Executive Chairman of Geregu Power Plc, Mr. Femi Otedola, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children charity to support its intervention in the North-East.

This is arguably the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history.

Otedola made the donation, yesterday,  at the ball organised by the Cuppy Foundation to raise funds for Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity.

Cuppy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola (aka DJ Cuppy), who is Femi Otedola’s daughter.

Speaking at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, while making his presentation, Otedola pledged to devote his …

Kogi: Hoodlums Attack, Raze Down SDP Secretariat

November 11, 2019 11:56 am

As tensions and apprehension trail the upcoming governorship election in Kogi State, hoodlums suspected to be political hirelings of a leading party in the state have reportedly attacked the state secretariat of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), burning the property.

According to an eyewitness account, the incident was said have happened at the early hours of Monday, November 11.

An earlier attack on the SDP state secretariat, located close to the APC state secretariat opposite the Lokoja local government secretariat along Murtala Way, involved vandalism.

In that attack, the windows and doors of the secretariat were shattered, while banners, posters …

Customs

Customs Generates ₦1.002trn Revenue In 9 Months

November 11, 2019 11:55 am
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated revenue of about ₦1.002 trillion from January to September 2019.

The data received by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from the Department of Research and Statistics and confirmed by the NCS’s public relations office indicated that the revenue was generated from 32 commands.

The statistics showed that the service recorded the highest revenue of ₦123.6 billion in the month of July followed by N118.6 billion realised in May.

The data also revealed that the lowest revenue was recorded in the month of February with N86.3 billion.

The low in February’s revenue might

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Oil Marketer For Trial Dec 10 Over Dud Cheque

November 11, 2019 11:52 am

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja has fixed December 10 for the trial an oil marketer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun, who was accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of allegedly issuing dud cheques valued at $1.6 million

Oluokun was arraigned on January 21, 2019 alongside his  oil firm, Peak Petroleum Industry Nigeria Limited, by EFCC on two counts charge.

EFCC in a charge marked ID/8509c/19, alleged that the defendant and his company, sometimes in 2014, approached the management of GOSL Nigeria Limited, for a loan of $1million and $666,666 respectively to enable them …

Chairman Uche Secondus As Academic Assessor?

November 11, 2019 9:28 am

We know that it is obviously more comforting to be confidently adorned in the attire of a role model and exemplar, rather than  one playing to the gallery and pontificating strange precepts that  instantly belie your visibly contrarian  persona. Now just imagine a scenario where an inverterate and unrepentant chain smoker is invited as guest Speaker in a forum on the ravages of lung cancer. He begins by admirably ventilating these hard facts from Google on lung cancer:

“Lung cancer essentially originates from the lungs. Its rising incidence world-wide is associated with smoking and increasing levels of air pollution”

Now

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Commercial Sex Worker Stabbed To Death Over Price

November 11, 2019 9:28 am

A  commercial sex worker was at the weekend, stabbed dead by a customer at the popular Edo Hotel, Atan street, Empire area of  Surulere, Lagos.

Babatunde, a regular caller at the hotel, had attacked one of the commercial sex workers, Elochukwu, with a knife over  argument on the price of sex.

A witness, Wasiu, said: “Babatunde, who is a frequent caller to the hotel, stabbed a sex worker with a kitchen knife that was used for cutting vegetables.

“He attacked two other men who tried to stop him from fleeing the spot. The woman and two others were rushed to

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