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AfDB Chief, Adesina Reveals How Nigeria Can Be Restructured

Corruption At AfDB: U.S. Rejects Adesina’s Exoneration

May 25, 2020 10:28 am

The United States has rejected the clean bill given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina by the African Development Bank (AfDB) ethics committee, over corruption allegations.

Instead, the U.S. has called for an independent probe, thus upending AfDB’s board decision to end an investigation against Adesina.

In a letter dated May 22 and addressed to Niale Kaba, chairwoman of the bank’s board of governors, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury disagreed with findings by the bank’s ethics committee that “totally exonerated” Adesina.

Kaba confirmed receipt of the document and declined further comment, according to Bloomberg.

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50 Trafficked Nigerian Girls, Others Evacuated From Lebanon

50 Trafficked Nigerian Girls, Others Evacuated From Lebanon

May 25, 2020 5:26 am

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has announced that 69 Nigerians who were evacuated from Lebanon have arrived the country.

Read Also: Human Trafficking: Immigration ‘Arrest 7 Girls’

Onyeama, who disclosed this in a tweet via his Twitter account, said the evacuees- 50 trafficked Nigerian girls and 19 stranded Nigerians arrived in Abuja on Sunday.

 

He said “With the financial and logistic support of the Lebanese Government and Lebanese community in Nigeria, 50 trafficked Nigerian girls and 19 stranded Nigerians were successfully evacuated and arrived Nigeria today.

“Profound gratitude to Ambassador Houssam Diad, Lebanese Ambassador in Nigeria and

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Thousands protest in Hong Kong over China security law proposal

Thousands Protest In Hong Kong Over China Security Law Proposal

May 24, 2020 5:14 pm

Police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters who gathered Sunday against a controversial security law proposed by China, in the most intense clashes for months.

As the demonstrators and police were facing off in the semi-autonomous financial hub, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi insisted in Beijing that the proposed law must be imposed “without the slightest delay”.

The planned legislation — expected to ban treason, subversion and sedition — comes after Hong Kong was shaken last year by months of massive, often-violent protests, and repeated warnings from Beijing that it would not …

Phone Contacts To Report Army, Police Brutality In Nigeria

Phone Contacts To Report Army, Police Brutality In Nigeria

May 24, 2020 8:24 am

Phone lines have been released to the general public for them to use to report cases of police or army brutality problems.

These problems are very rampant in the normal Nigerian society and the only way to curb them is to set up agencies and accessible call networks that can be accessed by all members of the general public.

Read Also: 9 IPOB Members Caught With Police Guns Arrested In Delta

The lines include:

Call:
+61434294745; +61478489664;
+447459139001 & +447440238814.

 

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Old Inmates Gang Up, Attempt Jailbreak In Aba

Abia: Old Inmates Gang Up, Attempt Jailbreak In Aba

May 23, 2020 8:53 am

The Nigerian Correctional Service, Abia Command, said it is investigating a jailbreak attempt which took place in Aba on Saturday.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Kalu Ikpe, who spoke to newsmen on Friday in Aba, said that that the service was “still carrying our preliminary investigation into the matter”.

However, one inmate was feared dead with many others injured at the Nigeria Correctional Service Centre, Aba when the incident occurred.

The jailbreak attempt, said to have been spearheaded by long-term serving inmates, was foiled by men of the service who allegedly applied force to quell it.

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U.S. Jails Nigerian Emmanuel Odiah For 54 Months Over $600K Fraud

U.S. Jails Nigerian Emmanuel Odiah For 54 Months Over $600K Fraud

May 23, 2020 8:52 am

A Nigerian Emmanuel Odiah has been sentenced to 54 months in U.S. federal prison after pleading guilty for money laundering.

The charge was in connection with a wire-fraud scheme that swindled victims out of more than $600,000.

U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader, Western District of Wisconsin, announced the sentence.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Vilas County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.

“Odiah participated in a scheme that manipulated elderly and other vulnerable individuals with a total disregard for the financial and emotional devastation it caused,” said U.S. Attorney Blader.

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Two Chinese Accused Of N100m Bribery Offer Get Bail, Passports Seized

Two Chinese Accused Of ₦100m Bribery Offer Get Bail, Passports Seized

May 23, 2020 5:41 am

Justice Muhammad Saidu Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court has granted bail to two Chinese, Messrs Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi.

They are officials of China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd, a company under probe for an alleged contract scam of over ₦50billion awarded by the ex-Zamfara Governor, Abdul’aziz Yari between 2012 to 2019.

They are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for offering ₦100million bribe to the agency’s Sokoto Zonal Head, Abdulahi Lawal.

Read Also: Two Chinese Arrested For Offering ₦100m Bribe To EFCC

The judge granted the defendants bail in the sum of N5million

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Cyprus Bound Student Nabbed With 13.55kg Of Cannabis

Nigeria Customs Intercept ₦1.2bn Cannabis – Largest Single Bust’

May 22, 2020 11:48 am

Operatives of the Western Marine Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted drugs suspected to be Cannabis Sativa valued at ₦1,002,050,000 during a seagoing patrol on Lagos waters.

The Controller of the command, Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, revealed this in a statement in Lagos on Thursday.

Peters described the seizure as the “largest single seizure” of such drugs on the waters in the history of the Nigeria Customs.

He said that his men relied on intelligence and carried out round the clock surveillance for a period of three days before swooping on the target area where the seizure was made.…

“Countdown to your destruction has begun” – Hackers attack Israel

“Countdown To Your Destruction Has Begun” – Hackers Attack Israel

May 22, 2020 8:55 am

More than a dozen websites were attacked on Thursday by anti-Israel hackers.

They posted a video about the destruction of Israel, replacing the affected sites’ normal content.

According to DPA, Israeli media reported that the hacked sites were showing a video with the message: “The countdown of Israel destruction has begun since a long time ago”.

The message, written in Hebrew and English, was accompanied by images of what appeared to be a destroyed Tel Aviv.

Israeli web company, UPress in a statement, said the deliberate attack targeted multiple sites it was hosting.

The firm added that it was working …

18-Year-Old Wife Salma Hassan Kills Husband To Avoid Sex

18-Year-Old Wife Salma Hassan Kills Husband To Avoid Sex

May 22, 2020 6:27 am

Salma Hassan, an 18-year-old housewife, who allegedly stabbed her husband to death, said that she did that because she didn’t know that sex was part of marital obligations.

Whilst being detained by Bauchi Police Command, Salma Hassan told newsmen that she killed her husband, Mohammed Mustafa because she thought he was trying to defile her.

“I didn’t know that sex is a marital obligation. On that day, when he approached me for sex, I refused because I have never been involved in it before.

“I thought he wanted to rape me but he got angry and was trying to

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Death Toll Rises From Yobe Attacks, Pope Condems Violence

Death Toll Rises From Yobe Attacks, Pope Condems Violence

May 21, 2020 11:16 am

According to the Associated Press, the Nigerian Red Cross confirmed on Sunday that the death toll in the recent northeast Nigerian attacks launched by Boko Haram has risen to over 100, and is expected to get higher.

Local clinics and hospitals are still counting the casualties from the attacks Friday in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, Ibrahim Bulama told The Associated Press.

Despite the gruesome violence of the past few days, however, Bulama confirmed to the AP that the city’s Muslim inhabitants in the somber town still celebrated the religious Eid-el Kabir although amid tight security.

The AP also reported …

The Father-Son Duo Accused Of Masterminding Ghosn's Japan Escape

The Father-Son Duo Accused Of Masterminding Ghosn’s Japan Escape

May 21, 2020 3:21 am

The American men accused of smuggling former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn out of Japan are a former US special forces operative who spent time in prison and his football-playing son.

On the surface, Michael Taylor, 59, and Peter Taylor, 27, appeared to be living a quintessential American middle-class life in the small, wealthy town of Harvard, Massachusetts.

But from there, US prosecutors say, the pair drew on the elder Taylor’s experience as an ex-Green Beret to plot a brazen escape worthy of a Hollywood movie.

Ghosn is now living as a fugitive in Lebanon after he absconded on December 29, …

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