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EFCC has arraigned Mohammed Adamu, the son of former governor of Nasarawa state, Abdullahi Adamu - Adamu was arraigned for five counts on money laundering alongside one Felix Ojiako - The accused are to remain in EFCC custody till February 7 when the court will rule on their bail application The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Mohammed Adamu, son of former governor of Nasarawa state, Abdullahi Adamu. Adamu was arraigned on Wednesday, January 17, alongside one Felix Ojiako on five counts of money laundering before Justice J.K Dagat of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Channels TV reports. Collinrex gathered that the anti-graft agency revealed the development in a statement signed by the EFCC acting head of media and publicity, Samin Amaddin. Adamu was petitioned by one Atta Esin, the executive director of Biolocks Technologies Limited. Esin accused the former governor’s son of using his company’s name, Biolocks, to execute a contract w...

Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and presiding Bishop of the megachurch Faith Tabernacle in Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria, aka Winners' Chapel, during a recent church service claimed that a group, the Fulani Nationality Movement, sent him a letter stating that herdsmen attacks won't stop until the government built a cattle colony.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) and governors elected on its platform would meet at the party national secretariat on Wednesday Jan. 17. APC Newsmen report that the consultative meeting according to a source at the party’s national secretariat will discuss the 2019 general election time table issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently.   The meeting is expected to also fix a date for the party’s congresses and national convention that had been slated to hold this year. “The governors and the NWC members will discuss the issue of the party congress and convention; they will also look at the INEC 2019 general election timetable, “As you know, this will be the first consultative meeting in 2018. “The meeting is expected to be attended by the governors as other national issues as regards APC winning the 2019 general elections will be discussed,’’ the source said. The APC consultative meeting was i...

Lassa fever outbreak in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has claimed some healthcare providers at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA). Sources said that two doctors and a nurse died at the weekend while some persons are in the intensive care unit of the hospital. A hospital source told Ripples Nigeria that “A medical student and a nurse are also receiving treatment at the moment with poor prognostic indices.” While urging anyone going to the state to be careful, he also advised those presently in the state to employ the universal precautions of infectious viral diseases. When contacted on the telephone, the Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the state, Dr Austin Ikwudimma, confirmed the outbreak of the disease. He however expressed fear that more people might be affected as it has potency of wide range spread. Lassa fever outbreak had repeatedly claimed the lives of medical personnel and others in the state. The last outbreak about two years ago...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered the Deposit Money Banks in the country to suspend the bank accounts and Bank Verification Numbers of their customers linked with any fraudulent activities. The order was contained in a framework released by the CBN to guide the banks in the operations of the BVN. The framework came barely one year after the CBN mandated all bank customers in the country to obtain their BVN. As a result of the framework, a number of the DMBs have written to their customers, informing them of the development and their readiness to suspend any account linked to any fraudulent activity. For instance, Skye Bank Plc has written to its customers, informing them that the CBN framework on the operations of the BVN had given it the right to suspend all accounts linked to fraudulent activities. The bank’s letter to its customers on the development, a copy of which was obtained by correspondent, read, “This is to inform you that the CBN recently released ...

Fiery lawyer, Jesutega Onokpasa, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. In a statement on Friday, Onokpasa blamed Olorogun O’tega Emerho, and Mr. Samuel Adjogbe, Executive Director Projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC for his defection. “On behalf of O’tega and Adjogbe, I ended up quarrelling with political friends and associates of mine I had known ever before I met them”, he said. “When APC started in Delta, it had no voice and I gave it the most committed and pronounced voice imaginable, making enemies of erstwhile political associates for the benefit of those two ingrates. “For APC, I fought Governor Okowa, fought Tompolo. For O’tega and Adjogbe, I fought all manner of foes only for the ingrates to turn around and stab me in the back. ”I thank God for bringing me back to base. APC is a party of pathological liars, backstabbers and famished men out to milk Delta State and Nigeria dry “O’tega and Adjogb...

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