Day: February 7, 2020

Kwara state: Harmony Holdings Ex-Director, Adebayo Sanni loses building to EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on February 5, 2020 secured the final forfeiture of a building belonging to Adebayo Sanni, immediate past Executive Director of Harmony Holdings Limited of Kwara State Government. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin granted the application filed by the counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola after the respondent failed to show up in Court to challenge the legality of the proceedings. Ola, while moving the application, told the Presiding Judge that: “My lord, we…

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NYSC: We will continue to prosecute people with fake certificates

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National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has said it will not condone anyone found with fake certificates. The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, raised the alarm over the increase in the number of Nigerians involved in fraudulent foreign degree certificates, he decried the level of harm such certificates could do to the socio-economic life of the country if the holders were inadvertently employed. Speaking at the 2020 Batch A pre-mobilisation workshop held in Asaba, Delta State, Ibrahim said the Corps has been able to apprehend many who present themselves…

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INEC delists 74 political parties

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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said it has deleted 74 political parties, and that only 18 political parties survived, including one registered after the elections and another that obtained a court order to avoid de-registration. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, announced that the commission decided to re-register 74 of them. Yakubu said the affected parties failed to meet the criteria provided for by section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The conditions, according to the said section, include: “breach of any of the requirements for registration as a party,…

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Zenith Bank staff in N700m Fraud

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One of Nigeria’s financial institutions, Zenith Bank Plc is in the news for bad reasons. The bank’s staff, Omotola Fawehinmi managing an account belonging to Mobilng Huil Service Limited was alleged to have shortchanged the customer of the bank to the tune of N700million as a result of debiting the customer’s accounts at different times fraudulently. This fraudulent act of the banker has invited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and prosecution of Fawehinmi has begun at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on a five-count charge of forgery and…

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