Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume has been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Center, by the Federal High Court in Abuja following his inability to produce the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, whom he stood surety for. Maina is answering to a 12-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and a firm, Common Input Properties & Investment Limited. EFCC alleged that he used account of the firm and laundered funds to the tune of about N2billion, part…
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Reps Speaker, Gbajabiamila to adopt dead newspaper vendor’s children
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has promised a trust fund for children of the newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke, who was shot dead by his(Gbajabiamila) security aide, Abdullahi Hassan. Gbajabiamila made the disclosure yesterday when he paid a condolence visit to members of the Abuja Newspapers Distributors Association (ANDA). In his words, the Speaker said “The decease was a hardworking citizen. When I visited his family yesterday and carried the one-week-old child, I was emotional because I know I was standing as a pseudo father for the child.…
Read MoreTask force members detained after taking N100,000 bribe from actress
DSP Popoola Kayode; a team leader in the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, alongside his members have been arrested and detained for allegedly extorting N100,000 from a traffic offender, Didi Ekanem who is an actress . The actress who was held for traffic offence around Lekki axis of Lagos, accused the state task force of extortion and harassment. She also granted an interview with Punch Newspaper, alleging that the team leader also made sexual advances at her, and demanded money; she said she transferred…
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