Convicted Internet fraudster to wash school toilets for eight months

The federal and state high courts in Ibadan, Oyo State, and Osogbo, Osun State have convicted no fewer than five Internet fraudsters. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in a statement on Tuesday by the Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the cases were prosecuted by its Ibadan Zonal Command. A final-year student of Transport Planning Management at the Tai Solarin University, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Amusa Oluwasegunfunmi, was sentenced to eight months’ community service for fraudulent impersonation. Others are Ajisafe Olaide, Lawal Morenikeji, Osuolale Abiodun, and Olamilekan Taofeek.…

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We didn’t endorse Tinubu -Ohanaeze

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has denied endorsing the presidential aspiration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It stated this while reacting to a story, captioned: ‘Ohanaeze Ndigbo dumps Peter Obi, declares support for Tinubu’. According to a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, “the purveyor of the above remarks is Chief Solomon Aguene, the immediate past president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Lagos State Chapter.” The statement reads in part “Ohanaeze Ndigbo informs the general public that the current president of Ohanaeze…

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Eight years after, two kidnapped Chibok girls regain freedom

Two former schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists eight years ago, have been found by the Nigerian troops, the military revealed on Tuesday, freeing some of the last victims of the 2014 Chibok abduction. The two women each carried babies on their laps as they were presented by the military, after captivity with militants who stormed their school in April, 2014 in northeast Nigeria in a mass kidnapping that sparked international outrage. Major-General Christopher Musa, the military commander of troops in the region, told reporters the girls were…

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Man arrested for stripping and flogging girlfriend for cheating

A man identified as Fatai, has been arrested by the Kwara State Police alongside three of his friends for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, identified only as Aduke, over claims that she cheated on him. Aduke, a student of the Bartholomew College of Health, Kwara State, was said to have been invited to Fatai’s residence. It was learnt that when Aduke arrived at the house, she met Fatai and his three friends, who started interrogating her. The friends were said to have accused the undergraduate of cheating, as they grabbed her…

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