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E FCC Docked Retired Prisons Comptroller for N8.7m Land Scam The Abuja Zonal Command of the EFCC on June 21, 2022, arraigned one Kayode Raphael Odeyemi, a 62-year-old retired Deputy Comptroller of Correction, before Justice M.A. Madugu of the FCT High Court, Bwari Abuja on a two count charge for offences bordering on land fraud. Count one of the charge reads, “that you, Kayode Raphael Odeyemi sometime in December 2019 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretense and with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of N6,500,000 (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) from Joseph N. Emelieze, paid into your First Bank account number 2015894843, under the pretense that the said payment was meant for purchase of plot of land situate at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja, a fact which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same A...

      S anusi Denies Endorsing Peter Obi, Labour Party blasts Atiku, Tinubu The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, has debunked a statement making the rounds endorsing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. The viral post had Sanusi blasting the All Progressives Congress presidential candidates (APC), Bola Tinubu, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, describing them as unfit to be Nigeria’s next president. But, the Chief of Staff to the deposed Emir of Kano, Munir Sunusi Bayero, in a statement on Monday said Sanusi did not write the viral post. The statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to an article circulating the online media space analysing the motives of the three presidential candidates in the 2023 elections. “We would like to emphatically state that this was not authored by His Highness, Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II as is being widely attributed.” Bayero noted that the former CBN Governor does not be...

  Anthony Joshua   and  Oleksandr Usyk’s  rematch in mid-August. According to reports, the Middle Eastern country will splash out an eye-watering £65m ($80m) to host the second fight. This fee surpasses the colossal £48.7m they paid for Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr II – however, Joshua is set to receive a smaller cut this time. The exact split is unknown for Joshua’s Saudi showdown with Ruiz Jr, but he is believed to have taken the largest slice despite being the challenger. Against Usyk, this will not be the case. Reports suggest there will be a 50-50 purse split between the pair, meaning despite a larger overall fee, Joshua could be earning less for this fight than he did against Ruiz Jr. Clearly, there is a massive appetite in the nation to bring big-money super fights to the Arabian Peninsula. The deal has the full backing of the Ministry of Sport, and Skills Challenge Entertainment, a sports and entertainment agency based in Riyadh. But not everyone agrees w...

    I NEC reveals only way Lawan can return to Senate, advises Machina The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has explained the only way Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, could return to the Senate in 2023. From INEC’s explanation, Lawan or any individual in his position is left at the mercy of the candidates who have been legally and constitutionally nominated by their political parties. Although the INEC’s National Commissioner of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, who appeared on Arise TV on Monday morning, said he has not come across the names of candidates submitted by political parties, viral report has it that the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Yobe North Senatorial District has replaced the name of Bashir Machina with that of Lawan. While Senator Lawan was battling for the APC presidential ticket, Machina was declared the winner of the Yobe North Senatorial District primary election. Okoye said that the Commission monitored and has the report...

H ousemaid sentenced to de@th for murder of Igbinedion's mom. The Housemaid who str@ngled ex-governor, Lucky Igbinedion's mum has been sentenced to d*ath by hanging for k!lling the 85-year-old woman before carting away her jewelry at her residence in GRA Benin city. In her confession she said: I k!lled mama to carry her money. She did not offend me. While she was sleeping on her bed, around 12:01 a.m. on December 2, 2021, I used a stool to hit her on the head and she was shouting for help but only the gateman was around and he did not hear the shout. Mama later d!ed. I waited till 4 a.m. before leaving the house with her N100,000, wristwatch and jewellery. I escaped to Cross River State, but I was later arrested by the police. The court sentenced Dominion to d*ath by hanging for murd*r and robbery with violence while she bagged life imprisonment for count two which was for applying harmful substances to the late Madam Igbinedion.