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The Sokoto Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of two fraudsters, Abdulrahman Abdullahi, also known as A.A. Sabo, and Bashir Muhammad, for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and cheating. The duo were arraigned on separate one-count charges before the Sokoto State High Court. Abdulrahman Abdullahi was prosecuted before Justice Abubakar Adamu, while Bashir Muhammad appeared before Justice Muhammad Bargaja.The prosecutions were handled by EFCC counsel Aliyu Bokani Usman and Yusuf Kolapo Saidu. According to the commission, the convicts were initially arrested and transferred to the EFCC by the Department of…

By Wole Mosadomi Minna — Police in Niger State have rescued three abducted victims following a gun battle and arrested a suspected kidnapper in separate operations across the state. The three victims were freed on Monday after a combined team of police officers and local vigilantes raided the abductors’ hideout in the forest, engaging in a fierce gun battle. Confirming the incident, the state police spokesman, Superintendent Wasiu Abiodun, said it occurred in Mashegu Local Government Area. “On Thursday, February 5, at about 10 p.m., a report indicated that armed men invaded Aworo Village via Leaba Zugurma, Mashegu LGA, and…

Unity Bank Plc has announced winners in the 27th edition of its flagship Entrepreneurship Development Initiative, also known as Corpreneurship Challenge, following the conclusion of Business Pitch at the Batch C, Stream 2 edition of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation programme held across 10 states of the federation. Notably, Corps Members who graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), The Polytechnic, Ibadan, amongst several tertiary institutions, emerged from the latest round of the Corpreneurship Challenge business pitch. Participants pitched business ideas across diverse sectors such as fashion, agribusiness, footwear production, and services. At the Lagos State NYSC…

ADC has urges Tinubu to curb Wike over alleged plot to destabilise party in Rivers State. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Rivers State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene and rein in the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over an alleged plot to destabilise the party in the state. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the state chairman of the party, Chief Leader Sampson, alleged that the ADC in Ikwerre Local Government Area and by extension across the 23 local government areas of Rivers State is…

Thousands of students left Senegal’s top public university Tuesday after authorities closed campus housing following a student’s death during protests over unpaid financial aid. Abdoulaye Ba, a second-year medical student, died during protests at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the capital Dakar, authorities said. Burned cars and broken barricades still littered the university grounds on Tuesday following clashes a day before between the police and students. A video posted on social media Monday night shows flames and smoke coming from a four-story student housing building as students try to flee, some jumping from windows. Ba died in a nearby hospital…

A passenger aircraft carrying 55 people overran the runway at Somalia’s main airport and ended up in shallow water at a nearby beach Tuesday during an emergency landing following a technical problem shortly after takeoff. There were no injuries from the emergency landing at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport, and the 50 passengers and 5 crew members aboard the Starsky Aviation flight were safely evacuated, airline CEO Ahmed Nur said in a statement. “The aircraft overran on the runway” before coming to a rest at on the shore of the Indian Ocean near the airport, Nur said, adding, “No injuries,…

In this part of the world, it is not enough for politicians or their supporters to campaign, mobilise votes and then go back into a deep sleep in the comfort of their homes. Such action may be tantamount to committing political suicide. Until final results are declared at collation centres, nobody sleeps. That concept could have been derived from the biblical passage, which talks about the enemy coming when men slept, planting tares among the wheat, and quietly going away. After ballots have been cast, political destiny changers lurk around and use the cover of darkness to alter the people’s…

The amnesty is aimed at promoting peace, democratic coexistence and national reconciliation as the South American country enters a new era following the seizure of former President Nicolas Maduro by the United States. It passed unanimously on 5 February by Venezuelan legislators in the first of two readings. The amnesty “offers an opportunity to provide justice and alleviate the suffering of the many people who have been unlawfully detained for political reasons in Venezuela,” said Alex Neve, a member of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Venezuela.“This law has the potential to contribute to restoring rights and repairing Venezuela’s social…