Police in Eastern China’s Anhui Province have detained 62 people over a massive telecom fraud. The fraud caused the 62 people swindled over $1.77 million out of more than 1,500 victims across the country. Earlier in January 2019, a victim surnamed, Qiu, reported to the local Police Chuzhou city that he had been cheated of […]
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Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that over 75 per cent of electronics devices imported into Nigeria are irreparable and toxic junk. Danbatta stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during the public inquiry on draft guidelines on disaster recovery and draft regulations on e-waste. He said Nigeria had
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Peterborough woman faces multiple charges after cheque fraud investigation A Peterborough woman is facing charges including theft and possession of stolen property following an investigation. Late last month, officers with the Peterborough Police Service investigated the theft of a cheque which was later signed by an unknown person, then cashed at a Money Mart in
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A 35-year-old man, Akinwande Ewegbayi, was on Monday brought before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun over alleged N800,000 fraud. Ewegbayi, who lives at No. 26, Oretola St., Iyana-Ilogbo, Ota in Ogun, is facing a three-count charge of fraud, conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Abdulkareem Mustapha, told the court that
EFCC had earlier linked 38 houses to Olojeme but it has obtained a court order to seize 37. In one of the houses at No. 25, Kainji Crescent, Off Lake Chad Crescent, Maitama , Abuja, the EFCC detectives were said to have uncovered a state of the art bathroom suspected to have cost about $2m
United States government lawyers called it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department. On March 12, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling announced that 50 people across the country had been charged in a $25-million plot to reportedly buy admission into top American colleges. Lelling said the plot was set up to guarantee admissions
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Some concerned Britons have demanded the resignation of the country’s High Commissioner to Nigeria and other consulate officials alleged to have taken bribes during an election that held in Nigeria . Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State reportedly traded $1 million kickbacks to the British diplomats in exchange of
https://youtu.be/shQvF7zq6-M A suspected white supremacist was charged with murder after 49 people were killed and dozens were injured in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques on Friday, in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a “terrorist attack”. A 28-year-old Australian suspect, identified as Brenton Harrison Tarrant, appeared in Christchurch district court on Saturday at
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US federal prosecutors have charged the Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, along with almost 50 other people, over a $25m scheme to help wealthy Americans buy their children’s way into elite universities including Yale, Georgetown, Stanford and the University of Southern California Huffman appeared in court in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, where a
Anorak received an urgent email from the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde: Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA Dear Mr. Sir, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I am Dr.
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