The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Friday, May 17, 2019, arraigned two legal practitioners, Tom Awhana and Paul Okoro, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a 19-count charge bordering on conspiracy to steal and stealing to the tune of N192,436,342.30 (One Hundred […]
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The incident is learnt to have taken place in June, 2017 but the airline has failed to get the amount retrieved from the Nigerian bank account. Public sector Air India’s New York office transferred $300,000 to a bank account in Nigeria instead of remitting the sum to a US-based firm Pratt & Whitney for supplying
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Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. (Supplied) Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, has been provisionally sequestrated and is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. Levick, who was known as an innovator
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The security guard who was recently run over by a vehicle in a parking area while directing traffic is in a stable condition, but only time will reveal the extent of his injuries, his family has said. After a video emerged of Mzwanele Wellem, 39, being run over by a motorist at a shopping complex
The Blackfriars Crown Court in the United Kingdom has sentenced six Nigerians and five other foreigners to more than 43 years imprisonment for defrauding many businesses and individuals of millions of dollars. The Nigerians include three brothers, two women who are wives to two of the brothers, and the sixth person who is their associate.
Armed police swooped on an east London mosque after a “masked” gunman entered the building during Ramadan prayers before shooting his weapon outside. Worshippers at the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford were part-way through evening prayers late on Thursday when the sound of a gunshot rang out. A man, said to have had his face
Tulsa World staffers received dozens of calls from Sierra Leone phone numbers, some listed as originating from the U.S., that are said to be part of a call-back scam. Recent calls from Sierra Leone to people in the Tulsa area and around the state are reportedly scams. The Sand Springs Police Department put out a
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Cape Town – In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to start a company that was going to revolutionise healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9bn, making Holmes, who was touted as ‘the next Steve Jobs’, and the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was
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Paris – A Russian athlete who infamously used the identity of a friend to circumnavigate her country’s state-sponsored doping suspension was on Wednesday handed a 12-year ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced. Kseniya Savina, 29, underwent an out-of-competition control in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 15, 2018 with banned blood booster EPO detected in her
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A Nigerian grandma whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in the U.S state of Maryland, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Oluremi Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, “It was a mistake” and “I didn’t want to kill that child.” Adeleye
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