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Man, 35, faces N800,000 fraud charge in Ogun Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/man-35-faces-n800000-fraud-charge-in-ogun/

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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 […]

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EFCC Seizes House With Bathroom Worth $4m, 36 Other Assets; Freezes 30 Bank Accounts Of Ex-NSITF Boss

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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

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Students, Schools React to $25-Million College Admissions Scam

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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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Protest Breaks Out In London Over Alleged $1million Bribe To UK Embassy’s Officials In Nigeria

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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

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Suspect charged with murder after New Zealand mosque shootings

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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 universities Felicity Huffman among dozens charged over admissions fraud at top US schools

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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

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NCC allegedly tags Google free Wi-Fi as ‘illegal’, in a move that could be intended to protect local telcos

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Last year, Google launched its public free Wi-Fi initiative in Nigeria, in a bid to improve access to internet connectivity in the country. Google Station, as it is called, first launched in Lagos and later in Abuja. But the initiative, which is expected to spread to three more cities by the end of 2019, might already

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Man convicted of fraud, jailed four months

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The accused, Tosin Iyanu Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Justice P. I. Ajoko of the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 sentenced one Ogundiran Tosin Iyanu to four months imprisonment for fraud. Ogundiran was found guilty of one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,

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FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank…

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FBI warns of SIM-swapping outbreak Holding a substantial amount of crypto-currency? You may want to take a close look at your multi-factor authentication settings on your online accounts, particularly your email, and protections on your cellphone plan. The FBI is warning of what it says is an uptick in SIM-swapping fraudincidents. Criminals call a target’s phone carrier’s customer

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Uber driver drove sleeping woman miles away from home to ‘up the fare’. Now he’s facing years in the clink for kidnapping, fraud

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An Uber driver has admitted kidnapping and wire fraud charges after he drove a sleeping passenger at least 60 miles from her destination in order to, seemingly, increase his fare. Harbir Parmar, 25, of Long Beach, New York, pleaded guilty on Monday in a US district court to the pair of charges. According to testimony [PDF] by

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