Fahim Saleh, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of the ride-hailing company, Gokada is dead. He was reportedly said to have been dismembered with his decapitated remains found in his apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, New York on Tuesday afternoon. However, his dog, Laila, was found alive in the house at 265, East Houston Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olanipekun Olukoyede, alongside over 10 other top officials of the commission, PM News reports. The newspaper quoted a presidency source on Tuesday night as saying “They were suspended for various alleged criminal and corrupt infractions.” They were suspended to Read more
Suspected grand fraudster Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi on Tuesday failed to win bail in the US after his lawyer, Gal Pissetzky, claimed his job as an Instagram celebrity paid for the $10,000 monthly rent on his luxury Dubai flat. According to reports, Pissetzky had applied for Hushpuppi to leave jail with an electronic tag and Read more
Four unit heads of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday presented some documents to the panel investigating corruption allegations against its suspended acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu. The unit heads first appeared before the committee headed by Ayo Salami last week but were asked to return at a later date. Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, July 13, 2020, continued trial in the fraud charge bought against an alleged internet fraud kingpin, Onwuzuruike Ikenna Kingsley. The matter is before Justice A. T Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and the prosecution presented its first witness, Abbas Read more
A human rights lawyer, Kabir Akingbolu, has said the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, risks five years in prison for “illegally” approving the auctioning of sea vessels holding crude oil and diesel seized by the federal government. Reports had pointed out that Malami gave approval for the sale of the oil assets valued Read more
Featured By Wale Adedayo When the bridges were being built and ‘Ogun Standard Roads’ were on course by contractors, son of man’s advice to Senator Ibikunle Amosun was that the Abeokuta – Ibadan Road should be opened up instead. Dualising that road as OGD did to the Shagamu – Abeokuta Road would have boosted commerce Read more
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, may be arrested on July 14 following an allegation of money laundering. Newsheadline247 understand the APC governorship candidate may be arrested if he fails to appear before a Federal High Court in Benin City, Edo State for allegedly laundering the Read more
Air conditioning units should be turned off as they could re-circulate same air in a room and promote the spread of the dreadful COVID-19, reports by engineering experts have shown. Air conditioners are broadly categorised into two types – ones that take in air from the outside and expel it and the ‘split units’, which Read more
The Presidential Probe Panel report has revealed details of how Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), allegedly used a cleric to launder funds abroad. Magu is currently being interrogated by the panel headed by retired Justice Ayo Salami over allegations of lack of transparency in managing recovered Read more
