by Admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Robber has made away with over N600,000 belonging to Bank Customers in the Apapa-Warehouse Branch of Diamond Bank in Lagos State after disguising as a Bank Staff. See full Story below: As shared by Facebook User, Nnamdi Ikeh-Akabogu: INTELLIGENT ROBBERY, WITHIN BANKING HALLS: “I have a neighbour who sells foodstuffs. She travelled for the new year so so instructed a relation to pay in the money(130,000) into her Diamond Bank Account… She was in the Banking Hall, Warehouse Branch, Apapa, with the money in her bag. While filling her teller, someone asked her if she was paying in & at which she said yes. She later joined the long pay-in queue. After a moment, and with d queue practically not moving, a young man, dressed in corporate suit (all thought was the Bank’s cashier) came close to her and in a low voice asked for people who were paying above 100,000. About five people stepped out and he asked them to follow him a few meters away from the queue. They all thought he was the Bank’s staff, out to offer help. He collected all their money, the completed tellers and asked them to wait on the line, so he can go in and stamp their tellers….. And so the man left. They waited and waited endlessly, not knowing that he had long exited the Bank,through the rear exit, with their over #650,000.00. It was after d seemingly unending wait they decided to report d matter to the Manager,who had to come down… checked the CCTV footage and behold, the gentleman in suit, was neither the...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Tosin Owobo, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday described to a Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, how now-retired Air Marshal Adesola Amosu Nanayon and two other Air Force chiefs diverted the sum of N3 billion meant for the security of the country’s maritime environment into his personal oil and gas companies. Led in evidence by EFCC prosecutor Rotimi Oyedepo, Owobo, who is an Assistant Detective Superintendent with the anti-graft agency, offered graphic details of how Nanayon, who was at the time Nigeria’s Chief of Air Staff (COAS), received the money from the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) under the leadership of Patrick Akpolobokemi. Amosu is standing trial before the court over the fraud alongside Air Vice Marshal Jacob Bola Adigun, Air Commodore Gbadebo Owodunni Olugbenga, and eight fictitious companies. The companies facing trial alongside the three Air Force chiefs are: Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd, Mcallan Oil And Gas Limited, Hebron Housing and Properties Company Limited, Trapezites BDC, Fonds and Pricey Ltd, Deegee Oil and Gas Limited, and Timsegg Investment Limited and Solomon Health Care. At the resumed trial on Wednesday, Mr. Owobo informed the court that the anti-graft agency discovered in its investigation that there was a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Nigerian Air force (NAF) and NIMASA while Air Marshall Alex Badeh was the nation’s COAS, and that a sum of N1. 480 billion was paid by NIMASA to the NAF account in 2014 for securing the nation’s maritime environment. He said the money was paid in two tranches of N1.480 million into an account...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Senate may have concluded plans to investigate the Minister of Power, works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts worth N166 billion. The Bureau Public Procurement had queried Fashola over the violation of laws guiding contract awards in Nigeria based on the manner he selected contractors for the projects. At the resumption of plenary on Wednesday, Senator Dino Melaye, who raised a point of order on alleged contracts infractions by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing on the floor, said Nigerians had opened a ledger for thieves in power. Melaye said: “I draw the attention of the country to some infraction and corruption between the Ministry of Power and the Bureau for Public Procurement.” He alleged that the Ministry and the BPP had colluded in inflating the cost of contracts for the rehabilitation and construction of bridges and roads across the country. Melaye added: “Nigerians are watching. “They have opened a ledger for thieves in power and who are still in power.” Melaye thereafter asked the Red Chamber to give him the opportunity to bring a motion on the issue to the chamber on Thursday. The Senate is expected to debate the matter on...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), yesterday faulted a statement by Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani, that the Buhari administration is treating corruption in government with “deodorant”. Sagay said Sani’s comments were a political statement. He accused the senator of fighting his own political “battles” which influence his views. Sani had dismissed as “false” President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims on a Senate report indicting Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, of corruption. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in its response to the report on Lawal and the representation of Magu for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) job, described Buhari’s anti-corruption war is “a ruse.” Source: The...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Dauda Lawal, an Executive Director of First Bank Plc., has accused the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) of coercing him to return $40 million alleged to be the proceeds of a crime linked to former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke. Mr. Dauda, through his lawyer Charles Adeogun, requested the court to order a refund of the sum under temporal forfeiture, stating that the EFCC misrepresented the document placed before Justice Muslim Hassan to obtain the order. According to the counter affidavit deposed to by the First Bank boss, he said, “That in making an application for a forfeiture order before the Federal High Court, the EFCC deliberately suppressed the material facts, despite the fact that such facts were at their disposal, as they were contained in the statement they obtained from me between 9 and 20 May, 2016 and which still remain in their custody to this day.” Mr. Adeogun claimed that for money to be forfeited to the federal government, the money must either be the proceeds of a crime or abandoned. “Two essential elements must be satisfied, which are whether the money in question is unclaimed or the funds are proceeds of an unlawful act,” he said. Arguing further, Mr. Adeogun said, “We received $25 million from the MD of Fidelity Bank under the instruction of Stanley Lawson, who is former Group Executive Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the money has been given to Lanre Adesanya, Executive Director, Commercial and Institutional Bank, Sterling Bank Plc. This was done in clear dispensation of his duties, but the EFCC...
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