The Group of 7 (G7) through the United Kingdom (UK), has brokered the provision of humanitarian assistance for the combating of hunger in the northeast to the tune of £276 million. The United Kingdom says the support will ensure people in crisis-ridden areas will have access to food, clean water and sanitation and that children have access to lifesaving malnutrition treatment. The amount given to Nigeria’s Northeast was part of a global £5 billion aid to 42 countries who …
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Police operatives attached to the Special Tactical Squad have arrested a 7-man criminal gang that attacked and robbed three commercial banks in the South-West States of Ondo and Ekiti between 2019 and 2020, killed innocent citizens including six (6) policemen and carted away several millions of naira. A statement by the spokesperson of the Nigerian Police Force, Frank Mba, says police investigations revealed that the dare-devil armed robbers identified as – Tunbosun Ojo 42years, Ismaila Ojo 25years, Victor Oyeyemi 36years, Dele Ariyo ‘m’ …
Cesar Duarte, a fugitive ex-governor of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua was arrested in Miami on Wednesday July 8. The Governor who fled in 2017 after he was accused of embezzling public funds, now faces extradition to Mexico where he faces corruption charges for allegedly diverting about $52 million in public funds. Asides being accused of stealing hundreds of cows imported by the state to help small-scale Mexican ranchers replace their herds after a devastating drought, he is also accused of living …
Ramon Igbalode Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi and Olalekan Jacon Ponle a.k.a Mr. Woodberry are currently trending on Twitter after Dubai police confirmed in a statement that the suspected Nigerian fraudsters have been extradited to the United States. Read previous post here.The duo were arrested with their cybercrime squad in Dubai for allegedly defrauding over 1, 926,400 victims of $435.6 million. Hushpuppi and his alleged accomplices are said to be in one of the most notorious prisons in Pennsylvania called Moshannon Correctional Centre.Nigerians are …
The embattled Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi has accused the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami of withdrawing his police escort and endangering his life, that of his family and his aides. In a statement released few days after a video of him and the police commissioner having a heated argument went viral, Ajayi appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Muhammed to intervene as he still enjoys immunity by virtue of his …
DeAndre Yedlin has revealed he is considering quitting the United States national team because of the racial discrimination in his home country. The Newcastle defender, 26, who has African-American, Native-American, and Jewish-Latvian heritage has condemned the prejudice against black people following the continued protests across the world since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police officers. Speaking about quitting the US national team, Yedlin told Sky Sports: ‘It’s something I’ve thought a lot …