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EFCC re-arraigns Saraki’s Aide, Makanjuola, others For N3.5bn Fraud















The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Wednesday, March 13th, re-arraigned Gbenga Makanjuola, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, before Justice Maureen A. Onyetenu sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on an amended 11-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, accepting cash payment beyond threshold and money laundering to the tune of N3.5 billion ((Three Billion, Five Hundred Million Naira).

Makanjuola is charged along with Kolawole Shittu, cashier to the Senate; Robert Chidozie Mbonu, a former Managing Director, Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, SGBN (currently at large); Melrose General Services Limited and Obiora Amobi, Operation Manager, Melrose General Services Limited.

They were first arraigned on October 3, 2018 before Justice Babs O. Kuewumi of the same court.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Gbenga Makanjuola, sometime in December 2016 in Nigeria, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did accept cash payment of the sum of $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) only from Kolawole Shittu without going through a financial institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No. 1 of 2012) and punishable under Section 16 (2) (b) of the same Act.”

The defendants pleaded "not guilty" to the charges preferred against them.

In view of their pleas, the prosecuting counsel, Kamil Bashir, asked the court for a trial date.

In his response, counsel to the second defendant, Omeoga Chukwu, urged the court to allow the defendants to continue to enjoy the bail earlier granted by the Justice Kuewumi, adding that “the terms were very stringent and verified by the EFCC.”

Justice Onyetenu granted the prayer of the defence on the existing bail.

The defendants were granted bail in the sum of N250 million each, with two sureties in like sums.

The sureties must be resident in Lagos and must have landed properties with Certificate of Occupancy, CoO, within the Lagos metropolis.

Also, the sureties must show tax clearance certificates and letters of identification from their banks.

Each of the defendants was ordered to deposit four recent passports with the Court Registrar.

The case was adjourned to May 20, 21 and 22, 2019 for commencement of trial.



Drake takes son Adonis on his European tour with him












Canadian rapper, Drake, has reportedly brought his 17-month-old son Adonis to join him at his Assassination Vacation European tour.

The 32-year-old who began the 22-date show in Manchester on Sunday is said to have been spotted cradling Adonis backstage and during rehearsals. He welcomed the child with former French adult film star Sophie Brussaux in October 2017.

A source said: 'Drake doesn’t mind who saw him with his baby – he was holding him backstage in Manchester and looked really at home.

'He’s spoken about being really committed to fatherhood and this really proves it.’

It was also reported that Drake is still planning to party in-between looking after Adonis while on the road.

Yemi Alade shares stunning new photos to celebrate her 30th birthday

















Nigerian singer, Yemi Eberechi Alade simply known as Yemi Alade turned 30 on Wednesday, and to celebrate, she shared some stunning new photos of herself.



Born on March 13th 1989, she gained prominence after winning the Peak Talent Show in 2009, and is best known for her hit single “Johnny”.



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What could Rotimi Amaechi be explaining to VP Yemi Osinbajo in this photo?















As captured during the Federal Executive Council meeting held on Wednesday.


Witness reveals how former bank MD, Erastus Akingbola bought London properties for £9.7m












A prosecution witness, Abdulraheem Jimoh, in the ongoing trial of Erastus Akingbola, a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, told Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, how the defendant diverted funds from the bank and bought some properties in London for the total sums of £9.7m.

The prosecution had, on Tuesday, March 12, opened the trial of the former bank chief.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Dr. Erastus B.O. Akingbola, whilst being the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, between November 2007 and July 2008, at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, caused to be created a misleading appearance of active trading in the shares of Intercontinental Bank Plc on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, by being connected with the utilization of an aggregate sum of N179, 385, 000, 000 (One Hundred and Seventy- Nine Billion, Three Hundred and Eighty-five Million Naira) of the bank's funds for the purchase of Intercontinental Bank Plc's shares."

At the resumed hearing today, Jimoh a former Chief Inspector with the defunct Intercontinental Bank, told the court how he unravelled fraudulent transactions by Akingbola.

Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, the witness said: "I was given a letter by the Management of the bank, which came from Tropics Securities Limited, a company owned by Dr. Erastus Akingbola, his wife and some other shareholders.

"The letter was addressed to the Group Managing Director, Dr. Erastus Akingbola and was attentioned to Mr. Olayinka Adebiyi, requesting the payment of N10billion, N1.2billion and N4.3billion to Tropics Securities Limited and other companies".
"Investigation report on the issuance of N10billion to Tropics Properties, Tropic Securities Limited and Bankinson Nigeria Limited showed the monies paid and cleared by Access Bank were said to have been used to pay for the "indebtedness to Access Bank".

The witness said the N10b fraud was discovered by the bank and later forwarded to him for further enquiry.
In his further evidence, he said he discovered, during investigation, that the defendant acquired properties in London with the sums of £8.5m and £1.2m allegedly diverted from the bank.

He added: "This was discovered when the bank received a letter via e-mail from Deutsche Bank of London.
"Monies were transferred to Soo-Kok Holdings Limited; Tofa General Enterprises; Cinca Nigeria Limited; Harmony Trust and Investment Limited; Stanzus Investment Limited."

Counsel to the defendant, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, during cross-examination, confronted the witness with a documented evidence he gave to an Ikeja High Court some years ago, where he contradicted himself over his MBA qualification.

"I enrolled, but the MBA programme was aborted because I didn't finish some project works in 2000 from the University of Ilorin", the witness told the Judge.
Olanipekun also told the court that the witness was misleading the court, adding that "The witness is not a witness of truth and, therefore, should not be believed by the court of his testimony."

When asked to explain to the court the origin of the statement to the court marked exhibit L, he said: "The statement was written in my office when the EFCC investigators came to interview me.
"They gave me their letter head.
"The statement was typed by someone else in my office.

"I sat beside the person who typed the statement, while I dictated the hand- written statement to her."
Under further cross-examination, he said he never interrogated or met with the defendant.
The witness, however, admitted to have interrogated various Heads of Departments in the bank.

"I interrogated various Heads of Departments in Intercontinental Bank because they acted upon the instructions of Akingbola", the witness said.
The witness also told the court that no loan was granted to the defendant or his companies.
Justice Olatoregun adjourned the case to March 14, 2019 for continuation of trial.

The defendant was first arraigned before Justice Mohammed Idris of the same court on a 26- count charge of fraud, granting reckless credit facility, abuse of office and mismanagement of depositors' funds in 2009.
The case was later transferred to Justice Charles Archibong on October 25, 2010.

Justice Archibong, however, struck out the charge for want of diligent prosecution by the prosecution.
Dissatisfied, the Commission approached the Court of Appeal on February 20, 2015.

The appellate court, in its ruling, overturned the judgment of the trial court.
The defendant subsequently headed for the Supreme Court, where the decision of the Appeal Court ordering him to face the charges preferred against him by the EFCC was affirmed.

The prosecution counsel, Mr. Mabas Mabur, represented the EFCC in the case.

EFCC re-arraigns Saraki’s Aide, Makanjuola, others For N3.5bn Fraud












The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Wednesday, March 13th, re-arraigned Gbenga Makanjuola, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, before Justice Maureen A. Onyetenu sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on an amended 11-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, accepting cash payment beyond threshold and money laundering to the tune of N3.5 billion ((Three Billion, Five Hundred Million Naira).

Makanjuola is charged along with Kolawole Shittu, cashier to the Senate; Robert Chidozie Mbonu, a former Managing Director, Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, SGBN (currently at large); Melrose General Services Limited and Obiora Amobi, Operation Manager, Melrose General Services Limited.

They were first arraigned on October 3, 2018 before Justice Babs O. Kuewumi of the same court.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Gbenga Makanjuola, sometime in December 2016 in Nigeria, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did accept cash payment of the sum of $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) only from Kolawole Shittu without going through a financial institution and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No. 1 of 2012) and punishable under Section 16 (2) (b) of the same Act.”

The defendants pleaded "not guilty" to the charges preferred against them.

In view of their pleas, the prosecuting counsel, Kamil Bashir, asked the court for a trial date.

In his response, counsel to the second defendant, Omeoga Chukwu, urged the court to allow the defendants to continue to enjoy the bail earlier granted by the Justice Kuewumi, adding that “the terms were very stringent and verified by the EFCC.”

Justice Onyetenu granted the prayer of the defence on the existing bail.

The defendants were granted bail in the sum of N250 million each, with two sureties in like sums.

The sureties must be resident in Lagos and must have landed properties with Certificate of Occupancy, CoO, within the Lagos metropolis.

Also, the sureties must show tax clearance certificates and letters of identification from their banks.

Each of the defendants was ordered to deposit four recent passports with the Court Registrar.

The case was adjourned to May 20, 21 and 22, 2019 for commencement of trial

Update: Female police officer killed in Edo police station attack was pregnant









Sergeant Justina Aghomon pictured above was amongst those killed by unknown gunmen at the Afuze police station in Owan East local government area of Edo state.

Sadly, preliminary investigation report by the state police command says Aghomon was pregnant when she was killed by the gunmen.

Recall that on Tuesday March 12th, gunmen said to be about 10 in number, stormed the police station and began shooting sporadically, killing the Divisional Police Officer DPO Tosimani Ojo; the Divisional Crime Officer, Inspector Sado Isaac and Corporal Glory David.

Aghomon was said to have been recently transferred to Afuze from Benin where she met her untimely death alongside her unborn child.

The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed DanMallam, said efforts are being made to arrest the criminals that were set free from police custody during the attack. He added that the remains of the pregnant police officer and others killed during the attack have been deposited in the morgue.

Photo: Yahoo boy who posed to his victim as a white woman, jailed In Osun












An Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo has sentenced one Adeniyi Ebenezzar (aka Mary Oliver) to four months in prison in a fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.

Justice W. O. Akanbi of the State High Court 3 gave the verdict in Osogbo on Wednesday March 13th after Adeniyi settled for plea bargain and his hitherto three-count charge was replaced with a lone-count charge of obtaining money under false pretense, contrary to section 1(3) of Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006.

Operatives of the Commission had arrested him on December 5, 2018 after defrauding an American citizen, Anthony, of one hundred United States Dollars.
He had posed to his victim to be a white woman with the name Mary Oliver, using same to extort his victim.

The amended charge reads: “That you Adeniyi Ebenezzar (A.K.A. Mary Oliver) sometimes in 2006, at Ilesha within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtain Gift Card worth $100 USD (One Hundred United States of America Dollars) through your email moliver1820@gmail.com from one Anthony, a United States of America Citizen when you falsely represented to him that you are a white woman by name Mary Oliver and other false pretences which representation you knew to be false and thereby committed offence.”

Though, the term of the plea bargain was to the effect that Adeniyi would bag seven months imprisonment with effect from his day of arrest, the judge used his discretion to commute the sentencing to four months, also from the day of his arrest.
Part of the conditions of the plea bargain was restitution of the One Hundred Dollars back to the victim, and forfeiture of two Tecno mobile phones, one iphone 6X plus mobile phone, one Philips Wrist Watch and other items recovered from him in the course of EFCC investigation of him.

The prosecution counsel, Mr. Mabas Mabur, represented the EFCC in the case.

Nicki Minaj sparks marriage speculation as she calls boyfriend Kenneth Petty her 'Husband'












American rapper, Nicki Minaj, has sparked marriage speculation after she called her boyfriend Kenneth Petty her 'Husband.'

On the newest episode of her Beats1 show, Queen Radio on Apple Music, the 36-year-old referred to her convicted sex offender boyfriend, as her “husband,” while sharing some intimate details about their romance.

“Every night when I get out of the shower, my husband takes this really good lotion that we just bought, and he massages my feet, and rubs them, and he rubs each toe individually, and the heel, and the ball of my foot, and he does it all,” Minaj said on the show, which was recorded from London ahead of her March 14 concert in Birmingham.

Davido's hypeman, Special Spesh, shares cute photos of himself bottle-feeding his son









Davido's hypeman, Special Spesh, who many see as a hard man because of his demeanor, shared these cute photos of himself bottlefeeding his son. He shared the photos on his IG page.
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