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  Court Jails Civil Servant Over Job Scam The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of a civil servant, Ahmad Kabiru Gana, for a job scam. This was made known in a statement shared via the EFCC’s Twitter handle on Tuesday. Gana promised to assist the petitioner in joining the Nigeria Police Force for a cost of N287,000 which he failed to fulfil. The statement said, “Court Jails Gana for Job Scam The Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC has secured the conviction of one Ahmad Kabiru Gana before Justice A. A Bello on a one-count charge bordering employment scam. “Gana, a Civil Servant had promised to help enlist the petitioner into the Nigeria Police Force at a cost of N287,000 ( Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven Thousand Naira Only) but failed to deliver after payments were made in trances into his account.” Credit: Twitter | officialEFCC --- Follow us for more breaking news and videos

  Alleged N6.9bn: Court Adjourns Fayose's Fraud Trial Till May 8 T he Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, adjourned further hearings in the trial of former Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, over an alleged N6.9 billion fraud until May 8, 2023. This was disclosed in a statement shared via the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Twitter handle on Tuesday. The statement read, Justice Chukujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, adjourned further hearing in the trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, over an alleged N6.9bn fraud, till May 8, 2023.  “The Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC had, on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, re-arraigned Fayose and Spotless Investment Limited on an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering and stealing to the tune of N6.9bn (Six Billion Nine Hundred Naira). “The defendants had ...

  For the second time since the Supreme Court ruled that the old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes will remain legal tender until December 31, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has refused to speak on the judgement.  O n Saturday, an official of the CBN told Soflat tv that the communications department has not been informed of any new developments on the Supreme Court judgement. Asked when the CBN will start releasing cash to banks, the official replied they "don't have that information". The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the old bank notes will remain as legal tenders while also declaring that the N20,000 withdrawal limit set by the apex bank was illegal. Without any official pronouncement from the CBN, Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) cannot act outside the last instruction by the apex bank that N20,000 will be the withdrawal limit for individual account holders. The latest withdrawal threshold,Soflat tv learnt, has put doubts in the minds of many Nigerians who prefer to sav...

THE Supreme Court on Friday nullified the Federal Government’s cashless and naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. I t also held that Presi- dent Muhammadu Buhari breached the constitution in the manner he issued directives for the redesigning of the banknotes by the CBN. The apex court also held that unlawful use of executive powers by the president inflicted unprecedented economic hardship on the citizens by denying them ownership of, and access to, their money. The court, in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim on behalf of the seven-member panel of Justices of the court, voided and set aside all the directives issued by President Buhari in respect of the naira redesign and circulation on the grounds of illegalities and abuse of executive powers. The court held that the president ought to have put in place adequate provisions before giving the directives for the change of currency and added that the demonisation directive ...

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has appealed to people of the state to vote for candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the upcoming March 11th, 2023 State House of Assembly elections. H e said voting for APGA candidates during the election, would help him sustain the tempo of development across the 21 local government areas of the State. Soludo, made the appeal through his Chief Press Secretary, Comrade Christian Aburime while speaking to Journalists in Awka, on Friday, in preparation ahead of next Saturday’s House of Assembly election in the State. The governor said the best way for the people to support his administration’s development strides was for them to massively vote the candidates of APGA in the election. He noted that massive support for APGA’s candidates will enable him to work and attract more dividends of democracy to the State. “If we have APGA in control of the state Assembly, we will continue to do our jobs unhindered.“But, if the opposition i...

2023 Elections: Peter Obi defeats Tinubu in Lagos  Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP  Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state. Though Tinubu won more local government areas, Obi defeated him with the majority of the votes cast. All the results of the 20 local governments have been declared. Tinubu won in 11 while Obi won in nine local governments.  With the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850.