Oyindamola Akinrinola, a 23-year-old Nigerian citizen has been convicted for her role in fraud schemes that targeted victims across the United States. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 23-year-old  Oyindamola Akinrinola of Lawrence has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role “Akinrinola and her co-conspirator in Nigeria victimized individuals, several elderly, through a variety of online scams,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. “She now faces time in federal prison for her crimes. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of fraud schemes like these, no matter where they originate. I also take this conviction as an opportunity to reiterate to all Kansans the vulnerability of our senior citizens to scams and con artists, who prey upon them. We must all be vigilant to protect our parents, grandparents, elderly relatives, friends and neighbors from such frauds and fraudsters.” “Scams such as lottery, on...

IBADAN : There was a move today to arrest   one of the most popular  Yoruba  activists, Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, by combined security agents along the Lagos Ibadan expressway. According to a statement signed by a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Igboho was on his way to meet with 93-year-old Afenifere Chieftain, Ayo Adebanjo, when the incident occurred. “I just spoke to my brother Sunday Igboho. He told me there was a violent attempt to arrest him this afternoon by a joint team of soldiers, DSS operatives and policemen numbering about 40 on the Ibadan/Lagos Expressway whilst he was on his way to see Baba Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos. “I condemn this attempt to ambush and abduct him. It is not only reckless but also very dangerous. If the security agencies want to see him all they need to do is to invite him to their office. I am not aware of any crime that he has committed and I urge restraint on all sides. Video Shows ...

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has pleaded with Fulani herders not to carry AK-47 riffles but remain peaceful.  He insisted that his earlier comment on herders carrying AK-47 was figurative. The governor, who made the plea in his speech at the launch of the 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign held at the Galambi Cattle Ranch, Bauchi, on Wednesday, described the Fulani people as humble, simple, and humane. He said, “What I will do, I will not say it here, but I will do everything possible to make sure I protect you and lend support to you because I know you mean well. “Through time and history, you have been seen to be cajoled, and lampooned but you remained humane, you remained simple, you don’t show so much aggression and of course, that humility is always what we recognized and this is what a character that should always try to show. “Please, don’t carry the AK-47 that I made a figurative allusion to. Try to make sure that you remain peaceful.” The governor sai...

The United States has  extradited a 95-year-old who had been living in Tennessee with German citizenship who once served as a guard in one of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. Friedrich Karl Berger arrived in Germany on Saturday, where enforcement took him into custody for  inquiring.  Mr Berger, a former resident of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, did not appeal deportation judgment in  February 2020,   Immigration judge Rebecca Holt said Friedrich Karl Berger had served in the camp where prisoners were held in "atrocious" conditions.  Berger is the seventieth Nazi persecutor to be removed from the United States according to the justice department. "After 75 years, this is ridiculous. I cannot believe it," he told the Washington Post newspaper after the trial last year. "You're forcing me out of my home." "Berger’s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice’s and its law enforcement partners’ commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a saf...

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his security guard  and driver have been killed in an attack on a U.N. caravan in DRC's east, the Italian foreign ministry and local authorities have said. Luca Attanasio 43, military policeman Vittorio Iacovacci and their Congolese driver, whose name has not been announced, were travelling with the U.N.'s Organization Stabilization Mission in DRC, known as MONUSCO, on Monday (February 22) morning when they were attacked by a group of commando. He  died  in hospital.    Authorities from the Virunga National Park said the attack took place near the town of Kanyamahoro, a few miles north of the regional capital Goma, and was an attempted kidnapping. Virunga stretches north from near Goma along DRC's border with Rwanda and Uganda. Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio expressed his "great shock and immense sorrow." He was in Brussels for a European Union meeting when he heard the news, and cut short his...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Saturday declared that herdsmen were not liable for the killing of Dr. Fatai Aborode. The ex-lawmaker was waylaid by suspected kidnappers at a nearby village in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State. Makinde who spoke on Saturday morning throughout a program on the Broadcasting Company of Oyo State (BCOS) detonated, ”Aborode’s killing is political.” While many people believed that the PDP chieftain was killed by suspected herdsmen, Makinde however, said  that herdsmen were not accountable for the killing. The governor claimed he spent an evening in Ibarapa geopolitical zone just lately, including that he interacted with the daddy of the deceased, who revealed that the demise of his son was political. He added that each one the folks concerned within the killing can be investigated. Makinde mentioned, “I used to be the coordinator for PDP in Ibadan North East when Dr. Aborode was the coordinator for PDP in Ibarapa...

The Imo State Government has justified the ongoing  joint military and security operation in Orlu Local Government Area of the state. The Imo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Cyprian Akaolisa said that the government invited the military to Orlu to dislodge members of the Eastern Security Network linked with the banished Indigenous People of Biafra [IPOB]. Akaolisa, who informed journalists of this disclosure in Owerri yesterday, said the government would try the ESN members for alleged murder of innocent citizens, IPOB  is being implicated in the recent violence that resulted in the death of some residents and security operatives in the state. “The attacks on police stations and killing of policemen during #EndSARS were carried out by IPOB and not protesting youths for the sole purpose of hijacking and stealing weapons,” he said. “They are now using those arms to destroy Orlu. They killed 10 policemen, a prominent Orlu soon, Ignatius Obiezu, and one Emmanu...

Famous Afro juju singer, Shina Peters has reacted to allegations that he abandoned the child late Funmi Martins had for him, Damilare. The claims first surfaced online after a popular Instagram blogger alleged that the boy, Damilare Peters, 19, has been abandoned by his older sister, actress Mide Martins and the music star. The Juju maestro, who has been married to Sammie since 1995, addressed the claims in a video posted online on Thursday. Reacting to this, S.S.P said that there are some issues from the past that he wouldn’t want to delve into but assured he will now resume full responsibility for Damilare. In the video Shina released to address the issue, claimed that he has raised billionaires and also raised the other children of late Funmi Martins; Mide and Tunde Martins. In his words; “I am no more a kid for crying out loud, I am over 60…I want to appreciate all mothers that rose to this case…but it is always good to listen to both sid...

Uganda - East Africa News While Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was inside the UN rights offices in Kampala presenting a petition against abduction of his supporters,  journalists came under attack by Museveni's military force for covering the news on Wednesday. Military police assaulted four journalists and three members of parliament (MPs) who were waiting outside the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kampala . The journalists, including two women, were treated at a nearby hospital . The journalists included Josephine Namakumbi, Irene Abalo of NBS television, Cliff Wamala of NTV television and Timothy Murungi of New Vision newspaper. “We were standing outside the UN offices waiting for Bobi Wine to come out and address us when policemen and soldiers started beating anyone they came across. They beat me several times as I fled,” said Timothy Mukasa. A spokesman for Wine’s National Unity Platform, Joel Ssenyonyi, told Anadolu Agency: “It is terrible. [Pres...

  Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State have shed some light on his comment on Fulani herders bearing firearms. The governor in a press release issued by his SSA Media, Mukhtar Gidado on Sunday stated that “to the extent that not every herdsman is a criminal, the reference to AK-47 was simply to put in perspective, the predicament and desperation of those law-abiding Fulani herdsmen who, while carrying out their legitimate cow-rearing business, have become serial victims of cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and assassination.” He said he had been working round the clock, alongside other leaders from the region, to avert reprisal actions that can plunge the entire country into chaos. “The attention of the Bauchi State Government has been drawn to reactions from various members of the public to Governor Mohammed’s speech, at the closing ceremony of the Press Week of the Correspondent’s Chapel of the NUJ in Bauchi State, last Thursday. “At no time did the Governor set out to just...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has condemned the molestation of arrested Lekki protesters and has ordered an immediate investigation into the matter. This follows the circulation of a viral video where some arrested #EndSARS protesters were being molested in a bus by some people after their arrest. The disclosure is contained in a press statement that was issued by the Lagos State Police Command and signed by its Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Sunday, February 14, 2021. Adejobi in his statement said that the state police commissioner was disturbed by the unprofessional and inhuman act, and ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State CID, Panti, Adejoke Fayoade, to analyze the video and bring to book those responsible. Adejobi in his statement said, ‘’ The attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a viral video where some arrested EndSARS protesters were being molested in a bus by some individuals after their arre...

  Amnesty International,  a non-governmental human rights organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom  has urged the Federal Government  of Nigeria to protect the right of citizens to peaceful protest.  The global rights group also counseled security operatives to avoid applying excessive force on protesters like it had occurred last October during the #EndSARS protests against police brutality. “Amnesty international is calling on all Nigerian authorities to demonstrate commitment to protect the right to peaceful protest. Previous attempts by security agents to repress peaceful protests have led to human rights violations and abuses. #LekkiTollGate. “The Nigerian govt. must ensure that when protesters exercise their right to freedom of assembly, it must be without fear of harassment or attacks by hoodlums or others opposed to the protests. Security operatives must refrain from excessive use of force on protesters. #EndSARS.”

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) on Thursday  appealed to leaders of demonstrator planning a rally at its destroyed Admiralty Circle Toll Plaza  to be slow to go to war and to try settling things peacefully.   A group  has  threatened to hold a fresh protest at the gate to begin by 7.am on Saturday, February 13, 2021. Speaking at a news conference at its head office, LCC Managing Director, Yomi Omomuwasan, explained that the firm had refrained from commenting since the  event of October 20, 2020, because it realised that “tempers were high, and truth had become a major casualty.” Omomuwasan said: “To set the records straight, LCC never prevented the protesting Nigerian youths from occupying our plaza before the unfortunate incident of Tuesday, October 20, 2020, even as we incurred huge losses from the forced closure of the facility by the protesters who chose to make our facility their protest ground. “It was in a bid to halt further losses, esp...

  A 20-year-old man was shot to death during a “prank” robbery staged for social platform Friday night, according to a release from Nashville police. Police said Timothy Wilks was shot and killed in a parking lot at a building with several businesses, including a trampoline park, around 9:20 p.m. Detectives were told Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery as part of a YouTube video and approached a group of people, including the shooter, with butcher knives.  A 23-year-old man told police he wasn’t aware the robbery was a prank and shot Wilks, saying his actions were in “self-defense,” according to the release. “This is like a huge kids area, and when we were in there, there were a ton of tiny kids and it’s just like, that would not be a great idea,” Emily Yeager, a customer at the trampoline park, told WKRN. “Especially if anyone was walking out here or something like that.” No charges have been filed, and the investigation is ongoing.

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed April 13 to hear an application seeking forfeiture of the $5,781,173.55 and the N2.4billion said to have been improperly earned by former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Justice Chuka Obiozor fixed the date after hearing counsel to the parties in the suit. The application was filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sometime in 2017 and hearing commenced before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun.  J u stice Olatoregun on April 26, 2017 ordered the money’s temporary forfeiture based on an ex-parte application by the EFCC. Mrs Jonathan appealed, but the Court of Appeal last January 12 upheld the temporary forfeiture. The Supreme Court on March 15 affirmed the Court of Appeal judgment. According to the EFCC, which filed the ex-parte application, the money belonged to Mrs. Jonathan. The interim order was affirmed by both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Following Olatoregun’s retirement from the Bench in 2019 before ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria, has explained preciously the reason for its directive to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and other financial institutions  to stop trading in cryptocurrencies. Issuing a press statement on Sunday through Mr Osita Nwanisobi, its acting director of corporate communications, titled ‘Response to Regulatory Directive on Cryptocurrencies’  the Apex bank said it felt the need to provide further reasons about its standpoint to the general public . The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to various comments and reactions following our recent reminder to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to desist from transacting in / and with entities dealing in cryptocurrencies. Most of these reactions reveal that there appears to be a need to provide further justifications about our position, especially to the general public. For those who are not conversant with the universe of cryptocurrencies, it is important to state that Cryp...