Hamdan bin Mohammed Dubai crown prince, Hamdan bin Mohammed has paid the hospital bill of a Nigerian family that was stranded in the country. Mr. Tijani and Mrs. Suliyah Abdulkareem on July 1, 2020, welcomed their quadruplets at the Latifa Hospital for Women and Children but could not pay up the medical bill equaled to $120,000. They incurred the medical bill after their babies (two boys and two girls) were placed on ventilators at the neonatal intensive care unit after being born prematurely. Expressing gratitude to Hamdan bin Mohammed for coming to their aid, Abdulkareem said two of the children will be named after him while one of the girls will be named after the hospital. He said; “It’s just a huge favour, and we are still in shock because we didn’t even know how to get the money. I had been sleepless wondering how to pay the bill." The 32-year-old chef also thanked the Nigerian community and everyone who assisted his family pay for two months rent for a bigger place to accom...

Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile  PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION REPORT ON THE DEATH OF FLYING OFFICER TOLULOPE AROTILE 1. On 14 July 2020, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), and indeed the entire Nation, was thrown into mourning as a result of the death of one of our shining young stars in the person of Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the NAF’s first female combat helicopter pilot. Her unfortunate demise has elicited an overwhelming outpouring of condolences, prayers and support to the NAF as well as the Arotile Family. This has no doubt been so, not just for Tolulope’s outstanding accomplishments at the tender age of 24, but also because of her sterling personal qualities of excellence, hard work, dedication to duty, confidence and courage, which endeared her to her superiors, subordinates and peers in the Service. Unfortunately, because of the peculiar circumstances of the incident that led to her death, a rash of falsehoods, innuendos, conspiracy theories and the likes have been propagat...

 Mr Ibrahim Magu. Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  who has been in custody since July 6 and was investigated by the Justice Ayo Salami Presidential Probe Panel, said : “I am happy to breathe freedom’’. Granting a media interview late on Wednesday, Magu said the allegations were designed to tarnish his image. “They are nonsense. They are mere trump up allegations to tarnish my image and that of the EFCC. I did not steal or divert or convert funds to private use. I read the allegations and I was shocked,” he told the Nation newspaper exclusively. He, however, urged Nigerians not to give up on the fight against corruption, saying, “They should not give up on the fight because corruption kills a nation faster than any other thing.   “Whether I am the chairman of EFCC or not, Nigerians must own the war against corruption which President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to eradicate.” Magu also said: “It is one of thos...

Pastor Tola Odutola  Pastor Tola Odutola, one of the most prominent pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in the United States has broken away from the church. Odutola, who is the senior Pastor of Jesus House Baltimore, told his congregation on Sunday that he was leaving the church after 30 years of service. He is leaving with his wife, Kofo, who is also a pastor of the church. In a trending video online by Nation Scoop, the pastor did not go into details surrounding the resignation but he said that he is very sure that God is a rewarder.  The cleric also said he "would not throw stones", adding that he helped built his former church. Pastor Tola said this is the last time he would be talking about his resignation as he wants to move on. 

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas . Gal Pissetzky, legal representative to Ramon Abbas Olorunwa popularly known as Hushpuppi ▪︎ Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to Nigeria as a citizen of the country and not to the US. “In my opinion, the FBI and the government here acted illegally when they kidnapped him (Hushpuppi) from Dubai without any legal process to do so. "There was no extradition, there were no legal steps taken, there were no court documents filed, it was simply a call to the FBI. He is not a citizen of the United States, the US had absolutely no authority to take him. “If Dubai wanted to expel him, they should have expelled him back to Nigeria. I’ve never heard of anything like that. That is the real story here.”

Alhaji Lai Mohammed The Federal Government of Nigeria has granted 60% debt forgiveness to licencees indebted to the NBC. This is in addition to the 2 months licence fee waiver granted earlier to the Industry as palliative to cushion the devastating effect of Covid-19 on the economy of Broadcast Media in Nigeria. This was made known by the Hon. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, 6th July, 2020, at a press briefing held at the National Press Centre, Abuja. In his speech the Hon. Minister noted that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of the Nation's economy, adding that the Broadcast Industry has been particularly affected due to falling revenue, occasioned by the dwindling adverts and sponsored programmes. Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated that these measures were put in place as a result of the report submitted by the Post-Covid-19 Initiatives Committee for the Creative Industry, which was set up to help mitigate the negative effects of the pa...

  Six Nigerian nationals have been federally indicted in Nebraska, wanted in connection with elaborate schemes targeting business executives out of millions of dollars. The FBI announced the indictments Tuesday in Omaha. The six individuals, believed to be in Nigeria, are accused of conducting business email compromise, romance fraud, and other types of fraud, according to Special Agent Jake Foiles of the Omaha division's Cyber Squad. Three other co-conspirators have already been arrested: two were apprehended after traveling to the U.S., and another arrested and extradited from Poland, Foiles said.. Business email compromise, or BEC, involves "tricking companies into sending fraudulent payments, either through wire transfers or ACH transfers," Foiles said These perpetrators focused on victimizing a larger number of people rather than going after larger payments, he said, collecting as many "smaller" wire transfers — from $50,000 to $100,000 — as they could befo...