A Nigerian has been sentenced to prison by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.   Adedayo Akinwunmi Agbayewa, 45, of College Park, Georgia, was convicted to five years in prison and ordered to pay $7,784,415 in restitution, officials said. Agbayewa and his co‑conspirators were involved in a lottery or sweepstakes telemarketing enterprise that hoodwinked elderly victims. Using pseudonyms, they informed their targets by mail or telephone that they had won sweepstakes or lottery and must first pay taxes or fees. The victims mailed checks or deposited money into bank accounts provided by the individuals but never received any prize money. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina McCall prosecuted the case, the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and IRS‑Criminal Investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice, through the Elder Justice Initiative, works to combat elder abuse, neglect, as well as financial fraud...

The National Industrial Court Abuja has struck out a suit sponsored by one Umar Lawal, the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, asking the Academic Staff Union of Universities, to call off its seven-month-old strike and return to school. Lawal had instituted the case on behalf of himself and the association. Justice Polycarp Hamman struck out the suit on Tuesday after the counsel to Lawal, Debo Ikuesan, withdrew the suit on the grounds that the student body is challenging his position as president, denying that he is the leader of NANS as he had deposed to. Counsel to ASUU, Marshal Abubakar also informed the court that he is not opposing the application to withdraw the suit. In the suit, Faruk, who claimed to be the president of NANS sought the court’s order mandating ASUU to call off the industrial action it commenced in February 2022. He said the strike action affects students’ right to education under section 18, Chapter 2 of the 1999 constitution as amended. ...

  The national electricity grid suffered a fresh system  collapse  on Monday, plunging the country into darkness.  Major cities in Nigeria including the commercial nerve centre Lagos and the nation’s political capital Abuja are experiencing blackout on Monday as the National Grid collapsed for the umpteenth time in 2022. The electricity distribution companies informed their customers of the development in notices. Ikeja Electric said the national grid collapsed at 10:50am on Monday. “This has affected the Transmission Stations within our network and resulted in the loss of power supply to our customers,” the notice partly read. Eko Electricity Distribution Company also stated, “We regret to inform you of a system collapse on the National Grid at precisely 10:52 am. Presently all our injection substations are out of supply. “We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.” The Abuja Electricity Distributi...

  Putin Hundreds of people have been arrested by authorities as protests against Russia’s new “partial mobilisation” continue across the country, an independent rights group has said. It was reported that 724 people were detained across 32 different cities on Saturday September 24,2022. Widespread demonstrations have broken out since President Vladimir Putin announced plans to draft 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine. Unsanctioned rallies are banned under Russian law. But Mr Putin’s move to draft civilians into the military has sparked large scale protests in urban areas, with more than 1,000 people being detained at demonstrations earlier this week. In Moscow, journalists reported witnessing one demonstrator shouting “we are not cannon fodder” as she was arrested by officers. And in St Petersburg, Russia’s second city, one man told reporters: “I don’t want to go to war for Putin.” Seventy-year-old Natalya Dubova told journalist that she opposed the war and confessed she was “afraid f...

The server of an old generation bank in the country has been hacked into by suspected fraudsters who stole the sum of N523,337,100,00 from the account of a customer. Meanwhile, two  suspects has been arrested in connection with the cyber attack. The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, SP Eyitayo Johnson, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The PPRO said the hackers stole the huge sum using 18 different customers accounts and dissipated same via Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Cash, ATM/POS,Withdrawals and e-transfers. The PPRO said police have arrested two suspects while operatives are following other leads in order to apprehend the remaining members of the syndicate. “Hackers hit an Old-Generation Bank, Transferred Five Hundred and Twenty-Three Million, Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven Thousand and One Hundred Naira (N523,337,100.00) to eighteen (18) different customers’ Accounts and dissipated same via ...

  Ten suspects including a dismissed operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) have been arrested for robbing a bullion vehicle in Abia State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Janet Agebe, disclosed this on Monday in a press conference in Umuahia, identifying the ex-DSS operative as Prosper Israel from Abia State. Israel was paraded on Monday alongside nine other suspects at the Police Headquarters in the state capital two months after the robbery. It was reported that the suspects were part of the 14-man robbery gang that ambushed a bullion van near Ntigha Junction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, on July 26, 2022. The Police Commissioner stated that during the robbery, the cash officer of a new generation bank was killed, while the suspects carted an unspecified amount of cash being conveyed by the armoured cash transport van.

Chukwudumeme Onwuamad Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamad  Ike a.k.a   Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to  21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia. They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, 2014, at Kara Street, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos and were alleged to have captured and detained Hafia and demanded a ransom of  $420,000.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Evans’ accomplice, Victor Aduba,  an ex-soldier, was also sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on a four-count charge  bordering on kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms. Delivering judgement, Oluwatoyin Taiwo, held that the prosecution had successfully proved the case of kidnap and possession of firearms against the convicts. But they pleaded not guilty to the four charges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475jBY_...