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A former United States attorney was found dead in Virginia Saturday morning, just two months after leaving office.

Jessica D. Aber, 43, worked as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2021 to 2025. Appointed by former President Joe Biden, she served in the role until resigning Jan. 20.


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International students in the UK are likely to be allowed to work for longer hours and take up jobs to plug labour shortages in various sectors across the country including Health and retail.

New reports suggest that talks are ongoing to either increase the hours from 20hrs to 30hrs per week or clearly remove the restriction...



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One sided report,
When they say safeguard your personal details Una no go hear, now everyone seems to be blaming diamond bank.

Well waiting for the day when we we hear that cash was transferred by one of her children


Trust me when I say it has happened before.

Abeg forget these jokers. Just yesterday in Benin where I went to get fuel, can't remember the name of the filling Station, I sha know it's on airport road before Total filling Station. Fuel was initially sold at #140, all of a sudden the manager asked the attendant to stop selling. People started making calls and within minutes monitoring team came around, we were all happy only for our hopes to be dashed. To cut the long story short, the monitoring team left and they began selling at #145 per litre.
So tell me who are they deceiving

Venue would likely not be changed so start making your travel plans.

@all asking for likely questions, just take your time and read this thread from the beginning. Would help a great deal. I know cause it also helped me.
Goodluck guys.

JUSTbuchi:
i don't care if you work in a bank or not I only said what I knew and please don't quote me again

Smh You can choose to believe what you will, your choice. Regards

JUSTbuchi:
am not supposed to argue with you on this

Yeah bro, you shouldn't.
I said fact because I work in diamond. May be allowed in other banks but not diamond bank. Either party would have to resign.

Unless the marriage was done in secret.

JUSTbuchi:
Op some of what you wrote up there ain't true

My elder bro works in a bank,diamond bank precisely and he has accounts in gtb and first bank

Secondly he's married to a banker who works in same diamond bank

Truth is you can have other bank accounts, but you can't marry your colleague. #fact

totorimi:
bank work these days, don't know if Stanbic is like that too is full of witches and wizard. A place where you waste your precious youthful years and come out empty handed. A place where mediocrity is celebrated to the heavens. place for failures who cannot face the reality but rather lazy around till month end for salary. shame I cannot waste my time working in a bank in Naija.

Funny how people like you reason, you just assume that bankers are failure and lazy people. Do yourself a favour and change your orientation. Am sure deep down you are praying to become one but haven't been successful thus far.
Btw just so you know bankers are amongst the top earners in Nigeria today. I know this cause am one. Forget all that crap you hear people say online.
Still in doubt just Google entry level salary of Bankers in Nigeria using Diamond, Access, first Bank or Gtb. As a case study.
Goodluck friend.


Regards.

Call you yet no contact details Anyway where is the location of the said car

Oghenevwoke (God's time)

dicefrost:
Almost happened to me too. Just last week thursday, i went to the bank to pay in 50k. A well dressed gentle walked up to me, and asked if i was paying up to 50k. He asked if i had 1k notes, which i had. He told me that he just withdrew 50k with the atm outside, and the machine paid him with 200naira notes. The money was too plenty for him to carry about . He wanted me to change the money for him, and pay in the 200naira notes, while i give him the 50 pieces of 1k notes. Helooked genuine so i obliged. He counted his money before giving it to me. About 10minutes later, it got to my turn. The counting machine rejected the 200naira notes. The cashier said they were fake. Chai i nearly craze. Me was so fortunate the guy was still waiting for a bike few kilometers from the bank. The rest is history.

Oga easy with your gist.
Counting machiine would count your money whether fake or not #atleast the type the teller would be using# and secondly when was the last time you used a Diamond Bank ATM and was paid in #200 denomination?

@topic people should be careful, not everyone on suit or tie works in the bank, ensure you see the staff IDcard

I honestly don't see anything wrong if truely he did. But if by chance is family members immediate or extended) are still in that. Town, then they are in deep trouble, that's if they are not dead already.


For what its worth I will not seat back and watch when am in a position to protect my family

@ Op in your mind now you have deceived us. Smh4u. To think I fell for this cheap prank #angry face#

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munez_4: i am Enugu TS hopeful and i think our TS is probably gonna start lets say April. because if u do the maths.. Owerri and abuja just started. Lagos isnt yet through and there are some owerri and abuja TS hopeful that are yet to do. Am not considering the backlogs of lagos. But the good news is that owerri and abj has one remaining batch and it wud be Enugu peeps. So thats that!

You kidding rite?
April is almost 3months away, isnt TS supose to be for 10weeks?
DB i take God beg una oh, already tired of waiting!!!

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@Foreman4luv i would also recommend this...

Kcbellz: please call HR. state the reasons 4ur unavailablity.God's grace,They can put u on the next batch.

joshneku: Pls hw does one gets to Diamond Bank, Idowu Tailor street, Victoria Island from Oshodi? Pls a timely response will b appreciated.

When u get to CMS take a bus going to idowu taylor/Law school...stop at the last bstop... (copied from an earlier post. #dont know the route from Oshodi#)

okoge: Though it's coming a bit late, but I still have to say thank you to God for the invite. And of course my Nairaland pals. Congrats to all of us. Owerri here I come.

Finally bro... Happy for you.

zedblaze1: all i can say to you my beloved enugu peeps is: chill, do ur medical. hopefully before val day in feb, u are in. not too sure but be prepared

Lol @ Val day.... Ok am taking the chill pills rite now

magikalz: T.S is still quite far away for those who were called for medicals irrespective of your region. I did my my test, interview and medicals all in Abuja between May and June.....till date, I have seen no invitation for training school. Some of the peeps from my batch were invited around November 11 of 2013 and will pass-out on the 24th of January, 2014. I was only called on the 30th of December by the Abuja H.R asking if I am available for training school of which I said yes. So I'm very sure, something sweet will come soon for Abuja peeps this January. Let's all have fath.

Well as my friend would say "EVERY ABOKI AND HIM OWN KETTLE". The fact that yours took that long doesn't mean others would also wait that long. One thing we should note is that the number of TS HOPEFULS has seriously reduced, so we may not have to wait for long.
#Just my opinion#

And it came to pass that I finally got my Medical Invite!!!
We are almost there...
#TeamEnugu#

I just have one


MAKE MORE MONEY!!!

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Wishing you all a Merry Xmas!!!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday admitted that lack of adequate funding of the agency by the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration was affecting its fight against corruption in the country.

The Secretary of EFCC, Mr. Emmanuel Adegboyega, raised the alarm in Abuja while briefing the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and Anti-Corruption, at a public hearing on the bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency.

This came as a confirmation of The PUNCH’s October 16, 2013 story, which revealed that the EFCC was so broke that it could not pay its lawyers and meet its other obligations.

Adegboyega told the Senate panel led by Senator Victor Lar that despite several appeals for fund, “the commission have been further starved of funds to finance its operations.”

He lamented that the EFCC was currently broke with only less than N2m in its account.

He said, “I could recollect when the committee paid us (EFCC) an oversight visit and I did make our financial position known to the committee. As at now, EFCC does not have N2m in its account. We don’t have money.

“We (EFCC) have been complaining that no money has been released to us for operations. As at now, we don’t have up to N2m. If we can afford to pay salary this month, that is all. That is the position under which we operate.”

Adegboyega, however, kicked against the creation of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Agency.

He said the NFIA should remain a “secret” agency under an existing anti-corruption agency.

The EFCC secretary also faulted the “regulatory” powers granted the proposed NFIA.

Adegboyega said, “The Financial Intelligence Agency if independent with enabling laws, will be exploited by corrupt persons to open a floodgate of injunctions, restraining orders and other litigation to stall anti-corruption trials. The bill is unnecessary and we should jettison it.”

However, the Central Bank of Nigeria supported the establishment of the NFIA but requested that section 6(g) of the proposed bill should be deleted.

The Director, Legal Services of CBN, Mr. Amusa Ogundana, who said this when canvassing the position of the apex bank on the proposed establishment of the NFIA, said section 6 (g) was on the “supervisory” function provided for in the proposed bill.

He said the section was a breach of the Money Laundering Act.

Meanwhile, other stakeholders, like the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission; the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related Matters; the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, and the National Intelligence Agency, supported the creation of the NFIA.

It will be recalled that members of the Senate had last Thursday expressed divided opinions on the bill which sought to create a centre for the purpose of independently conducting intelligence investigations into financial crimes in the country.

The bill proposes the establishment of the financial intelligence agency as the central body in Nigeria responsible for receiving,  requesting, analysing and disseminating financial intelligence reports and other information to the law enforcement,  security and intelligence agencies.

It was presented separately as an executive and a private member bill by  the duo of the  Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma -Egba and Senator Victor Lar.

The separate presentations were however harmonised because they both sought to achieve similar objectives, which was enhancing financial intelligence in the country

Source : http://www.punchng.com/news/were-too-broke-to-fight-corruption-efcc/