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Former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has took to his Twitter handle to celebrate with Yobe North lawmaker, Senator Ahmed Lawan, as he emerged the President of the ninth Senate with 79 votes defeating Ali Ndume of Borno-South senatorial district who polled 28 votes.

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Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/06/rauf-aregbesola-congratulates-ahmed.html

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Gianni Infantino was re-elected by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the Congress of world football's governing body in Paris on Wednesday.

The 49 year-old, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 after the departure of the disgraced Sepp Blatter, stood unopposed for re-election for a new four-year term which will run until 2023.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/06/gianni-infantino-re-elected-as-fifa.html

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Money laundered by former Nigerian dictator and army general Sani Abacha has been seized from a bank in Jersey, Channels Islands by a British court.

The money worth £211,000,000 was put into accounts held in Jersey by Doraville Properties Corporation, a British Virgin Island company.
Abacha was a Nigerian army officer and de facto president between 1993 until his death in 1998. During this period, he laundered money through the United States to the Channels Island.

The money will be held by the government until authorities in Jersey, the US and Nigeria come to an agreement on how it should be distributed.
Any money that Jersey does keep will be put into the Criminal Confiscation Fund, which is used to pay for a variety of projects. In the past the fund has been used for the new police station and developments at La Moye Prison.
It is expected that even more money held by Doraville is likely to be seized and paid into the Civil Asset Recovery Fund in the future.

Metro UK reports that, Attorney General Robert MacRae said: ‘In restraining the funds at the request of the United States of America, through whose banking system the funds were laundered prior to arriving here, and in achieving the payment of the bulk of the funds into the Civil Asset Recovery Fund, Jersey has once again demonstrated its commitment to tackling international financial crime and money laundering.’

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/06/british-court-seized-abacha-loot-worth.html

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Football star, Cristiano Ronaldo show off his 2019 $1.4m McLaren Senna.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is also rumoured to be the new owner of the one-off Bugatti La Voiture Noire - reportedly the most expensive car ever built. Reports suggest Ronaldo has spent €11million (£9.49million) on the unique Bugatti.

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Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/cristiano-ronaldo-steps-out-with-his.html

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APC and PDP youths, spotted exchanging blows inside the Supreme court premises this morning after Supreme court ruled PDP candidate winner of the Zamfara state governorship election.

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Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/apc-and-pdp-youths-exchanges-blows.html


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The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Shimon Ben-Shosan, said on Thursday that his Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President, Mr Reuvin Rivlin, could visit Nigeria soon, 61 years after an Israeli PM came to Nigeria in 1958.

Ben-Shosan also said Israel would want President Muhammed Buhari to pay a visit to the country, saying that such visits from the topmost political leaders on both sides would be “historic.” He spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when he presented his Letters of Credence to the Nigerian President.

Buhari had already invited Netanyahu to attend Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebrations coming up on June 12.


Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/after-61-years-israeli-pm-plans-visit.html

A member of a suspected gang of kidnappers in the Kpakungu community in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State has confessed to the abduction of one Halima Ibrahim on May 11, 2019.

The suspect, Mohammed, 25, was said to have kidnapped his victim and held her in captivity for over two weeks while demanding N150,000 ransom before her release.

Yakubu confessed to Northern City News on Thursday that he kidnapped Halima with the intent of extorting money from her would-be husband, who also resides in the same area.

He said, “We are from the Katcha Local Government Area of the state. I knew that Aliyu Musa has proposed to Halima and I knew he would do anything to secure her freedom, hence I kidnapped her.

“I called him with her number and told him that she had been kidnapped and ordered him to drop the sum of N150,000 in a location if he wanted her released. He offered to pay N65,000.”

Yakubu stated that members of his gang were interested in kidnapping newly-wed women or those about to wed because their husbands/fiancés would be prepared to pay ransom.


Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/were-interested-in-newly-wed-women.html
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Justice M.S. Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, convicted and sentenced Paul Duru and Edet Efiong Daniel, to one year in prison each for Internet fraud.

The convicts were arrested in February 2019, following a petition received by the Commission from a new generation bank.

The financial institution allegedly discovered some suspicious transactions on an account belonging to Duru, who was subsequently arrested by operatives of the EFCC.

His arrest led to the apprehension of Daniel.

Duru was hired by Daniel, a cat fisher, who presented himself as Arbara Williams, a 27-year-old Caucasian.

A cat fisher is an individual who uses the Internet, and in particular, online dating websites to lure people into a scam romance.

Duru had a ‘picker’ in the United States of America, USA, one John T. Benn, who received money in Dollars and sent to him.

On his part, Daniel had a relationship with one Sung Yong Hwa, a Korean and Peter Davito, a Canadian.

The charge reads: “That you, Paul Duru and Edet Efiong Daniel, sometime in February 2019, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, fraudulently impersonated a white man online with intent to gain advantage for yourselves and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 22 (3) and (4) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention etc) Act, 2015.” .

The defendants pleaded "guilty" to the charge.

Delivering judgment, Justice Hassan convicted and sentenced the defendants to one year imprisonment each without an option of fine.

The Judge further ordered the forfeiture of two laptops, two phones, the sum of N17,500,000 belonging to Daniel and the sum of N2,500,000 belonging to Duru to the Federal Government.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/internet-fraudsters-bag-one-year-jail.html

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, #EFCC, Ibadan zonal office on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 secured the conviction of four internet fraudsters.

The convicts are: Olatunji Samod Oladimeji (a.k.a Theresa), Stephen Ayoola Ogunmefun (a.k.a Michael Schwarz), Adekanmbi Abdulazeez and Tella Adefemi Ibrahim.

The anti-graft commission had dragged them before Justices Ibrahim Watilat and Mohammed Abubakar respectively sitting in Federal High Court 1 and 2, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

They were accused of sending pornographic and indecent pictures, and fraudulent representation. The offences are contrary to Section 22 (2) and punishable under Section 22 (2)(b)(iv) of Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act 2015.

They all pleaded “guilty” to their respective charges.

The prosecuting lawyers, Murtala Usman and Abdulrasheed Lanre Suleman, urged the court to accept the plea bargain and convict them accordingly.

Justice Watilat pronounced Ogunmefun and Abdulazeez guilty and sentenced each to five months in prison.

While Abdulazeez was ordered to refund $200, Ogunmefun will pay back to his victims sums of €800 (Eight Hundred Euros) and $75. All the payments will be made through the Federal Government of Nigeria as restitution to the victims. They are also to forfeit all the items recovered from them by the commission.

Equally, Justice Abubarkar jailed Tella and Olatunji for two and three months, respectively.

He also gave the order that Tella forfeits a sum of N1 million, a Honda Accord car, one HP Laptop, one IPhone 8 and One Samsung X9 recovered from him.

Besides the jail term, Olatunji is to restitute the total sum of $700 and £50 (Fifty British Pounds) and also forfeit his One Infinix Note 4, one black Dell Laptop and One silver HP Laptop.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/four-bag-jail-terms-for-internet-fraud.html

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President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria running like athlete while performing Umrah in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

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Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/president-buhari-running-while.html
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