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Meet Julian Osula, the Lagos billionaire in the viral video who ordered for a helicopter to come pick him after spending over two hours in a traffic gridlock along the Lagos-Benin expressway.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/06/meet-billionaire-who-ordered-helicopter.html



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Nigerians, Crime 'JUSTIFIERS'

Singer Simi took to her Twitter handle to talk about how Nigerians can fix the country and fix the country image which has been destroyed.

Simi wrote:

We need to fix our country, fix our image - because the only reason the Nigerian passport is going through so much scrutiny is because of what they assume we're ALL capable of. The more desperate we are to go there, the less likely they want us there and vice versa! Buhari

We're the problem. We're also the solution. We have highly underestimated the power and impact of a good image - and it's catching up to us. Plus the change is not just the government, it's all of us. We're getting left behind.

Everyday we're clapping for countries with passports that have easy access to numerous countries. WHY THE HECK DO YOU THINK THAT IS They earned it. They earned it! The problem is not the passport, it is us my brethren.

Over 30 years ago, my mother went to London and got visa on arrival. The same green passport. We gotta start telling ourselves the truth. If we don't fix up, how we gon get better treatment??

Previously, the privileged were quiet because they could somehow find a way. Now, everybody is affected! I feel like if we let it go too bad, it'll take even longer to repair. I'm tired. Even talk is too much - we need people with good hearts that really can be the change.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/06/we-need-to-fix-our-country-simi-tells.html

Nigerian Singer, Simisola Ogunleye popularly known as Simi, reportedly pregnant, flaunts Baby bumb in new Instagram photo.

The singer flaunt her baby bumb as she celebrate Children Day's. A close source to the singer, confirmed to MediaHelm News, said she is pregnant but decided to hide it from public.

Simi was married to Nigerian highlife singer, Adekunle Kosoko know as Adekunle Gold in a secret wedding.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/is-simi-pregnant-fans-reacts-as-singer.html
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, describes as unfortunate the acquittal of Robert Azibaola, a cousin to former president, Goodluck Jonathan, who was charged for $40 million fraud before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba.

The EFCC expresses concern that despite the weight of evidence brought before the Court and witnesses presented, Justice Dimgba held that, "the prosecution must show directly how the defendant took possession of funds and knew that it forms part of proceeds of corruption."

Invariably, the Commission's legal team will be studying the judgement thoroughly and will be taking necessary actions to appeal it as we hope that the appellate court shall view the merit of the prosecution and do justice to the case.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/40m-fraud-efcc-to-appeal-acquittal-of.html
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Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on has adjourned to June 27, 2019 to deliver judgment in an application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seeking the final forfeiture of the sums of $8,435,788.84 (about N3bn) and N9.2bn linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience.

The former First Lady is joined in the suit marked FHC/L/CS/620/18 alongside some companies namely: Globus Integrated Services Limited, Finchley Top Homes Limited, AM-PM Global Netwotk Limited, Pagmat Oil and Gas Limited and Magel Resort Limited.

The money was said to be warehoused in some banks, including Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank Plc), Diamond Bank Plc, Stanbic-IBTC and First Bank Plc.

Justice Olatoregun had fixed May 8, 2019 to deliver judgement in the application filed by the EFCC for the final forfeiture of the funds, but deferred judgement and adjourned to May 24, 2019 for further hearing of "oral explanatory evidence" by the parties.

At the resumed sitting on May 24, one Esther Oba, a younger sister to Patience and Special Assistant on Household Administration to the former President, told the Court how her name and picture were used to open an account with Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank PLC) without her being a signatory to the account.

Under cross-examination by the applicant counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, Oba told the court that the several billions found in her Skye Bank account were gifts she received when she lost her mother.

She also admitted that the account was operated by one of her siblings on the order of the former First Lady.

She said: "The money given to me as gifts were first kept in her house and she later gave all the money in tranches to one Festus Oyoha to deposit on her behalf in Skye Bank.

"The sum of $400,000 was given to Festus Oyoha as first deposit in the bank."

She further told the court that she had two different signatures she used for withdrawal of funds from banks and for other activities.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/alleged-n122bn-fraud-patience-jonathan.html

As shared by personal Aide, Bashir Amhad:

President MBuhari performs Umrah (lesser Hajj) at the Masjid Haram (the Grand Mosque) in Makkah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/buhari-wears-ihmra-as-he-performs-umrah.html
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Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, has been nominated for the 2019 Sydney Peace Award. A statement by Prince Lawal Shoyode, Country Director of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, the Non-Governmental Organisation established by Wakil to impact on victims of Boko Haram crisis, said this on Friday.

It said, “Mama Boko Haram is among those nominated for the respected Sydney Peace Award in Australia for her efforts in seeing the end of the Boko Haram crisis in North-East.

“Aisha Wakil is noted as a bridge to the Boko Haram insurgents. She has been appealing to them but it has been discovered that many people are frustrating her peace efforts.”

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/mama-boko-haram-nominated-for-peace.html

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Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team have smashed a robbery gang which specialised in robbing women of expensive vehicles in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Three members of the gang arrested by the police were identified as Ego Ike, Obinna Igwe and Adamu Nuhu.

The suspects usually took the stolen vehicles to Niger Republic, where they sold them.

It was gathered that the police went after the gang members after they allegedly stole a 2016 Toyota Corolla from an official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, who was on her way home from work.

One of the suspects, Ike, told PUNCH during the week that he joined the gang after he lost a sum of N6m he had invested in clothing business to gambling.

He said,

“I was a spare parts dealer at the Ladipo Market, Lagos, but I moved to Abuja in search of greener pastures. When I couldn’t achieve much, I pressured my father to sell his only land in the village and he used the money to send me to Istanbul, Turkey.

“I worked in Istanbul for three years and saved close to N6m which I used to start a clothing business in Nigeria. In 2016, one of my friends introduced me to online sports betting, and I lost all my money. I met one Linus in Abuja and we became friends. He introduced me to a robbery gang. We stole a Toyota RAV4 from a woman who was driving to her house on Shafar Road, Abuja and we took the car to Kaduna. We sold it to one Mallam Nuhu for N200,000.”

He stated that his gang also carjacked a Toyota Matrix from a woman and sold it in Kaduna for N270,000, adding that they usually targeted women to avoid resistance.

Ike, who hails from Anambra State, also admitted to have participated in the operation in which the FIRS official’s car was stolen.

He said,

“We took the car that night to Niger Republic, but at the Katsina border, Linus and I came down from the car while Yellow and a man took the car into Niger Republic. Unfortunately, Nigerien police arrested them. We target wmen because we don’t use guns and women won’t resist us. We go for Toyota vehicles because we easily find buyers for them.”

Nuhu, a native of Kaduna State, said he took to robbery when he was 17. He said he got a master key he used to steal some cars from one MD in Kaduna.

Credit: Punch
Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/i-became-robber-after-i-lost-n6m.html
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Anome Emereh, a pupil of Army Day Secondary School, Owode Yewa, Ogun State, has demanded justice after losing his right hand in an attack by his classmate, one Lateef Ebunolorun.

Emereh, who has since been forced to write with his left hand, lamented that the experience was gruelling.

It was learnt that the plight of the Junior Secondary School 3 pupil started on February 14, 2018 when he was reportedly stabbed in the shoulder by Ebunolorun.

It was gathered that Emereh saw Ebunolorun taking a substance suspected to be drugs on his way home from school that day and cautioned him.

The advice did not go down well with Ebunolorun who reportedly challenged Emereh to a duel.

After they were separated, Ebunolorun reportedly picked a broken bottle and inflicted a deep cut on Emereh’s shoulder. The hand was eventually amputated due to the severity of the injury.

Narrating his ordeal, 17-year-old Emereh said the injury had impacted his academic activities negatively.

He said,

“I was returning home from school on that day when I saw Lateef (Ebunlomon) taking drugs. He was with one Adisa and his brother, Ahmed Adesina. I advised him to stop taking drugs and he started abusing me. He grabbed my clothes and punched me in the chest. I also punched him and people separated us.

“I continued my journey not knowing that he was trailing me with a broken bottle. By the time I looked back, he was already close to me. He wanted to stab me in the neck with the bottle but I used my hand to defend myself. That was how he stabbed me in the shoulder. People wanted to hold him but Ahmed assisted him to escape.

“Since my hand was amputated, I have been forced to write with my left hand. Most times when teachers give us long notes to write in the class, I miss a lot because I can’t write fast with the left hand. I need an artificial hand and the person who did this to me must face justice. That is the only thing that can compensate for my injury.”

Emereh’s father, Thomas, a 72-year-old retired soldier, said he spent his pension and borrowed money to treat his son.

He said,

“I got a call that my son had been killed. By the time I got to the scene, he had been rushed to a hospital. A doctor said the wound was very deep. He invited another doctor to examine him. Eventually, they referred him to a hospital in Port Novo, Benin Republic. When we got there, they said he might die unless the hand was amputated.”

City Round learnt that Ebunolorun, was arrested four months after the incident, and Adesina had been taken to court.

Ebunlomon was arraigned before an Ogun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ilaro on two counts bordering on assault while Adisa was charged with aiding evasion of arrest.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The trial had been concluded and the case is slated for May 30, 2019 for ruling.

Credit: PUNCH

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/only-justice-can-compensate-for-my-lost.html

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Soldiers protecting an expatriate at a construction site in Edo state allegedly killed a man who allegedly refused to give them bribe.

Twitter user @DonmolaFlame who made the allegation on his handle, said the soldiers are known for demanding bribe from members of Okagboro village, Owan West in Edo State.

''Pls, great Nigerians help us on this, this innocent man was shot by a soldier who's collecting bribes in our community in Okagboro village, Owan West in Edo State.

This just happened today, soldiers guiding the white men in charge of the quarry site in okagboro shot this uzebba man dead because he refused to stop and settle them with bribe''

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/bribe-taking-soldiers-shoot-man-dead-in.html

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Mad people everywhere Eko for show

Man exchange blows with Lagos bus conductor for depriving him of N50 change.

It was seen in the video as the man asked for his change and the conductor vow not to give him which led to dirty fight.

Watch Video:

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/man-fights-lagos-bus-conductor-over-n50.html

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Flamboyant Instagram user, Aremo Gucci revealed it was Olamide and Burna Boy that secure the release of Zlatan Ibile from EFCC custody, not Davido.
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Olamide also confirmed Aremo Gucci statement that it was him and Burna Boy that released Zlatan Ibile as he "liked" the video.

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Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/05/it-was-olamide-and-burna-boy-that.html
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