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Warner Bros, Hollywood media giants, is conducting an internal investigation of The Ellen DeGeneres Show following multiple complaints by employees of the show.
According to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, a memo was emailed to employees of The Show last week, which stated Warner Bros. will be interviewing current and former staffs about their experience on the set of the talk show, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

The report comes after several allegations by current and former staffers of the Television show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres said that they were subjected to a toxic work environment

According to the report, interviews will be conducted by Warner Media’s employee relations group and an unspecified “third party firm,”.

Earlier this month a number of employees of The Ellen DeGeneres Show blasted it as a ‘toxic work environment’.

Some workers alleged they were fired after taking medical leave and were subjected to favoritism by executive producers of the Ellen DeGeneres show.

In all of these though, Ellen DeGeneres herself was never accused of any of the alleged misconduct even though one anonymous worker stated;

“I think the executive producers surround Ellen DeGeneres and tell her, ‘Things are going great, everybody’s happy,’ and she just believes that, but it’s her responsibility to go beyond that.”

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/ellen-degeneres/

A lady, Ndidiamaka Ekwerekwu, has moved to restrain the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, after he ordered that a DNA test be conducted on her 9-year-old son, Chidera Ekwerekwu, following the death of her husband, Victor Ekwerekwu.
The IGP ordered a DNA test following a protracted battle between the family late of Victor Ekwerekwu, and his widow over the paternity of the child.

However, the widow went to Justice D.A. Onyefulu of the Anambra State High Court to obtain an order restraining the IG from releasing the result of the test conducted on the child.

According to Mrs Ndidiamaka, subjecting the child to a DNA test “amounts to slavery, servitude and degrading treatment, which is a gross violation of his fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 34 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.”

While asking the court to declare any result arising from the DNA test a nullity, Mrs Ekwerekwu, in the suit filed by her lawyer, C.C. Obikwelu of Chidiobieze Chambers in Onitsha, prayed that she be paid N6bn as damages by both the police and her deceased husband’s family.

She also demanded “an order nullifying the result obtained from a purported DNA test conducted on the applicants forcibly without her consent and rendering such results null and void and not to be accepted by any court of law same being obtained by illegal and fraudulent means.”

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/paternity-controversy-lady-moves-to-stop-igp-from-conducting-dna-test-on-9-year-old-son/

A Nigerian Prophet has predicted that one of the male contestants of BBnaija Housemate will emerge Winner of the 2020 Season 5 edition of the program and would be rewarded with the 85million Naira star prize.
The Prophecy by Pastor Prince Dickson, the General Overseer of SRI Pastor Wealthy Nations Ministry Abuja, had on Wednesday 22nd July 2020 stated that Olamilekan “Laycon” Agbeleshe will be winner of the Season 5 edition of BBNaija.

He made the prophecy via a post on his social media handle and since then, there has been several reactions across the social media space.

Though the prophecy may have come to so many as a challenge, it has also confirmed some already trending anticipation about Laycon’s prospective victory in the BB naija house. Fans of other competing housemates have challenged the authenticity of the prophecy, as they called on Nigerians to disregard the Pastor’s Prophecy, stressing that it was a mere gimmick, while others hailed the prophecy.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/nigerian-prophet-predicts-bbnaija-season-5-winner/

There are fresh revelations that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) received the sum of N946. 91 billion as budgetary allocation in 18 years.
The report that the NDDC received N946.92 from the Federal Government as budgetary allocation is based on findings contained in a publication by The Nation.

The sum is part of the N9.43 trillion allocated between 1999 to 2019 as 13 per cent derivation to the nine oil-producing states and other agencies of the Federal Government involved developing oil-producing communities.

Figures sourced from the Budget Office of the Federation and the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) at the weekend contain the figures.

Information garnered from the Budget Office showed that the NDDC allocation is subsumed in the Ministry of Niger Delta’s total allocation.

It is only in few instances that the commission’s allocations were separated.

For instance, the NDDC got a budgetary allocation of N61,94bn in 2014; N45.78bn in 2015 and N71. 2bn in 2018.

Other allocations that the commission got were buried in the main allocation of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and so the exact amount could not be readily determined.

But budgetary allocation to the NDDC, from 2004 to 2019 stands at N769bn with the highest allocations of N81.9bn in 2018 and ?100.19bn in 2019.

Monthly FAAC disbursements, NDDC through the oil mineral producing states benefitted from 13% derivation amounting to N8.66trillion.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/fresh-revelation-nddc-received-n946-91bn-as-budgetary-allocation-in-18-years/

On Tuesday, July 21, embittered youths set two men ablaze for allegedly robbing in Mbaise, Imo State.

An eyewitness who was present during the incidence said:
“Seriously, I’m really tired and bored of all these irritating things happening in this country.

“In as much as crime should be frowned at, it’s still out of place to take laws into your hands.

“Why not reach to the police and hand the men over?

“What exactly do you gain in participating in Jungle justice?

“This is too extreme, we are in a civilized society, such a barbaric act should not be obtainable in this century.

If these men should be set ablaze and burnt to death for minor robbery, what then should be done to our leaders at the Federal and State Government that rob us everyday?

Even the ones reported to be arrested do not stay in custody for a week. Just check around and confirm what I’m saying.

Nigeria government why, is this the justice of end of corruption you promised us?

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/jungle-justice-2-men-set-ablaze-for-robbery-in-imo-state-graphic-photos/

The Senate ad hoc committee set up to investigate the alleged financial recklessness by the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC has recommended its dissolution.
The committee also recommended that the NDDC should be returned to the Presidency for direct supervision.

It also said the monitoring and advisory bodies recognised by the Act which established the NDDC, should be inaugurated immediately.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/senate-ad-hoc-committee-recommends-dissolution-of-nddc-imc/

The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has debunked allegations that he fingered members of the National Assembly accusing them of collecting 60 percent of the contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Akpabio, in a letter read on the floor of the House during Plenary by the Speaker on Thursday said the only reference he made to 60 percent during his presentation before the NDDC committee on Monday was in response to a question by a member of the committee.

He said the member had sought to know whether a Medical Director can serve as an Executive Director Project, to which he responded by saying that since 50 to 60 percent of NDDC contracts were medical related, there was nothing wrong in a Medical Director serving in that capacity.

Read more===The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has debunked allegations that he fingered members of the National Assembly accusing them of collecting 60 percent of the contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Akpabio, in a letter read on the floor of the House during Plenary by the Speaker on Thursday said the only reference he made to 60 percent during his presentation before the NDDC committee on Monday was in response to a question by a member of the committee.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/60-contract-allocation-akpabio-denies-reps-allegations-against-him/

He said the member had sought to know whether a Medical Director can serve as an Executive Director Project, to which he responded by saying that since 50 to 60 percent of NDDC contracts were medical related, there was nothing wrong in a Medical Director serving in that capacity.

Read more===The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has debunked allegations that he fingered members of the National Assembly accusing them of collecting 60 percent of the contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Akpabio, in a letter read on the floor of the House during Plenary by the Speaker on Thursday said the only reference he made to 60 percent during his presentation before the NDDC committee on Monday was in response to a question by a member of the committee.

He said the member had sought to know whether a Medical Director can serve as an Executive Director Project, to which he responded by saying that since 50 to 60 percent of NDDC contracts were medical related, there was nothing wrong in a Medical Director serving in that capacity.

The battered wooden “ghost boats” drift through the Sea of Japan for months, their only cargo the corpses of starved North Korean fishermen whose bodies have been reduced to skeletons. Last year more than 150 of these macabre vessels washed ashore in Japan, and there have been more than 500 in the past five years.
For years the grisly phenomenon mystified Japanese police, whose best guess was that climate change pushed the squid population farther from North Korean, driving the country’s desperate fishermen dangerous distances from shore, where they become stranded and die from exposure.

But an NBC News investigation, based on new satellite data, has revealed what marine researchers now say is a more likely explanation: China is sending a previously invisible armada of industrial boats to illegally fish in North Korean waters, violently displacing smaller North Korean boats and spearheading a decline in once-abundant squid stocks of more than 70 percent.

The Chinese vessels — nearly 800 in 2019 — appear to be in violation of U.N. sanctions that forbid foreign fishing in North Korean waters. The sanctions, imposed in 2017 in response to the country’s nuclear tests, were intended to punish North Korea by not allowing it to sell fishing rights in its waters in exchange for valuable foreign currency.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/the-deadly-secret-of-china-s-invisible-armada/

“It should be clear to the National Assembly that their incestuous relationship with the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on which they have oversight responsibilities cannot continue. It is an open secret that many of our lawmakers are the leading contractors in some of these MDAs where they deploy their oversight powers as a weapon of blackmail and intimidation…”

The foregoing is taken from my column, ‘Incest in the House’ published on 22nd April 2013, following the scandal that pitched the then Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director-General, Ms Arunma Oteh against the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Markets and Other Institutions. Bullied by the committee chairman, Oteh had turned the table by questioning the credibility of Hon Herman Hembe: “On 20th October last year (2012), you were given a cheque to travel to the Dominican Republic to attend a conference. Can you tell Nigerians that you returned the money when you did not travel? In asking the SEC to contribute N39 million for this public hearing, don’t you think that you are undermining your capacity to carry out your duties? You also requested that we should provide at least N5 million, that was a day before this public hearing started…”

That scenario of the accuser becomes the accused was re-enacted on Monday at the House of Representatives public hearing on alleged mismanagement and financial impropriety at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Following the drama of the acting managing director of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), Prof Daniel Pondei slumping while rendering accounts—with all manner of hands inserted into his mouth (I hope he goes for COVID-19 test)—it was the turn of the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio. Issuing a subtle threat, Akpabio said it was in the interest of the National Assembly to ensure that ongoing payments to NDDC contractors were not hampered since their members were largely the beneficiaries. “So it is important that people who have gone to court, people who genuinely did jobs should be paid for their jobs. For me, I am not against it because, of course, who are even the greatest beneficiaries? It is you, people.”

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/the-legislative-contractors/

Liverpool have been presented the Premier League trophy following their 5-3 win against Chelsea at Anfield on Wednesday, July 22.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said having the opportunity to lift the Premier League trophy at Anfield meant the world to him despite having to do so in an empty stadium with fans shut out due to coronavirus.

The Jurgen Klopp’s side dominated the Premier League this year and won the league with seven games to spare in late June. It took them 28 wins and 86 points to win the title.

They were first confirmed champions of Premier League 2019/2020 season after Chelsea defeated Manchester City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge last month to deny them the chance of defending the title and paving the way for The Reds to get their hands on the title after a 30-year wait.

The Reds sealed a first top-flight title for 30 years last month, but had to wait until after a thrilling 5-3 win over Chelsea in their final home game of the season to lift the Premier League trophy for the first time.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/liverpool/

At least 15 Nigerians and members of the ‘Eiye’ confraternity have been arrested by Polizia di Stato, Operatives of the Italian Police Force.
Members of the gang who were also accused of intimidating young girls into prostitution, money laundering, amongst others were nabbed during an operation dubbed “Pesha” by the Italian police which ended on Tuesday morning.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Italian Police Force said members of the ‘Eiye’ cult, which had roots in Nigeria, have a series of international contacts in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and other European countries.

Eiye is a mythological bird of the Nigerian tradition and members of the cult tend to be in it “for life” once initiated.

The police had got a tip-off from a disgruntled member of the group who was brutalised after violating some of the codes of the cult.

The Operation Pesha officers were thus deployed to the suspects’ hideout and coven where they arrested 15 of them while four others are at large.

The statement read in part, “The 15 people detained by order of the L’Aquila District Anti-Mafia Directorate are of Nigerian nationality.

“All those arrested belong to the “Pesha” ...

Contiune reading: https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/how-popular-nigerian-cultists-human-traffickers-were-nabbed-by-italian-police-force/

On Monday, June 20, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, told the House of Representatives that the former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joy Nunieh was sacked following a letter from the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari that she does not have the requisite qualification to occupy a public office.

Akpabio said Kyari’s letter stated that the former NDDC boss does not have an NYSC certificate, adding that the letter formed one of the basis for her removal from office.

He also said the other reason for her removal from office bothers on insubordination and her refusal to attend a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to offer explanation on certain actions of the Commission.

He said “she ignored the letter written to her by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry directing her to attend a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

“She felt that she is bigger than the Minister because she has a bigger budget.”

In a rather rowdy session with members of the House Committee, Akpabio denied claims by Dr. Nunieh that the forensic audit of the commission has not commenced, saying the forensic audit has since commenced.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/akpabio-why-late-kyari-ordered-joy-nuniehs-removal-from-office/

Ekiti Governor Dr Kayode Fayemi has tested positive for coronavirus.
He announced this on his official twitter handle @kfayemi on Wednesday.

The Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) tweeted: “I took my third Covid-19 test yesterday and it came back positive.

“I’m generally ok and I’m already self- isolating at home and receiving the best of care from my medical team.

“I’m delegating critical tasks to my Deputy but will continue routine duty from home. JKF”

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/breaking-fayemi-tests-positive-for-covid-19/

Billionaire businessman, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, has taken a step further in his battle against the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, and the government by commencing legal proceedings for libellous and defamatory publication against the government.

Captain Idahosa, who is the Chairman of Ocean Marine Solution (OMS), served a notice to the Edo State Government of his intention to proceed against it in court for libellous and defamatory publications against him by the State Government.

In a letter by his Counsel, Dr Oladapo Olanipekun (SAN), dated July 20, 2020, and referenced EM/OAG/02/2020, addressed to the Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Yinka Omorogbe, Capt. Idahosa demanded a retraction of the said publications; insisting that the State Government and/or its representatives should cease and desist from making any further libellous and defamatory publications against him.

Captain Idohosa further demanded the sum of N2 billion for the “embarrassment, inconvenience, losses and damages done to his person, character and interests” as a result of the “mischievous, malicious and misleading publications.”

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/billionaire-businessman-captain-idahosa-demands-n2bn-retraction-of-defamatory-publication-and-apology-from-edo-state-government/

Following the drama that ensued the investigation of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by the House of Reps committee yesterday, Professor Pondei will not appear before the committee any more.
Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, said the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, will no longer appear before the House of Representatives panel probing him and the agency’s Interim Management Committee (IMC).

Speaking after Professor Pondei was taken to a hospital after he fainted at the probe venue, Gbajabiamila directed the panel to use documents he already tendered to the panel to reach its conclusion.

Recall that Professor Pondei, collapsed while he was being grilled by the panel over allegations bordering on financial recklessness.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/nddc-boss-professor-pondei-will-not-appear-before-probe-panel-anymore-gbajabiamila/

37-year-old rap queen, Nicki Minaj is expecting her first child. she made the announcement about her pregnancy on Monday 21 July. Nicki Minaj, shared a photo on her Instagram of her in a bedazzled bikini and matching towering stilettos, holding her baby bump. She simply captioned the image, “#Preggers.”


Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, better known as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Remember the Rap Star had announced that she was leaving the music business because she wants to make family life her priority.

In a photo shared on her Instagram page, a blue-haired Nicki Minaj stands and was also spotted cradling her bump.

The wildly successful rapper shared a series of other highly stylized pregnancy photos on Instagram and on Twitter. “Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Overflowing with excitement & gratitude.

See Pictures===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/nicki-minaj/

Iyabo Julius, A 23-year-old woman, has been arrested by men of the Ondo state police command for allegedly conniving with her lover, Adedayo Sunday, to rob and kill her ex-lover, Suleiman Azeez, so they could get married quickly.
The state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, who disclosed this to newsmen, said the incident happened in the 12/12 area of Ore in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo state

“One Suleiman Azeez, 25, a commercial motorcyclist, left home for his daily bread with his Bajaj motorcycle but did not return home. His body was later found in a pool of blood around the 12/12 area Odigbo via Ore in Ondo state.

On interrogation they confessed to the crime and said the former girlfriend of the deceased, one Iyabo Julius, 23, who is now Adebayo’s lover, asked them to rob her former boyfriend of his motorcycle and equally kill him so that she and her new lover could get married.” Salami said

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/ondo-state/

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all tertiary institutions across the country to commence the conduct of the first and second choice admission from August 21.
Dr Fabian JAMB board spokesperson, in the guidelines, warned institutions against duplication of forms, adding that they should desist from selling forms for admissions into some listed programmes.

All applications for admissions to First Degree, National Diploma, National Innovation Diploma and the Nigeria Certificate in Education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc, must be processed only through JAMB.

Institutions that desire to place advertisement can do so by advising candidates who applied for the current Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to change to their institution as first choice rather than requesting the candidates to purchase another application form or apply.

This is to prevent the issue of double registration which is a violation of the JAMB mandate,” he said.

Institutions that desire to place advertisement can do so by advising candidates who applied for the current Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to change to their institution as first choice rather than requesting the candidates to purchase another application form or apply.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/jamb-admission/

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has unveiled the identity of the secondary school classmate who knocked down Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile.
Ibikunle Daramola, air force spokesman gave the name of the man as Nehemiah Adejoh and also disclosed that he and two other civilians were at the Nigerian Air Force base in Kaduna to visit the wife of a squadron leader.

He further revealed that Tolulope Arotile was awaiting deployment for her next assignment when the sad incident occurred.

The full statement reads;

“The Late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, a Squadron Pilot at the 405 Helicopter Combat Training Group (405 HCTG) Enugu, attached to the Air Component of Operation GAMA AIKI in Minna, having recently completed her Promotion Examinations, was in Kaduna awaiting deployment for her next assignment. During this period, she stayed with her sister, Mrs Damilola Adegboye, at Sabo Area in Kaduna, visiting the NAF Base whenever necessary.

“On 14 July 2020 at about 10.55am, Late Flying Officer Arotile received a phone call from her colleague, Flying Officer Perry Karimo, a fellow helicopter pilot from the 405 HCTG, who wanted to discuss arrangements for their return to Enugu, requesting that she comes to the Base so that they could work out the modalities. Subsequently, at about 10.58am, the Late Arotile placed a call through to Squadron Leader Diepiriye Batubo, the Group Operations Officer (GOO) of 405 HCTG, who was in Minna at the time, to clarify issues regarding her deployment. It must be highlighted that the call FROM Flying Officer Karimo as well as the one TO the Squadron Leader Batubo both took place before 11.00am, over 5 hours before the incident which led to her death.

“Flying Officer Arotile was later conveyed from Sabo to the NAF Base Kaduna by her sister, Mrs Adegboye, where the Deceased dropped her phone for charging at a house in the Instructor Pilots’ Quarters belonging to Squadron Leader Alfa Ekele. Her elder sister later dropped her off at the Base Mammy Market at about 4.00pm, where she proceeded to photocopy and laminate some documents.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/nigerian-air-force-naf-reveals-identity-of-class-mate-who-knocked-down-tolulope-arotile/

Members of Boko Haram members are demanding a ransom of N20 million from a 75 year old internally displaced blind man, Papa Jato Ndarfa before his daughter and niece will be released to him.

The traumatized blind old man who is currently living at the CAN Centre IDPs Camp Maiduguri told journalists that he has appealed to the insurgents to have mercy on him and release his daughter and niece as he could not to raise such amount of money being demanded.

The distraught old man narrated that his daughter, Lami Jato, 25 a graduate of Sir Kashim Ibrahim College of Education Maiduguri including his niece, Renita Bitrus were both abducted by some suspected Boko Haram terrorists two weeks ago at a farm in Tungushe, Magumeri Local Government area of Borno State alongside a tractor driver.

Tungushe is located along Maiduguri- Monguno road, just 15km, north east from Maiduguri, the state capital.

Papa Jato informed that his children abductors made contact through his niece’s phone and requested for N20 million before his daughter, niece and the tractor driver will be released to him.

The old man who fought with tear down his eyes lamented where and how he could raise such a huge amount of money to pay the terrorists but instead called on the insurgents to show mercy by releasing his children unconditionally.

He disclosed that, his daughter Lami has remained the pillar of the family since 2014 when Boko Haram sacked their village and his three wives were missing up to this moment.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/boko-haram-demand-n20m-from-blind-man-as-ransom/

The Acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei and his team on Thursday, July 16 walked out on the House of Representatives Committee on NDDC.
Pondei told the committee that he and his team were unprepared to make any presentation before the committee.

Pondei had objected to Chairman of the Committee, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, presiding over the investigative hearing, insisting he cannot preside over a matter in which he is an accused.

Members of the Committee, including Benjamin Kali, Ben Ibakpa and Shehu Koko, told the Acting MD that since there was no document before them, he is constitutionally bound to answer their queries.

While members were still making a contribution on the issue, the Acting MD sought permission to leave and walked out before the committee could grant or reject his request.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/breaking-acting-md-of-niger-delta-development-commission-walk-out-on-reps/

Atleast 30 armed policemen laid a siege to block Joy Nunieh, former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), from leaving her house in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the airport on Thursday.
A source who mentioned that Nunieh was due to appear before Senate committee on NDDC in Abuja this morning said, “Nunieh just called me now. The police have taken over her house since 4:00am in Port Harcourt. She is expected to testify before the House of Reps today.

”With a noticeable distress in her voice, she alleged the police broke into her premises and she expected they would take her away soon,”

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and Nunieh had last week appeared before a Senate ad hoc panel investigating the alleged mismanagement of N40bn by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC.

At the hearing, Akpabio said he did not know the expenditure of the NDDC under Nunieh because she refused to give him briefings.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/rescue-mission-gov-wike-storms-joy-nuniehs-residence-following-gunmen-invasion/

The former commander of the Nigerian Army Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, has been marked to face “jurisdiction”, which those conversant with military terms say means a court-martial.
According to reports, Adeniyi will appear before a court-martial because he had, in March 2020, appeared in a video where he complained about poor military equipment.

This video circulated after an attack by Boko Haram terrorists left dozens of soldiers dead.

Adeniyi who is among the 886 officers the army listed for new postings on Tuesday. and whose name came 42nd on the list has been moved from the Nigerian Army Resource Centre to the Army Headquarters, both in Abuja, for jurisdiction.

The Disturbing Video by Adeniyi

The viral video captured major general Adeniyi with disorganised troops decrying the death of their men and equipment in a particular encounter with Boko Haram terrorists, who were facing them from every angle with not less than 5 gun trucks.

Major General Adeniyi who said that intelligence failure resulted in the heavy loss of their men, however, expressed commitment to remaining on the battlefront.

The video generated criticisms that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the military commanders were giving the public false impressions on war efforts and successes.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/major-general-olusegun-adeniyi-to-face-court-martial-after-complaining-of-poor-military-equipment/

Twitter suffered a major security breach on Wednesday, June 15, that saw hackers take control of the accounts of major public figures and corporations, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Apple.

The company confirmed the breach Wednesday evening, more than six hours after the hack began, and attributed it to a “coordinated social engineering attack” on its own employees that enabled the hackers to access “internal systems and tools”. Twitter said it was “looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed” in addition to using the compromised accounts to send tweets.

The hack unfolded over the course of several hours, and in the course of halting it, Twitter stopped all verified accounts from tweeting at all – an unprecedented measure. The company had restored most accounts by Wednesday evening, but warned that it “may take further actions”. The company said that it had also locked the compromised accounts and “taken steps to limit access to internal systems and tools” while it continues its investigation.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/hackers-take-over-twitter-accounts-of-jeff-bezos-obama-bill-gates-others-parts-with-billions/

Alleged fraudster, Olalekan Ponle, better known as Woodberry, who was apprehended alongside socialite Hushpuppi, has reportedly hired the services of a top rated Chicago lawyer, Michael Nash, to defend him in court.

Woodberry, 29, who is currently being held in the United States, was arrested in the United Arab Emirate on June 10 for multiple fraud charges after a raid by operatives of the Dubai crime unit.

Recall that the street journal reported that Olalekan Ponle aka Woodberry and Ramoni Igbalode aka Huaspuppi were extradited to the United States on the 2nd of July. Woodberry is currently facing charges bordering on wire fraud Conspiracy at a United States District Court sitting in Illinois.
According reports , Mr Micheal Nash signed the Attorney Appearance Form for Woodberry on the 8th of July.
Mr Micheal Nash whose area of specialisation is Criminal Defense, has been practising for over 55 years — he was admitted to practice law in 1965 after graduating from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

As profiled by Super Lawyers, a platform that provides details of top U.S. lawyers, he also assists clients regarding Appellate issues.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/top-chicago-lawyer-micheal-nash-to-serve-as-woodberrys-attorney/

The founder and CEO of motorcycle-hailing company ‘GoKada‘ and co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, Fahim Saleh, has been found dead in his New York apartment.

The dismembered body of the tech entrepreneur who bought the New York apartment for $2.25 million last year was found around 3:30 pm on Tuesday, July 14.

Police say the limbless, headless torso of the 33-year-old millionaire tech entrepreneur was found with an electric saw lying next to the remains.

According to New York Daily News, the police made the grisly discovery in a building on E Houston St. at Suffolk St. on the Lower Eastside at about 3:30 pm. NYPD officers visited the seventh-floor condo after the deceased’s sister called 911 because she had not seen her brother in a day.

Read more===https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/07/gokada-founder-and-ceo-fahim-saleh-brutally-murdered-in-new-york-body-dismembered/

Legal icon Chief Afe Babalola, (SAN), has said that disallowing students from writing the 2020 WASCE, would cause irreparable damage.
The Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), said this in a statement on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti.

He said that the decision by the government would particularly cause irreparable damage to students sitting for 2020 West African Schools Certificate Examination (WASCE).

According to him, WASCE is an annual examination for final year secondary school students in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia, of which Nigeria cannot pull out.

Chief Afe Babalola said about 1.5 million Nigerian students, who had registered for admission into various tertiary institutions in the country were earnestly waiting for WASCE results to get admission into universities of their choice.

“Even though the Minister of Education insisted that it was not safe to re-open the various institutions in the face of the increasing wave of COVIDI-19 pandemic, he did not indicate when it will be safe for Nigerian students who have been staying at home since March 23 to participate in the annual examination.

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Justice Ezekiel Olayemi Ajayi of Oyo State High court sitting in Kishi judicial division has awarded the sum one million Naira (N1,000,000 ), in favour of Rufai Tajudeen against the Commissioner of Police of Oyo State and Mallam Abdulrafiu Musakir, for unlawful arrest and detention from 18th November 2016 to 25th November 2016.

Delivering the judgement, Justice Ajayi ruled that:

“The law is that the police whose duties as provided in Section 4 of the police act cap 5159 laws of the Federation 1990 do not include the investigation and the settlement of civil or contractual dispute or more popular put the collection of debt or enforcement of civil agreements and contracts. There is no provision in the police act which empowers the police to enforce contractual or collect common debts.

“It is in the light of the above that I hold that the arrest and detention of the applicant at the instance of the 2nd respondent with a view of recovering debt is wrongful and unconditional and consequently, I am of the considered view that the fundamental human right of the applicant has been breached by the respondents.

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Nigeria is committing $2.8 billion it does not have to build an expensive gas pipeline where it could have been cheaper to use rail and in a region without the industrial capacity to use the gas, this is the sum of the country’s latest project.

On June 30, President Muhammadu Buhari officially launched the construction of the 40-inch x 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project, a section of the Trans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline (TNGP) with a capacity to transport about 2.2 billion cubic feet of gas per day, expected to be completed in 24 months.

According to the federal government, the project will be financed through 85 per cent debt and 15 per cent equity with a loan facility from the China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) at London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate plus 3.7 per cent with a 12-year repayment period, while NNPC will cover the remaining 15 per cent of the project’s cost.

Nigeria’s finance minister Zainab Ahmed had earlier said the government has done an extensive review of the project and is satisfied that the cash flows from it will repay the facility.

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A prominent Nigerian Professor of Infectious Diseases, Lovett Lawson, has died of Covid-19.

He died while in quarantine at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Monday.

According to reports, Professor Lawson had some underlying conditions which made it difficult for him to recover.

He graduated from the University of Lagos in 1975. In 1984, he got a DTM&H degree in Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 2002 & 2006, he achieved two degrees in Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; MTropMed and PhD respectively. In 2012, he attained a Fellowship of Royal College of Physician in Edinburgh.

Professor Lawson, until his death, was the founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of Zankli Medical Services Limited. He had a long-standing experience in clinical practice in Nigeria.

His death was confirmed by the Spokesman of the National Hospital, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, on Monday evening.

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has admitted the possibility that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic might be spread in the air under certain conditions after about 200 scientists’ findings.

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Directir-General, NCDC, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja, said the scientists urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to review its guidelines.

The World Health Organization (WHO) now formally recognised that the Coronavirus could be transmitted indoors by droplets in the air.
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC said in a scientific brief that People who spent time in crowded settings with poor ventilation ran the risk of being infected by the coronavirus as the droplets circulate throughout the air in indoor gatherings.

The admission came after a crush of criticism from experts pushing the Organisation to update its description of the virus’s spread to include the possibility of airborne infections.

WHO now acknowledges that transmissions via aerosols, or tiny air droplets, could have been behind “outbreaks of COVID-19 reported in some closed settings, such as restaurants, nightclubs, places of worship or places of work where people may be shouting, talking, or singing.”

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Operatives of the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Unit and the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja have arrested three suspects over advance fee fraud, money laundering and romance scam.

The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

He said the suspects were arrested in Uromi, Edo following investigations into suspected fraudulent online procurement and supply of COVID-19 protective mask, received through the INTERPOL NCB Wiesbaden, Germany.

The FPRO said investigations had revealed that one of the suspect, 30 was an internet fraudster and a member of a Turkey-based online scamming syndicate.

He said the suspect supplies foreign and local bank accounts to receive fraudulent funds and use same as conduit to other feeder accounts.

Mba said a building worth N20 million, a Toyota RAV-4 2015 model worth N6.5 million, and a Toyota Matrix 2002 model valued at N2 million procured with the proceeds of the crime were recovered from the suspect.

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