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Money recovered from an apartment in Osborne Towers Ikoyi A lawyer to the whistle-blower that helped in the recovery of $43.5 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million at No. 16 Osborne Road, Flat 7B Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos, has said his client is yet to be paid his due reward five months after a court ordered a final forfeiture of the money. Reacting to a claim by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that his client is now a millionaire, the lawyer, Yakubu Galadima, told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday that several efforts to get the money have been unsuccessful. “The truth is that this guy has not been paid a penny,” Mr. Galadima said. “In fact, from April till date, the guy has been living under my meagre resources, his security was just zero. I’ve had to relocate this guy from one place to another so nobody knows his whereabouts.” The  Nigerian government in December 2016 adopted a policy on whistleblowing to encourage citizens to report financial and other related c

The “young man” who blew the whistle on the money recovered from an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, is now a millionaire as he has been officially compensated. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the man was rewarded with percentage of the recovered. The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, stated this in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, spokesman of the EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement. Uwujaren said Magu spoke at the ongoing 7th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. On April 7, EFCC operatives broke into a four-bedroom apartment on Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, and pulled out $43 million, £27,800 and N23 million stashed in a wardrobe. The commission said the discovery followed an operation triggered by a whistle blower’s alert received by its Lagos office. Uwujaren quoted Magu as saying that the whistle blower was already a millionaire by virtue of the percentage he was officially entitled

A high court judge in Zimbabwe  has granted bail to an American citizen, Martha O’Donovan, accused of subverting the government of President Robert Mugabe via Twitter. The judge in a ruling Thursday said the case lacked facts. Martha O‘Donovan has been in prison since Saturday, a day after she was arrested on accusations of insulting Mugabe in a Twitter post. Police later levelled the more serious charge of subversion, which carries a possible 20-year jail term. She denies both charges. O‘Donovan works for Magamba TV, which describes itself as Zimbabwe’s leading producer of political satire. In granting her bail, High Court Judge Clement Phiri said there was a “patent absence of facts” in the state’s case. “The applicant has demonstrated that she should be granted bail. It is my finding that it is in the interests of justice that the applicant be given bail,” Phiri said. O‘Donovan was not in court. Phiri ordered her to deposit $1,000 with the court, surrender her pa

The Ogun State Chief Judge, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade, on Thursday granted pardon to 106  inmates as part of efforts to decongest prisons in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olopade pardoned the inmates during her three-day tour of prison formations at Ibara and Oba in Abeokuta as well as those in Ilaro, Sagamu and Ijebu-Ode. NAN reports that 38 inmates were released from Oba prison, 31 in Ibara, 13 in Ilaro,  eight in Sagamu, while 16 inmates were set free in Ijebu-Ode prison. Speaking during the visits, the Ogun Chief Judge said that the pardon was to decongest the prisons across the country in line with the directive of the Attorney-General of the federation. According to Olopade, state chief judges were directed to visit prison formations within their jurisdictions and release inmates that should not be in custody. She said that the exercise, which was the second in 2017 legal year, was aimed at decongesting the prisons and release inmates who

The imam of a mosque on Nuru Oniwo Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos State, Yahaya Quadri, has remained missing three weeks after he left home. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim had left home to pray at a house-warming in Owode Onirin, Ikorodu, at about 8am on Monday, October 16, 2017. He was said to have been invited to the event by a friend, who told him not to come along with anybody. Our correspondent gathered that the family of the 40-year-old Islamic cleric became apprehensive around 4pm on that day when he did not return home. When one of his lines was contacted, he reportedly spoke in distress for a few seconds before the call was terminated. The lines were said to have been unreachable afterwards. His mother, Afusat Quadri, said the unknown friend had contacted Yahaya on the telephone on Sunday when he was leading a group of women in a prayer at Oluwakemi Mosque in Aguda. She said he was supposed to leave for Owode Onirin after the prayer ended around 4pm, but the frien

Kim K, Riri, Nicki, Amber Rose are still good at what they are best at wonder why she wants to dethrone them.

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Yemen faces the world's largest famine in decades "with millions of victims" if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned. Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, urged the Saudi-led coalition to lift its blockade of the conflict-torn country. On Monday, the coalition shut air, land and sea routes into Yemen after Houthi rebels fired a missile at Riyadh. The ballistic warhead was intercepted near the Saudi capital. Saudi Arabia said the blockade was needed to stop Iran sending weapons to the rebels. Iran denies arming the rebels, who have fought the Saudi-led coalition since 2015. Mr Lowcock was speaking on Wednesday, after briefing the UN Security Council on the issue behind closed doors. "I have told the council that unless those measures are lifted... there will be a famine in Yemen", Mr Lowcock told reporters. "It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions

Topic:  YOU WILL FACE MOCKERS  [Thursday November 9 th  2017] Memorise:  And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head today? And he said, yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. 2 nd Kings 2:3 Read:  2 nd  Kings 2:1-3(KJV) 2:1  And it came to pass, when the  Lord  would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2:2  And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the  Lord  hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the  Lord  liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 2:3  And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the  Lord  will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. Bible in one year:  Job 13-16, Joel 2:18-32, Hymn: Sing hymn 7

A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj district, India was admitted to hospital with severe burns after her husband poured acid on her private parts for refusing to have sex with him. Police said the woman, a mother of two, lodged a complaint against the husband and three others for victimizing and assaulting her. A case has been lodged based on her complaint. The woman's father, Kedar Singh, said his daughter had told him that her husband, Vedpal, and his elder brother, Ajay Kumar, and his wife were torturing her for a long time. The victim had refused to stay at her husband's house, and when he tried to have sex with her, she refused. The incident happened in Behrin village of Tirva in Kannauj district. All the accused are on the run.

A Nigerian Resident Pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries International in Lusaka, Pastor Augustine Oso Ebosele has been given 48 hours to leave the country after his 4 year permit came to an end amid allegations of ‘divisive’ conduct. Ebosele whose church is headquartered in Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria had been given an extension of 4 months to wind up his affairs by immigration authorities after his permit expired. The government through the Ministry of Home Affairs in consultation with the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs have refused to extend the permit after the 4 month extension lapsed. This is according to a statement issued today by Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services who is also Chief government spokesperson Kampamba Mulenga. This is fresh from allegations against the government since dismissed as ‘baseless’ emanating from Apostle Suleman Johnson the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, who said Za

 Zimbabwe police have charged a United States citizen with subversion for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter as a "sick man," lawyers said Friday. The offense carries up to 20 years in prison. It was the first arrest made since Mugabe last month appointed a minister for cybersecurity, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said, a move criticized by activists as aimed at clamping down on social media users. Zimbabwe was shaken last year by the biggest anti-government protests in a decade. Police picked up 25-year-old Martha O'Donovan on Friday morning in the capital, Harare, U.S. Embassy spokesman David McGuire told The Associated Press. Police accuse O'Donovan of tweeting "We are being led by a selfish and sick man," from the Twitter handle @matigary, said her lawyer, Obey Shava with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The tweet had a photo illustration of the 93-year-old Mugabe with a catheter, the charge sheet said. O'Do

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the appointment of five new Permanent Secretaries in the State Public Service. In a statement issued on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, the Governor said the appointments were in line with his administration’s drive to continue to reposition the civil service for efficient performance and service delivery. The names of the newly appointed Permanent Secretaries are Mrs. Clara Olutoyin Ibirogba; Mr. Timothy Olukayode Ogunnubi; Dr. (Mrs) Iyabo Suwebat Are; Dr. Taiwo Olufemi Salaam and Mrs. Kofoworola Omotayo Awobamise.

The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari never made a promise to Nigerians in 2015 that he would not seek medical treatment abroad if elected. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, yesterday disclosed this while appearing as a guest on Focus Nigeria, a programme on Africa Independent Television (AIT). The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bolaji Abdullahi, who appeared alongside Adesina, also said the much talked about promise the president allegedly made was false. Abdullahi said: “I was the Deputy Director of the policy directorate of the campaign, I was there from the beginning to the end.” “So many people came to join the group, some from even outside the country. Then one day, we were in a meeting, then one gentleman who heads one of the international NGOs in the country brought this list of 100 items that he was proposing that we should push out as the promise of Mr President to Nigerians. “We circul

Femi Adesina, media adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that his principal personally rejected the motion to endorse him for 2019 during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in an article he release on Friday titled, ‘PMB: Just like the mills of the gods’. Adesina lamented how the media made it look as though Buhari was embarrassed at the meeting. He insisted that it was Buhari himself who signalled to those in attendance that the meeting should not talk about his 2019 ambition. Adesina wrote: “I was there (APC NEC meeting). The atmosphere was friendly, almost convivial. At a point, someone moved a motion of confidence in the Buhari administration. “The seconder, a former state governor, added to the motion, seeking an endorsement of the President as candidate for second term in 2019. As he raised the motion, I saw the President gesturing, with his two palms downwards. “The gesture meant,

 Topic: EXPECT TESTS [Thursday November 2nd 2017] Memorise: And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 2nd Kings 2:2 Read: 1st Peter 4:12-13 (KJV) 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 2nd Kings 2:1-15 (KJV) 2:1 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2: 2And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 2:3 And the