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Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman-designate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been illegally promoted to Chief Detective Superintendent on Grade Level 14 without regard for public service rules. SaharaReporters gathered that the promotion was backdated to March 2020 to correct the error occasioned by his nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari. Also, no promotion examination or appraisal was done before he was promoted. On Tuesday, Buhari asked the Senate to confirm Bawa as the substantive chairman of the EFCC in clear violation of the law establishing the anti-graft agency. According to documents seen by SaharaReporters, the Kebbi born detective was recruited into EFCC in 2004/2005 and has only spent 16 years in service and on Grade Level 13. Meanwhile, the EFCC (Establishment) Act, Section 2a (ii)(iii) says the chairman to be appointed should “be a serving or retired member of any government security or law enforcement agency not below the rank of...

Lai Mohammed The Nigerian government on Saturday says it won’t pay ransom to secure the release of the abducted students and members of staff of Government Science College, Kagara. SaharaReporters had reported how gunmen suspected to be bandits stormed the school on Wednesday, abducting many students and workers. Lai Mohammed While one student who tried to escape was gunned down, a staff member luckily escaped from captivity. According to the state government, 27 students, three teachers, two non-teaching staff and nine family members of the staff staying in the quarters were taken away by the gunmen. Speaking while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the government wouldn’t tolerate any form of criminality in any form. When asked on Saturday whether the government had paid ransom or was considering ransom payment, the minister said, “No”. He said, “Bandits all over the world work with the psychology of...

No fewer than 28 lives have been lost in various communities in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, in the last one week due to deadly attacks believed to have been carried out by herdsmen.  According to the Nation, the attacks and the resultant deaths were despite repeated assurances of protection by the state government and security agencies. Hostilities between herdsmen and residents of about 29 rural communities in the aforementioned part of Ogun State dates back to as far as 15 years.  In recent times, the affected villages had been attacked by terror herdsmen who were said to have camped at Eggua, a neighbouring town from where they moved with their hordes of cattle, ravaging farmlands within the Ketu-Yewa communities, which share borders with the Republic of Benin. The villages include Ateru, Moro, Ologun, Agbon-Ojodu, Asa, Igbota, Ogunba-Aiyetoro, Oke-Odo, Ibore, Gbokoto, Iselu, Ijale, Ohunbe, Igbeme, Owode-Ketu, Igan-Alade, Lashilo, Oja Odan, Ijou...

New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer, Ramon Abbas, fondly referred to as Hushpuppi.  According to the United States of America’s Department of Justice, Hushpuppi laundered money for North Korean hackers.  The revelation was made known when federal prosecutors in Los Angeles unsealed a case against one Ghaleb Alaumary, 37, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, for his role as a money launderer for the North Korean conspiracy, among other criminal schemes.  Alaumary agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering, a charge contained in criminal information filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles on November 17, 2020.  Alaumary was a prolific money launderer for hackers engaged in ATM cash-out schemes, cyber-enabled bank heists, business email compromise (BEC) schemes, and other online fraud schemes.  Alaumary is also being prosecuted for his involvement in a separate BEC scheme by the Unite...