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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested three Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based suspected internet fraudsters, Samuel Olayinka, Afeez Fajumobi and Olamide Olaofe, in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The arrest was made by the EFCC zonal office, Lagos, as the operatives swooped on 14 other suspected fraudsters in different parts of the state. The agency said in a statement that the suspects were arrested on Tuesday, January 26, and Wednesday 27, 2021 at different locations following a series of intelligence detailing their alleged involvement in internet fraud and other related offences in Nigeria and abroad. “The Dubai-based suspects who were arrested at Victory Nest Estate, Jakande, Lekki, Lagos State, on January 27, 2021, were identified as Samuel Olayinka, Afeez Fajumobi and Olamide Olaofe, while their accomplices caught with them include Amao Oluwatobi, Amao Joshua, Adeyemo Olatunde, Solomon Emelike, Lawrence Nwodu and Philip Olamilekan.” “...

The founder and Presiding Bishop of Christ Life Church Worldwide, Francis Wale Oke, has claimed that God killed a lecturer of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) who repeatedly failed one of his daughters because he was bent on sleeping with her. In a trending video seen by SaharaReporters, Oke, who is also the President of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries and Chancellor of the Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, Oyo State, alleged that the late UNILAG Head of Department failed the lady for two years because she did not allow him to have sex with her. He added that he prayed against the lecturer and God killed him in an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. He said, “One of my daughters was being harassed – it was the University of Lagos. The lecturer was on her. He demanded to sleep with her before she would pass the course – a man old enough to be her father, very wicked evil man. And the girl said ‘I’m a child of God, I’m born-again’. He said ‘You! How many of you t...

Two people have been killed at Magarya community in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State after suspected bandits attacked the town on Tuesday. Magarya is the hometown of the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya. SaharaReporters gathered that when the armed men invaded the town, they opened fire on residents, killing two people and vandalising buildings and other things in the community. Over 100 cows were also said to be rustled while food stores were torched. The development comes barely a week after the Speaker appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari for adequate support to tackle the insecurity bedevilling the state. The Speaker had earlier rejected the peace deal initiated by the state governor. Zamfara, like many other states in the North, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandits and kidnappers which have claimed the lives of many. Just last Wednesday, gunmen suspected to be bandits killed 37 people in Dutsin Gari village, Kanoma...

Ibrahim Magu You cannot tango with hyenas and not get devoured. Hyenas are vicious; blundering yet pernicious, and jocular yet devious. Hyenas do not live by the rules of the wild; they subsist on the punitive canon of their clans. In fact, infanticide is common among hyenas. They eat their young. They eat their own. So, that you waltz with the hyenas does not mean you will not end up in the bowels of the beast.  This appears to be the fate of Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. I had chanced on Magu at media briefings and anti-corruption programmes. He was bubbling with passion for his job. You cannot fault him on dedication to duty, but you can spread him out on the slab of exuberance, naivety, and sycophancy for some lashing.  Ibrahim Magu Where is Magu now and what happened to the much vaunted war against corruption? It appears the Buhari administration has cast aside all pretences to fighting corruption. The g...

Global human rights’ body, Amnesty International, has lamented that 100 days after the Lekki tollgate shooting in Lagos State, the government has yet to secure justice for the victims of the incident but has been engaging in denials and cover-up. Amnesty International expressed worry that the EndSARS movement’s supporters have continued to face intimidation from the state actors such as the Central Bank of Nigeria which since December 2020 froze the accounts of about 20 identified supporters. In a release on Thursday, the AI stated that the authorities had yet to initiate concrete police reforms. The international body said, “Since the assault by security forces, which killed at least 12 people, Nigerian authorities have targeted supporters of the protests against police brutality by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Some of the movement’s supporters have had their bank accounts frozen.” “The bloody events of 20 October 2020, when Nigerian security forces killed at l...