The cold relationship between the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, today became visible in Abuja during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, with the former refusing to accept a handshake extended to him by the police boss.
Saraki and Idris Both were at the event held at the National Archade, Abuja, to mark the climax of the activities of the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration.
The police chief, who was standing near the mounted podium at the event, had saluted the Senate President, preparatory to a handshake as has been the practice, but instead of walking towards Idris to accept the handshake from him, the Senate President steadily looked at him and walked away to shake the service chiefs who were standing together with the IGP.
A newly wedded couple, Mr. and Mrs. Owonoko were on Saturday, January 12, 2019 shot dead by daredevil gunmen in what residents claim was probably a case of mistaken identity.
According to witnesses the gunmen gained entry into the couple’s apartment in the night at their apartment located at 10, Fakambi Street in the Egbeda area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
The couple who just moved into the apartment few months before they met their untimely death were mistaken for the former occupants of the apartment.
A witness say they heard the gunmen inquiring the whereabouts of the former occupants of the house, who they didn’t know have moved out, before killing the couple.
One of the security guard at the estate who gave his name as Bright said he believes the dreaded gang were hired political thugs who were after the life of the previous occupant of the flat.
He believes the same gang had attacked twice before they killed the Owonoko’s while trying to hunt one Mr Azeez Akinrinola a youth Leader in Egbeda and a staunch member of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a Bishop and suspected fraudster, Giniko Obi, in Benin City, for allegedly defrauding thousands of people of various sums of money running into millions of naira.
The suspect allegedly collected the money from his victims in the guise of helping them to ‘fight poverty.’
Obi, founder of Beloved Gideon Foundation, based in Agbor, Delta State, with outreaches in Bayelsa, Onitsha, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja, and Benin City, however, denied any involvement in fraud claiming that he was only “doing the will of God by trying to help the people fight poverty.”
According to a statement by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, in Abuja on Monday, Obi said it was his desire and God’s will to see people prosper that led him into operating what appears to be a Ponzi scheme.
Obi, who claimed to be a consecrated Bishop with a diploma in theology explained that he was selling what he called nuggets for successful living to subscribers to the scheme.
He said, “We write books such as ‘24 Nuggets for Successful Living’, ‘36 Nuggets for Successful Living’, ‘48 Nuggets for Successful Living’. We organise seminars and conferences on how to be successful and tell the people to subscribe to these publications.
“If you subscribe with N10, 800, we give you N15, 000. If you subscribe with N18, 000, we give you N23, 000. I had about 30,000 subscribers and I was paying them.”
According to him, when he left Agbor for Lagos, his desire was to expand his subscription base but his subscribers were impatient.
“If they had allowed me to hold the conference in Lagos, I would have paid them,” he claimed.
However, some of his victims who thronged the EFCC office since his arrest, described him as a fraudster, claiming he defrauded them.
A victim, Janet Okafor reportedly told the EFCC that Obi claimed to be a representative of Gideons International, an organisation that distributes Bibles and Christian literature.
She said, “He organised seminars in Agbor market and claimed that he was from Gideons International and that their mission was to help eradicate poverty in Nigeria. He told us that unlike in the past when Gideons International distributed Bibles and Christian literature, their mission now was to eradicate poverty.”
On how she became a victim of the scheme, Okafor, 35, who claimed she had never participated in any ponzi scheme in the past said she fell for his tricks because “the Bishop swore with the Bible.”
“The Bishop knelt down and swore with the Bible; He convinced us that he was from Texas, USA and we believed him. I subscribed with N10, 800 and he paid me N15, 000. It was after this that he engaged over 60 of us as canvassers. I brought many people including my relations and friends. All together, they invested over N5 million,” the victim was quoted as saying.
Newlyweds identified as Leomer and Erika Joyce Lagradilla, reportedly drowned while on honeymoon in Maldives, three weeks after their wedding. The Filipino newlyweds who walked down the aisle in front of friends and families on December 18 after dating for more than 10 years, arrived the Maldives on Jan. 11, and took to Instagram few days ago to share their excitement about the honeymoon A source from the island told ABS-CBN News that the then-unidentified man drowned first, then the woman sought help.
“However, by the time someone had reached them on a dinghy, they were both motionless, afloat on the surface of the water,” the report read
Arrangements for the repatriation of the newlyweds has been initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), who asked the Philippine Embassy in Dhaka, which has jurisdiction over Maldives, to coordinate the move. It was further gathered that a GoGetFunding page has been set up to raise PHP1.268 million (USD$ 24,288.87), the amount of money needed to repatriate their bodies to the country. The newlyweds who got drowned while on honeymoon in Maldives, were Overseas Filipino Workers; Leomer worked in Singapore while his wife worked in Riyadh.
