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Adamu Bulkachuwa, a Senator who represented Bauchi North in the 9th Assembly has recanted his remark that he influenced the decisions of his wife, Zainab Bulkachuwa while she was the President of the Court of Appeal. Bulkachuwa while he was on the floor of the Senate at the valedictory session of the 9th Assembly, had claimed that he Influenced her wife to help his colleagues legal matters . He was however interrupted by the former Senate President Ahmad. He had said “I look at faces in this chamber whom have come to me and sought for my help when my…

The Manager of SEAP Microfinance Bank in Saki, Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, Sola Ogungbe has reportedly committed suicide over unpaid loans. Ogungbe reportedly took his life on Wednesday at his home in Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government Area. According to an eye witness, “The victim’s wife was called by a staff member of the company because the deceased had not been reporting at his workplace over the loan default crisis. “But unfortunately, when she got home to report the call to her husband, she met his corpse on the floor.” A friend of the deceased, who pleaded anonymity said that…

CLAIM A video forwarded several times on WhatsApp and other media claims that huge amount of dollars was recovered from the former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele’s house by EFCC. VERDICT The claim is FALSE, VERIFICATION The video currently being shared showed two men in an undisclosed area counting an unknown amount of cash in dollars inside a building. Subjecting elements in the video to a Google image search, the first result was linked to an allegation in the build up to the presidential primaries in 2022. Further findings led to a Twitter source which posted the video in 2019. It…

Peace Adedigba The Operatives of Ekiti State Police Command have arrested 16 suspects for different crimes including bank robbery. The state Commissioner of Police, Dare Ogundare on Friday, said crimes committed by the suspects are armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, possession of fire arms, cattle rustling and impersonation. Parading the suspects to the journalists, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Sunday Abutu disclosed that eight  of the suspects were arrested in Lagos for alleged complicity in the series bank robbery in the state. The Police spokesman said, “On 09/06/2023, upon a credible tip-off, the Command Rapid…

A Non-Governmental health organisation, Haima Health Initiative has siad that  Nigeria has a shortfall of 1.7 million pints of blood annually. The organisation lamented the shortage of blood in blood banks in Nigeria, calling on Nigerians to save lives by regularly donating blood. The founder of  Haima Health Initiative, Bukola Bolarinwa said this in  Abuja in commemoration of the 2023 World Blood Donation Day,  According to her, the World Blood Donation Day is held annually on June 14 globally to highlight the importance of blood donation in medical care and appreciate non-paid donors for their selfless gifts.…

National Population Commission  on Friday, denied that it spent  N200 billion in one year, saying, the amount of money was spent in the last nine years on spent for the  preparation of the national population and housing census between 2014 and 2023. The commission said this at a news conference, refuting  it squandered N200 billion in just one year (2023). The Chairman of the NPC, Nasir Isa-Kwarra had in May in a meeting with media executives in Abuja, announced that N200 billion had been spent for the conduct of the census. However, the NPC at a media…

No fewer than seven judges  accused of engaging in sundry acts of corruption are  under probe . The  National Judicial Council says it  has set up panels to probe the judges . NJC said this in a statement signed by the Director of Information at the NJC, Mr. Soji Oye. Oye said the meeting was chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kayode Ariwoola, who doubles as the chairman of the council. The NBA president, Yakubu Maikyau in a statement had described as shocking a public confession by Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa that he influenced…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has formally requested the police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to probe and prosecute former senator Adamu Bulkachuwa for the perversion of justice. Bulkachuwa had made a confession of influencing the decisions of his wife, Zainab Bulkachuwa, while she was serving as the President of the Court of Appeal. Bulkachuwa, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator between June 2015 and June 2023, confessed on Saturday, boasting about how he, on different occasions, influenced his wife’s decisions to the advantage of many of his colleagues in the Senate. Bulkachuwa confessed…

Fawaz Adebisi The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has sentenced an ex-Reps member, Mansur Mashi, and three officials of sterling Bank, Abdulmumini Mustapha, Shehu Aliyu and, Muazu Abdu, to prison for their involvement in a N212 million fraud. The court in a judgement delivered by Justice Sale Shuaibu, on Thursday, convicted Mashi on eight counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretences. It was gathered that Mashi, alongside the bank officials, has been in the trial for the past 12 years. The former Reps memb I’mer was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for using fictitious…

Fawaz Adebisi Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has indicted some former governors during his tenure of scheming for to stay beyond their second term constitutional  stipulated  term . Obasanjo who governed between 1999 and 2007 was accused of planning  to extend his stay in office beyond 2007.but, denied the allegations in various forms . But,the former president admitted to theis claims in a recent interview, attributing the third term agenda to certain governors who he said  were seeking personal gain. When questioned about his failed third term  bid, he stated, “the governors, some of them, were doing it for…