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A Private University Final Student Sentenced To 13-Years For Money Laundering
Fisayo Adetoro, a Business Administration final year student in a private University in Ondo State was found guilty of impersonation, money laundering, and forgery and sentenced to 13-year in prison and N1,000,000 fine on Thursday 23rd January 2020.
The EFCC in a statement said Adetoro, who is a first-class student with a CGPA of 4.5 Cumulative, was convicted at the Federal High Court 1 in Akure by Justice Folasade Olubanjo in a criminal case brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office.
He was charged on a six-count charge on 18th January but pleaded not guilty to all charges. According to the charge sheet which said that he falsely represented himself as Bawa Mohammed Sanni to dupe his victims to the tune of several millions of dollars.
Also, the convicted student used the fake name to register for a Nigerian Driver’s Licence with his photograph, as well as laundering several millions of dollars’
Justice Olubanjo, however, considered the student for a suspended sentence of six-month community service
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
