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Fashola Clarified How He Was Defrauded by A ‘Yahoo Boy’
Babatunde Fashola, the current minister of works and housing, has clarified the recent news that went viral on social media claiming he was scammed by a yahoo boy to the tune of N3.1 Million. The suspect is presently with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Fashola said that he neither transacted any business nor knew the suspect that would have led to him being scammed.
He explained that the amount involved was the worth of Air Miles which the suspect realized as a result of fraudulently hacking into his online account and creating a false identity that he used among other benefits to purchasing first-class tickets to different parts of the world.
“Having consistently hacked into the accounts for over 6-years, the suspect was traced by the minister until enough evidence was realized which the security operatives used,” Fashola explained in a statement made was made available by his spokesman, Hakeem Bello
The suspect, Wakili Malik was arrested by the EFCC, for pulling an online scam against the minister.
Wakili, who allegedly impersonated Fashola to steal the sum of N3,106,216 was arraigned at the Federal High Court, Lagos. He was alleged to have connived with one Abdullahi Umar, who is currently at large.
The suspect allegedly converted the sum of N3,106,216, the value of the Air-miles Skywards Account Number EK248739282 of Fashola with the Emirate Airlines.
The offence is contrary to sections 15(2)(a) and 27(1)(b) of the money laundry (Prohibition) Act and punishable under section 15(3) and 22(3)(a) of the same Act, the suspect, however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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
