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Vietnamese Court Sentences Nigerian And Cameroonians To A Total Of 49-years In Prison
A Nigerian and two Cameroonians will spend about 15-18 years in jail for cheating two Vietnamese women to the tune over $65,800.
Ifeanyi Mathew Anthony, Nigerian, 29 and Cameroonians Mothe De Fouda Paul Martial, 30, Nguyen Hang Tcheuko Minh, 36, were sentenced to jail by the Can Tho People’s Court in Southern Vietnam on Thursday 16th January for obtaining property under pretense.
The men joined a group of African fraudsters led by a man called Papa, who lure women on Facebook and defraud them through several schemes.
One scheme was to advertise a $100,000 solution that could be used to earn money through a blank paper.
Another scheme was to request Vietnamese women to receive and hold large sums of money to be given to group members upon arriving in Vietnam.
The suspects tricked a Vietnamese woman from the Can Tho and another from the Phu Yen central province between December 2017 and April 2018
Martial and Minh were arrested by the Can Tho Police on 6th April 2018 while Anthony was arrested later.
Minh acquired Vietnamese citizenship in 2013 and also played in the V league in 2015. Martial and Anthony said they were acting on Papa’s instruction while Minh admitted to the crime.
However, the court sentenced Minh to 16 years, Martial 15 years, Anthony 18 years in prison respectively.
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
