INSIDE AMERICA DETENTION: Three NIGERIANS Arrested in Chicago for STEALING Maserati SUV Car, Carrying FAKE British Passports and Dud Drivers’ Licenses…Found to possess $53,000 Cash *Mayowa Balogun, Danteni Tijani and Dolapo Badmus, were picked up on January 23, in a car which came back stolen out of Ohio * Balogun and Badmus: charged only with possession of altered documents, a class 4 felony, Tijani’s bond fixed at $100,000 and placed on electronic monitoring * ‘All were carrying counterfeit passports and drivers’ licenses, mostly from Great Britain’-POLICE * ‘We found nearly $40,000 in the car’s glove compartment, and over $13,000 in a coat elsewhere in the car’-INVESTIGATORS BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU, AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
Developing: My LIFE in Danger, I am not SAFE inside Nigeria’s Department of State Services’ Detention-NNAMDI KANU, Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra …I’m being tortured, not allowed to change my clothes, any detainee that exchanges pleasantries with me is condemned to a solitary cell or maximum-security punishment *‘Contrary to a Court order, I am solitarily confined to a very tiny cell twenty-three (23) hours of the day without access to sunlight and any social interactions whatsoever. The condition of my detention at the DSS headquarters in Abuja continues to be harsh, degrading, and inhumane’-KANU *‘DSS officials did not allow him to have a new pair of glasses, since they broke into pieces the ones he was using during his abduction in Kenya’-Counsels to pro-Biafra agitator *‘Barrister Aloy Ejimakor detained, interrogated for hours by the DSS when he came on visitation to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. To date, Kanu had been denied access to the British Consul despite repeated requests to see him’-INVESTIGATION *BY KALU AMAECHI/SPECIAL Assignment Correspondent, Abuja
SEPSIS KID DEATH CASE IN BRITAIN: ‘NIGERIAN-BRITISH Doctor, HADIZA BAWA-GARBA wins Appeal against UK High Court earlier Ruling…New Judgement vindicates her, orders her to Resume work unmolested * Medical Doctor absolved from the death of six-year-old Jack Adcock * ‘The Court of Appeal sets aside the order of the divisional court that Dr Bawa-Garba should be erased from the medical register and restores the order of the tribunal that she be suspended from practice for 12 months, subject to review’ *RULES: ‘Earlier High Court was wrong to strike off pediatrician after medical tribunal found it would be disproportionate in light of mitigating factors’ BY TIMOTHY ELEBURE/MEDICAL REPORTER, LONDON
N13BILLION FRAUD:Tompolo Plots to Flee Nigeria…Plans Route of Escape Exposed*Former Militant Vows Never to Honour Court Invitation*EFCC, Police storm Niger Delta, Intensify search for his hideout*Nigerian Security Agencies on the Trail of ex-MEND’s commander, tracks his phone lines*“Security Agencies should do their work, not to allow him Escape. We want to know whether Tompolo can be an Outlaw in a Lawful Society”-Festus Keyamo, Fiery Human Rights Lawyer*QUOTE:“He wanted to be where no one would know he was. He wanted to escape from himself”-Oscar Wilde
CORRUPTION & MASSIVE DEBT ACCUMULATION: Kogi Governor, YAHAYA Bello sets aside N1.5billion for Refreshments, N600million to upgrade Deputy governor’s office in 2022 Budget …slashed workers’ salaries payment structure *Claims: ‘N100 million to be used to Rehabilitate/Repair Deputy Governor’s building, Electrical Installation to cost N10million, Generator House Construction billed for N20million, Office Furnishing estimated for N350milliom; Renovation/Furnishing of Lodge for N200million, Car Park/Posh in Lodge at N4million, Construction of SEMA Warehouse at over 120million; Extension of Deputy Governor’s Complex: N120million, Construction of Storm Water Drainage in Premises at a fee of N100million *‘Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State have no regard for human lives. Workers treated like slaves, living in fear’- Usman Okai, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, *“EFCC must investigate this matter urgently and save the workers”- Naija Standard Newspaper Center for Investigative Journalism *BY KAREEM IKOTUN/Special Anti-graft Correspondent, Kogi

BREAKING NEWS: ‘Pretty Okafor, PMAN President’s impostor GUILTY of Contempt of Court and liable to be committed to Prison’-National Industrial Court of Nigeria …Musician faces three Warrant Arrests, now in hiding after been served at his house located at 14a Fadeyi street, off Obafemi Awolowo way, Ikeja, Lagos *Form 48, Suite No: NICN/LA/272/2015 dated January 21, 2019 reads: “unless Pretty Okafor obeys the judgment of paragraph 6 (III) of the Consent Judgment of Honorable Justice O.A. Obaseki-Osagahe, refrain himself from parading himself as a PMAN National officer, he’s guilty of Contempt of the court” * ‘Further take notice that the act of parading yourself as the President of PMAN contrary to the valid and subsisting judgment of Court dated 20th September 2017 amounts to CONTEMPT of Court for which you will be liable to be committed to prison should you hold yourself out as the PMAN’s President henceforth’-Court Registrar 1, Olafolasade Opeyemi * ‘Zone 2 Police, Inspector General’s team, State Security Services cannot locate his official address’-INVESTIGATION * ‘I am suing Pretty Okafor for lying, defamation. I am not a NEC member so I have no business in organizing any delegate meeting as he recently alleged. Those around him like Zaki, Sony Nneji and Muma Gee in Port Harcourt will also be liable for association and conspiracy’-Tee Mac Omatshola, former PMAN President BY TUTU ORIADE/ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER & CHUBA ADIOGBE/JUDICIAL REPORTER, Naija Standard Newspaper

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PAINFULLY SHOCKING! NIGERIAN 33 Year old PhD student, THOMAS ORHIONS EWANSIHA Dies of Seizure inside Malaysia Immigration Custody…Battles convulsion in between academic period, earlier arrested as crime suspect on suspicion * ‘We are awaiting the post-mortem report of Ewansiha, as well as a full medical report to identify the cause of his death’- Khairul Dzaimee, Director-General of the Immigration Department * ‘Malaysia Immigration officials killed my Husband. They continually maltreated him in their brutish manner to the point of death in Bukit Jalil Immigration Depot’-Wife of the deceased * Wife lament in tears: ‘Having acquired all educational qualifications, Malaysia Government made my Husband die like a chicken’ BY LURETTA OBEMBE, CRIME CORRESPONDENT reporting from Malaysia

PAINFULLY SHOCKING! NIGERIAN 33 Year old PhD student, THOMAS ORHIONS EWANSIHA Dies…

SHOCKER! Tompolo Kidnaps, Brutalize Undergrads, Journalists in Delta State…10 Militants’ Boats blocked, forcefully Ferry them to Opuraja (Tompolo’s House) *Army, Navy Command save Victims, Pressmen *Why Jonathan Cancelled EPZ Project Commissioning 2 Days to Event *Victims Recount Ordeal: “Tompolo called and spoke with one of the journalists and he confirmed that he sent the hooligans to accost us and that we should ‘co-operate’ with his boys” *Keyamo writes DG-SSS, IGP: “TAKE NOTICE that if within 72 hours of the receipt of this petition you fail, refuse and/or neglect to invite/arrest, investigate and perhaps prosecute Mr. Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) for the threat to my life and the attempted murder of these seven victims and the journalists, I will be proceeding to court to compel you to do your duties under the law” *Names of those Kidnapped: ‘Eyengho B. Samuel, Tokunbor Oluwaleye, Kelvin Tuduo, Ekpen, Edema Eburajolor; Otos Lemun and

SHOCKER!  Tompolo Kidnaps, Brutalize Undergrads, Journalists in Delta State…10 Militants’ Boats blocked,…

MAKING NIGERIA PROUD ABROAD: NIGERIAN AMERICAN, FOLASADE OLAYINKA BADERINWA becomes Most Famous Broadcaster on New York’s WABC Channel 7…Co-anchors weekday 5 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News alongside Diana Williams and 11pm news with Bill Ritter *Joined WABC in 2003 after a stint in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, where she anchored the news on WBAL-TV for nearly three years * How she survived multiple surgeries, months of recovery and physical therapy after been struck by a hit-and-run driver on July 23, 2004 while preparing a report *Born to a Nigerian (Yoruba) man and German mother. Her first name, ‘Folasade’, means ‘Honor confers a crown’ BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES

MAKING NIGERIA PROUD ABROAD: NIGERIAN AMERICAN, FOLASADE OLAYINKA BADERINWA becomes Most Famous…

DISGRACEFUL IN AMERICA: NIGERIAN Man, 22, ABRAMSON ABDULLAH ADEKOLA Arrested in Michigan…For Receiving, Concealing Stolen property of less than $20,000 *Faces five year JAIL TERM felony *Found Guilty of Criminal Investigation Identity Fraud *Pilfers Innocent Americans’ Social Security Cards, emails to make fraudulent purchases on-line *Forges, Receive, Processes Stolen Items at his Employment work place in Keweenaw County * Adekola in United States on a working visa, held on a $50,000.00 cash bond * “We Have Recovered from Adekola’s hideout highly Expensive Electronics, Steal Americans’ Personal Information to make purchases on-Line”- Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Office BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES

DISGRACEFUL IN AMERICA: NIGERIAN Man, 22, ABRAMSON ABDULLAH ADEKOLA Arrested in Michigan...For…

SHAME! SCOTLAND’S MOST SENIOR ROMAN CATHOLIC CONFESSES: ‘I Had Sex with Three Priests’…Resigns, lost as Pope Successor *Says it was the Devil * Begs for Forgiveness *Crumbling world of Cardinal O’Brien * Victims Facing Medical Challenges-INVESTIGATION

SHAME! SCOTLAND’S MOST SENIOR ROMAN CATHOLIC CONFESSES:  ‘I Had Sex with Three…

Breaking News: YUSUF Suleiman, Chairman Governing Board, NAFDAC, Kase LAWAL, Nigeria’s Richest Billionaire Oil Magnate in Texas win ‘MAN OF THE YEAR 2021 AWARD’ …Royal Prince of Sokoto Caliphate relentlessly fighting against food poisoning and drug addiction in Nigeria, Oyo State born billionaire is highest private employer in North America offering huge benefits to employees *Dr. Phillip Emeagwali emerges Africa’s Most Intelligence Genius of All Times for inventing fastest computer in the world *Innoson Motors win Best Auto company in Africa Award 2021 for manufacturing locally made, durable and affordable brand new automobiles for Africans, defeating vehicle firms in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins as Best Nigerian Author in the Diaspora 2021 *Reverend Mother Abimbola Esther Ajayi ‘Iya Adura’ receives Africa’s Most Outstanding Lifetime Philanthropy Award 2021 for her godly, selfless and consistent service to humanity *BY EDITORIAL BOARD & Naija Standard Newspaper Center for Investigative Journalism

Breaking News: YUSUF  Suleiman, Chairman Governing Board, NAFDAC, Kase LAWAL, Nigeria’s Richest…

EXCLUSIVE: AHEAD MAY 29 NIGERIA’S INAGURATION CEREMONY!Northern Army Generals in Secret Meeting with Buhari…Desires 70% Ministerial Slots to North*Discusses Oil Well Contracts, Federal Appointments*Why Buhari Insists all Ministerial Appointees to Declare Assets*Steps up Plans to Curtail Boko Haram ‘surprise’ Attack @ Eagle Square, Abuja*Tinubu, Oyegun views list, Expresses Reservation, make Inputs*PLUS: Olusegun Obasanjo’s Connection

EXCLUSIVE: AHEAD MAY 29 NIGERIA'S INAGURATION CEREMONY! Northern Army Generals in Secret…

CONSPIRACY OF LIES THROUGH ENVY: ‘I served Nigerian A-list Comedian, I GO DYE for 12 years, he sold me out to Nigeria Police that I hired assassins to kill him over phony N36million’-TUNDE Biletiri, former publicist, entertainment journalist * ‘He ruined my hard-earned reputation, labeled me a common criminal, a fraudster, a swindler, yahoo boy in street parlance’ * ‘I was picked up by police team from Zonal Investigative Bureau Zone 5. They allegedly called me a Notorious cultist, Assassins’ patron’ * ‘I was forced to write false statements under duress and tortured severely in police custody’ *’In Police custody, I was forced to write a cheque of N25million by Corporal Lazarus despite pleas by Inspector Ebilayefa not to allow me write it since the case was not fraud related. They vowed to use dud cheque to rope me in. They tortured me with a cutlass and threatened to kill me assuring nothing will ever happen to them’ * ‘My unlawful detention and remand in prison for three months was a set up’ *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau

CONSPIRACY OF LIES THROUGH ENVY: 'I served Nigerian A-list Comedian, I GO…

‘BUHARI Economic Policy: Human Face, No Added Value for Masses’-Niyi BABADE, Al-jazeera Award winner, International Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Miracle Man of Reuters*Says: “Can’t Rate President’s Performance on Nation’s Economy, Corruption War on Course”*States: “During Peoples Democratic Party Tenure, APC members Detained on Corruption”*Confesses: “Buhari’s Return to Power in 2019, Political Fate in Hands of the People”*Echoes: “Incumbent Govt Lied, Used People to Attain Ambition and Dumped Them”*Explain: “Lai Mohammed Incompetent to Control Online Media & Cyber Warriors”*Laments: “Problem of Slave-driver Media Employers Can Never Stop in Nigeria”*Warns: “Journalists should Rise Now, Criticize Any Policy with No Benefit for People they Represent”

'BUHARI Economic Policy: Human Face, No Added Value for Masses'-Niyi BABADE,  Al-jazeera…

DISGRACEFUL: NIGERIAN Woman, HAUWA AL-HASSAN in AMERICA Faces 17 Count Indictment for STEALING $100,000 in DAY Care FRAUD…Travels to Nigeria to teach others returning to USA how to run similar daycare fraud schemes * Superseding indictment includes the original charge of theft of government property * Auditors found Guidance Child Care, another provider billed the state for childcare of the same child, at overlapping times * ‘Case is result of a nationwide sweep that targeted childcare center fraud in a loss of more than $1 million’-United States Department of Justice BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES

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BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIAN 29YEARS OLD LADY, OPEYEMI ODUTEMOWO Bags PhD Degree in Nuclear Physics from University of Pretoria, South Africa…Had Bsc in Applied Physics, Msc in Physics * Her MSc dissertation focused on the modification of glassy carbon under stronitium implantation * Ph.D thesis investigated the effects of fission product bombardment on glassy carbon to provide solutions that will help generate cleaner and safer electricity in Africa, especially Nigeria * “The study is about finding a way to store nuclear waste generated from nuclear power plants. I hope that with studies like this, Nigeria will be willing to add nuclear as one of our ways of generating power. No country needs it like we do”-Odutemowo *PLUS Plans to Generate Electricity Supply for Nigeria BY PUNNEL YVONNE/STAFF WRITER, PRETORIA

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3RD YEAR MEDIA ANNIVERSARY:’Aliko Dangote is Person of the Year 2015′ -NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER*Africa’s Richest Entrepreneur with highest Job Creation for youths in Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, Zambia and now Zimbabwe*Nigeria’s most humble Billionaire with no single Scandal ever*Shells out $400million to build Cement Factory in Zimbabwe*’Dangote’s Real Time Net Worth as at 29th December 2015 is $15.8Billion’-FORBES*QUOTE: “To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”-Anatole France

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BREAKING NEWS: EFCC Arrests 20Year old CREDIT Card King, YUSUF BALOGUN ALABI, alias ‘Monica Donal’ from Hideout in Lagos…For STEALING $5,400 Canadian Dollars of catering entertainment outfit in Brantford, Canada *Scam Surfaces after prosecution of Tony Ifeoluwa Adebero, a young Nigerian undergraduate of Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia for Wire Fraud *Dropped FAKE NAMES of Bacon Jamie Cecil as the person that actually wired the funds to Tony in Canada *Why TD Canada Trust Bank asked for details of person who made transfer to account within 12 hours * “I Admitted to Anti-graft agency, that I single-handedly perpetrated the fraud, with the use of credit card numbers”-Balogun BY OPEMIPO IREWOLE/CRIME WRITER, LAGOS

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BREAKING NEWS: EFCC Arrests 20Year old CREDIT Card King, YUSUF BALOGUN ALABI, alias ‘Monica Donal’ from Hideout in Lagos…For STEALING $5,400 Canadian Dollars of catering entertainment outfit in Brantford, Canada *Scam Surfaces after prosecution of Tony Ifeoluwa Adebero, a young Nigerian undergraduate of Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia for Wire Fraud *Dropped FAKE NAMES of Bacon Jamie Cecil as the person that actually wired the funds to Tony in Canada *Why TD Canada Trust Bank asked for details of person who made transfer to account within 12 hours * “I Admitted to Anti-graft agency, that I single-handedly perpetrated the fraud, with the use of credit card numbers”-Balogun BY OPEMIPO IREWOLE/CRIME WRITER, LAGOS
ONE-ON-ONE-INTERVIEW: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Nigeria is a Scam -Stereoman Ekwe Akpor Oghene, a Glo ambassador …lament how musicians are suffering, claim: ‘No money, no show, no relief package from government for artists’ survival’ * Claims: “Envious musicians alleged that I killed the mother of my baby which led me to prison where I was placed in remand, but set free after the Federal Ministry of Justice argued that I had no case to answer” * Reveal: ‘I was professionally trained a Tailor, where I made and sew clothes in the past. I channeled the fund I made there to release the music which led to my been signed on a record label’ * Confess: ‘I used to smoke Marijuana very well, but at a time I stopped because I discovered it was not good for my brain, so I quit in 2010’ *Plus how he discovered his unique traditional dance steps, latest album on the way *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
Nigeria’s ex-Finance Minister, NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA Reigns as Board Member of Twitter…Named alongside American lawyer Robert Zoellick *Harvard-educated economist Okonjo-Iweala has around 860,000 Twitter followers * Twitter possess over 336 million users, gaining widespread popularity among Africans who use it to amplify their concerns and create online communities * ‘As we strive to build a better world for tomorrow, Twitter can amplify messages and drive critical conversations around today’s most important issues’-Okonjo-Iweala *”We are confident they will be incredible assets to Twitter as we continue to focus on driving transparency and making Twitter a safer, healthier place for everyone who uses our service”- Twitter’s Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
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