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  ONYEAMA DANIEL, AWKA PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu for three months. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi disclosed this on Thursday while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the decision of the President to extend the IGP’s tenure for another three months was to give time for proper selection of the new helmsman He said, “Mr President has decided that the present IGP, Mohammed Adamu, will continue to serve as the IG for the next three months, to allow for a robust and efficient process of appointing a new IG. “This is not unconnected to the desire of Mr President to, not only have a smooth handover, but to also ensure that the right officer is appointed into that position. ” Mr President is extending by three months to allow him get into the process of allowing a new one.” Asked if the announcement coming now had not created a lacuna, the Minist...

 ONYEAMA DANIEL, AWKA The cryptocurrency ban introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria has been described as an attack on young Nigerians.  Bankers are expected to deactivate accounts which engage in such transactions with immediate effect. The action of the central banker has generated a lot of uproar on social media. For some perspective, here are some things you should know about Nigerians’ behaviour with cryptocurrencies: 1. According to a December 2020 Quartz report, Nigeria is the second-largest Bitcoin market after the US. Bitcoin is a form of cryptocurrency. 2. Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace is widely used for exchanges, as its decentralized outlook helps buyers and sellers connect directly. 3. Paxful says Nigerians make up around a quarter of its customer base with 1.3 million registered accounts.  4. Nigerians use cryptocurrencies for mostly peer-to-peer, arbitrage trading and remittances. 5. Asides international trading platforms, exp...

 How Teni chased me in traffic for collaboration -Davido ==== Popular singer, Davido, has taken to his verified Instagram page to post a video showing his colleague, Teni, chasing after him on the road to request for collaboration on her forthcoming album, Wondaland.  Dbashworld.

  ONYEAMA DANIEL, AWKA The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the Court of Appeal in Lagos to list Mohammed Yunusa, a Federal High Court judge recently discharged of bribery charges, for retrial. It made the prayer in a February 2, 2020 notice of appeal sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday. An Ikeja High Court had in a ruling on January 25 discharged Yunusa of the bribery charges, citing a December 23, 2020 letter by the National Judicial Council which lifted the suspension slammed on him in July 2016. Before the ruling, EFCC prosecutor, Wahab Shittu, had called 10 prosecution witnesses with only about two more to be presented, when the court struck out Mr Yunusa’s name off the charges, and ordered his alleged co-accomplice, Esther Agbo, to continue facing the trial. Dissatisfied, the EFCC raised three grounds of appeal in the notice of appeal. It prayed for “an order setting aside the order of the trial court striking out the name of the 1st respondent (Mr Yun...

  Sheikh Gumi paid a visit to Terrorist Fulani Bandits in Zamfara. The Sheikh Preached & Appeal to them to shun crimes. While In the South East, the Nigerian Soldiers went to Orlu to Kill members of the #ESN who are protecting villages against Fulani Herdsmen that destroy farms, rape, Kidnap and kill residents.

  ONYEAMA DANIEL, AWKA A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Tuesday sentenced one Sa’adu Isa to two years’ imprisonment for dealing in petroleum products without a licence. Isa was convicted after pleading guilty to a one count amended charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum products, contrary to Section 1 (17) (a) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. The convict was initially arraigned before Justice E. A. Obile by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The charge read, “That you, Sa’adu Isa, and others unknown, on or about January 20, 2021, at Eleme, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, without lawful authority or a licence to deal in petroleum products, had in your possession 40,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil in a Howo tanker truck with registration number, Kano TNR 02 XT, thereby committing an offence contrary to Sec...

  AIG Zanna M. Ibrahim