Chinese authorities have issued a warning about the bubonic plague and forbidden eating certain animals after a suspected case was reported at a Mongolian hospital.
Known as the Black Death of the Middle Ages, the disease is highly infectious and often spread by the fleas on rodents.
The warning in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia comes a day after a hospital reported a patient suspected to have fallen ill with the potentially fatal disease.
The health committee of the city of Bayan Nur issued the third-level alert, the second lowest in a four-level system.
The alert forbids the hunting and eating of animals that could carry plague.
The public is also asked to report any suspected cases of plague or fever with no clear causes, and to report any sick or dead marmots.
The warning on Sunday (local time) follows four reported cases of plague in people from Inner Mongolia last November, including two of pneumonic plague, a deadlier variant of plague.
Plague cases are not uncommon in China but outbreaks have become increasingly rare.
From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths.
An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Emmanuel Mekuri, has allegedly committed suicide after stabbing his live-in lover, Patricia Ogunshola, during an argument at their place of residence in Araromi, Morogbo area of the state.
PUNCH Metro gathered that an argument on infidelity ensued between them, which degenerated into a physical combat.
Out of annoyance, Emmanuel allegedly got hold of a knife and used it to stab Patricia in her right thigh and when the attack became unbearable, she reportedly fled the house.
Thereafter, Emmanuel allegedly stabbed himself in the stomach.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said an alarm raised by Patricia’s daughter drew neighbours’ attention to the incident and the police were contacted, adding that when policemen got to the house, Emmanuel’s remains were found and the knife used in perpetrating the crime was also recovered.
He stated that Patricia was taken to hospital for treatment, while Emmanuel’s corpse was evacuated and deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.
Elkana said, “On July 5, 2020, around 1pm, the Morogbo Police Station received a distress call from the Zoo area in Araromi that one Emmanuel Mekuri, 47, a LASTMA personnel, stabbed his lover, Patricia Ogunshola, 37, on her right thigh, with a Jack knife. An alarm was raised by the 13-year-old daughter of the woman, who she had from a previous marriage, which drew the attention of neighbours to the scene.
“In her statement, the girl stated that the deceased person, whom she referred to as her stepfather, made further attempts to stab her mother in the head but she quickly ran out of the room. She reported that he subsequently stabbed himself in the stomach, with his intestines gushing out and he died on the spot.
“On arrival at the scene, homicide detectives preserved the crime scene and rushed the injured woman to hospital for medical attention. She is currently in a stable condition. The corpse of the deceased person was evacuated to the mortuary for autopsy. A blood-stained knife was recovered from the scene.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the couple started cohabiting in February 2020, but they were not legally married.”
Elkana said the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, for discreet investigation.
In complaints filed before Illinois courts, FBI agents described in details how they were able to trail and smash two notorious Nigerian fraudsters, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi and Olalekan Ponle a.k.a Woodberry and gang.
The criminal complaints against the cyber fraudsters showed the FBI agents trailing them since last year, before the Dubai Police went for the harvest.
Though the two conmen are Nigerians, they operated in different ways in executing their cyber heists and the loot therefrom.
Real Face of Olalekan Ponle a.k.a Woodberry
Olalekan Ponle often asked his co-conspirators to convert his share into bitcoins.
Raymond, on the other hand, favours cash, the heist moving from several accounts he set up in Mexico, Romania and other parts of Europe, before getting to him.
In one daring effort, Hushpuppie planned to cyber-rob an English Premier League club.
Hushpuppi, real name Ramon Olorunwa Abbas was investigated by special agent ANDREW JOHN INNOCENTI.
Ponle on the other hand was investigated by special agent Ali Sadiq.
Hushpuppi by Andrew John Innocenti:
First, messages found on the iPhone of Co conspirator 1 (reviewed pursuant to a federal search warrant issued in this District) reflect that ABBAS, Co conspirator 1, and Co conspirator 2, with others, committed a BEC scheme that defrauded a victim in the United States of approximately $922,857.76, including approximately $396,050 that ABBAS, Co conspirator 1, and Co-conspirator 2 laundered while Co conspirator 2 was in Los Angeles,
California.
Second, ABBAS and Co conspirator 1 conspired to launder funds intended to be stolen through fraudulent wire transfers from a foreign financial institution (the “Foreign Financial Institution”), in which fraudulent wire transfers, totaling approximately €13 million (approximately USD $14.7 million), were sent to bank accounts around the world in February 2019. Co conspirator 1 conspired with the persons who initiated the fraudulent wire transfers, and also conspired with a number of others, including ABBAS, to launder the funds that were intended to be stolen. ABBAS, specifically, provided Co conspirator 1 with two bank accounts in Europe that ABBAS anticipated would each receive €5 million of the fraudulently obtained funds.
Other communications between ABBAS and Co conspirator 1 indicate that, in addition to these schemes, ABBAS and Co conspirator 1 conspired to launder tens, and at times hundreds, of millions of dollars that were proceeds of other fraudulent schemes and computer intrusions, including a fraudulent scheme to steal £100 m from an English Premier League football club.
In reviewing data from Co conspirator 1’s iPhone, I and another FBI employee saw messages reflecting that, in or around October 2019, ABBAS had conspired with Co conspirator 1 and Co conspirator 2 to commit a fraudulent wire transfer and money-laundering scheme, in which a U.S. victim (the “Victim Law Firm”) lost approximately $922,857.76. The messages reflected that part of the scheme, including acts in furtherance of the conspiracy, occurred while Co conspirator 2 was physically present in the Central District of California.
Records obtained from JP Morgan Chase Bank (“Chase”) for a bank account held in the U.S. (the “Chase Account”) reflect that the Chase Account received a wire transfer on October 15, 2019 for approximately $922,857.76 from the Victim Law Firm. On October 17, 2019, there was a wire transfer from the Chase Account to an account at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (“CIBC”), in Toronto, Ontario, for approximately $396,050. Bank records reflect that the specific account at CIBC ended in 1716 (the “CIBC Account”), consistent with what is discussed below in paragraphs 21, 24, and 25. The remaining funds in the Chase Account were transferred to other accounts.
Based on review of data from Co conspirator 1’s iPhone, on or around October 17, 2019, ABBAS, using what appeared to be the Snap chat account “hushpuppi5,” sent an image of a Chase wire confirmation to Co conspirator 1. The image appeared to show a wire transfer form related to a transfer of approximately $396,050 from the Chase Account to the CIBC Account, which, based on other messages on Co conspirator 1’s iPhone, appears to have been held by Co conspirator 2.3
On April 14, 2020, I interviewed S.R., owner of the Victim Law Firm, about the above-referenced wire sent on October 17, 2019. On April 16, 2020, I interviewed N.C., who was an attorney and co-worker of S.R., and on May 21, 2020, I interviewed K.C., a paralegal of the Victim Law Firm. Based on these interviews, I learned the following:
The Victim Law Firm, which is located in New York State, was representing a client, A.D., in the refinance of real estate.
A.D. was refinancing his/her property with Citizens Bank. As part of the closing for this refinance, on October 15, 2019, K.C. sent a verification email to what appeared to be a Citizens Bank email address (later identified as a “spoofed” email address) requesting wire instructions. Per internal policy of the Victim Law Firm, all wire verification were to be sent to their firm via fax and followed-up by a phone call. K.C. received a fax message in response to her verification email with what was later determined to be fraudulent wire instructions to transfer the loan payoff amount of their client A.D. to the Chase Account. K.C. then called the phone number listed on the fax to verify the wire instructions.
NEITHER THE VICTIM LAW FIRM, NOR THEIR CLIENT AD, REALIZED THE FUNDS HAD BEEN FRAUDULENTLY TRANSFERRED TO THE CHASE ACCOUNT UNTIL LATER IN OCTOBER 2019. WHEN AD CHECKED HIS/HER ACCOUNT AND REALIZED THAT THE FUND FOR THE REFINANCE HAD NOT BEEN CREDITED, BY THIS TIME, ALL OF THE FUNDS HAD BEEN DEPLETED FROM THE CHASE ACCOUNT.
On October 15, 2019, K.C. initiated the wire transfer to the Chase Account for approximately $922,857.76.
Neither the Victim Law Firm, nor their client A.D., realized the funds had been fraudulently transferred to the Chase Account until later in October 2019, when A.D. checked his/her account and realized that the funds for the refinance had not been credited. By this time, all of the funds had been depleted from the Chase Account. (I further understand from K.C. that, as of June 25, 2020, no funds had been recovered.)
Messages on Co conspirator 1’s iPhone reflect that, at approximately the same time on October 17, 2019 that ABBAS sent Co conspirator 1 an image of the wire transfer confirmation for the transaction from the Chase Account to the CIBC Account, Coconspirator 1 was communicating with another phone number to confirm the wire had been deposited into the CIBC Account. Based on other messages on the iPhone and records obtained by the FBI, that phone number was used by Co conspirator 2.
The communications between Co conspirator 1 and Co conspirator 2 on October 17, 2019 included the following messages:
Co conspirator 1: Keep lookout for the 396 and so ur thing till u hear from me
Co conspirator 2: Ok will do
Co conspirator 2: I’m in La so how can I make sure??4
Co conspirator 2 also sent Co conspirator 1 a photograph showing a secure login to the CIBC Account in Co conspirator 2’s name. The account number ended in 1716, consistent with the account number that ABBAS sent to Co conspirator 1 in an image on October 17, 2019.
I reviewed international travel records from a law enforcement database, which showed that Co conspirator 2 traveled from Toronto, Canada to Los Angeles, California on October 16, 2019. This was one day before the wire transfer from the Chase Account to the CIBC Account in Co conspirator 2’s name. Further, as referenced above, Co conspirator 2 messaged Co conspirator 1 on October 17, 2019 that “I’m in La.” Travel records also show that Co conspirator 2 departed Los Angeles around October 23, 2019 for Canada. Taken together, this indicates that Co conspirator 2 was in Los Angeles at the time of the wire transfer.
Later in the day on October 17, 2019, while still in Los Angeles, Co conspirator 2 appeared to confirm the wire transfer in an iMessage found on Co conspirator 1’s iPhone:
Co conspirator 1: Did the big hit? Co conspirator 2: Yessir
Olalekan Ponle: Nigerian passport image
Olalekan Ponle a.k.a Woodberry:
Beginning no later than January 2019 and continuing until at least September 2019, OLALEKAN JACOB PONLE conspired with others to engage in BEC schemes to defraud several United States-based companies. These schemes resulted in attempted and actual losses to victim companies in the tens of millions of dollars.
As described below, as part of the scheme, PONLE directed money mules in the United States to open bank accounts in the names of victim companies. Proceeds from BEC schemes, ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars, were then wired by unwitting employees to the bank accounts opened by PONLE’s mules. PONLE then instructed the mules to convert the proceeds to Bitcoin and to send the proceeds of the BEC schemes to a bitcoin wallet that he owned and operated.
One of these BEC schemes involved a Chicago-based company (Victim Company A) that was defrauded out of $2,300,000. A second Chicago-based company (Victim Company K) was defrauded into sending wire transfers totaling $15,268,000.00. Preliminary block chain analysis indicates that PONLE received at least 1,494.71506296 bitcoin related to these BEC schemes, valued at approximately $6,599,499.98 at the time he received the proceeds.
As described in more detail below, money mules in the United States were approached by a person they knew as “Mark” or “Mark Kain.” “Mark” later directed them to open bank accounts in the names of victim companies. Those accounts received proceeds from the BEC schemes, and at “Mark’s” direction, the money mules converted proceeds to bitcoin and sent proceeds to “Mark”.
According to one of those money mules, Individual B, “Mark Kain” contacted Individual B using telephone number (323) 985-4088 (“the 4088 phone number”). According to records obtained from Dingtone, a messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol application, subscribing customer records for the 4088 phone number included the cellular telephone number 27793837890 (“the 7890 phone number”), which based on law enforcement database searches, is owned by a South African service provider.
Based on my review of chat transcripts from online messaging applications between PONLE and Individual B and a second money mule, Individual A, “Mark” instructed Individual B and Individual A to send money to the bitcoin wallet on at least nine occasions. Records obtained from Bitpay, a processor of cryptocurrency transactions, indicated that between approximately September 18, 2015 and November 29, 2016, the 16AtGJ BTC wallet made five purchases associated with the Gmail account hustleandbustle@gmail[.]com (the “hustle Gmail account”).
Based on records obtained from Apple, an iCloud account (Subject Account 1) was subscribed to by Jacob Olalekan, listing the 7890 phone number, the hustle Gmail account, and a physical address in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Based on my review of records from Apple, Subject Account 1 contained several identity documents and photographs of PONLE. These included a photo of a Nigerian passport with a photo of an individual named Olalekan Jacob Ponle, born in May 1991 in Lagos, Nigeria, a photo of a United Arab Emirates visa with a photo of an individual named Olalekan Jacob Ponle with the profession “marketing representative” and a photo of a United Arab Emirates Resident Identity Card with a photo of a Nigerian national named Olalekan Jacob Ponle.”
Wife of the Benue State Governor, Dr. Eunice Ortom and the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Anthony Ijohor have tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus.
The Governor, Samuel Ortom disclosed this on Saturday at a news conference.
He added that his Chief of Staff, Hon. Terwase Orbunde and the state Head of Service, Mrs. Veronica Onyeke, among others have tested positive for the virus.
Ortom, who announced that though he tested negative, the first family had decided to go into total isolation, including himself.
The Governor appealed to the people of the state to go for testing to ascertain their status and take necessary action.
According to him, “One lesson that I want Benue people to appreciate and understand is that everybody has to make himself available for testing. The more you test, the more you know your status; when you know that you are positive, then you can subject yourself to treatment.”
Ortom added that the state Action Committee on COVID-19 would sit early next week to review the situation with a view to considering the next line of action.
He said testing positive for the virus was not a death sentence, appealing to the people of the state to take preventive protocols seriously in order to help stop the spread of the pandemic.
The Governor’s wife had earlier issued a statement she personally signed confirming her status and one of her sons, even as she called on anybody she might have come in contact with to go into self isolation and subsequent testing.
“While I have taken the responsibility to personally call every one I can recall to have had recent contact with to go for testing, I advise any one who has had close contact with me in the last 2 weeks and the public to go for screening and testing,” she stated.
Also, Secretary to the State Government, Professor Anthony Ijohor and Cbief of Staff to the Governor, Hon. Terwase Orbunde have also confirmed their status for the virus, The Nation reports.
The United Nations on Saturday said two civilians including a five-year-old child were killed and an aid helicopter damaged in a Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria.
Boko Haram fighters launched the attack in the town of Damasak on Thursday.
UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria Edward Kallon said both the fatalities and several others who were injured in the attack were on the ground.
“A UN Humanitarian Air Service helicopter was hit by bullets during the attack. No aid workers were on board at the time and crew members are all safe,” Kallon said in a statement.
A UN communication seen by AFP said the aircraft was shot as it approached Damasak and the pilots managed to fly back to regional capital Maiduguri 150 kilometres (90 miles) away.
The memo said the UN was suspending rotational flights for one week “to engage with government partners and conduct new risk assessments”.
Helicopters provide a vital link carrying humanitarian personnel and delivering aid to an estimated 7.8 million people in urgent need of assistance across northeast Nigeria.
The UN has complained of an uptick in attacks targeting aid workers in the northeast region.
The area around Damasak on the border with Niger is dominated by the Islamic State West Africa Province, which broke away from jihadist group Boko Haram in 2016.
The Argentine is set to leave Barca when his current deal expires next summer.
Lionel Messi has pulled out of contract talks with Barcelona and is now preparing to leave the club when his current deal expires next summer, according to reports in Spain. The 33-year-old’s camp have been locked in negotiations with Barca’s hierarchy over a new deal for some time, with just 12 months remaining on the four-year deal he signed in 2017.
Although Barca had been confident of signing up their talisman to a new deal, radio station Cadena Ser now claim that Messi has backed away from talks. Messi is not impressed the direction Barcelona are currently going in.
The Argentine is concerned by recent events on and off the pitch – with Barca falling four points adrift of Real Madrid in the title race – and is fed up with being blamed for the side’s shortcomings.
He is also unhappy with a number of recent leaks that have come from the club – notably suggestions that he and the squad initially did not want to take a pay cut during the coronavirus crisis – and feels he is attributed with responsibility for club decisions he has little say in. Although negotiations over a renewal initially started well, the latest events have seen Messi reconsider his future and he has told friends in the dressing room that he does not want to become a ‘problem’ for the club.
Barcelona manager responds to speculation Lionel Messi is ‘fed up’ and wants transfer move. The four reasons Lionel Messi is ‘fed up’ at Barcelona after telling club he wants move; Barcelona misfit Antoine Griezmann keen on Manchester United switch As things stand, he is not interested in continuing contract talks and is prepared to leave Barca next summer when his deal expires.
Nevertheless, he remains committed to Barca in the short-term and had the option to leave the club this summer due to a clause in his contract – which permitted him to leave for free each year if he so wished – but elected to stay.
Barca still hope to convince Messi to stay, though they are only prepared to offer him short-term deals going forward. The Catalan club want to sign the attacker up to a one-year contract with the option to trigger a further year, which would take Messi up to his 36th birthday in 2023. It has previously been suggested that Messi would like to finish his career by playing for Newell’s Old Boys – the Argentine club he was signed from by Barcelona as a schoolboy – while Manchester City and old boss Pep Guardiola are long-time admirers.
Why I will not hand over power to deputy despite Covid-19 positive status.
GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has said that he would not transmit power to his defected deputy, Hon Agboola Ajayi despite his COVID-19 status.
Akeredolu who tested positive to the pandemic on Wednesday and had since gone on isolation said he would work from home. The governor denied that government activities have been grounded as a result of his COVID-19 status.
Speaking through his Information and Orientation commissioner, Donald Ojogo in Akure, the governor said that the deputy governor “is a threat to good governance in the state.
According to him “ Mr. Governor will not be advised to hand over to his deputy, it is not done because there is no reason for that. “ The deputy governor has since left our party and has since left governance, even though he has not left government. “You cannot hand over government to someone who has left governance , or handover the rein of government to someone who attempted to pull down government.
“ ln any case, those of us in government and believe strongly in this government see the deputy governor as the greatest threat to good governance in Ondo state and you can’t attempt to handover to people like that. Agboola Ajayi is the greatest threat to this government. “ l don’t know how and we got into this, what we witnessed in 1983, the level of treachery that was deployed against late Adekunle Ajasin. “Except for those who have the opportunity to witness what we are seeing in Ondo state , one may be tempted to say that was the height or nothing could surpass level of treachery but what we are seeing today represent the fact what Omoboriowo did in 1983 was a child play compared to what Agboola Ajayi is doing now.
“ You don’t rock a boat that has taken you across the ocean, so it is a non issue and we are not even considering handing over to Agboola Ajayi and I know as a matter of fact that no one who believes in good governance in the state will even advise Akeredolu to hand over to his deputy.
What would be the compelling reason when governance is not grounded “ He has created an unusual scenario upon which he wanted to climb to his next political ladder and we have already seen as a misadventure, we cannot toy with what we have built over the years, we cannot risk it and attempt to hand over to someone who has exhibited mindless level of betrayal and an unquestionable level of treachery.
“This is not done and unthinkable, un-debatable and if that is the reason he has been sponsoring write ups to say there is likely to be vacuum, the governor must hand over to him, he’s only joking.
“ It is not going to happen because the governor is hale and hearty. COVID -19 is not a death sentence and the governor is strong enough to work. “ For the deputy to insinuate, incite or instigate people to be stirring the water to say that the governor should had over to him, confirms our fears in the last ten months that Agboola Ajayi has been striving to take over power through the back door and God will not allow him.
Adamu Atiku-Abubakar, son of the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 Presidential election, yesterday said that his father, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will contest for the number one office, come 2023.
The commissioner for Works and Energy disclosed this while presenting the score card of his ministry, as the administration of Governor Ahmadu Finitiri celebrates one year in office. Atiku’s stated “Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with my father contesting for the presidency.
In 2023, my father will be aspiring to the number one office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic, master politician for almost four decades”, Punch quoted him to have said.
Recall that Atiku had contested for the number one position five times and lost. Run down of Atiku’s presidential ambition according to wikipedia.org First presidential run Abubakar launched a bid for the Presidency in 1993, placing third after MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the Social Democratic Party (SDP) primaries. Second presidential run On 25 November 2006 Abubakar announced that he would run for president.
On 20 December 2006, he was chosen as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC). On 14 March 2007, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the final list of 24 aspirants for 21 April presidential election. Abubakar’s name was missing from the ballot. INEC issued a statement stating that Abubakar’s name was missing because he was on a list of persons indicted for corruption by a panel set up by the government. Abubakar headed to the courts on 16 March to have his disqualification overturned. Abubakar with Muhammadu Buhari.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on 16 April that INEC had no power to disqualify candidates. The ruling allowed Abubakar to contest the election, although there were concerns that it might not be possible to provide ballots with Abubakar’s name by 21 April, the date of the election.
On 17 April, a spokesman for INEC said that Abubakar would be on the ballot. According to official results, Abubakar took third place, behind PDP candidate Umaru Yar’Adua and ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari, with approximately seven per cent of the vote (2.6 million votes). Abubakar rejected the election results and called for its cancellation, describing it as Nigeria’s “worst election ever.” He stated that he would not attend Umaru Yar’Adua’s inauguration on 29 May due to his view that the election was not credible, saying that he did not want to “dignify such a hollow ritual with my presence”
Third presidential run following the 2007 elections, Abubakar returned to the People’s Democratic Party. In October 2010 he announced his intention to contest for the Presidency. On 22 November, a Committee of Northern Elders selected him as the Northern Consensus Candidate, over former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, former National Security Adviser Aliyu Gusau and Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State.
Fourth presidential run In January 2011, Abubakar contested for the Presidential ticket of his party alongside President Jonathan and Sarah Jubril, and lost the primary, garnering 805 votes to President Jonathan’s 2736. Fifth presidential run Abubakar declared his candidacy for the presidential nomination of the PDP mid 2018 and won the nomination at its convention on 7 October. He defeated 11 other contestants and got 1,532 votes, 839 more than the runner-up, the Governor of Sokoto State Aminu Tambuwal.
Atiku Abubakar continued his campaign rally in Kogi State as he promised to complete abandoned projects in the state. On 30 January, he participated in the town hall meeting tagged #NGTheCandidate. And in the meeting, he declared that he will grant amnesty to looters and he vowed to privatize ninety per cent of NNPC, Nigeria’s primary source of income. Atiku took his campaigns to Katsina, visit Emir of Daura on 7 February 2019. On February 27, 2019, Atiku lost the presidential race to President Buhari. He contested the election in court describing the election as “worst election in Nigeria’s democratic history.”
The Office of Auditor-General of the Federation on Thursday said it uncovered several anomalies in the financial records of the Nigerian Law School.
The Audit report presented to the Senate, indicted the apex legal academic institution for misappropriation and spending without approvals.
The 2015 Financial Report of the office is currently being scrutinised by the Senate Public Accounts Committee for investigation.
The report said the management of the Nigerian Law School illegally paid N32m to the account of an unnamed cleaner over a period of 12 months.
The Auditor-General report also queried the payment of N36m as dressing allowance of 52 workers to the account of a single member of staff in violation of Nigeria’s Financial Act.
It read in part, “The examination of payment records revealed that the Nigerian Law School several times paid N36m to staff as dressing allowance in 2013 alone.
“The Management could not substantiate these payments with any approval from Salaries and Wages Commission to enable the audit team to determine the genuineness of these payments to staff. No appropriation in this request.”
Obviously dazed by the startling revelation at the audit session, the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof Isa Hayatu Chiroma, said he was not in office when the issues occurred, but agreed that “government is a continuum.”
Members of the committee established that Chiroma was not the DG of the Law School when the financial impropriety took place.
The panel, nevertheless, asked him to recover the money involved and return same into the school’s account.
A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed July 10 to hear a suit challenging the conviction of popular actress, Funke Akindele, her husband, Abdulrasheed Bello (JJC Skillz), and 236 others.
A lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, is seeking a declaration that the law upon which Akindele and others were convicted was inconsistent with the 1999 constitution.
Akindele and others were arrested, tried and convicted for violating the Lagos State Infectious Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020.
The movie producer had hosted a birthday party in her Lagos residence to celebrate her husband’s birthday.
But Ogungbeje is arguing that the arrest, arraignment, trial, conviction and sentencing of the Akindele and others lacks legal backing.
The legal practitioner insists that the offence for which they were convicted was unknown to the law and could not be grounds for criminal liability.
“I have a duty to protect and defend the sanctity of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from any contravention or infraction,” the counsel said.
He cited an Appeal Court’s decision in 2016 involving Faith Okafor vs Lagos State.
Ogungbeje submitted that a violation of such regulation could not result in criminal liability.
