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Police detain ARM Pension executive director over sexual assault claim

The Lagos State Police Command has detained an Executive Director at ARM Pension Managers (PFA) Limited (name withheld) following allegations of sexual assault levelled against him by a colleague. The female colleague (name also withheld) reported to the police that the incident occurred on the night of July 18, 2024. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, told PUNCH Online, on Friday, that the accused is in custody. “The said director at ARM Pension...

President Bola Tinubu on Monday gave an executive order to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to sell crude to Dangote Refinery and other upcoming indigenous refineries in naira, the country’s currency. This was announced by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga on X, explaining that the order is aimed at achieving stability of the pump price of refined fuel and the dollar-naira exchange rate.   Bayo said...

The hearing of the bail application of Binance Holdings Limited and one of its Executives, Tigran Gambaryan, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja was on Thursday stalled.   This followed a fresh application filed by the counsel for the second defendant, Mark Mordi (SAN), a statement the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said on Wednesday.   The defence’s application, a further affidavit in response to the opposition...

The National Steel Council (NSC) in Abuja has informed Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, of an alleged over N1 billion fraud that it linked to its Executive Secretary, Ambassador Abdulqadir Musafari. The council, in a March 15, 2024 letter, told the minister that Musafari had allegedly “failed, refused and/or neglected to avail the Council of any information concerning his activities on behalf of the council, if duly authorized.” It advised that the Executive...

The Office of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu on Monday confirmed the escape of one of the detained executives of Binance, Nadeem Anjarwalla from custody.   This was stated in a press statement signed by Zakari U. Mijinyawa, Head of Strategic Communication, Office of the NSA on Monday. The statement said the suspect flew out of the country with a smuggled passport. It was earlier reported that Mr Anjarwalla, 38, escaped when security guards...

  The Nigerian government has insisted that it is collaborating with the International Criminal Police Organisation – INTERPOL, commonly known as Interpol and the international community to arrest the escaped executive of a global crypto-currency firm, Binance, Nadeem Anjarwalla.    This was confirmed in a press statement issued from the country’s national security adviser on Monday while confirming that Nadeem escaped from their custody on Friday when he was allowed to visit a nearby Jummah...

Mrs Yuki Gambaryan, wife of one of the Binance executives detained by the Nigerian government, Tigran Gambaryan, has called on the United States’ government for intervention on her husband’s continued detention in Nigeria.   Yuki made the call through the US Senator, Cory Booker, and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, who led a delegation to President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday at the State House.   In a statement made available to journalists, she said, “For more than...

N22.7trn Ways & Means: House of Reps rejects $15m bribe from executive

The House of Representatives has refuted claims that the executive branch of the government paid $15 million to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to restructure the N22.7 trillion in Ways and Means advances obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Rep. Benjamin Kalu, spokesman for the House of Representatives, said in a statement on Friday that the allegations were not only false but also baseless and unfounded. He called the report malicious. He clarified...