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A gang of Nigerian fraudsters are facing jail for for using the identities of MPs, judges and police officers during a £10million scam. The crew stole personal details from the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC), to make fraudulent claims over a four-year period. Member lists were ‘stolen to order’ from CSSC and used to place orders for tax credit starter packs used in fraudulent claims over a four year period. The gang managed to get away with nearly £2,500,000 before staff at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs spotted the ‘extraordinarily high rate’ of claims being made by civil servants. If the scam had not been stopped it could have reaped more than £10,260,525. CSSC events manager Adedamola Oyebode, 30, stole membership lists and passed them on to her brothers-in-law Oluwatobe Emmanuel Odeyemi, 34, and Oluwagbenga Stephen Odeyemi, 39, who ran the fraud with Kayode Sanni, 38. Sanni, an illegal immigrant, denied being involved in the fraud and told Old Bailey jurors ‘my conscien...

Current news as A young Nigerian, Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona, has made academic history in far away Poland after he graduated with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in Computer Technology from the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Lodz, Poland. Before his journey to Poland, Oluwasona, 20, was leading in first class from his first semester in 200-level programme in Babcock. It was gathered that this was under a special degree exchange programme arranged by Babcock University with the University of Computer Sciences and Skills in Lodz, Poland, where they remained ‘international students’ until the end of their four-year course, Vanguard reports. Under the arrangement, they had to return to Babcock for their last and final year in 2016, during which they remained under the monitoring, supervision and mentorship of their lecturers in Poland. Oluwasona and his colleagues were the pioneers in the four years old exchange programme between Babcock and the Polish insti...

President Buhari  has sent a message of greetings to Nigerian Muslims and Christians on the occasion of the Eid-el-Fitr. The President in a statement signed by his spokesman Garba Shehu, urged all citizens to resolve to live in peace and avoid making reckless statements. Read the message after the cut... I am immensely grateful to God for his mercy in guiding us successfully to conclude another Ramadan fast. My greetings to all Nigerian Muslims and our brother Christians on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitr. May the lessons of Ramadan namely; piety, self-denial, prayers and generosity to the poor and needy be with us for all time. I, again, appeal to all Nigerians to avoid reckless statements or actions against our fellow countrymen. We should all resolve to live in peace and unity in our great country, which is the envy of many less endowed nations' Happy Eid-el-Fitr. Source: Linda Ikeji