An inside source says Mr. Dauda Lawal, an executive director at First Bank was only invited to assist EFCC in the ongoing case against Diezani Allison-Madueke.
“An Executive Director of First Bank Mr. Dauda Lawal was invited by the EFCC to assist with the ongoing investigations into sums allegedly received from the former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. As a law abiding citizen, Mr. Lawal is cooperating fully with the authorities," the source says.
First Bank has so far distanced itself from the story, and has yet to release an official statement at the time this story was published.
"First Bank will issue an official statement on this matter in due course,” the inside source concluded.
The EFCC is still investigating the money-laundering charge against Mrs. Allison-Madueke.
A former Minister of Mines and Steel, Musa Sada, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of his involvement in the alleged N23.29 billion election bribery scandal.
Mr. Sada is one of the former ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, who are being investigated by the anti-graft agency.
During investigation, Mr. Sada disclosed that he was authorised by a former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, to collect N700 million on behalf of Katsina State and remit it to the state’s former Commissioner of Finance . more stories after the cut...
The commissioner was asked to keep the money for the governor, a statement by the EFCC said.
In a related development, a former Minister of State for Agriculture, Asabe Asmau Ahmed, from Niger State, revealed how she personally signed and collected N450 million.
Mrs. Ahmed also stated that she kept N105 million for herself and transferred the balance to top Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, party officials in Niger State.
A man from Switzerland who posted an ad on an internet forum asking to be eaten alive got the shock of his life when a cannibal who killed three people in Slovakia replied and offered to carry out the gruesome request.
Markus Dubach said he was being bullied at work and had contemplated suicide when he wrote the ad which wasn't meant to be serious.
'My offer was meant to be a joke. Maybe a bit of a sick joke,' he said.
So he was shocked when he received a reply from Matej Curko which read: 'If you can come to Slovakia, I'm seriously interested in eating you. This is not a joke or a game.'
Out of curiosity Mr Dubach replied to the message and continued the conversation for several weeks.
At one point Curko, 43, wrote: 'I like chicken and pork liver so I would like to taste also the human one.'
He also sent Mr Dubach photographs of female body parts with the comment: 'This was my work.'
That freaked out Mr Dubach, who contacted the Swiss police, who notified their Slovakian counterparts through Interpol.
Curko suggested meeting Mr Dubach in woods near his home in the town of Kysak in Slovakia.Mr Dubach told police about the meeting and Curko was fatally wounded in a shootout in May 2011. A policeman was also badly wounded but survived.
Curko had turned up to the rendezvous armed with a gun, several knives, a meat cleaver, a saw and a body bag.
Mr Dubach was horrified when detectives told him what they had discovered in the fridge at Curko's house - body parts.
They discovered the remains of Lucia Uchnarova, 20, and Elena Gudjakova, 30, two women from Slovakia who had apparently volunteered to be eaten.
Emails on Curko's computer suggested they had both agreed to be eaten by the crazy cannibal.
Curko told Lucia in one email: 'I am not a rapist, not gay, I am just a pervert who wants to feel death, to touch a dying body.'
He said he was not bothered whether his victims were male or female.
Curko had been planning to drug Mr Dubach, stab him in the heart and then butcher his corpse before eating it slowly over a number of weeks.
Mr Dubach is now planning to write a book about how he came close to being killed and eaten.
Curko's cannibal existence came as a complete shock to his wife Eva, who gave up using his surname afterwards, such was her disgust.
The authorities buried Curko in secret to avoid his grave becoming a shrine for sickos.Since then investigations have revealed that Curko could have killed even more victims.
The Novy Cas newspaper said he is also being blamed for the death of a 22-year-old Czech man who had been in contact with Curko and had bought a train ticket to Kysak but committed suicide after hearing the man he wanted to eat him had himself been killed.
The case has resurrected memories of another shocking cannibal case.
In 2001 Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer technician, met up with Bernd Brandes, 43, through an internet chatroom.
Brandes agreed to travel to Meiwes's home in Rotenburg, Germany, where they had sex before Meiwes cut off Mr Brandes's p3nis, which the men then cooked and attempted to eat.
Meiwes later stabbed and killed Mr Brandes, before cutting him into pieces and freezing parts of his body, some of which he later ate.
The so-called 'Cannibal of Rotenburg' is serving a life sentence for murder despite Mr Brandes having clearly given his consent to being eaten.
Nigerian girl @stephanoGabanna shared this beautiful pictures of herself and her mother graduating from the department of Public Health from the same University recently. She shared the photos on her twitter handle and wrote "When you and your mom conquer the same degree at the same time". More photos after the cut...
A 16-month-old toddler Muhammad Fahil Finaz Nor Azuan was found drowned in a pail at a house in Kampung Bukit Gombang, Batu Kikir, Malaysia on Monday night.
The toddler's mother discovered the incident about 10.40pm, after realising that the little boy was not with his father and three-year-old sister.
Fahil's father, Nor Azuan Azali, 33, (pictured carrying the body) said his wife thought that their son was with him in their room but sensed something wrong as she did not hear his voice.
"We later found him with his head and half his body submerged inside a water-filled bucket under the kitchen sink. My wife and I tried to resuscitate him but failed. We then rushed him to the Tuanku Ampuan Najihah Hospital for treatment,"
Sadly, the child was confirmed dead by doctors. The body was brought to the forensic unit for post-mortem. Meanwhile, Jempol district police chief Superintendent Noorzainy Mohd Noor said police have classified the case as sudden death.
Godstime Ekenechukwu, a glorious worshipper and a positive Impact maker is a year Older. I bet you that you will want to be under the ministration of this Cute Gospel artist who is mapping the world positively with his Called-To-Be talent.
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Nigerian singer, Davido was the victim of a prank pulled on him in conjunction with his cousin, B-Red on an episode of The Bigger Friday Show.
With the help of his label mate B-Red, the show’s actors entered Davido’s house, demanding their money back. The actors claimed to have paid money to Davido for a show, and the 'Gobe' singer did not come, and so they wanted a refund for their money.
Clearly infuriated, Davido took to stoning the pranksters with plastic bottles and the prank was quickly wrapped up before more damage could be done.
Annie Idibia's Best friend is a beauty named Maryanne ak.ka Mary Koko, last night she posted her engagement ring picture on instagram and deleted it few minutes later but not before it had been captured by a blog visitor..LOL
According to TMZ, She has filed papers laying claim to the name 'Angela Renee Kardashian'. She plans on using the name to promote brands, goods & services of others, for entertainment services, TV & movie appearances, as a social media celebrity, model & more.
Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II shared this photo on his Instagram, wishing one of his wives, pictured above with him, a speedy recovery. It appears she has issues with her led. He shared the photo and wrote "I wish you a quick recovery."
Tiwa Savage says to you ''From the bottom of my heart,I want to thank each and everyone of you for your support and your and your kind words....
...during this trying time.Without it,I dont know how i would have made it through.Most importantly,thank you for your continued prayers for Tunji,Jamil and I. May God meet each and everyone of you in your time of need''
The man who allegedly killed his wife in the Egbeda, Lagos area, Lekan Shonde, has told PUNCH Metro that his wife, Ronke provoked him by describing vividly how her lover slept with her in a hotel in Abuja.
Lekan, a depot worker in the Apapa area of Lagos State, said his wife of eight years changed after she allegedly started dating the general manager of a publishing company. more stories after the cut...
The Abeokuta, Ogun State indigene, said he regretted marrying Ronke, explaining that his late mother had warned him against the union, but he never listened.
Lekan and his wife, Ronke, lived on Tiemo Close, Off Awori Street, in the Egbeda-Idimu area.
The marriage, which was blessed with two children, aged six and four, was said to have been marred with domestic violence.
The crisis culminated in the death of Ronke on Thursday, after which her husband fled the house and locked up the children with their dead mother.
He said the last time he beat his wife was three years ago after a disagreement, saying he had never touched her afterwards.
He said, “Since I married my wife eight years ago, she has never bought anything into the house. I gave her N5,000 on Saturdays and N3,000 on Tuesdays for soup. I also gave her money to make her hair.
“She was working with GTB as a marketer, but she got sacked three years ago. For that period, I was the one feeding her and taking responsibility for everything in the family. I would wash her pants, bathe the children and buy foodstuffs in the house. She later got a job with a publishing company owned by her uncle.
“But my wife changed sometime in March, when she started dating the general manger of a publishing company. My wife was going to the office from Monday to Sunday and she wasn’t going to church again, all because of this man. She called him ‘Eyitemi’ (My own).
“Last week Friday, she went to Abuja and came back on Monday. She never told me that the lover was there with her. I learnt later that the lover was there and they slept together in the same room for four days.
“When she came back, she didn’t know I was inside the house. She started talking with the man on the phone that she really had fun with him and I didn’t know how to make love. She again said her private parts were paining her.”
He said he confronted his late wife and she confirmed that she was dating the other man, adding that he asked her to concentrate on a relationship.
Lekan said his wife refused to leave the house despite his insistence on her leaving.
Recounting the incident of that night which led to her death, he said they had had an argument over money.
He said, “It was around 9pm on Thursday. We had paid our nanny N20,000. Then we needed to pay our children’s teachers N30,000. I discovered she had taken N20,000 and when I asked her to return my money, she said she had spent it.
“I was angry because for the past three months, she didn’t allow me to have sex with her. I pushed her hand away from me on the staircase and I left her. She never tumbled or fell. In fact that night, I bought the food that we both ate because she said she didn’t want to cook.
“I didn’t know anything had happened to her until Friday when I saw her on the staircase. I thought she was still pretending. I just left her and walked away.”
Asked why he shut the gate against his children, he said he never did, adding that it was his son that closed that gate.
Lekan also denied taking the victim’s phone away, saying he left it on the bed.
He said he had no reason to kill his wife, adding that he bought her two cars and always provided for her needs.
He said, “Jide, her family’s second child lived with me for three to four years. Their eldest daughter, Bolatito, has lived with me too.
“Although I am not a saint, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I am a responsible man. The problem with my wife was that she was temperamental. She shouted at me whenever she talked.
“I am a Lagos boy and I can be in this Lagos for the next 30 years and nobody would see me.”
Meanwhile, Ronke’s sibling, Bolatito, said their mother had just arrived in Lagos from Ilorin, Kwara State, adding that the family would not want to talk about the incident yet.
Punch correspondent gathered that Ronke’s brother and the second born of the family, died in a ghastly motor accident in Abuja.
Bolatito, who is the first born, is the surviving child of three children.
She said, “My mother just arrived from Ilorin and the family wants to devote time to attend to her; we don’t want to talk about the incident. I am not in the right frame of mind to talk.
“But all I want to say is that her husband is somewhere out there and has been calling. The police should reach out to the telecommunications company to know where he is. He called me and he said he wanted to see me.
“He also said he wanted to see his children and I should tell him where they are because we might never see him again.”
The aunt of the victim, Bunmi, explained that the suspect had been threatening suicide, saying their mother had forgiven him.
She said, “Mummy is very sad with this, but she has forgiven him and does not want him to commit suicide.”
A family source told PUNCH Metro that the domestic violence had been on for some time, saying at a point, the matter was reported at a police station.
He said the suspect always accused his wife of extra-marital affair.
He said, “He always beat her because of his belief that she was into an extra-marital affair.
“The beating reduced a bit when the wife of her late brother who was one month pregnant before his death, moved into the house with them. She stayed for about eight months. She was like her saviour.”
The Convener of the Women Arise for Change Initiative, Mrs. Joe Odumakin, while condoling with the family, said the group would pursue the case till the end.
She said, “I am shattered and heart-broken. Their mother had been a widow since they were all little and she has lost two of three children in less than one year. And it is hard to believe that the killer husband has been chatting with people, asking to see his children and blatantly lying that he only slapped her.
“Neighbours must learn to intervene when they hear unusual noise. And women, who are in abusive relationships, must speak out before it is too late. Lekan should come out and submit himself so he could be tried in a court, where he will have the chance to prove his innocence.”
NB: Lekan spoke with PUNCH Metro on the telephone line provided by his in-law, Bolatito, which was also confirmed by the police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos.
*This man is a liar.so he saw her lying on the floor the next morning and he left her and went out packing some personal belongings?
he only pushed her?
BLOODY LIAR..suicide indeed,everyone now uses suicide as a means to get out of their evil act.
The police should fish out this man already..NONSENSE!
If she was sleeping with someone else gives you no right to kill her,if she refused to leave when you asked her to then you leave!
Why should a woman still remain with a man who beats hell out of her?
women sef! till the man kills you before we hear the story