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The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice sitting in Abuja has given the Nigerian government 30 days to respond to the suit filed by One Love Foundation seeking damages and orders to prevent the government from gagging the media. The suit, filed through human rights lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien Jnr on behalf of the group's president, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, also seeks damages and restraining orders against Nigerian government, to prevent it from enforcing Sections 5, 4, 3, 1 of NBC code on all broadcasting stations. The sections relate to reportage and giving details of security issues and persons affected by insurgency…

The Inspector-General of Police has ordered a review of the allegations against Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari has been accused of being bribed by suspected billionaire fraudster, Abbas Ramon, also known as Hushpuppi, but he denied the allegation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FIB) had also asked Nigerian authorities to track down Kyari over an allegation that the cop received money from Hushpuppi to help jail his associate. Spokesman of the police, Frank Mba, in a terse statement, made available to newsmen in Abuja, said the Inspector-General of Police, has ordered an internal review of the allegations.…

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has suggested to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari to go to the United States of America and defend himself from the bribery accusation made against him by the notorious fraudster, Hushpuppi HURIWA advised the decorated police officer to hasten to United States Court and file a counter affidavit to the accusation of bribery currently hanging on his neck. “The United States of America is an organised Constitutional democracy where the Rule of Law is supreme. So if a crime suspect makes an affidavit accusation under Oath against you, it doesn’t need to…

More facts have emerged in the ongoing trial of Nigeria’s serial Internet fraudster, Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas, and his secret relationship with a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in court documents, Kyari abandoned his duties in Nigeria sometime in 2019 and flew to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, to “enjoy a good time” with Hushpuppi, who lived at Palazzo Versace in the Emirati commercial capital. The September 2019 trip was only an episode of a mutually-beneficial cozy affair between Kyari and Abbas that was uncovered by the American authorities as part of their…

A United States' Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Nigeria’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, over his role in serial internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, more commonly Hushpuppi’s multi-million naira fraud probe. Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down Kyari and produce him in the United States for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud. Abbas was arrested in Dubai last June and he pleaded guilty to fraud in the U.S. this week. The FBI said Abbas and Kyari have been friends…

Nigeria’s super cop, DCP Abba Kyari has denied collecting money from Hushpuppi to arrest his partner, Kelly Chibuzor Vincent. He however confirmed that the arrest was made on Hushpuppi’s call. In a post on his verified facebook page, Mr Kyari stated that Hushpuppi had called his office in Abuja alleging threat to his life by one Chibuzo Vincent (Hushpuppi’s accomplice) about two years ago. He said they responded to the call and got the suspect arrested but released him after discovering there was no threat to Hushpuppi’s life but a money dispute between him and the suspect. THE WHISPERER had…

Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, has claimed that he bribed Nigeria’s celebrated police chief Abba Kyari, court documents reveal. Recall it was earlier reported that the infamous fraudster had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering, facing up to 20 years in jail. Hushpuppi will be sentenced in the coming weeks and will forfeit some of his assets and his rights to appeal while also paying restitution to victims of his years-long fraud. According to PeoplesGazette, officials said in court filings that Hushpuppi disclosed during interrogation that he paid bribes to Abba Kyari, a deputy police…

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF), Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has revealed that the Biafra nation originated from the Ijaw entity, a tribe in Bayelsa, Delta and other states in the South-south. According to Dokubo, Biafra is an Ijaw name and has nothing to do with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu While speaking in a television interview in Yenagoa, the ex-militant recalled that an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo, gave the name Biafra, which was according to him was subsequently adopted by the Eastern region and was used in 1967 when the…

The Abia State Government has ordered an investigation into an allegation by a member of the state House of Assembly, Mr Obinna Ichita, stating that some persons are threatening his life over his political activities within the state. The lawmaker representing Aba South State Constituency had alleged that some figures from an undisclosed political party were after his life. Following the allegation, a statement issued on Wednesday by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu condemned the threat saying “under the watch of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, premium has been placed on freedom of expression for all citizens of…

A former Director-General with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Engr Fidelis Onyeyiri, is dead. The ex-NCAA boss, who was born on July 29, 1948, died on Sunday, July 25, 2021. Onyeyiri, a native of Imo State, died four days to his 73rd birthday. He was NCAA director-general from 2003 to 2005. NCAA Spokesman, Sam Adurogboye, confirmed the death of the ex-DG on Tuesday and prayed for God to console the family of the deceased. He also said Onyeyiri’s family will decide the burial arrangement. Recall that a former NCAA DG, Capt. Muhtar Usman, died in December 2020. Usman, who was…