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Reps Order Arrest Of NCAT Director Over Sale Of Helicopters—-The House of Representatives has mandated the arrest of the Director of Quality Control at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, and an unlicensed auctioneer for allegedly providing false information under oath and selling two helicopters for $1.2 million.

This directive was issued to the National Assembly police by the House Committee on Public Assets.

The Committee has called on Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun to investigate NCAT’s alleged unauthorized sale of the helicopters. This resolution followed a five-hour session with NCAT management and other involved parties.

The investigation was initiated on July 31, 2023, following media reports about the sale of two Bell 206L-3 helicopters, which were public assets used for training pilots. Committee Chairman Hon. Ademorin Kuye raised concerns that the helicopters, purchased for $2.4 million, were sold for $1.2 million without adhering to proper procedures.

“We requested documents of any joint venture; there is no response to that whether you have one or you do not. We requested for a list of assets, including a comprehensive description and specifications of all your listed assets, rented apartments, including acquisition dates and methods and the current status and conditions of such assets.

We cannot say specifically that you have satisfied all of these requests. Though you tried to answer some of them, your response is inadequate,” Kuye stated.

Lawmakers also questioned the involvement of an unlicensed auctioneer, who failed to provide satisfactory responses to the panel’s inquiries.

In a related matter, Musa Alkali, the coordinator of Nigerian Army Aviation, expressed frustration that the Army’s request to use the helicopters in counter-terrorism operations was denied. He demanded that the two helicopters be recovered.

The House Committee’s actions underscore the importance of transparency and due process in managing public assets, especially those critical to national security and training.

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Car Ramming in Munich Injures 28 at Demonstration

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Car Ramming in Munich Injures 28

Police say the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghanistan national who has been apprehended at the scene of the incident, which the authorities believe was intentional.

28 people are reported to have been injured in Munich after a car ram into a crowd of demonstrators near the city’s centre, police said.

The authorities identified the suspect as a 24-year-old Afghanistan-born man currently in Germany as an asylum seeker, was arrested on-site and posed no further danger.

Bavaria’s Minister President Markus Söder said the incident was “presumably an attack”. Munich’s Mayor Dieter Reiter said that “many people have been injured, including children.”

Söder, the leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), said in the aftermath of the attacks that the incident shows that “something has to change in Germany and quickly”.

“We cannot go from attack to attack and show concern, but we must actually change something,” he added.
 Local media, citing authorities, said that an extremist motivation could not be ruled out.

A police spokesperson said that the car approached a demonstration organised by Verdi, one of Germany’s largest trade unions, from behind, before overtaking a police vehicle and deliberately ploughing into the crowd.

Officers fired at the vehicle before the suspect was detained.

Police said they believed the suspect acted alone. He was previously known to the police for drug and theft incidents.

The injured are currently being treated in several hospitals in the city. However, Munich’s second mayor, Dominik Krause, confirmed that employees of city administration were among those injured.

Many of the demonstration participants brought their children to the event, Krause said.

No further information about possible deaths has been released at this time.

Deep shock over ‘senseless’ act

The incident is the latest in a string of attacks in which the suspect was an asylum seeker, including one three weeks ago in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg in which a man and a two-year-old boy were killed.

Söder’s party, the sister party of the CDU who are predicted to win Germany’s upcoming elections, has pushed for tougher immigration and asylum policies in the wake of such attacks.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a crackdown in response to the incident, saying that the perpetrator must “leave the country.” Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner in Germany’s election and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said, “Everyone must feel safe again in our country. Something had to change in Germany.”

Other German politicians reacted to the incident, with Greens chancellor candidate Robert Habeck calling the act of violence “senseless.”

“It is important that the background to the attack is now quickly clarified,” Habeck said.

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the far-right AfD, which is currently second in the polls, called for a “turning point” in migration and asylum policy.

Verdi’s branch in Munich said it was “deeply shocked” by the incident, with chairman Frank Werneke calling it a “difficult moment for all colleagues.”

The Bavarian Municipal Employers’ Association said that the right to strike is essential to society and that it stood with the trade union in such moments.

The Bavarian city is set to host scores of world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Vice President JD Vance, for the Munich Security Conference from Friday to Sunday.

Authorities confirmed there is no known link between the incidents.

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Sterling Bank Loses N1.2bn After Fraudsters Hacked It’s Server

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Sterling Bank Loses N1.2bn After Fraudsters Hacked It’s Server—-An alleged five-man Internet fraudsters, have been arraigned before Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, for allegedly hacking into the Sterling Bank Plc’s banking platform and Bance Application, and removed a whooping sum of N1, 257, 536, 572.50 billion.

The alleged five-man Internet fraudsters arraigned before the court on Friday, are: Victor Nwabueze Ogochukwu “M” 50; Favour Odey “F” 22; Adekunle Daniel “M” 34; Akachukwu Alagbogu and 28 years old Oguntade Yetunde “F”.

They were before the court by the operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Ikoyi, Lagos.

The prosecutor, Barrister Justine Enang, informed the court that all the defendants and others now at large, conspired among themselves and committed the alleged infractions between November 3 and 4, 2024.

To carry out the alleged fraud, Enang told the court that the defendants collaborated with both the internal staff of Sterling Bank and external parties for possible compromise on sensitive data and security system of the bank by using international mobile equipment identity 14984244, IP address 84252.113.3 & 88 transaction.

He informed the court that the alleged acts of the defendants contravened sections 27(1)(b); 14(1) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc.) Act, 2015 as amended in 2024, Read along with section 14(1) of the same Act.

Enang also told the court that the defendants’ act was contrary to and punishable under Section 18(2)(b) & (d) and punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.

None of the defendants admitted commiting the allegations, as they all pleaded not guilty to the three counts charge of conspiracy, hacking and unlawful possession and conversation of funds made against them.

Following their not guilty plea, their lawyers moved their bail applications, and urged the court to admit their clients to bail in most liberal terms.

The prosecutor however vehemently opposed the bail applications on the ground that the defendants are flight risk, while also cited several ground while the court should discountenance their bail applications.

Ruling on the on the bail applications, Justice Lewis-Allagoa after listening to the parties, admitted each of the defendants to bail in the sum of N50 million with one surety in like sum.

The judge also ruled that the surety must be a landed property owner within the court’s jurisdiction.

Justice Lewis-Allagoa while adjourning the matter to March 13, for trial, ordered that all the defendants be remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), pending the perfection of the bail conditions.

The Charges Against The Defendants Read: “That you Victor Nwabueze Ogochukwy “m”, Favour Odey “f’, Adekunle Daniel “m”, Akachukwu Alagbogu and others now at large, sometimes on the 3rd & 4th November 2024, in Lagos State, within the jurisdiction of the Judicial Division of The Federal High Court, with intent to defraud, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit a felony to wit: internet fraud to the sum of N1, 257, 536, 572.50 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Fifty Seven Million, Five Hundred and Thirty Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy Two Naira, Fifty Kobo) by false pretence and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 27(1)(b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc.) Act, 2015 as amended in 2024, Read along with section 14(1) of the same Act. 

That you Victor Nwabueze Ogochukwu “m”, Favour Odey “f’, Adekunle Daniel “m”, Akachukwu Alagbogu and others now at large, sometimes on the 3rd & 4th November 2024, in Lagos State, within the aforementioned Judicial Division of The Federal High Court, did knowingly and without authority cause financial lost to Sterling Bank Plc to the tune of N1, 257, 536, 572. 80 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Fifty Seven Million, Five Hundred and Thirty Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventy Two Naira, Fifty Kobo) by suppressing one of the banking platform and Bance Application from their various customers’ account to different fraudulent accounts with the collusion of an internal staff/external parties for possible compromise on sensitive data and security system of the bank by using international mobile equipment identity 14984244, IP address 84252.113.3 & 88 transaction, thereby conferred economic benefits on yourselves by converting the money in question to your own use against the Sterling Bank Plc and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 14(1) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc.) Act, 2015 as Amended in 2024. 

That you Victor Nwabueze Ogochukwu ‘m’, Favour Odey ‘f, Adekunle Daniel ‘m’, Akachukwu Alagbogu and others now at large, sometimes on the 3rd & 4th November 2024, in Lagos State, in the aforementioned Judicial Division of Federal High Court, Lagos, did directly or indirectly converts or transfers, retains or takes possession or control of funds belonging to Sterling Bank Plc, knowingly or reasonably ought to have known that such funds is, or forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful Act and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(2)(b) & (d) and punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.”

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