Ifa priest vows to attack killer Fulani herdsmen, bandits with charms

An Ifa Priest in Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, Chief Adebola Adetimehin, has threatened that the Ijebu would go spiritual to curb the invasion of their areas by suspected herdsmen, kidnappers and bandits.

Adetimehin, who is the Oluwo Ifa of Ijebuland, said he and other traditionalists in Ijebuland would no longer fold their arms, adding that the rising cases of killings and kidnapping have become unbearable in the Ijebu axis of Ogun State.

According to Daily Post, the Oluwo Ifa charged all Ijebu indigenes to fortify themselves with charms to prevent being killed like chickens by herdsmen or bandits.

He further said this does not negate any religious belief, adding “God is the creator of leaves and other things used in preparing local charms.”

The Ijebu leader expressed sadness that the entire area had been invaded by “Fulani herdsmen”, who he said have been making the area insecure.

“We are no more secure in Ijebuland. Fulani herdsmen have invaded our land. There are villages where they have totally taken over. Even on our major roads, they put ‘cattle crossing’ symbols. What an insult!

“Look at the way kidnappers and bandits are operating on our highways too. This is becoming unacceptable. Time has come to make use of what we inherited from our forefathers to combat these killer herdsmen and kidnappers. We will make use of charms, Ijebu metaphysical powers,” he said.

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45-year-old man remanded for allegedly raping his teenage daughter

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday, ordered that Durodola Kehinde, a 45-year-old man, who allegedly raped his 15-year-old daughter, be remanded in prison, pending legal advice.

The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Patricia Adetuyibi did not take the plea of Kehinde but ordered that he be remanded in Agodi prison.

She ordered the police to duplicate the case file to the Oyo State Director of Public Prosecutions

Adetuyibi adjourned the matter until October 8 for mention.

ASP Samod Aliu, the Prosecution Counsel, in the charge sheet, alleged that Kehinde raped his 15-year-old daughter.

Aliu alleged that Kehinde committed the offence between 2017 and 2019.

He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 357 and is punishable under Section 358 of the Criminal Code of Oyo State 200.

Aliu alleged that the girl has been abused by her father since she was 13.

- DAILY POST

3 physicists win $3m for supergravity theory, prize bigger than Nobel

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z. Freedman (left to right), photographed at CERN in 2016 on the occasion of supergravity’s 40th anniversary (Image: CERN)

More than four decades after, three physicists, are getting a recognition bigger than Nobel Prize, for developing the influential theory of supergravity.

Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will receive in November a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their formulation of supergravity in 1976, Breakthrough Prize representatives have announced.

“The discovery of supergravity was the beginning of including quantum variables in describing the dynamics of spacetime,” selection committee chairman Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, said in a statement.

“It is quite striking that Einstein’s equations admit the generalization that we know as supergravity.”

Long-delayed recognition
 Ferrara and van Nieuwenhuizen both said the Breakthrough Prize news came as a shock, given that the trio developed supergravity 43 years ago.

“We were really surprised, because this is ancient work,” said Ferrara, who’s based at UCLA and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which operates the LHC. (The organization is known by the French acronym CERN.)

“Of course, we were happy to get this prize, and we were proud to be recognized by this prestigious committee,” he told Space.com.

Freedman, who was previously based at MIT but is now a visiting professor at Stanford University, had an emotional response when the Breakthrough Prize people called to give him the news.

“When I put the phone down, I cried,” he told Space.com. “I was overwhelmed. It’s a fantastic capstone to my career.”

Ferrara is Italian, Freedman is American and van Nieuwenhuizen is Dutch. The trio will officially receive the prize on Nov. 3, at the 2020 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. 

The ceremony will also honour winners of the annual Fundamental Physics Prize, and the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences and Mathematics.

This will be the fifth Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to be awarded. 

Previous winners are Stephen Hawking; seven CERN scientists integral to the discovery of the Higgs boson; the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Collaboration, which made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves; and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, for her 1967 discovery of pulsars.

The road to supergravity

 In the 1960s and ’70s, researchers developed the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes three of the four known forces of nature — electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

The Standard Model has been incredibly successful over the years. For example, it predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012.

The Standard Model is not complete, however. For starters, it doesn’t deal with the fourth fundamental force, gravity, which is described by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In addition, the actual masses of many particles are far lower than those predicted by the model.

So physicists have kept working to improve the Standard Model. One of the innovations came in 1973 — the concept of “supersymmetry,” which posits that each of the known particles has an undiscovered partner. Specifically, each boson is paired with a “superfermion” and each fermion with a “superboson.”

Like the Standard Model, supersymmetry initially didn’t include gravity. But Ferrara, Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen changed that.

The trio’s supergravity work began in 1975, with discussions between Ferrara and Freedman at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. These two soon brought in van Nieuwenhuizen, who was already working on quantum gravity at Stony Brook University in New York.

Together, the three devised a supersymmetry theory that included the gravitino, the supersymmetric partner of the graviton, which is the hypothetical boson that mediates the gravitational force.

The researchers wrote a new computer program to perform the final calculation, which was too difficult to do by hand, van Nieuwenhuizen said. This calculation included about 2,000 terms, all of which needed to end up being zero for their new theory of supergravity to hold.

As the computer crunched the numbers, it spat out these terms in batches of 100 or 200, van Nieuwenhuizen said. The zeros kept coming, and coming, and coming. Finally, after several hours, the final batch came through: All zeros, once again.

Surprisingly, elation didn’t wash over van Nieuwenhuizen in the wake of this big moment. The researchers had been working on the theory every day for months, he said, so the immediate emotion — for him at least — was a complex and layered one coloured by accumulated fatigue.

“I compare it to the scientific equivalent of post-natal depression,” van Nieuwenhuizen told Space.com. “You produce something and it’s out there, and you are left behind, exhausted.”

Read More: https://www.livescience.com/66113-supergravity-discovery-breakthrough-prize.html

Arsenal confirm Carl Jenkinson’s exit from club

Arsenal have confirmed that defender, Carl Jenkinson, has left to join Nottingham Forest on a permanent deal.

The Gunners made this known in a statement on the club’s official website on Wednesday.

The statement read: “Carl Jenkinson has joined Championship side Nottingham Forest on a permanent deal.

“The 27-year-old defender began his career with Charlton Athletic before joining us in June 2011. He spent the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons on loan at West Ham United followed by a loan spell at Championship club Birmingham City during the 2017/18 season.

“Carl made a total of 70 appearances for us, scoring one goal, against Norwich City.

“He represented both England and Finland internationally at youth level before making his debut for the senior England team in 2012 against Sweden.

“We would like to thank Carl for his contribution to the club and everyone at Arsenal wishes him all the best for his future.

“The transfer is subject to the completion of regulatory processes.”

- DAILY POST

PL NEWS : Man City officially sign 25-year-old forward

Manchester City Women have announced the signing of South Korea forward, Lee Geum.

City signed the 25-year-old from Gyeongju KHNP on a two-year contract.

Man City disclosed this Wednesday morning in a statement on the club’s official website.

The statement read: “Lee Geum-min: Manchester City sign South Korea forward on two-year deal.

“Manchester City have signed South Korea forward Lee Geum-min from Gyeongju KHNP on a two-year contract.

“The 25-year-old represented South Korea in this summer’s World Cup, where they lost all three of their group games.

“Lee has scored 16 goals in 54 appearances since making her senior debut for her country.”

Speaking after signing for City, Lee Geum told the club’s website: “To my team-mates, coaches, manager, the fans and everyone involved, I want to be remembered as a good player.”

COZA SCANDAL : I signed police invitation letter at gunpoint – Busola Dakolo

Photographer, Busola Dakolo has claimed that she signed the invitation letter from the police to appear in Abuja over alleged threat to life at gunpoint.

Dakolo had alleged that the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo raped her 20 years ago in Ilorin when she was 16 years old.

Fatoyinbo denied the allegation and when pressure mounted, he stepped aside from the pulpit. But a month later, he is back preaching again.

Dakolo had filed a case against Fatoyinbo at the police station, but she became a prey as the police brought allegations of threat to life and blackmail against her.

However, she recalled that the silver Toyota that tailed her as she was driving into her Lagos housing estate, and the white minibus with tinted windows already parked outside her house, had no police markings. By the time she got to her gate, the minibus had blocked her path. According to Dakolo, a man appeared and told her to get out of the car, get into the bus and speak to his oga – Nigerian pidgin English for boss.

Dakolo said when she refused, three men got out of the minibus and walked towards her.

“One was holding a gun, and I noticed a second one holding a letter. They told me they were from IG’s [the inspector general of police] office in Abuja and that I needed to sign this letter and acknowledge it,” Dakolo said in an interview with the UK Guardian.

Dakolo said it was “extremely intimidating” to have a gunman emerge from a darkened minibus, and that while she had eventually acquiesced, she had been in shock.

“Is this what everybody goes through, everyone that comes out to say their truth, everybody that says something about someone that is influential?” she asked. “I felt: who’s going to be there for the common man? Who is going to be there for someone who nobody knows?”

The letter contained allegations of criminal conspiracy, falsehood, mischief and threat to life. These were not levelled against Fatoyinbo, however, but against Dakolo and her husband, a well-known musician.

According to Dakolo, “Our culture doesn’t allow speaking of these sorts of things against anointed men of God. They’d rather hide it, and the party that is being victimised tends to live with that self-blame. The damage on the survivor is extremely terrible. The society, the church, keeps sweeping things under the carpet.

“This issue is beyond me. This is what’s happening, and the church is a place where they don’t talk about this. I decided to come out for me. It’s for me and others, so they can begin their process of healing, so they can begin to live freely.”

- PM NEWS

Nigeria drifting towards war – Prophet El-Buba blasts Buhari

General Overseer of the Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International (EBOMI), Prophet Isa El-Buba, has stated that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is gradually worsening the prospects of unity and cohesion in Nigeria, stressing that the country “is already drifting towards war” due to certain tendencies, actions, and policies of the administration.

He said because of the insincerity of those in power and because of the personal benefits they derive as the war rages, Boko Haram terrorism will continue until its perpetrators in power decide to end it.

El-Buba disclosed this while addressing journalists in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, on the state of the nation.

He maintained that it was regrettable that Nigeria has never had it so bad, citing the manner insecurity has spread across the land; the impunity that has characterised the operations of bandits as well as the impetus of herdsmen carrying out sporadic killings in different parts of the country.

The General Overseer also said, “there is too much of insincerity, deceit, injustice, and sundry vices that manifest in the day-to-day running of the Buhari-administration, with very little hope for the youths and other ethnic components of the country.

“In spite of Government’s claim of winning the war against the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East, Nigerian troops are being daily decimated and depleted as secret burials are often carried out in Maiduguri, without the authorities informing the families of the dead soldiers or making the burials public.”

El-Buba further said, “the insincerity of those in power, because of the personal benefits they derive as the Boko Haram war rages will continue until its perpetrators in power decide to end it”.

Speaking on the ministerial designate, the Clergy described the proposed cabinet as “uninspiring and unambitious” for good governance.

He pointed out that, “the Buhari government has given no hope to the youth population of this country, because the composition of the cabinet, replete as it is with characters of questionable moral pedigree, does not have the outlook or determination to re-position the public space and forge a new direction predicated on moral rectitude.”

Speaking on the continuous disobedience of court bail order for El-Zakzaky by the Buhari government, the cleric described their action as “primitive and punitive stance”, saying their insistence on keeping the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in the cell of the State security has neither helped the cause of justice nor the prospect of democracy in Nigeria.

He urged the Buhari government to be careful in handling the El-Zakzzaky issue, noting that if the detained IMN leader dies in government custody, the consequences could be more than imagined.

In the same vein, the General Overseer carpeted President Buhari over the arrest and detention of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, for proposing to stage a pro-revolutionary protest against the “ills, injustices, failures, and ethnic and geopolitical inequalities prompted by the present administration”.

He said while the idea of ‘revolution’ is not patently negative or strictly connoting change of government, there was no basis to arrest Sowore, or use state security to abort the protest, saying it amounts to hypocrisy as Buhari and his government have benefited from such ‘revolutionary’ protests in the past.

-DAILY POST

Falana: If Sowore is charged, Buhari will be my first witness in court

Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the government will be making a mistake if it files charges against Omoyele Sowore.

Sowore, who is the convener of #RevolutionNow movement, has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since Saturday.

The DSS had accused him of threatening public peace and safety with his planned nationwide protest. 

But speaking at an event organised by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) on Tuesday, the senior lawyer who though did not mention President Muhammadu Buhari’s name directly, said Sowore had briefed him from detention that in the case he would be charged, his first witness would be someone in government who in 2011 also called for a revolution. 

Then a presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buhari had called for a revolution in Nigeria – although through an electoral process. 

Sowore, according to Falana, refused to write a statement, insisting the DSS allow him to speak with his lawyer. 

“I do hope that the government will not be stupid to charge Sowore. In fairness to them (DSS), they gave him a telephone to phone me. Of course I knew they were monitoring the phone, and I told him I hope they won’t charge you, because if they do, some of the people in government will be our witnesses,” he said. 

“You know why? One of them, I won’t mention his name. In 2011, he asked Nigerians to learn from the Egyptian revolution and be ready for a revolution in Nigeria. So, he will be my first witness. 

“The late Chief Gani Fawehinmi and four other people were charged with treasonable felony by the Ibrahim Babangida junta. I was one of them. We were detained in Kuje prison for two months. We were taken to the court, and what was the offence? I think we went beyond Sowore. We posted thousands of posters across the country, that Babangida must go. That was the treasonable felony.” 

Falana, who stood in defence alongside Fawehinmi, said they argued that the then military president did not come to office through constitutional means. 

He added that those in government now harassing Nigerians with treason would someday, too, be tried for treason. 

It is not clear if Sowore will be charged as Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson is yet to respond to messages seeking development on the matter. 

- THECABLE

SAME ALMAJIRI SYSTEM !!! FG to review revenue sharing formula to suit ‘current economic realities’

The federal government says it will set up a committee to review the revenue sharing formula for federal, states and local governments due to current economic realities.

Elias Mbam, chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), made this known after he received an award of excellence from the Nigeria Civil Service Union.

According to the current revenue allocation formula, the federal government gets 52.68%, states get 26.72% and local governments, 20.60%.

Also, 13% of oil and gas federally collected revenue is returned to the oil-producing states as derivation revenue to compensate for ecological disasters arising from oil production.

“My agenda is to expand the sources of revenue for the federation. I will like to expand the cake that we are sharing so that people will get a reasonable quantity,” he said.

“I intend to do this through diversification in areas outside oil and gas, and that includes solid minerals, agriculture and manufacturing.

“So, we will encourage states and let them know what is available outside oil and gas so they can develop those aspects of the economy to their own benefit.”

The formula was designed during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

In 2013, the RMAFC saw the need to review the formula for balanced development of the country, hence it embarked on a nationwide consultation and met with notable figures on the issue.

In December 2014, the commission came out with a proposed new revenue formula but for some reasons, it has not been implemented.

-THECABLE

Nigerian Ogbeifun docked in South Africa for dating scam

A Nigerian Christiano Ogbeinfun has been charged in South Africa with fraud and money laundering, executed through an online dating scam.

The 48 year-old Nigerian appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. But he was not asked to plead.

Hawks will investigate the South African victims who have allegedly been fleeced out of of R1.4million, about $94,000.

Hawks spokesperson Captain Philani Nkwalase said: “Several South African, Swedish and American victims fell prey to the alleged scam.

“We’re working with different authorities and we will investigate the South African victims. There are a lot of victims who lost their money.”

About R4.1million was estimated to have been lost by all his victims.

Ogbeinfun was arrested last Friday in a joint operation between the Hawks and the FBI. 

“It is alleged that the suspect lured mostly US-based victims from a dating site,” said Nkwalase.

After building a certain level of trust the victims were tricked into paying money into the suspect’s business account in the belief that the money was going to be paid back.

- PM NEWS

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Revolution Now: Release Sowore, others now — PANDEF charges FG

Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has criticised the Federal Government for cracking down on the Convener of ‘Revolution Now’ movement, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, and other Nigerians for demonstrating their disaffection with the state of affairs in the nation.

In a statement by its National Secretary, Dr. Alfred Mulade, the Niger-Delta group said rather than the militaristic approach to the complaints of the people, the federal government should address the issues they have raised.

The statement reads in part, “PANDEF calls for the immediate release of Mr. Omoyele Sowore and all those Nigerians who may have been arrested in course of peacefully demonstrating their disaffection at the state of affairs of the nation.

“The Federal Government ought to note the issues highlighted by the RevolutionNow protestations and take needed actions to address the hardship in the country, rather than cracking down on citizens for exercising their rights to speech, association, and assembly.

“The PANDEF strongly condemns the arrest of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, by the Department of State Service (DSS) for his active role in the planned nationwide march to demand for decisive actions, from the government, on the nation’s security, economic, educational and healthcare challenges.

“PANDEF equally condemns actions of the Nigerian Police Force for describing the planned protests as treasonable felony and acts of terrorism. If we may ask, how can protest against insecurity, suffering and hardship in the country occasioned by misrule, amount to treasonable felony?

“Meanwhile, those who are actually threatening the unity and stability of the country by killing and maiming innocent Nigerians daily, are freely moving around in the country.

“It is disconcerting that the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is increasingly becoming intolerant of criticism and contrary opinions, and undemocratic in its actions.

“The fundamental human rights of association and expression of views are protected and guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution provides among other things that every person shall be entitled to assemble freely and associate with other persons, and in particular, he may form or belong to any political party, trade union or any other association for the protection of his or her interests.

“We would, therefore, call on the APC- led federal government and agencies of government to demonstrate greater respect for the nation’s constitution and its provisions, particularly those concerning fundamental rights such as right to life, right to dignity of the human person, right to personal liberty, right to freedom of expression, right to peaceful assembly and association.”

- DAILY POST

Presidency, Catholic Bishops trade blames on insecurity

The Nigerian Presidency has reacted to the allegation by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria that it is handling the security of the nation with levity.

The Bishops had said in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting in Ekiti that the situation at hand was creating panic across the nation hence demanded concerted efforts by the highest level of government to find solutions.

However, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina said that blame game was not the best way to go.

He said it was the Catholic Bishops that were creating panic among Nigerians through their accusation of government levity on security matters.

In a terse statement yesterday, Adesina said: “Every rational voice is welcome in finding lasting solutions to challenges confronting the country, particularly killings by herdsmen, whether alleged or real.

“But in arriving at solutions, blame game is not the way to go. Accusing government of levity, when in fact all hands are on deck, worsens the situation, as it creates panic and fear among Nigerians, which is what the bishops incidentally also decried in their communiqué.

“Nigeria has faced many challenges, and surmounted them all, by the grace of God, this too shall pass.”

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NUC, NYSC collaborate to stop ‘fake’ foreign-trained graduates from national service

The National Universities Commission (NUC), alongside the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), have come to a conclusion to stop fake foreign-trained graduates from partaking in the compulsory one-year national service.

NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, who spoke during a visit by the NYSC Director-General, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, said the committee would continue to ensure the credibility of certificates issued by Nigerian universities and block fake foreign-trained graduates coming into the country.

The NUC chief said many universities produce quality graduates while some produce graduates who cannot defend their certificates.

He said the commission had not approved the degrees of some online universities operating in the country.

Rasheed added that the commission had approached the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to shut down some illegal universities operating in Nigeria, The Nations reports.

“NUC and NYSC must work together to help the country in producing quality graduates. The NUC will continue to certify the credibility of certificates obtained from Nigerian universities,” he said.

- DAILY POST 

AIDS/HIV killed Nigerian Odemu Efe in Ethiopian Prison

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) on Tuesday said Mr Odemu Efe, a Nigerian serving a five-year prison sentence in an Ethiopian prison died of HIV/AIDS.

Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun, NIDCOM’s Head of Media made this known in a statement in Abuja.

Balogun said contrary to reports that Efe died of ill-treatment and malnourishment in prison, the death certificate issued by the Ethiopian Health Authorities showed he died of HIV/AIDS.

He further said confirmation from the Nigerian Embassy in Ethiopia revealed that Efe had been seriously ill and taken to two different hospitals in Addis Ababa before he passed on.

He also debunked a statement credited to one Miss Chika Nwachukwu, that Nigerian officials were indifferent about the welfare of Nigerian inmates in Ethiopia.

” The Nigerian High Commissioner, Adeoye Bankole, visits inmates regularly. He visited the Kaliti Prison in January 2019 and plans to visit Nigerian inmates again in August/September, ” he said.

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Executive Chairman/CEO, NIDCOM condoled with the family of the deceased and prayed God to bless the soul of the departed citizen.

Efe was serving a five-year prison sentence in an Ethiopian Penitentiary having been convicted for drug trafficking by an Ethiopian court.

He had only served over a year before his demise.

Balogun said the burial would be undertaken soon through the assistance of Ethiopian Authorities and witnessed by the consular representative of the Nigerian Embassy.

- PM NEWS

EFCC frozen bank accounts linked with Ambode

Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, ordered the freezing of N9.9bn in four bank accounts linked with an aide of former governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.

The EFCC said only N300 million remains in the accounts.

The funds are domiciled in First City Monument Bank, FCMB, account number 5617984012; Access Bank account number 0060949275 and Zenith Bank account number 1011691254, respectively.

Justice Chuka Obiozor gave the order, following an ex-parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The EFCC had prayed the court to freeze the account pending the conclusion of the investigation and possible prosecution of Adewale Adesanya, the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Chief of Staff to former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

The applicant, EFCC, in an affidavit deposed to by Kungmi Daniel, an operative of the Commission, stated that there was “a huge inflow of N9,927,714,443.29” from the state accounts into an FCMB bank account opened on September 17, 2018, during the administration of the past governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, and operated by Adesanya.

It was further stated that the schedule of the FCMB account showed how Adesanya and other signatories to the account made fraudulent transfers from the accounts of the Lagos State Government and dissipated the funds housed in the said accounts.

In his submission, counsel to the EFCC, Mohammed Abbas, said: “The trend in the account is that the account always witnessed huge inflow from Lagos State Government in the above-scheduled accounts managed by the respondent (Adesanya)”.

Abbas, therefore, prayed the court to grant an order to temporarily attach and take over the accounts to enable it conclude its investigations.

“There have been concerted efforts and attempts to dissipate the contents of the accounts listed in the schedule to this application.

“Without freezing the nominated accounts and temporarily forfeiting the money to the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there is no way the fraud being perpetrated using the scheduled accounts can be stopped,” he further told the court.

Consequently, Justice Obiozor granted the prayers of the counsel to the Commission.

The Judge adjourned further proceedings till September 9.

- PM NEWS