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Abuja - The long arm of the law recently caught up with a visa racketeer, Johnson Iven, who was on Thursday docked at an Abuja Upper Area Court for visa fraud.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria report, Iven was charged with criminal breach of trust and cheating. Iven of No. 7, Old Market road Garki, Abuja, was alleged to have collected N750,000 from one Mr Chukwudi Ezeagbalu in 2007 to assist him in obtaining a Polish visa.

When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Abuja - Where else in the world will this happen? Nigerians in their thousands, wanting to partake of the National cake, paid a whooping N2 billion in Fees for a chance to join the Nigeria Police Force, when in actual fact, prospective applicants are wooed with juicy offer of tuition grants, scholarships, medical benefits, and the likes of it, to join the police force in other countries.

Ibadan - Following the death of Ibadan Political bigwig and PDP Godfather, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is gunning after the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala for alleged corruption and embezzlement of State money.

The EFCC has alleged that Governor Alao-Akala used two book publishing companies and another firm to plunder over N1bn belonging to the state between January and December 2006. It also accused him of abusing his office during the 11 months he first spent as governor of the state.

Abuja - Like the proverbial saying, “…touch not my annointed and do my prophet no harm, the new Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has concluded plans to scuttle the ongoing trial of former governor of Delta State, James Ibori.

The EFCC chairperson who is currently attending a Commonwealth Business Council meeting in London secretly redeployed Bello Yahaya, a Superintendent of Police back to the Nigerian Police headquarters in Abuja. Prior to his redeployment, Bello was the key EFCC officer who investigated Ibori for massive corruption and graft while he was the governor of Delta State from 1999 to 2007. Bello who had trained with the London Metropolitan Police, was the designated officer handling cases involving the London Metropolitan Police in Nigeria.  Bello is yet to be given a new posting by the police authorities in Abuja. With his removal Ibori’s case will lose its key investigating police officer.

Abuja - The National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins, his deputy, Ibrahim Dumuje and one Yero Gella were on Monday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged conversion of the monies donated to the foundation for personal use.

They were also charged with felony, criminal breach of trust, theft and criminal conversion and misuse of the fund donated to the PEF.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge read to them by the court registrar.

But their oral applications for bail were rejected by the trial judge, Justice Abubakar Talba.