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The hacker allegedly stole N2.9 billion from Flutterwave.

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The hacker allegedly stole N2.9 billion from Flutterwave.

Reports have it that ₦2,949,557,867 has been illegally transferred from the accounts of African fintech unicorn, Flutterwave.

The tech giant’s counsel, Albert Onimole, reported the case to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, Techcabal reported.

According to Onimole’s letter, the hack on Flutterwave’s accounts occurred about some weeks ago revealing that the said sum was initially transferred to 28 accounts in 63 transactions.

Although the accounts that received the money were listed, the police are yet to freeze the receiving accounts to prevent the money being moved.

According to Flutterwave, some commercial banks allowed the money to be moved to other accounts, widening the money trail.

To investigate the accounts holding the stolen funds across various financial institutions in Nigeria, S.A. Adedesin, Legal Officer, State CID, Panti, Yaba, filed a suit in the Magistrate Court of Lagos to support Flutterwave’s claims.

The suit is between the Commissioner of Police and the affected 28 commercial banks.

While there are no documents to confirm if the court has ruled in favour of Inspector Micheal’s motion, some people have confirmed that their accounts have been frozen in connection to the hack.

Per the motion filed by Adebesin, 107 accounts, including fifth beneficiaries of those accounts, are to be placed on lien/Post-No-Debit (PND).

With the stolen funds distributed across several accounts, which, according to tweets, may or may not have anything to do with the hack, it is not clear at this time who hacked Flutterwave.

Questions about how hackers got past Flutterwave’s security and what this means for the unicorn’s customers remain unanswered. As of press time, Flutterwave hasn’t responded to our questions.

Why I want to go under the knife – Mary John

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Why I want to go under the knife – Mary John

Beautiful actress and social media influencer Mary John reveals why she wants to have surgery in the near future.

The Forcestar actress said in an interview, “Yes, I’m going to have surgery to get rid of my belly fat. I don’t need fillers on the buttocks or breasts, this is perfect. I just want to increase the size of my belly. big size, that’s my biggest problem.”

“I think I can’t speak for other people because people deal with their problems in different ways. I am very proud of this. I am who I am and I never want to be anyone else.”

When asked about her unique appeal, the Bayelsa native named her beautiful eyes and voice.

For me, my eyes is my special selling point but people will say ‘Mary is a liar’ that it is my bumbum (laughs), but I’ll always choose my eyes and beautiful voice any time. They always stand me out,” she asserted.

Mary John also revealed her turn on and off in a relationship, stating that a respectful and understanding man gives her the kick.

“My turn on will be a responsible, caring and God fearing man who allows his woman to be herself at all time.

A man who understands the “word” respect.  My turn off will be an uptight man who thinks he owns the world.  A man who does not understand that a woman too can be busy with work.

Some men are so insecure that when she doesn’t take his calls, he would quickly assume that his woman is with another man. Thats a big turn off. I can’t deal with a jealous man.”

What will Emefiele experience when Buhari leaves office – Shehu Sani

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What will Emefiele experience when Buhari leaves office – Shehu Sani

Former lawmaker and social critic, Senator Shehu Sani, has predicted what the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, might face when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), leaves office.

Sani described the CBN boss’ situation as that of a “Zebra in the hands of tigers,” when Buhari leaves office on May 29.

The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, including some governors in the All Progressives Congress, have not found the naira redesign policy pleasant.

The naira redesign had also subjected many Nigerians to untold hardships following the scarcity of the new naira notes.

However, the Supreme Court last week extended the validity of the old N200, N500, and N1,000 naira notes till December 31, stating that the CBN must continue to receive the notes from Nigerians. The apex court held that the President’s directive on the redesign of the new notes without due consultation was invalid.

Meanwhile, the former senator, Sani, is of the opinion that Emefiele might not be protected against those who tackled the policy when Buhari eventually becomes an ex-President later in the year.

“When Baba (Buhari) is gone, Emefiele will be like Zebra in the hands of Tigers,” Sani said in a post via his verified Twitter handle late Saturday.

Stop being bitter towards a Yoruba President – Kemi Olunloyo

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Stop being bitter towards a Yoruba President – Kemi Olunloyo

Social media writer Kemi Olunloyo offers advice to those opposed to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed’s presidential election announcement.

She said those who oppose Yoruba man for the presidency should reconsider.

She said: “IGBO PEOPLE: Stop being bitter, power shifted to a Yoruba man. Work with him. Nothing wrong with being a tribalism. We have tribes. The ere are more Igbo kids born in Lagos and South West than in Igboland due to Biafra war and migration. One of them will be a Governor/ Prez one day.”

 

 

Gubernatorial elections: 9 parties allied With PDP in Ogun state

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Gubernatorial elections: 9 parties allied With PDP in Ogun state

Ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, nine political parties have thrown their weight behind the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ladipupo Adebutu, in Ogun state.

The parties announced the development at a programme they held in Abeokuta, the capital of the state, on Friday.

The incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun, is seeking reelection as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which won the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state on 25 February.

Speaking at the programme, the Deputy Governorship candidate of the PDP, Adekunle Akinlade, admitted that the party cannot beat the APC at the polls without the collaboration and support of other political parties.

Mr Akinlade further accused Governor Abiodun of planning to rig the elections.

Mr Akinlade said: “PDP alone cannot beat APC in Ogun State. We need to be ready to share. We need to collaborate with other parties.

“What is important is that we win and rescue Ogun State. This election, it is clear that Abiodun is going to rig. What happened last Saturday is possible again, but we will not allow them to do it again. This is why we need to collaborate to make rigging impossible for them. Rigging is possible where there is no collaboration. We cannot do it alone.”

The parties which declared support for the PDP are:

Accord Party (AP),

Action Alliance (AA),

Action Democratic Party (ADP),

All Peoples Party (APP),

Allied People’s Movement (APM),

Because Of Our Tomorrow (BOOT party),

African Action Congress (AAC),

Young Progressive Progressive Party (YPP) and

the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

The Governorship candidate of the PDP, while addressing members of the nine parties, said the move became imperative following the outcome of the Presidential and National Assembly elections last Saturday.

Mr Adebutu vowed that the PDP would not allow the APC to rig it out of the governorship election this time.

He appealed to the parties to in truth work with the PDP to unseat the Governor.

Mr Adebutu said: “If we don’t act our role and we allow him (Abiodun) again, if we allow him to fulfil his desire to be Governor, we would have failed and that will be the end of Ogun State, we would have lost the opportunity to save the State.

“If Peter Obi and Abubakar Atiku had worked together, we would have won the election even despite all the rigging and that is why we must have the confluence, we must have the association we are having today.

“We must unite, as pieces of one another we will not get anywhere. These people (APC) are in government, they have the power of incumbency, naturally, they have more money.

“We can help save the situation by coming together and saving Ogun State. Nine parties plus PDP means 10, 10 of us joined together can make a success of it.

“We are all together and in being together we will all be co-partners in this movement, we must know that we are fighting for the life of our State, not only our political lives, we are fighting for the life of our State, we are fighting for the welfare and wellbeing of our people.

“We shall win because even where the system failed, we are ready to mend and plug the difference. We know what they (APC) did and we shall make sure what they did will not work this time.”

In his remarks, the chairperson of Action Alliance (AA), Sanyaolu Abayomi, said the parties decided to endorse Mr Adebutu after a thorough evaluation of the frontline candidates.

At another programme on Saturday, the defeated House of Representatives candidate of the Labour Party, Tolulope Philips, also endorsed Mr Adebutu.

Mr Philips contested the seat for Abeokuta South federal constituency but lost to the APC candidate, Afolabi Afuape.

Speaking at the event, Mr Tolulope said he decided to work for Mr Adebutu because the Labour Party has no governorship candidate in the state.

He described the PDP candidate as the most credible among the governorship contestants in the state.

“Labour Party has no Governorship candidate. What we want in Ogun is progress. Don’t consider Saturday, let’s consider the aftermath. I didn’t collect anything from APC and PDP. I am doing this because I want to get the dividend of democracy for our people in Ogun state. We must not allow our state to continue like this.

BBNaija White Money is pouring millions into a new Maybach Benz.

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BBNaija White Money is pouring millions into a new Maybach Benz.

Big Brother Naija, winner of the Shine ya eyes competition, and Hazel Onuo, also known as Whitemoney, have invested millions in the new machine.

Just a few weeks after the release of his new song Jada, the singer has added a new car to his fleet.

Whitemoney purchased a white S580 Maybach Benz.

Whitemoney shared the good news on his Instagram page with photos of his new car, showing that he is driving his dream, not chasing it.

“They say follow your dreams. I think you should drive.”

Congratulatory messages are already pouring in for him.

 

 

I plan to leave Nigeria after the Tinubu victory- Bode George

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I plan to leave Nigeria after the Tinubu victory- Bode George

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, shares with AYOOLA OLASUPO his thoughts on the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the President-elect among other national issues

What is your general assessment of the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday?

Without missing words, it was shambolic, shameless and full of inadequacies and futility.

I am so heartbroken because I thought we were going to lift Nigeria to the level of a civilised world, that from every polling station, the results would be transmitted electronically into the server and it was done during Anambra, Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections.

We were all clapping, happy, and ready to elevate this nation from the dull room of filth to the level of a civilised world. And as a professor, I am so disappointed, because if the National Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, knew that there were hitches in the system, the best he could have done morally was to say ‘stop’ to all these operations.

He continued with the shenanigans, rubbish and nonsense and started collating, and went back to the old system where they were manipulating the results.

Did you see it coming that Atiku would lose the election?

In our party, I kept shouting and reminding these people that a divided house will be a defeated house.

We have created the avenue for these things but that will be a port-mortem analysis within the party.

As an elder in the party and a member of the Board of Trustees, we saw it coming.

We discussed it because of the failings of the managers of the party. I told them that the South-West had been completely disenfranchised. Look at the way those children came out.

The kids between the ages of 18 and 35 came out in millions believing this is the time. They want to change the direction of Nigeria but what did we give them?

Would you ascribe that loss to the lack of support from the G-5 and Integrity Group?

Of course, where did Peter Obi come from? Most of the people who got angry went away from the PDP; a divided house is a defeated house. You said the South-West doesn’t matter. If they added Obi’s votes to PDP’s, Tinubu would have been washed away. Divided we fall, and you can see it even with the manipulation that they did. The Labour Party won them because people are tired of the All Progressives Congress.

In Lagos now they are trying now to espouse the theory of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour being an Igbo man. You see the lie, who told them Rhodes-Vivour is an Igbo man? Saturday is the election and it will be based on justice, fairness, and equity. I pray that Yakubu and his team use the electronic transmission of results otherwise he will send this country to the bottom of the sea.

Peter Obi hired 20 SAN to challenge the presidential election results.

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Peter Obi hired 20 SAN to challenge the presidential election results.

The Labour Party said it had engaged the services of at least 20 senior advocates of Nigeria to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election on behalf of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

According to sources within the party, the lawyers drawn from different chambers were being furnished with materials that would be used as evidence in court.

The president-elect and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, was announced the winner of the keenly contested election last Wednesday.

Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the LP flag bearer, who got 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes respectively.

But Atiku and Obi rejected the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, with each claiming at separate press conferences that the election was fraught with violence and massive rigging.

The drama took a twist last Friday when the two major opposition candidates were reported to have approached the court to seek permission for the inspection of election materials used during the poll.

At least six states – Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto – had dragged the Federal Government before the Supreme Court over the conduct of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections before withdrawing the case last Friday.

Celebrities stop fighting over tinubu and obi – Mosun Filani

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Celebrities stop fighting over tinubu and obi – Mosun Filani

An actress, producer and scriptwriter, Mosun Filani, has advised her colleagues in the entertainment industry to stop fighting over the outcome of the recent presidential election.

Responding to a question on what she thought of the entertainers that had been fighting dirty over the election, Filani told Saturday Beats, “Some people take things to the extreme.

However, we operate a democracy, and everyone has the freedom to support whoever they choose.

I don’t see the need for the fights. We should all be working towards the goal of taking Nigeria to the next level by choosing competent and eligible leaders.

If these people (Politicians) are not fighting themselves, then why are we fighting? There is no need for that.

Everybody cannot agree on issues. I don’t understand the fuss and fights. A winner has been declared.

The most important thing is to pray that the winner will meet our demands. If he does not; then, we can start complaining. For now, we should just pray for him to do well.”

Filani, who recently celebrated her eleventh year wedding anniversary, stated that marriage had changed her in many ways.

She said, “Marriage has changed me a lot, because one cannot think of oneself alone anymore.

One has to think of one’s spouse and children. There are many things one could do and get away with as a single person, but which is not possible when one is married.”

Speaking on her current project, she said, “It is a movie that was shot with a great cast, crew, and storyline.

It is a story that everybody can relate to, whether they are single or married. I believe that people are going to love it.”

 

Why Tinubu won in Oyo – Makinde

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Why Tinubu won in Oyo – Makinde

The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has given reasons why Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won the state in the presidential election that was held last Saturday, February 25.

The governor expressed happiness to be part of the process that “redrew the electoral map of Nigeria.”

Makinde, who spoke on Saturday when he was featured on Splash FM’s State Affairs with Desmond Obilo, said he stood for equity and fairness.

Tinubu polled 449,884 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 182,977 votes in Oyo.

I supported fairness, justice and equity. I supported a united Nigeria, a Nigeria that gives opportunity to every part of this country,” Makinde said.

When he was told that he delivered his ward to Tinubu, Makinde said, “He (Tinubu) defeated me out there. How do you deliver your ward?”

He said democracy was about people expressing themselves through the ballot, saying a lot of people in Oyo voted who they wanted. “That is what they decide to do.”

You know, you allow people to express themselves. A lot of our people, that is what they decided to do. They decided that, look, we want after eight years of presidency in the North, they want it to come to the South and this place being South-West, one of theirs was a candidate, so they supported one of their own.”

The governor says when one goes into a contest, he or she has to situate things appropriately, adding, “We had a survey before that election; we knew that a lot of our people are agitating for a country where there is fairness, equity and justice. I pointed it out to our party.”

“I am glad that I am a part of a process that redrew the electoral map of Nigeria. That arrogance, I believe with the result of last Saturday’s election, is basically behind us. Now we know that people will have to seek alignment. If you want to rule this country, you are not just going to say oh, because I am from a certain part of this country, then that is the only qualification I require to rule this country. Now, you have to build bridges, reach out to others.”

The PUNCH reports that five of the PDP governors including Makinde, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, and their leader, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, did not campaign for the candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, prior to the presidential election.

The governors are in disagreement with the national leadership of the party over what they described as unfair representation in the geopolitical distribution of the leadership of the party.

In Rivers State where Wike is the governor, Tinubu also swept the votes, defeating Atiku of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, even in the governor’s local government area.

However, Ikpeazu and Ortom lost senatorial bids in their states.

When Makinde was asked if he would also “pay the price” with his re-election bid, Makinde said he would do what was right over his political interest, saying that was however left to the people of the state.

“If I have to choose between my political survival and doing what is right and just within the political space in Nigeria, I will choose to forgo my political career,” he said.

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