Former Aviation Minister Stella Oduah Denies Stashing N2.5bn In Any Bank

Senator Stella Oduah, yesterday, denied reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was on her trail for allegedly caching nearly N2.5 billion in a bank account she set up using the identity of her domestic aide.Ms. Oduah, who said she received the reports while relaxing in her country home in Anambra State, challenged those who published the allegations to produce proof that substantiated her guilt.

News website, SaharaReporters, had on Sunday reported EFCC sources as revealing to it how Ms. Oduah used the name and pictures of the unnamed maid to set up the account. “Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,” Reporters had quoted one of the EFCC sources as saying.

But in a rebuttal from her office around 9 a.m. yesterday, Oduah said the reports were “totally false, baseless and at best the imagination of the platform.” In the statement, signed by Francisca Onyeisi, Head of Communications, the Peoples Dem,ocratic Party, PDP Senator said that if the reports were true, she would have been arrested long before now, especially at a time when the EFCC is “freezing accounts and going after opposition governors who enjoy same level of immunity as the president.”

The former minister, therefore, urged her supporters and the general public to ignore the reports, saying she had “made a mark in oil and gas and Agricultural businesses before joining politics.” Ms. Oduah was removed from office in February 2014 after she was found to have received armoured BMW cars, worth N255 million, from an agency she supervised.

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Security Alert; Bart Ransomware Bypasses Corporate Firewalls

A new ransomware variant has emerged that’s similar to widespread threats such as Dridex 220 and Locky Affid=3, but uses a security-evading technique that may allow it to attack organisations protected from other malware, according to computer security researchers. Ransomware has spread quickly in the last few months, as a number of payouts have attracted cyber-criminals to the technique.

Buhari Considers Hadiza Bala Usman As Head Of NPA

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has submitted Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman’s name to President Muhammadu Buhari to take over as the new managing director of NPA, says Reporter.Should Buhari approve the recommendation, Ms. Bala Usman, 40, will become the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA. She shall take over from Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reinstated by Buhari in August 2015 as the managing director of NPA, after he had been shown the exit by former President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015.

Prisoner escapes in Benin city

An inmate on Wednesday morning escaped from the court where he was taken to for his trial. The unidentified inmate, escaped from the watchful eyes of prison officials who took him and other inmates to court. The prisoner, an awaiting trial inmate in Oko medium prison, Benin, escaped at the premises of the state high court, Benin. A prison official who spoke with The reporter under the condition of anonymity, said prison warders have been sent to go after the escaped prisoner. Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Edo command of the Nigerian Prison Services (NPS), Mr Aminu Suleiman declined speaking to journalists on it. The spokesman, who could neither deny nor confirm the report, said he was not in a position to speak on the issue. Suleiman said that the state commander of the NPS, Mr Effiom Etowa, was out of the state on official assignment.

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