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The recently launched eNaira Wallet application has been removed from Google Play Store barely 36 hours after it was launched by the Central Bank of Nigeria, SaharaReporters has gathered.

 

However, the app is currently available on the Apple app store with 2.6 over 5 ratings. 

The digital currency has two applications, which are eNaira speed wallet and eNaira merchant wallet.

 

On Monday, the two apps were rolled out on the Google play store and the Apple store.

 

The eNaira was developed by the fintech company, Bitt, which was also responsible for the creation of CBDC in some East Caribbean countries.

 

At the launch on Monday, the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, boasted that 500 million eNaira ($1.21 million) has already been minted.

 

Meanwhile, a notice on the eNaira website explained how the currency and the wallet would work.

 

It read: “Get Ready With Your Accurate BVN Data For Your Hitch-Free Enrolment.

 

“To sign-up on the eNaira speed wallet, you would be required to input the following details exactly as captured during your BVN enrollment.

 

“First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, State of Origin, and Email.

 

“Your banks are waiting to assist you in validating and updating your BVN details to ensure seamless enrolment to the eNaira platform.”

 

However, negative reactions have trailed the launch of the app as many users complained of several issues, ranging from the inability to link their Bank Verification number, to getting a verification email. 

 

Checks by SaharaReporters as of Wednesday afternoon showed that the app had only gained 1.9 stars out of 5 stars preview. 

Also, in the review section, many Nigerians expressed their displeasure. 

 

A user, Moyosore Fagbemigun, despite giving four stars, wrote: ”After sign up, I did not get the verification email in my BVN linked email. I have checked the spam folder and nothing yet. Easy registration process."

 

Another user, Oscar Alexander, who gave it one star rating, noted, “I tried registering the first time. Told me there was no email attached to my BVN. I tried my other bank account. It told me an invalid account number. Lol. Now it says too many attempts with the same BVN. What a joke!”

 

“Every single attempt to get registered on the platform seems futile. It kept giving a prompt invalid BVN whereas my BVN is valid," another user had said before the app was taken down.

 

SaharaReporters observed that majority of the users gave the app one star. It is not clear whether the app was removed due to the poor rating it suffered or if the CBN had done that itself. 

 

The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in a conference at the beginning of the month, promised that the country would start digital Naira currency. 

 

Emefiele said the eNaira would operate as a wallet through which customers could hold existing funds in their bank accounts, and that this would accelerate financial inclusion and enable cheaper and faster remittance inflows. 

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The recently launched eNaira Wallet application has been removed from Google Play Store barely 36 hours after it was launched by the Central Bank of Nigeria, SaharaReporters has gathered.

 

However, the app is currently available on the Apple app store with 2.6 over 5 ratings. 

The digital currency has two applications, which are eNaira speed wallet and eNaira merchant wallet.

 

On Monday, the two apps were rolled out on the Google play store and the Apple store.

 

The eNaira was developed by the fintech company, Bitt, which was also responsible for the creation of CBDC in some East Caribbean countries.

 

At the launch on Monday, the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, boasted that 500 million eNaira ($1.21 million) has already been minted.

 

Meanwhile, a notice on the eNaira website explained how the currency and the wallet would work.

 

It read: “Get Ready With Your Accurate BVN Data For Your Hitch-Free Enrolment.

 

“To sign-up on the eNaira speed wallet, you would be required to input the following details exactly as captured during your BVN enrollment.

 

“First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, State of Origin, and Email.

 

“Your banks are waiting to assist you in validating and updating your BVN details to ensure seamless enrolment to the eNaira platform.”

 

However, negative reactions have trailed the launch of the app as many users complained of several issues, ranging from the inability to link their Bank Verification number, to getting a verification email. 

 

Checks by SaharaReporters as of Wednesday afternoon showed that the app had only gained 1.9 stars out of 5 stars preview. 

Also, in the review section, many Nigerians expressed their displeasure. 

 

A user, Moyosore Fagbemigun, despite giving four stars, wrote: ”After sign up, I did not get the verification email in my BVN linked email. I have checked the spam folder and nothing yet. Easy registration process."

 

Another user, Oscar Alexander, who gave it one star rating, noted, “I tried registering the first time. Told me there was no email attached to my BVN. I tried my other bank account. It told me an invalid account number. Lol. Now it says too many attempts with the same BVN. What a joke!”

 

“Every single attempt to get registered on the platform seems futile. It kept giving a prompt invalid BVN whereas my BVN is valid," another user had said before the app was taken down.

 

SaharaReporters observed that majority of the users gave the app one star. It is not clear whether the app was removed due to the poor rating it suffered or if the CBN had done that itself. 

 

The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in a conference at the beginning of the month, promised that the country would start digital Naira currency. 

 

Emefiele said the eNaira would operate as a wallet through which customers could hold existing funds in their bank accounts, and that this would accelerate financial inclusion and enable cheaper and faster remittance inflows. 

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A 32-year-old herdsman, Muhammadu Abubakar, found guilty of an attempted murder, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.

According to Punch, Abubakar was prosecuted and found guilty on two counts of attempted murder and unlawful possession of firearms.

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The charge read in part, “On April 9, 2019, at Aba Cotonou, Omu Ekiti, in the Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, the defendant did attempt to murder one Chief Samuel Amaa and others. Found in his possession were a gun and cartridges on the same day.”

The police prosecutor, Taiwo Ajibulu, said the offences were contrary to and punishable under Section 320 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. C16 Laws of Ekiti State, 2012, and Section 3 (1) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act, Cap.R11, Vol.14, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The prosecutor called four witnesses.

A witness, in his testimony before the court, said, “The defendant was challenged while grazing on the cassava farm; he was angry for being questioned. He pulled out his gun and fired at the people who challenged him, but they were fortunate it (the bullet) missed them.

“He was later overpowered by residents while trying to escape, following which he was handed over to the police.”

The exhibits tendered included a gun, live cartridges and statements among others.

The judge, Justice Adekunle Adeleye, in his verdict, stated, “The defendant is found guilty as charged. On count one, he is sentenced to life imprisonment, and 10 years imprisonment on count two.”

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The Senator representing Niger East in the National Assembly, Mohammed Musa, says popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, should be invited by security agents for questioning over his affiliation with bandits.

Musa disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV on Tuesday evening.

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

He mentioned that Gumi has been meeting with these bandits in the forests and he should be able to provide the Nigerian government with information that could help to neutralise their operations.

“I won’t say we know them (bandits). Just as we said, they have cells and they have a kind of leadership structure in their cells,” he said.

“I would recall that one of the renowned Islamic scholars, Sheikh Gumi, was at a time going into the forests to meet with these people.

“I think somebody like Gumi should be asked how he has contacts to reach these people. And if he can reach these people, why is it that he has not been able to help the government to get these people neutralised?”

Musa said the security situation in Niger State has worsened as terrorists who moved into Zamfara have returned to escape military action going on in the neighbouring state.

“It seems they all went back to Zamfara, which seems to be the epicentre of it. So, when they all went back to Zamfara, and the government decided to hit them in Zamfara, they’re now spreading. We had some peace in the last two months, but now, they’re back and they’re very ruthless. So, we also want the government to be very ruthless with them,” he added.

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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said the Nigerian government has landed itself in trouble for bringing its leader, Nnamdi Kanu to the country through an extraordinary rendition in June.

 

The group said this in its reaction to the Presidential media aide, Garba Shehu's statement that Kanu's extradition and prosecution will weaken the pro-Biafra separatist group.

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IPOB, through its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, in a statement made available to SaharaReporters disclosed this on Tuesday.

 

Shehu while reacting to the article published by The Economist said, "In the South-East, IPOB – which the Economist rightly describes as ‘delusional’ – the arrest and present trial of the terrorist leader of the group is the beginning of its demise. The President’s administration is redoubling efforts to have IPOB rightfully designated as a terrorist group by our allies outside of Nigeria – an act which will collapse their ability to transact gains from crime and extortion in foreign currencies."

 

Reacting, IPOB's statement partly read, "We are surprised at the level of cluelessness and ignorance displayed by Garba Shehu about the operations of IPOB. We, therefore, want to assure him and his co-travellers that the extraordinary rendition of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will rather destroy Nigeria and not IPOB. By kidnapping and renditioning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Nigeria has committed an international crime and must not go unpunished.

 

"The world doesn't need any further proof that IPOB is a peaceful movement. The kidnap of its Leader by the Nigerian Government is a crime that must be punished. So, by this singular violation of international law, Nigeria is in trouble already but instead of admitting the obvious, its officials are busy playing to the gallery.

 

"But very soon, the masterminds of this heinous crime will be rounded up and handed over to the International Criminal Court, ICC for prosecution. IPOB is not a push-over movement, and we cannot be intimidated. Just very soon our oppressors will be taught by ICC in the language they understand."

 

The secessionist group also reacted to the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno who said the security operatives will curb IPOB's violent activities as the Anambra State governorship election slated for November 6 draws near.

 

Monguno had said, "We will not allow people to start looting, destroying public property, and resorting to not just intimidation, terrorising people, possibly arson and even homicide. This will not be accepted. The law enforcement agencies have been asked to watch out for such elements."

 

IPOB reacted by saying, "We want Garba Shehu, Monguno, and the Attorney General of Nigeria, Abubakar Malami to stop displaying their ignorance of international law. They should stop the media trial of our Leader whose matter is already pending in a court of law.

 

"Monguno must settle terrorists and bandits he encourages and supports to cause havoc in the North East and North West of Nigeria because ordinary civilians and Christians there have seen hell from his plots and killings.

 

"He should play his politics to salvage his land from the hands of vampires ravaging North East and North West of Nigeria. Mungono, leave IPOB alone and face what is facing you and your people.

 

"This is not 1970 when the world looked the other way while they committed mass atrocities in Biafra land. IPOB is getting stronger by Kanu's rendition while Nigeria is headed for destruction."

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The Nigerian government has asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja, to issue a fresh trial in an alleged N7.1billion laundering charge against the former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Channels TV reports.
The government is asking the appellate court to throw out the September 29 ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which banned it from retrying the former governor and his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited.

The government, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), also wants the Appeal Court to order Senator Kalu and his company, to submit themselves for retrial, in line with the order of the Supreme Court in its May 8, 2020 judgement, voiding the earlier trial and conviction of Kalu and two others, and ordering a retrial.
The requests were contained in two notices of appeal, filed by a lawyer to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, against the two judgements delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The Federal High Court in Abuja had earlier in September stopped President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime from retrying the Abia Senator on the N7.1billion money laundering charge which the EFCC earlier preferred against him.
In a judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, the court held that the Supreme Court did not in the verdict it gave on May 8, 2020, order the retrial of either Kalu or his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited.
Justice Ekwo held that the Supreme Court only ordered the retrial of former Director of Finance in Abia State, Jones Udeogu, who was the appellant before it.
In reaction, the EFCC said it will appeal this judgement.
Kalu was serving a 12-year jail term for N7.1 billion fraud when the Supreme Court, ruling on an appeal by his co-defendant, Ude Udeogu, on May 8, 2020, nullified the proceedings leading to their conviction.
But Kalu who profited from the ruling to secure release from the Kuje Correctional Centre filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop his retrial.
Earlier today, Justice Ekwo had granted the ex-governor’s request on the grounds that the apex court’s judgment did not order his retrial and that by virtue of Section 36 (9) of the 1999 constitution as amended, or Section 283 (2) of the ACJA (Administration of Criminal Justice Act), “no person can be retried on the offence upon which he has been convicted."
The EFCC in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, however, believed the judge erred in this ruling as it says Section 36(9) of the 1999 Constitution is applicable only where the previous judgment was by a court of competent jurisdiction.
In this case, the apex court had in the said judgment, described the process that led to the conviction of Kalu as a nullity because the judge came from the Court of Appeal to decide the matter.
The anti-graft agency further averred that the court erred in its ruling that the Supreme Court did not order the retrial of Kalu; that it amounts to cherry-picking for Kalu to profit from the decision of the apex court nullifying the conviction of his co-defendant, Ude Udeagu but is not prepared to face the burden of retrial.
 

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 The Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has stated that he released pension arrears of N300million for retired civil servants and workers in the state, Daily Post reports.
This was contained in a statement by the Head of Service in the state, Dr. Festus Oyebade, saying the fund made available would cater to 1,501 retirees.

Governor Gboyega Oyetola
According to this newspaper, the statement showed that the N300million was not part of the statutory remittances that the governor makes available monthly.
The statutory remittance according to the statement includes the sum of N508million approved for the payment of retired civil servants and an additional sum of N150million approved for the payment of retirees under the contributory pension scheme.
Oyebade also stated the names of selected retirees had been posted on the notice board of the Ministry of Information and Civic Orientation, State Pension Bureau, Local Government Pension Bureau and the Office of the Head of Service.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday some groups of pensioners, who said they had not been paid their gratuities since 2016, began a peaceful protest to press home their demands.
The protesting pensioners, who were seen carrying different placards and chanting anti-government songs in different parts of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, revealed that the Oyetola-led administration had refused to pay them their gratuities, pensions and 30 months half salary arrears which have been accruing since 2016.
They claimed that all the noise about the pension was just ordinary political talk as nothing had been firmly done to take care of their pensions and gratuities.
They accused Governor Oyetola of being the brain behind the half salary they were paid during the administration of Rauf Aregbesola.
”There is no way the governor can exonerate himself from the half salary issue because, under the past administration of Rauf Aregbesola, he was the Chief Of Staff,” they alleged.

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Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has said "a number of compelling applications will be heard on the 10th day of November 2021" when the IPOB leader appears in court. 

The lawyer said the Nigerian government cannot have an advantage on infringing on Kanu's human rights at this period, because the global institutions have got involved. 

File Photo: Ifeanyi Ejiofor addressing IPOB members

Ejiofor said this in a statement to give an update on the legal team's routine visit to Kanu, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Tuesday. 

He stated further that Kanu's supporters should remain focused, adding that his client has been briefed on the United Nations Working Group's involvement in the matter. 

The statement read, "Our today's routine visit to our Client - Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu offered us a unique opportunity to review our approach, and to build on the subsisting progress so far recorded. 

"He is profoundly grateful for the uncommon solidarity so far demonstrated by UmuChineke, and particularly impressed by your resilience. 

"To this end, he implores you millions of his followers to remain focused, never to be distracted by those who want to exploit the opportunity his temporary absence created for their selfish purpose(s). 

"He is firm and stable, awaiting patiently his appearance in court come 10th of November 2021.

"A number of compelling applications will be heard on the 10th day of November 2021. The full details will be made public on this date.

"Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was properly briefed on the urgent demands of United Nation's Working Group, and consequences of the failure of the States affected by this instruction to comply with their demand. 

"The World is now asking compelling questions @freeMaziNnamdiKanu; it is no longer business as usual.

"The State can never be allowed to benefit from their own wrongdoing and gross infraction of our Client's rights. The hour has come for these infractions to be accounted for, and the World is now actively involved. 

"Our demand is simple: the unconditional release of our Client - Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and nothing more, because he cannot be tried on speculations. Our Client Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has not committed any offence known to law.

"Thank you all for your peaceful conduct so far, prayers and supplications. It is yielding much fruit than you can ever imagine. Just note this." 

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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has joined issue at the Federal High Court, Abuja against Precious Chikwendu, his estranged wife.

Chikwendu, a former beauty queen, had instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit at the Federal High Court against Fani-Kayode, the Inspector-General of Police, his officers and others wherein she is claiming the sum of N800 million as damages.

Fani-Kayode and Precious Chikwendu INSTAGRAM/@REAL_FFK

Other respondents are the Deputy Inspector General of Police Force CID, Commissioner of Police, Abuja, and CSP James Idachaba OC Legal (CID) FCT Command.

The plaintiff is demanding the said amount because of the alleged role played by the respondents in intimidating and harassing her during the pendency of her custody suit.

Specifically, Chikwendu has asked the court to restrain the IGP and his officers and men from threatening and harassing her in any form whatsoever pending the hearing and determination of her suit, which seeks the custody of her four children with Fani-Kayode.

However, in a bid to clear his name, the ex-minister has filed a counter affidavit in opposition to the suit, and therefore asked the court to dismiss the suit for lacking in merit as well as constituting an abuse of court process, Independent reports. 

Fani-Kayode revealed that he has read the 23 paragraphs supporting the affidavit of his ex-wife and said, “I know that they are concocted facts, presented by subterfuge, in order to mislead the Court and frustrate the administration of justice."

“I know that the instant suit is nothing but a smoke screen intended to avoid the long arms of justice and to malign me. There is no merit whatsoever in this suit, which was filed in abuse of court and judicial process. It is in the interest of justice to dismiss this suit for lacking in merit. 

"I conscientiously depose to this counter-affidavit from facts within my personal knowledge, and in good faith, believing same to be in accordance with the Oaths Act currently in force," the embattled former Minister stated.

On alleged separation from children, he stated, “Furthermore, contrary to Paragraphs 4 & 5, it is not correct that the Applicant was violently separated from her children.

“Rather, she elected to leave her matrimonial home and consciously abandon the children, in order to optimize without restraints, her extra-marital and inordinate sexual escapades”.

“As a fact, it is not surprising that Ms. Precious Chikwendu is capable of such reckless abandonment, because: whilst she was with me in the house afore described, she employed 12 in-house nannies to cater for the children, excluding supervisors and nurses who equally attend to them; the Applicant did not at anytime extend maternal care to the children, for the reason that she had a medical condition which deprived her of any filial bond with them; she deprived the children of the natural sucks or breast milk, also on account of the need to preserve her body shape, coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breast feed them.”

He further noted, “Despite the enormity of the Applicant’s brazen amoral acts, several entities had been made to her, in returning home or visiting the children, but she completely rebuffed all.

“In a recent letter which was written to her Solicitor handling the matrimonial case, his attention was drawn to the fact that there has been no time that the Applicant was deprived physical access to her children, in as much as she has been speaking to them on the phone and doing video calls with them."

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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has joined issue at the Federal High Court, Abuja against Precious Chikwendu, his estranged wife.

Chikwendu, a former beauty queen, had instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit at the Federal High Court against Fani-Kayode, the Inspector-General of Police, his officers and others wherein she is claiming the sum of N800 million as damages.

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Other respondents are the Deputy Inspector General of Police Force CID, Commissioner of Police, Abuja, and CSP James Idachaba OC Legal (CID) FCT Command.

The plaintiff is demanding the said amount because of the alleged role played by the respondents in intimidating and harassing her during the pendency of her custody suit.

Specifically, Chikwendu has asked the court to restrain the IGP and his officers and men from threatening and harassing her in any form whatsoever pending the hearing and determination of her suit, which seeks the custody of her four children with Fani-Kayode.

However, in a bid to clear his name, the ex-minister has filed a counter affidavit in opposition to the suit, and therefore asked the court to dismiss the suit for lacking in merit as well as constituting an abuse of court process, Independent reports. 

Fani-Kayode revealed that he has read the 23 paragraphs supporting the affidavit of his ex-wife and said, “I know that they are concocted facts, presented by subterfuge, in order to mislead the Court and frustrate the administration of justice."

“I know that the instant suit is nothing but a smoke screen intended to avoid the long arms of justice and to malign me. There is no merit whatsoever in this suit, which was filed in abuse of court and judicial process. It is in the interest of justice to dismiss this suit for lacking in merit. 

"I conscientiously depose to this counter-affidavit from facts within my personal knowledge, and in good faith, believing same to be in accordance with the Oaths Act currently in force," the embattled former Minister stated.

On alleged separation from children, he stated, “Furthermore, contrary to Paragraphs 4 & 5, it is not correct that the Applicant was violently separated from her children.

“Rather, she elected to leave her matrimonial home and consciously abandon the children, in order to optimize without restraints, her extra-marital and inordinate sexual escapades”.

“As a fact, it is not surprising that Ms. Precious Chikwendu is capable of such reckless abandonment, because: whilst she was with me in the house afore described, she employed 12 in-house nannies to cater for the children, excluding supervisors and nurses who equally attend to them; the Applicant did not at anytime extend maternal care to the children, for the reason that she had a medical condition which deprived her of any filial bond with them; she deprived the children of the natural sucks or breast milk, also on account of the need to preserve her body shape, coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breast feed them.”

He further noted, “Despite the enormity of the Applicant’s brazen amoral acts, several entities had been made to her, in returning home or visiting the children, but she completely rebuffed all.

“In a recent letter which was written to her Solicitor handling the matrimonial case, his attention was drawn to the fact that there has been no time that the Applicant was deprived physical access to her children, in as much as she has been speaking to them on the phone and doing video calls with them."

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed more evidence against Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, as his trial resumed at a Lagos High Court on Tuesday.

 

Naira Marley was arraigned by the EFCC on May 20, 2019 on 11 counts bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit credit cards and fraud, to which he pleaded not guilty.

The charge with suit number FHC/L/178C/19 was filed before a Lagos State High Court.

 

Some of the credit cards, according to the EFCC, bore the names- Nicole Louise Malyon, and Timea Fedorne Tatar.

 

The alleged crime contravenes the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act and the Cyber Crimes Act.

 

The second prosecution witness, Augustine Anosike, a forensic expert with the EFCC told Justice Nicholas Oweibo how several credit card numbers were extracted while analysing the contents of a total of 2,410 messages found in the defendant’s mobile phone, Politics Nigeria reports.

 

At the sitting, Augustine, who continued his examination in chief, told the court that Exhibit F was a conclusion of his analysis of the defendant’s iPhone X version 10.6, model A 1901, with number 07427343432 and an email, naimarley@icloud.com.

 

He also gave the IMEL number of the iPhone as: 35304509527532 as well as the SIM ICCID number as 8923420035948359826.

 

Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, he also told the court that “Apple iPhone is a sophisticated device capable of storing a large volume of information.

 

“It is the SIM card that basically identifies users of applications like WhatsApp. It, therefore, means that as long as a number has already been registered with a particular WhatsApp account, it matters less if such a user leaves the country.

 

 “There are cases where a WhatsApp application can still be used even though the registered SIM card is not inserted in the phone. The chatting app used in the analysed device was WhatsApp.

 

"A total of 977 Short Message Service (SMS) and 1433 chat messages were discovered.

 

“We also discovered seven pending status update messages. On November 26, 2018, there was an outgoing message registered about 3.32 pm, with a credit card number 5264711020433662.

 

“This message was sent to one Yadd. On December 11, 2018, there was an incoming message to the defendant’s device which read: ‘Your One Time Passcode (OTP) to verify your mobile number is 248716; wasn’t you, please call us on 63450808500.’”

 

According to him, another message was sent at 5.06 pm by one Hiya Bayi to a recipient with the name Raze on the same say.

 

The content of the message, he told the court, was another credit card number 42658840359132.

 

“The number of the sender is +447426343432, while that of the receiver is +447365280441.

“The incoming message reflected at 6.18 pm showed ‘Not recognized’.

 

“Other messages received on the same date include: ‘due to try in 20 minutes,’” he added.

 

The prosecution witness, while giving further evidence, told the court that there was an incoming message which read: “Tried and it was unsuccessful; sure you are not rinsing it out then giving it to me to try.”

This was said to have been received on December 12, 2018, at 10.16 pm.

 

The second prosecution witness also revealed several credit card numbers sent on different dates and times as well as OTP codes sent found in the defendant’s phone.

 

All the analysed texts were fully contained in a Compact Disc (CD), the prosecution counsel told the court. He noted that the prosecution had only printed out those portions it considered material to its case.

 

However, he asked both the court and the defence counsel, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, if the prosecution could bring a projector to play the CD in the open court or not, which was granted by Justice Oweibo.

 

The matter was adjourned to October 27, 2021, for the prosecution to play the CD on a projector, as Ojo did not raise any objection to the request by the prosecution.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed more evidence against Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, as his trial resumed at a Lagos High Court on Tuesday.

 

Naira Marley was arraigned by the EFCC on May 20, 2019 on 11 counts bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit credit cards and fraud, to which he pleaded not guilty.

The charge with suit number FHC/L/178C/19 was filed before a Lagos State High Court.

 

Some of the credit cards, according to the EFCC, bore the names- Nicole Louise Malyon, and Timea Fedorne Tatar.

 

The alleged crime contravenes the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act and the Cyber Crimes Act.

 

The second prosecution witness, Augustine Anosike, a forensic expert with the EFCC told Justice Nicholas Oweibo how several credit card numbers were extracted while analysing the contents of a total of 2,410 messages found in the defendant’s mobile phone, Politics Nigeria reports.

 

At the sitting, Augustine, who continued his examination in chief, told the court that Exhibit F was a conclusion of his analysis of the defendant’s iPhone X version 10.6, model A 1901, with number 07427343432 and an email, naimarley@icloud.com.

 

He also gave the IMEL number of the iPhone as: 35304509527532 as well as the SIM ICCID number as 8923420035948359826.

 

Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, he also told the court that “Apple iPhone is a sophisticated device capable of storing a large volume of information.

 

“It is the SIM card that basically identifies users of applications like WhatsApp. It, therefore, means that as long as a number has already been registered with a particular WhatsApp account, it matters less if such a user leaves the country.

 

 “There are cases where a WhatsApp application can still be used even though the registered SIM card is not inserted in the phone. The chatting app used in the analysed device was WhatsApp.

 

"A total of 977 Short Message Service (SMS) and 1433 chat messages were discovered.

 

“We also discovered seven pending status update messages. On November 26, 2018, there was an outgoing message registered about 3.32 pm, with a credit card number 5264711020433662.

 

“This message was sent to one Yadd. On December 11, 2018, there was an incoming message to the defendant’s device which read: ‘Your One Time Passcode (OTP) to verify your mobile number is 248716; wasn’t you, please call us on 63450808500.’”

 

According to him, another message was sent at 5.06 pm by one Hiya Bayi to a recipient with the name Raze on the same say.

 

The content of the message, he told the court, was another credit card number 42658840359132.

 

“The number of the sender is +447426343432, while that of the receiver is +447365280441.

“The incoming message reflected at 6.18 pm showed ‘Not recognized’.

 

“Other messages received on the same date include: ‘due to try in 20 minutes,’” he added.

 

The prosecution witness, while giving further evidence, told the court that there was an incoming message which read: “Tried and it was unsuccessful; sure you are not rinsing it out then giving it to me to try.”

This was said to have been received on December 12, 2018, at 10.16 pm.

 

The second prosecution witness also revealed several credit card numbers sent on different dates and times as well as OTP codes sent found in the defendant’s phone.

 

All the analysed texts were fully contained in a Compact Disc (CD), the prosecution counsel told the court. He noted that the prosecution had only printed out those portions it considered material to its case.

 

However, he asked both the court and the defence counsel, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, if the prosecution could bring a projector to play the CD in the open court or not, which was granted by Justice Oweibo.

 

The matter was adjourned to October 27, 2021, for the prosecution to play the CD on a projector, as Ojo did not raise any objection to the request by the prosecution.

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