@VarisTheTrader I just got to contact you this week, my question is, are you sure that those market makers will not come into you community to distort the logarithms and we start seeing price doing something else?
@nentawe1 Good day Chairman,What will be the mode of accreditation for party members and what card number will be use, is it the new e registration temporary membership card number or the old one, which membership card number will we use in filling our forms. Thank you so much
@OfficialAPCNg What will be the mode of accreditation and what will be use, is it the new e registration temporary membership card number or the old one, which membership card number will we use in filling our forms
@OfficialAPCNg The APC supposed to have created a new office in the Exco at all levels to handle e-registration because it supposed to be a unit of it own now that electoral act has recognized submission of e-register to ONEC
@nentawe1 Chairman Sir, The APC Celebrate new coming members, what about us that went everywhere in 2023, just to make sure that President Tinubu wins elections, even it was glaring clear that the cabal then at Aso Rock didn't want him, what has Party done for us.
EFCC Arraigns Forex Broker for Alleged N2 Billion Investment Scam in Uyo
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, July 19, 2024 arraigned one Rufus John Isip, a self-acclaimed forex broker before Justice C. S. Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
Isip was arraigned alongside his company, ITM-IT Resources Limited on an eight-count charge bordering on fraudulent conversion, money laundering and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N2,022,081,172 (Two Billion, Twenty-two Million, Eighty-One Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-two Naira).
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Rufus John Isip while being the Director of ITM-IT Resources Limited and ITM-IT Resources Limited sometime in December 2020 and May 2021 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of (N431,331,172.00) Four Hundred and Thirty-one Million, Three Hundred and Thirty-one Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-two kobo from one Michael Okon, the Director of N-Rex Resources Limited under the false pretence that it is an investment in Vandera, an online investment platform, on his behalf, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act”.
Count eight of the charge reads: “That you, Rufus John Isip while being the Director of ITM-IT Resources Limited and ITM-IT Resources Limited sometime between December 2020 and May 2021 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, converted the total sum of (N730,870,000.00) Seven Hundred and Thirty Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira to crypto currency (Bitcoin) and transferred same into your Binance Wallet knowing that the said money formed part of your unlawful act and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2011 and punishable under Section 15 (3) (4) of the same Act”.
He pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.
In view of his plea, Khamis Mahmud, counsel to the EFCC prayed the court to remand him in EFCC custody on the grounds that “we are still investigating him on other cases”.
The defence counsel, Samson Ewuje however, did not pose any objection.
Justice Onah adjourned the matter to October 14, 2024 for trial and the defendant was remanded at the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the EFCC.
Isip was arrested based on a petition from one Michael George, alleging that he lured him to invest in his online trading platform called https://t.co/Qh6NbN0Fw4. According to the petitioner, the defendant told him that it was more profitable to trade on his platform with a minimum trading capital of $100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) and that he would earn more profit if he involved more investors.
The petitioner thereafter invested, reached out to other investors and companies who also invested in the defendant’s phony online trading platform and after 60 days (as agreed) for the investors to start earning their profits, the defendant disappeared into thin air.
EFCC PRESS STATEMENT
EFCC WARNS PROMOTERS OF PLANNED PROTEST
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to alert the general public on the plan by a shadowy group to instigate a “protest” against the Commission.
In the last couple of days, the group has been actively campaigning in the social media, recruiting impressionable young Nigerians, including students to take up “arms” against the EFCC.
This insidious campaign is being promoted as resistance to the operational activities of the Commission especially in respect of the enforcement of the laws dealing with cybercrimes.
The Commission, while not averse to protests by citizens, is alarmed by emerging evidence that suggest a grand design by corrupt elements under investigation or prosecution by the Commission to exploit the so-called protest to orchestrate a national uprising that may threaten the peace and security of our dear nation.
As a responsible law enforcement organisation, the Commission will not tolerate any breakdown of law and order anywhere in the country especially around its office locations across Nigeria.
EFCC, working in concert with sister security agencies, is therefore taking necessary measures to deal with possible threats to the peace and security of Nigeria.
The Commission, however, appeals to parents, guardians and heads of tertiary institutions to take responsibility in ensuring that their wards are not recruited to be used as cannon fodder in a proxy war against the Commission by vested corrupt interests.
The war being waged by the Commission against corruption and cybercrime is to protect the future of the youth of this country. That future is imperiled if Nigeria degenerates further in global reckoning as a den of fraudsters.
Dele Oyewale
Head, Media & Publicity
July 3, 2024