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The chairman of the EFCC Ola Olukoyede has said some youths who trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that they are being used to fund t£rrorism in Nigeria

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The chairman of the EFCC Ola Olukoyede has said some youths who trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that they are being used to fund t£rrorism in Nigeria

Speaking at an event on Wednesday, the EFCC chair said some of the people who receive money to trade in cryptocurrencies do not know that their financiers are sponsors of t£rrorism. He added that some of the 1,146 bank accounts recently frozen by the EFCC were conduits for t£rrorism funding

According to him, “Some of you are aware of our activities in the area of investigating virtual currency trading & the likes of cryptocurrencies. They are potential platforms to fund t£rrorism. A lot of us don’t understand that. Some of our discoveries during investigation of some of these platforms were mind boggling

We thought Binance was a major one. Yes, it was. We are prosecuting them. But there are other platforms we discovered. They used some of these young men. Some of them don’t know that the people who gave them money to trade are people who fund t£rrorism.

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41-Year-Old Woman Reportedly Commits Suicide At MFM Church Auditorium Along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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Security expert Zagazola Makama, who reported the incident on Sunday, said it occurred on Friday morning and was initially flagged by the church’s Chief Security Officer, Esiere Ekikere.

A 41-year-old woman, Benita Lurk Ikuenobe, was discovered dead in a suspected suicide inside the auditorium of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) Prayer City along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Security expert Zagazola Makama, who reported the incident on Sunday, said it occurred on Friday morning and was initially flagged by the church’s Chief Security Officer, Esiere Ekikere.

According to Ekikere, he received a distress call at approximately 7:20 a.m. alerting him to an unresponsive woman lying on the floor of the church auditorium.

Upon arriving at the scene, he found the woman motionless, with an empty bottle of a suspected poisonous substance—believed to be a popular pesticide (name withheld)—lying beside her.

According to the report, police officers visited the scene, documented it with photographs, and later transferred the body to the Real Divine Hospital morgue for autopsy.

The report also noted that efforts are underway to uncover the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Efforts by SaharaReporters to reach the state police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, for comment via her mobile phone were unsuccessful.

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Court convicts two for illegal tree felling, conspiracy in Kano

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A magistrate court in Kano has convicted two men for conspiracy and illegal tree felling, in violation of the state’s environmental laws.

The conviction was disclosed in a statement by the Kano State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

The defendants, Salihu Mukhtar and an accomplice, were sentenced on Thursday, July 17, 2025, by Justice Auwalu Yusuf of Court 2, Normasland, for cutting down a tree along Jigawa Road, Nasarawa GRA without authorization.

Prosecuting counsel, Barrister Bahijjah H. Aliyu, told the court that the defendants conspired to fell the tree illegally, breaching the Kano State Penal Code and Forestry Laws.

The court sentenced each to three months imprisonment or ₦20,000 fine for conspiracy, and six months imprisonment or ₦50,000 fine for illegal felling.

“The Ministry strongly condemns all acts of environmental vandalism, particularly illegal deforestation, which undermines the government’s efforts toward climate resilience, urban beautification, and improved air quality.” The statement partly reads.

The Commissioner for environment and climate change, Dr. Dahiru M. Hashim, reaffirmed the government’s zero-tolerance stance on deforestation. He urged the public to report environmental crimes to the appropriate channel.

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Saudi royal Prince Al Waleed dies after 19 years in coma

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Prince Al Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family often referred to as the ‘Sleeping Prince,’ has passed away nearly two decades after falling into a coma following a car crash in 2005.

A nephew of the billionaire businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the late prince had remained in an unresponsive state for 19 years, since being admitted to hospital following a car accident in 2005.

He became a quiet but enduring symbol of faith and resilience for many in the Arab world.

After he was confirmed dead on Saturday, family sources announced plans for his funeral scheduled to take place in Riyadh on Sunday.

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