In what has come as completely left field, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has asked banks and other financial institutions to close the accounts of cryptocurrency exchanges. Details of the new regulation are contained in a CBN circular (PDF) which is now making the rounds. The new regulations mean that you will not be…...
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Published February 6, 2021 5:28pm By JAMIL SANTOS, GMA News The Philippine National Police said on Saturday that it respected the Mandaluyong Regional Trial Court's dismissal of the illegal possession of firearms and explosives charges filed against journalist Lady Ann Salem and her co-accused Rodrigo Esparago. Nevertheless, the PNP would continue looking for evidence that…...
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PETALING JAYA: A total of 643 individuals were arrested yesterday for violating the movement control order (MCO). “A total of 20 individuals were remanded while the remaining 623 were issued compounds,” Senior Minister (Defence ) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yakoob said. The offences committed were not wearing face masks (144), ignoring social distancing (133), failing…...
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Legal practitioner, Tommy Ojoge-Daniel, has said the recent warning issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria to financial institutions and others against doing businesses in crypto and other digital assets, cannot stop the fundraiser set up for Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho).Ojoge-Daniel, disclosed this in an interview with the PUNCH on Friday shortly after the…...
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A former Pastor with the Omega Fire Ministries, Mike Davids, has released an audio clip in which the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, is heard threatening that the pastor “will die prematurely.”According to Punch, the audio clip was said to have been recorded during a phone conversation between Apostle Suleman and Davids…...
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Life in an Irish prison has become very difficult for Romanian man Albert Gimy Linul. It is hard enough for anyone to serve a prison sentence in a foreign country. It is now even tougher in this time of Covid. But what's most difficult of all for the 29-year-old inmate is that he has been told he is in danger. Albert Gimy Linul received a threat in prison last Monday and is taking it so seriously that he…...
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Crypto currency investments are high risk, SA financial authority warns, as it prepares to regulate the sector.Image: 123RF/sashkin7The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) is assessing how to regulate crypto asset investments, warning SA consumers of both high risks and scamsters in this space. The authority said it is receiving a large number of complaints from local…...
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Sacramento, Calif. Unemployment agencies across the United States were bombarded with so many claims during the pandemic that many struggled to distinguish the correct from the criminal.Now, simple tax forms – barely enough to fill a half-sheet of paper – are revealing the extent of the identity theft that made state-run unemployment offices lucrative targets…...
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Officials and experts are warning against sharing COVID-19 vaccination cards on social media, saying it may lead to identity theft. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said Wednesday that doing so gives scammers the opportunity to steal identities or hack financial accounts, because of the information it contains. “It’s exciting to see so many people eager…...
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