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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have re-arrested a former Assistant Director in the Federal Civil Service,  John Yakubu Yusuf,  who has been on the run since 2018 after the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, sentenced him to six years imprisonment and a fine of N22.9billion,  for conniving with five other suspects to  steal N32.8billion Police Pension Fund.  Based on his re-arrest, Justice Baba Yusuf of the FCT High Court on Monday, June 22, 2020, issued  a remand order that will enable  him  serve his six years jail term in Kuje Correctional Service,  Abuja. Yusuf  is one of the six federal civil servants facing prosecution for allegedly stealing N32.8billion Police Pension Fund.  He was initially convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment with an option of fine  of N750, 000 (Seven Hundred Thousand Naira only)  by a Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Abubakar Talba, in a plea-bargain arrangement.    The conviction,  co

ABUJA The number of coronavirus cases in Nigeria is nearing 21,000 with 675 new patients, the country’s health authorities said Tuesday.  The number of COVID-19 cases has reached 20,919, while seven more people have died from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death total to 525, Chikwe Ihekweazu, director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, told a news conference. The number of recoveries has reached 7,109, Ihekweazu said, adding the virus has spread to all 36 states of the country. After emerging last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US. There are more than 9 million confirmed infections globally, including over 471,700 deaths and 4.51 million recoveries.