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Ecomium As Dr. Vanessa Idada Adds Another Year In Style
Ecomium As Dr. Vanessa Idada Adds Another Year In Style
Sahara Weekly Reports That Encomium is pouring in for Vanessa Nosakhare Idada in recognition of her many years of humanitarian service, leadership, and enthusiastic contribution of her resources to charitable ventures, Vanessa Nosakhare Idada, founder of Vankol Homes and Support Services is so deserving of all the accolades in the world. Idada who is also the brain behind Safe Haven foundation, a non-profit charity organization has played a key role in the advancement of humanity. She has continued to shine her light on humanity.
Idada has also been a tremendous asset to the philanthropy world. Through her Vankol Homes and Support Services, Idada has restored hope to humanity through her many acts of kindness. She is synonymous with kindness. A humanitarian of note who never hesitates to lend a helping hand, Idada is always looking for new ways to uplift the poor and helpless. Through Idada’s hundreds have been empowered to live in a decent life. With a handful of people in the United Kingdom, UK, courtesy of Idada’s Vankol Homes’ generosity.
And epitome of beauty and brains, Idada boasts an enviable educational credentials. Idada earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSc) in July 2003. She later bagged a Bachelors of Law Degree, L.L.B (Jon’s) from the University of East London in 2010. She stepped up her educational qualifications with a Masters Degree in International Law and World Economy (L.L.M) from the University of East London. She became a Barrister at Law (BL) in June 2019 after the successful completion of her programme at the Nigerian Law School in Abuja. A first class brain, Idada covered herself in glory during her stint at Sowers and King Legal Practice where she held the position of Associate Counsel/Due Diligence. Idada represented clients in litigation and drafted legal documents. She was also saddled with the responsibility of reviewing contract documents attending legal conferences and recording proceedings and so on. She also worked directly with attorney to track and follow up on projects, prepared confidential and complex documents and handled data entry. She carried out her duties credibly at Sowers and King Legal Practice.
At Almond Media London, Idada brought her spirit of excellence to bear in her role as Project Manager/Business Analyst between November 2017 to March 2019. She exceeded stakeholders’ expectations by designing innovative strategies and plans. She was also in the thick of action where she conducted needs and risks assessment to identify support that needed to promote independence. She also developed and executed appropriate communications plans for employee communication, engagement team, and external communications teams. Idada built a solid relationship with clients internal teams to examine client’s business requirements and processes. She also developed easy-to-understand data and process models for attaining client’s business requirements. In her current role as Case Manager/Personal Advisor at Kent County Council, Kent, Idada has continued her giant strides. She is saddled with the responsibility to deliver pro-active support to the children that are taken into care and reached the age of 18 to increase abilities regarding employment, education, training, and apprenticeship. Her job include executing overall functions of legal status hearing to facilitate the young persons to attend Tribunals, and participate in the appeal process, by ensuring that information is sufficiently gathered and working closely with the Barristers representing the case for a desirable outcome of the matter. Her highlight include established pathway plan in accordance with Care Leavers Act 2000 Legislation ss. 19 – 24 to identify interim goals and longer-term future needs of the young people while realizing the ambitions. Idada’s accomplishments amongst others include providing solid reasons behind high-cost placement of young person needs by plotting detailed research, for instance, accommodation needs costing the Local Authority more than 100,000 pounds per annum. Idada also played a key role at Hestia Housing Project London, a mental health services as Project Manager between 2010 to 2013. Her contributions include assessed client mental health issues by conducting general assessment and risk assessment of clients. Her role also include minimizing the risks by identifying and drawing risk assessment support plan and so much more.
No doubt, Idada has carved an enviable niche for herself both in her calling and philanthropy. A thoroughbred professional, Idada is a team player with strong reputation for excellence, integrity, dependability and the rare gift to multi-task under intense pressure. Her foray include expertise in building and managing teams internationally including the transformation of the roles and responsibilities keen in understanding of business priorities. Idada’s skills set include strategic planning and monitoring, business intelligence and development, project management, sales planning and marketing, strategic planning and forecasting, budget planning and monitoring and configuration management and risk management, data model diagrams, work flow diagrams and agile methodologies.
More than ₦3 billion was targeted, but about ₦677 million reached the culprits, with recovery and prosecutions underway, reflecting how banks are responding to more sophisticated fraud risks.
Nigeria’s expanding digital banking sector is facing increasingly sophisticated fraud attempts, as financial institutions adapt to faster transactions and broader online services.
A recent case involving First City Monument Bank (FCMB), linked to fraudulent activity detected in December 2025, has drawn attention to how banks are responding to such incidents, with a focus on limiting exposure, recovering funds and working with law enforcement.
According to findings referenced in proceedings before the Lagos State Special Offences Court, the incident involved unauthorised transactions tied to a digital product. Early reports erroneously suggested more than ₦3 billion was lost. Subsequent clarification shows that over ₦3 billion was targeted, ₦2.4 billion was blocked and recovered, while ₦677 million got into the possession of the culprits. This outcome reflects the bank’s cyber security and monitoring capabilities, as well as improved collaboration among regulated financial institutions and with law enforcement agencies. Several suspects and beneficiaries have been apprehended, while recovery and prosecution efforts are ongoing, led by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Proceedings at the Lagos State Special Offences Court have resulted in convictions, including that of a repeat offender, with restitution orders issued. Related matters are also being handled at the Federal High Court in Lagos, where additional suspects are being tried in connection with the scheme. This process is aimed at ensuring that bad actors are identified and permanently blacklisted from the financial system.
Authorities say recovery efforts are continuing as additional funds are traced.
Analysts note that the pace of legal action reflects closer coordination between financial institutions and enforcement agencies in addressing cyber-related financial crime.
The case comes as banks contend with more complex fraud methods, including social engineering and automated exploitation of system processes.
As digital products and platforms expand, so too does the risk associated with cyber-crime and related fraud.
“The scale of digital banking means risks are evolving alongside the systems,” said a Lagos-based financial analyst. “Institutions are now judged by how they manage these events.”
Observers say the sector is moving toward a stronger focus on response and recovery, rather than prevention alone.
This includes improving monitoring capabilities, strengthening transaction controls and enhancing collaboration with regulators and law enforcement. The FCMB case, with limited exposure relative to the amount targeted and ongoing recovery, reflects that shift.
For customers, the primary concern is the safety of their funds. In this case, there has been no indication of losses affecting customer deposits. Maintaining that level of protection remains central to sustaining trust in the financial system.
Nigeria’s financial sector continues to grow, supported by digital innovation and expanding access to banking services.
However, analysts say fraud attempts are likely to persist as systems become more complex and interconnected.
They say institutions will increasingly be judged not only on their ability to prevent incidents, but on how effectively they respond and recover when they occur.
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Ex-APC Deputy Guber flag bearer, Joshua MacIver backs Tinubu, express fears over implosion in Bayelsa APC
….congratulates new State Party Chairman, Warman Ogoriba
APC Deputy Governorship Candidate in the 2023 general elections in Bayelsa State, Great Joshua MacIver has declared his total commitment to the re-election of President Bola Tinubu come 2027, declaring that the Tinubu re-election project is non-negotiable.
Great Joshua MacIver, in his statement titled ” BAYELSA APC CONGRESSES: GOING FORWARD, A CALL TO LOOK INWARDS” and made available to newsmen in Yenagoa, warned APC leaders in the state to look Inward and take note of certain factors which may hinder or cut short our victory.
According to Great Joshua MacIver, such noticeable pitfalls include the imbalance in the united front being put up by the State Governor,Senator Douye Diri among various political blocs in the state.
In the statement issued at the weekend. Great Joshua MacIver stated that “First, before His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri, joined the APC in the state, there were clearly two political blocs that made up the party, with the approximate population ratios of the blocs standing at 95% to 5%.”
“After the entrance of His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri, ONLY THE SMALLER BLOC IS BEING CARRIED ALONG IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE PARTY, leaving the greater percentage to their fate, and this situation has the potential to build anger and dissatisfaction in our dear party.”
” The consequence of this has been the high level defection we have witnessed in the party recently and we believe more may likely follow, if we do not put our house in order.”
” If we do not pull together as a party, we may witness a situation where we will lose key stakeholders, especially after the State and National Assembly Primaries as well the Gubernatorial Primaries.”
“Finally, while it is very clear that we are the party to beat in the 2027 elections and that our loyalty to Mr. President IS NON-NEGOTIABLE, we must make haste to say that we cannot afford to create situations or loopholes in our unity which will be exploited by other political interests in the state. We cannot afford to under-rate anyone.”
“Our core interest remains the re-election of Mr. President, a project to which we have committed our all. We also pledge our total loyalty to the party as we have no alternative to the APC. However, our concern is that we must, as a party, look inwards and ensure that we do not create loopholes that can impede our common goal.”
Great Joshua MacIver, however congratulated the newly elected State Executives of the APC in Bayelsà State led by Hon. Warman Ogoriba, saying their emergence is welcomed at this critical time in our national history.
At least 23 people were killed in a series of suspected suicide bombings, police in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri said on Tuesday.
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More than 100 other people were injured in the blasts that took place on Monday evening in the capital of Nigeria’s restive Borno state.
No group has claimed responsibility for the suspected attacks.
The deadly blasts come after a military post was attacked overnight Sunday to Monday, which authorities blamed on suspected Islamist militants.
This sad incident is coming barely two weeks after Primate Elijah Ayodele, the Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church specifically warned against attacks in some states. He mentioned these states while calling on security operatives to pay close attention to them.
These were his words:
“Another attack is coming up in these following states where the military must watch carefully and intelligently; Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kebbi, Niger, Borno, Kwara and Kogi state. They want to do a deadly attack, it’s preventable but it depends on how they will handle it. I have told you about the danger coming up.”
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Unfortunately, some of our military agencies don’t believe spiritual intelligence can save the country from so much danger hence, their neglect of this prophetic warning but now, it has been fulfilled with the miliary losing credibility by the day while Primate Ayodele continues to gain momentum.
Likewise, At least 26 passengers and crew sustained varying degrees of injuries on Monday following an accident involving the Kaduna–Abuja train, according to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).
Opeifa explained that the train departed Rigasa in Kaduna at 7:15 a.m. and was approaching Asham station around 9:16 a.m. when a loud bang was heard after the power car and trailing locomotive collided with one of the passenger coaches.
In July 2025, Primate Ayodele asked nigerians to pray not to see train mishap on the Kaduna-Abuja route.
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“Let’s pray not to see train mishap in Abuja-Kaduna, Kaduna-Abuja route.”
This has also been fulfilled.
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