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The Lagos State House of Assembly has listed five ‘sins’ allegedly committed by a former governor of the state, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. The ‘sins’ include alleged unauthorised discounting of promissory note and purchase of 820 buses without due authorisation. The Assembly, therefore, asked the former governor to appear before it by 1pm on Wednesday. Ambode […]

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has asked all of his ministers to resign so he may reshuffle his Cabinet. Piñera made the announcement in a televised address Saturday, saying that a new cabinet is needed to move forward after days of protests roiled the country. Piñera also proposed lifting on Sunday the state of emergency he declared October […]

Hong Kong is a global financial capital, a haven for foodies, and also a place where it can be more expensive to keep a car than to own a home. On October 24, businessman Johnny Cheung reportedly sold a 135-square-foot parking space for a whopping $969,000 to an as-yet-undentified buyer, according to the South China […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday begged Nigerians to bear with the government over the closure of the border with neighbouring countries. Osinbajo speaking at the town hall meeting which coincides with the National Festival of Arts and Culture, NAFEST in Edo State, said the border closure is in the interest of the country and […]

Philadelphia police say it’s “miraculous” that a man shot 16 times was able to walk into the hospital two miles away. Early Friday morning, the 27-year-old was wounded in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. Police say it’s unclear why he was shot so many times. They haven’t been able to interview him yet. Investigators found large caliber […]

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has advised the Federal Government to end the closure of the land borders into the country. He said it would be in the national interest for the government to call off the border closure. Rather than continue to close the land borders, Falana advised […]

Nigerian banks have denied asking MTN to impose a new charge on customers for using the telecom firm’s access codes to conduct financial transactions. MTN on Sunday announced a N4 charge for every 20 seconds of using USSD bank codes, claiming it took the decision as requested by the banks. “Yello, as requested by your […]

A German court on Thursday sentenced an 80-year-old man to seven-year imprisonment for a series of bank robberies over a decade. The bank staff targeted by the man had endured considerable psychological suffering, presiding Judge, Hannes Breucker, said in Hechingen, south-west Germany. The man admitted to targeting a number of banks over the years between […]

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a supervisor at Chrisland School, VGC, Lagos, Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, to 60 years imprisonment for child defilement. Justice Sybil Nwaka handed down the sentence after convicting Adenekan of a lone count charge of defiling a two-year and 11-month-old pupil. The little child had given a […]

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Wednesday warned that if preventive measures were not taken, the prediction on the disintegration of Nigeria will come to pass. Jega gave the warning on Wednesday in Abuja in a keynote address he delivered at a conference on ‘20 Years of Democracy’, organised […]

Three Nigerians have been injured in fresh xenophobic attacks in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, Punch has learnt. This comes less than a week after a Nigerian, Ikenna Otugo, was reportedly stabbed to death by unknown assailants in Empageni, South Africa. The President of the Nigerian Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, confirmed the attacks in an interview […]

Seven operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been arrested in connection with a plot to smuggle former Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) chairman AbdulRasheed Maina out of the anti-graft agency’s custody. They are undergoing investigation along with a woman, Zainab Abbas, to determine their involvement in the plot. Maina is being […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos office, has arrested a renowned social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, for an alleged involvement in internet-related fraud and money laundering. EFCC made this known in a series of tweets via its verified Twitter handle @officialEFCC on Tuesday. EFCC in the tweets alleges, “The suspect, […]

The Permanent Secretary, State House, Jalal Arabi, says some of the vehicles used for daily operations in the State House were purchased in 1999. A statement by Attah Esa, the Deputy Director (Information), State House, said Mr Arabi disclosed this when he led his management team to the National Assembly for the defence of the […]

Ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki has responded to a court judgment ordering the forfeiture of two of his houses in Ikoyi, Lagos State. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission secured the judgment against Saraki on Monday. However, taking to his verified Twitter handle @bukolasaraki later on Monday, the ex-Kwara State governor noted: “My attention has been […]