Traffickers are increasingly swallowing condoms filled with liquid cocaine to cheat traditional detection methods, Interpol said Tuesday as it pointed to West African and Asian gangs driving the Asia-Pacific narcotics trade. Interpol’s Singapore office, which said methamphetamine remains the region’s most trafficked substance, highlighted the rising trend in a report on an international anti-drug operation […]
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Nigerian couple in America has sextuplets (three boys and three girls) after 17-year childlessness (Video)
A Nigerian couple who tried for nearly two decades to conceive has welcomed a set of sextuplets in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. Mr. Adeboye Taiwo and his wife, Ajibola, tried for 17 years to have children. In January, they learned they were expecting six babies. “I was excited,” said Adeboye. “For the very first […]
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Aje ku iya ni oje: 11 days after launch, Dino Melaye’s book not in bookstores
Dino Melaye’s book, ‘Antidote for Corruption,’ is yet to grace the shelves of any bookstore, 11 days after its introduction to the public on May 15. At the launch, the author had announced that the book, whose cover price is N50,000, would be available in Abuja bookstores that same week. However, a report by online medium, […]
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Anointing service drama: Ambode sacks chaplain 24 hours after Sunday service …priest, family thrown out of residence for ‘disrespecting’ gov’s wife
There is anger at the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, Lagos State, after the Presiding Chaplain, Venerable Femi Taiwo, was sacked by the Governing Council allegedly on the order of the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. Punch gathered that Taiwo got the sack on Monday, May 15, without any query or official reason stated in […]
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In conflicting ruling, Abuja Court blocks Ifeanyi Ubah’s release
An FCT High Court, Jabi on Thursday rejected the application of Ifeanyi Ubah, the chairman of Capital Oil to secure freedom from the custody of the State Security Service, SSS. The ruling came after another court in Lagos said Mr. Ubah be released if he is not charged within 48 hours. Mr. Ubah was arrested […]
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‘Igbo have invested more in Nigeria than Hausa, Yoruba’
Eminent businessman and politician, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Wednesday said that the Igbo do not want to secede from Nigeria. Speaking as a special guest of honour at a National Unity summit organised by Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria in partnership with Youth Assembly of Nigeria, Iwuanyanwu said that the people of the South East zone […]
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Supreme Court confirms Lionel Messi fraud sentence
Spain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed a 21-month jail sentence and 2.09-million-euro ($2.25 million) fine imposed on Lionel Messi for tax fraud, months after the Barcelona football star lodged an appeal. The Argentina international and his father Jorge Horacio Messi were in July 2016 found guilty of using companies in Belize, Britain, Switzerland and Uruguay […]
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Photos of seized pump action rifles imported from Turkey
The Nigeria customs service (NCS) intercepted a container-load of arms and ammunition at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos state on Monday. The service later issued a statement, saying 440 pump action rifles were found in the container imported from Turkey.was said to be found at a terminal in the port. Here are some […]
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Ifeanyi Ubah’s offence is punishable by death – DSS
The Department of State Services has accused businessman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, of diverting about 80 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (commonly called petrol), kept in his custody by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The agency stated that Ubah shunned NNPC’s repeated demands for the product […]
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“Chibok girls were never kidnapped… they were used to destroy Jonathan’s image”
The Labour Party (LP) has said the Chibok girls were not kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents but were used to dent the image of former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The party said the wrath of God will be visited on the All Progressives Congress (APC) for manipulating Nigerians about their abduction. In a statement, Abdulkadir Abdulsalami, […]
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CBN injects $205m as Naira falls at the parallel market
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday injected $205 million into the foreign exchange market even as the naira depreciated to N379 per dollar in the parallel market. The naira depreciated by N4 against the dollar in the parallel market yesterday. Vanguard survey revealed that the parallel market exchange rate rose to N379 per dollar […]
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“Is it not ironic that Buhari’s govt which staged a coup against Shagari is warning against a coup”
Reno Omokri shared on his Facebook page…
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Terrorists do not worship God, they worship death – Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that it was imperative for young Muslim boys and girls to know that terrorists were not worshipping God, but worshipping death. Trump, who made the appeal at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Saudi Arabia, enjoined young Muslims to grow up free from fear, safe from violence, and innocent of hatred. […]
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U.S. govt. immortalises late Nigerian student
The United States embassy in Nigeria has instituted a $20,000 grant in memory of Usman John-Paul, a final-year student of the University of Ilorin who died during a visit to the U.S. Mr. John-Paul drowned in a water fall on June 25, 2016 while on Mandela Washington Fellowship in the United States. The U.S embassy […]
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Ifeanyi Ubah committed economic sabotage, NNPC says
The Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah, is in the custody of the State Security Service because he committed economic sabotage by diverting petroleum products stored in his tank farm, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said. Kabiru Turaki, counsel to the NNPC, told a Lagos Division of the Federal High […]
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Mother successfully donates womb to her daughter in India’s first womb transfer
A 43-year-old mother has successfully donated her womb to her 21-year-old daughter, who was born without a uterus, with the hopes that her child can experience childbirth. The surgery was the first of its kind in India and was performed by a team of doctors at Pune’s Galaxy Care Hospital in the city of Pune […]
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