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The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) says an estimated 50 billion dollars leaves the shore of the continent illicitly mostly to the Western countries, every year. Mr Adeyinka Adeyemi, a senior adviser at ECA, said in New York that illicit financial flow had serious negative development impacts on the …

A notorious gang known as Badoo has reportedly wiped out a family of five in Ikorodu, including a pregnant woman. The gang has been terrorising residents of Ikorodu and environs with many people killed.  

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja today granted embattled Ajumogobia and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Godwin Obla leave to travel to US for urgent medical treatment. Counsel to Ajumogobia , Mr Olawale Akoni SAN pleaded the court to grant his client leave to travel …

A woman kept her dead mother hidden in a freezer for 10 years so she could continue to claim an old age pension equivalent to £1,700 a month, prosecutors revealed today. The 90-year-old woman’s corpse was found after detectives started investigating the alleged social security fraudster, who is 55 and cannot …

An agent of NairaBet, a sports betting platform, has ended his life over his inability to pay a customer who allegedly won a N600,000 bet. PUNCH Metro learnt that residents of Obadeyi Ajala woke up on Wednesday to find the deceased dangling from a rope in an uncompleted shop at …

Over 400 persons were on Wednesday arrested by the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service for alleged illegal entry into the country. The suspects were said to have been arrested during a mop-up exercise which started at about 4am on Wednesday across the 18 local government areas of …

Graphic photos of a newborn lying dead in a toilet at a female hostel has joined the numerous such photos that urge people to wonder how callous mankind  can be. According to Supreme Peter who published the photos, the lifeless newborn was found in the female toilet of the Murtala …

A Texas principal stepped outside of a meeting Tuesday afternoon and shot himself to death, officials said. Kirbyville High School Principal Dennis Reeves, 45, met with administrators Tuesday afternoon to submit his resignation from the position, according to news station KTRE. After the meeting, Reeves reportedly walked to his pickup …

The Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, ordered that Mr. George Turnah, a godson to former President Goodluck Jonathan, be remanded in prison custody, following a dismissal of an oral bail application made by his lawyer. Mr. Turnah, a Special Adviser to Mr. Dan Abia, former Managing Director …

Britain Thursday closed in on a jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester concert attack, as grief mixed with anger at the US over leaked material from the probe. The shellshocked country came to a halt for a poignant minute’s silence at 11:00 am local time (1000 GMT) to …