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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.  

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 …

Crisis at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, has reached a new height with unrestrained resignations of nurses, doctors, consultants, pharmacists and other categories of health workers. At a press conference held in Ogbomoso on Thursday, Chairman of the Medical and Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria, LAUTECHTH branch, Dr. …

Since almost half of the body is made up of water, drinking several cups every day is one of the simplest ways to better your health and lifestyle. Notwithstanding, what you may not be aware of is that there is an easier way to enjoy the amazing benefits of water …

Ogun State is no pushover among states in Nigeria that have produced great minds in education. Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka remains one of her living legends. However, the standard of education in the state in recent years has nosedived owing to social decadence among youths, corruption, and compromise of …

The House of Representative was, Thursday, thrown into a rowdy session after members, particularly those outside the South-East region, disagreed on a bill seeking to establish the South-East Development Commission over its timing, leading to it being stepped down. The lawmakers who disagreed argued that much consultations were not carried …

  The Anglican Church has pitched its tenth behind Sovereign national Conference, saying it is an answer to the nation’s myriad socio-political and economic upheavals. The church said if the federal Government is free to convoke another conference if it is not comfortable with the recommendation made by the National …

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 …

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour …