The British police on Thursday said that they had arrested a 51-year-old woman in London on suspicion of torture during the civil war in Liberia over 25 years ago. The police said the woman was arrested in the east of the capital and searches were being carried out at two …
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An investigative officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Usman Zikari, has revealed to the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos how former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke shared $115 million with politicians and influential figures across Nigeria, including former Minister for National Planning Abubakar Suleiman. Mr. Zikari, …
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An audio tape obtained by Saharareporters has revealed how Nigerian Senator Dino Melaye compromised Justice Akon Ikpeme, the tribunal judge who handled his election case in 2015. In the tape, which captures a telephone conversation between Justice (Mrs) Akoh and Mr. Melaye, the judge is overheard asking Mr. Melaye to …
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Nigerian Navy The Nigerian Navy says it is investigating the cause of Tuesday’s deadly clash between its personnel and police in Calabar, Cross River State. Naval personnel attacked and killed at least three police officers and set a police station alight in Calabar after a brawl between a naval officer …
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The Archbishop of Bafia, Cameroon, Mgr Jean Marie Benoît Balla has reportedly taken his own life by jumping into the Sanaga River around the Ebebda Bridge in Cameroon. The Catholic community launched a search for the clergyman after his Land Cruiser SUV with registration plate number CE 9503V was found …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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