Hours after Donald Trump threatened “fire and fury’’, North Korea warned it is considering a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam. U.S Donald Trump had warned the regime that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”. The threat, carried by the state-run KCNA news agency, marked…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that its operatives discovered boxes of gold, silver and diamond jewellery from the Abuja residences of former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The anti-graft agency, in an article written by its staff, Tony Orilade and Aisha Gambari also said that the EFCC also traced N47.2Billion and…
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Three men, accused of cyber crime and theft of N9.2million, property of Lagos State House House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, have been sent to Ikoyi Prison by a Federal High Court in Lagos, after they were docked on Tuesday. The men, Frank Nwokobia, 27, Ezeoke Kanayochukwu, 25, and Godwin Essien, 28, were charged by…
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No fewer than 13 people were killed when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, southwestern China, authorities said today. But the toll was expected to climb as news trickles out of the remote mountainous region. Aftershocks shuddered across the quake-prone province of Sichuan, adding to the anxiety of victims, with the most powerful reaching a magnitude…
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A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos on Monday ordered permanent forfeiture to the Federal Government of a $37.5m skyscrapper on the highbrow Banana Island, Lagos, belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Presiding Judge (Professor) Chuka Obiozor, also ordered that the sums of $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70 realised as rents on…
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President Muhammadu Buhari and other Nigerian leaders have condemned the Ozubulu Church’s attack in which lives were lost and many injured. A gunman was reported by the police to have killed the worshippers early on Sunday at the St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area. Buhari described the incident as “an appalling crime…
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The police in Anambra state on Sunday confirmed that only one gunman killed eight worshippers and injured 18 others in an early morning attack on St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area. Earlier reports had said the killings were done by gunmen, with rumours that some Boko Haram elements carried out the attack. The…
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Chairman of Taleveras Oil, Mr Igho Sanomi Responds to News of Bribery Scandal Involving Minister of State for Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu & Brother Dumebi Kachikwu Read his statement below: “I have just read with great amazement a report in an on-line news medium claiming that I, Mr. Igho Sanomi, purportedly gave kickbacks to Mr. Ibe…
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, and his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu are embroiled in a bribery scandal that may further put to test the Buhari administration’s mouthed mantra of zero tolerance for corruption. According to a report by THEWILL, all is not well between the Kachikwu brothers and their erstwhile…
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The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has explained that the early Sunday morning shooting that left eight worshippers dead and over eighteen others wounded when a gunman opened fire on the worshippers at St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra state is an isolated case and not an invasion as claimed…
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