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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has on Friday arrested the speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for allegedly embezzling the sum of N7billion (about 47million USD). Ikuforiji was picked up by the operatives of the anti-graft agency and taken to the commission’s headquarters office, Abuja. The operatives of the commission have been on his ...

A Malaysian journalist has been shot dead in the Somali capital. Report says Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 41, was killed in Mogadishu on Friday as he accompanied the aid agency Putera 1Malaysia Club on a humanitarian mission. A Somali official said Nor was shot as he was traveling in a car near a busy junction known as Kilometer Four and African ...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to China, Aminu Wali said over 400 Nigerians are languishing in Chinese jails and one of them was executed by lethal injection last month. Wali told a group of Nigerian journalists in Beijing on Thursday that most of the convicts were tried for offenses relating to hard drug. He added that another Nigerian recently had his death sentence ...

Four highways robbers, who have been terrorizing traders on the Enchi-Kumasi highways in the Western Region, were on Friday sentenced to a total of 280 years imprisonment with hard labor. The Takoradi Circuit court sentenced each convict to 70 years imprisonment which would run concurrently. The names of the robbers are Philip Buabeng (alias Allo), Kwasi Amoh (alias Bontia), Shaibu ...

There was panic at the Lagos State Government Secretariat complex, on Thursday, following the rumor that the state might be the next prime target of bomb blast by the Boko Haram sect. Report says the state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola had quickly responded to the situation by ordering the closure of prominent entrances into the secretariat, including that of ...