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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has on Thursday arrested the former governors of Nasarawa, Ogun and Oyo states in connection with an ongoing investigation of fraud during their terms in office. The spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Femi Babafemi, said Gbenga Daniel of Ogun state, Christopher Alao-Akala of Oyo and Aliyu Doma of Nassarawa were picked over allegations ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, who is on a state visit to Ghana, on Thursday urged Ivorians in the country to return home, assuring them that security has returned and is being strengthened every day. The neighboring nation, Ghana, is hosting thousands who fled his country’s post-vote crisis. Ouattara told an audience of around 1 500 Ivorians in the Ghanian ...

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun a.k.a Wizkid, the young Nigerian musician, won the “Best African Act” award at the 2011 Music of Black Origin, MOBO, which took place Wednesday night in Glasgow, Scotland. Also, the 23-year-old Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu a.k.a. Tinie Tempah, a British rapper of Nigerian origin, was an award winner as well as he won the Best Hip Hop/Grime Act ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gbenga Ashiru, said yesterday that about 20,000 Nigerians residing in war-torn Libya refused to be evacuated from the country despite the federal government’s elaborate efforts to evacuate them. He made this known while speaking before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, which is investigating the reports of alleged killing of Nigerians by forces ...

The Apple I (1976): Only around 200 Apple I computers were produced; all were hand-built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs handled the distribution and marketing of the Apple I, devising a clever advertising tagline: “Byte into an Apple.” Photo Via Ed Uthman Apple II (1977): Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was designed for mass-production and broad consumer ...