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Suspected armed robbers on Wednesday raided one of the car parks at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. They shot sporadically as they carted away more than $600,000 (about N96 million) from the Bureau de Change operators. According to a source, the suspects gained access into the car park of the international wing and opened fire to scare ...

Men who have failed to formalize their relationships with their companions could soon see their properties shared with such women even if they failed to perform the necessary marriage rites. Currently, two new bills before Parliament, Property Rites of Spouses Bill and Intestate Succession Bill, aim to ensure that men and women who may have acquired property in the course ...

The chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, shocked officials of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Thursday with the revelation of how the pension reform task team caught a high ranking civil servant in the pension unit at the office of the Head of Service with of N2 billion stashed in his private residence. ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said the Federal Government was willing to give licences to those interested in setting up refineries in the country, as part of the overall efforts by government to raise the nation’s petroleum refining capacity and reduce the importation of refined products. The President said this while speaking to a delegation of Brazilian investors, led by ...

Zambian corruption investigators on Friday arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president Rupiah Banda’s wife in another probe, an official said. The “investigative wings”, a graft-busting unit set up by Banda’s successor, Michael Sata, said Banda’s mines minister Maxwell Mwale had been arrested and charged over the theft of 20 bicycles belonging to small-scale ...