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Maid who stole N1.6m six hours after employment arrested

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, August 25th, 2019

Afeez Hanafi A 26-year-old housemaid, Franker Amaha, has stunned her boss after she fled with foreign currencies estimated at N1.6m six hours into her employment. The woman identified simply as Mrs Taiye of Masha area, Surulere, Lagos State, had engaged Amaha, whom she knew as Esther, on July 25, 2019 through an agent in Ikorodu. […]

Names of 78 Nigerians arrested by FBI over romance scam

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, August 25th, 2019

merican agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has revealed the names and aliases of 78 Nigerian-born fraudsters who were arrested during a bust of an 80-man Internet crime syndicate across the United States. See the names, as published by the American domestic intelligence and security service. 1. Valentine Iro (aka Iro Enterprises; aka Valentine Obinna […]

Social media reacts as Tribunal sacks Dino Melaye

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, Legislature, Senate, State News Sunday, August 25th, 2019

By Emmanuel Okogba The never disappointing social media has joined in with memes and hilarious remarks to the news of the sacking of Dino Melaye from his position as the senator representing Kogi West. Melaye (PDP) was declared winner in the February election by INEC, but Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC) approached the tribunal, challenging INEC’s […]

REPORT: Venezuela women getting pregnant because they ‘don’t have option’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

P r Saturnina Clemente pulls up to the small clinic in the impoverished Caucaguita neighbourhood armed with one of Venezuela’s most sought-after commodities: Hormonal implants to prevent pregnancy. In a country where contraceptives are in short supply, word in the shantytown on the outskirts of Venezuela’s capital spreads quickly. The lucky get on a list […]

Nigerians can’t get US visa appointment dates despite payments

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Travel agents charge desperate applicants N100,000 Student visa application fee nowover N200,000 Samson Folarin and Tobi Aworinde Nigerians applying for visas to the United States are currently in a fix as they cannot seem to get appointment dates for interviews, The PUNCH understands. This is despite the payment of visa fees and other charges which range from […]

Soldiers attacked cops, freed me, Wadume confesses

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Army, Headlines Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Adelani Adepegba, Olaleye Aluko and Justin Tyopuusu The police have re-arrested a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team while being taken to the state police headquarters in Jalingo, Taraba State. The fugitive was apprehended at his hideout at Layin Mai […]

Nigerian footballer jailed for beating up 21-year-old woman, Krystal Mission, outside a South London nightclub

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

A footballer who repeatedly punched a woman in the head before dragging her along the pavement by her hair in front of horrified New Year revellers has been jailed. Andrew Akingbaje, 24, who signed for League One club Accrington Stanley at the age of 21, was branded “dangerous to women” by the judge who locked […]

Sowore collected foreigners’ dollars to topple Buhari – DSS

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Ade Adesomoju and Oladimeji Ramon The Department of State Services has alleged in fresh papers filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja that the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, met with “foreign collaborators” in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries on how to topple the Muhammadu Buhari government”. DSS also alleged […]

BREAKING: FIFA Bans ex Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, for life over fraudulent match mixing

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Top Stories Friday, August 16th, 2019

Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia has been banned for life and fined $50,000 by Fifa for agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches.’ Siasia was coach of Nigeria between 2010-2011 and for a spell in 2016 but the time period when Fifa believes he committed his infractions is unclear. He has also served as coach of […]

Court grants Atiku’s son-in-law N20 million bail in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 15th, 2019

Mr Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate got a temporary relief on Thursday as a Federal High Court in Lagos, granted him bail. Justice Nicholas Oweibo admitted Babalele to bail for N20million with one surety in like sum after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned him […]