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Two Chinese arrested For offering N100m bribe to EFCC officer

The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two Chinese, Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Koi, for offering a sum of N50 million as bribe to its Zonal Head, Mr. Abdullahi Lawal. ...

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Female COVID-19 patient, 70, dies in Ghana

  A Ghanaian female COVID-19 patient believed to be in her 70s has died at the Tamale Central Hospital (TCH) on Monday, 11 May 2020.   This means the Northern Region has now recorded its first COVID-19-related death. Health authorities ...

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Young Mother Drowns Baby For Making Her Miss University Admission

A 22-year-old woman, Adisa Funmilola, has drowned her baby because the child prevented her from going to university to study law. She drowned the one-year and six months old baby inside a bucket of water in her apartment at Plot ...

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Stranded Nigerians in Canada to be evacuated on Thursday

The Nigeria High Commission in Canada said it is set to evacuate Nigerians stranded in that country due to coronavirus travel restrictions. In a statement on Monday, the mission said it had received no fewer than 200 requests for evacuation. ...

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Fire guts petrol station, destroys shops, buildings in Ibadan

A fire incident, which occurred yesterday, completely burnt down Al-Amin filling station located at Elebu area of Ibadan. Mr Omole Ayodeji, the Federal Fire Service station Officer, while speaking with journalists said that the service responded swiftly when they got ...

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EFCC returns $4,040 to Brazilian victim of internet fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it has returned $4,040 to one Debora Moreira, a Brazilian victim of internet fraud. It also said Moreira has acknowledged the receipt of the money, which was recovered on her behalf by ...

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Fake pilgrims’ boss bags 28 years jail term for N12m fraud

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has sentenced one Mohammad Halim Ogbobio to 28 years’ imprisonment for his involvement in a N12m scam. The convict was said to have paraded himself as the coordinator of the Bayelsa ...

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Orji Kalu’s co-convict gets warrant of release

A warrant for the release of a former Director Finance and Account at the Abia Government House, Ude Udeogu, who was convicted alongside former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, has been issued. According to The Cable, the Supreme Court issued the ...

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Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar recovers from illness

The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, who was rushed unconscious to the Federal Medical Centre Katsina last week, is fast recovering and may soon be discharged. A video clip, which has gone viral in Katsina showed the Monarch, ...

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Russia overtakes UK for World No. 3 in coronavirus cases

Russia is now officially the third worst-hit country by the coronavirus. It overtook UK this morning after it posted yet another monstrous 10, 899 cases, taking its total to 232,243. UK has 223,060 cases and has now fallen into the ...

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JUST IN: President Buhari appoints Prof. Agboola Gambari as new Chief of Staff

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. With his appointment, he replaces Mallam Abba Kyari, who died last month of COVID-19. Gambari, 75, is currently the Special ...

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Pay your bills, free electricity offer not yet implemented- BEDC

The Management of Benin Electricity Distribution Plc (BEDC), has urged electricity consumers in its franchise states to pay their bills, reiterating that the free electricity offer is yet to be implemented. This was contained in a statement signed by the ...

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Cat euthanized after testing positive from coronavirus in Spain

A cat has been euthanised after becoming the first in Spain to catch coronavirus. It is believed he caught the disease from his Catalonian family who also had coronavirus – with his owner killed by the bug, according to local ...

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White House staff ordered to wear masks

White House staff have been ordered to wear masks when entering the West Wing after two aides tested positive for coronavirus. The White House personnel office has said that staff must cover their faces at all times except when seated ...

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Catholic Church hands Nigeria 425 hospitals as isolation centers

The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered all its 425 health facilities across the country as isolation centres for COVID-19. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), who disclosed this at the presidential task force ...

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Obasanjo’s ex-wife wants youths to join fight against Covid-19

Former Wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo has asked all the youths in Nigeria to join her effort to free the country from the rampaging Coronavirus pandemic. In a statement she issued, Mrs Obasanjo noted that her ...

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Senegal to re-open churches, mosques, ease restrictions, despite coronavirus infections increased

Senegalese President Macky Sall has announced the re-opening of mosques and churches and the easing of other restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus, even as the largest one-day jump in cases was recorded on Monday. Sall ordered places of worship ...

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Riot Police Clash With Hundreds Of Protesters Who Demand End To Lockdown In Germany (Photos)

Riot police have clashed with hundreds of protesters in Berlin during a demonstration against coronavirus lockdown in Germany. Despite the central government easing lockdown last week, infected cases have begun to rise in Germany again, with some states saying they ...

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