N5trillion Stolen Under President Jonathan - Punch Investigation

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Over N5tn in government funds have been stolen through fraud, embezzlement and theft since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office on May 6, 2010, a SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has found.

Our correspondents arrived at the stolen sum after poring over the reports of the various committees set up by the President to probe some sectors of the economy, particularly oil and gas. SUNDAY PUNCH also relied on disclosures by some senior government officials. Five trillion naira is the summation of government funds said to have been stolen, according to the Mallam Nuhu Ribadu-led Petroleum Task Force report; the Minister of Trade and Investment’s report on stolen crude; the House of Representatives fuel subsidy report and investigations into the ecological fund, SIM card registration and frequency band spectrum sale.

54-Year-Old Woman Jailed 10 Years For Molesting Her 19-Year-Old Worker

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A woman from Zimbabwe who took advantage of their 19-year-old worker while her husband was away at work and forcibly became intimate with him was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison. The woman aged 54 pleaded not guilty to aggravated indecent assault, but was convicted by senior Western Division regional magistrate Mr Owen Tagu. Three years of her sentence were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour.

Mr Goodluck Katenaire, for the State said on the night of 18 to 19 January this year, the woman and the man slept under one roof, but in different rooms. During the night, the woman went to the room where the man was sleeping and asked him to join her in her bedroom, but he refused since he knew that she was married to his employer.

She kept on bothering him, but he refused and the State proved that she lifted him up and took him to her bedroom where she laid him on a reed mat and undressed him. He tried to get up, but she pinned him down and went on to be intimate with him at about 5am on 19 January. The man decided to terminate his employment and went back to his parents’ homestead where he narrated his ordeal to his father and a police report was later made leading to her arrest.

Bomb Blast Rocks Military Church At Jaji In Kaduna

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A huge bomb blast has exploded at a military protestant church inside the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji in Igabi local government area in Kaduna state.

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Why ACN is afraid of PDP –Publicity Secretary

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Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has said that it has  received information of plans by the Ekiti State Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) to embark on campaign of calumny to smear the image of some of its governorship aspirants and also to lure unwilling youths with money to humiliate PDP leaders.

Naira Promo!!! Nigeria offers huge reward for information on Boko Haram leaders

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Nigeria’s military on Friday offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading to the capture of leaders of Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram. A statement listed 19 alleged senior members of the extremist group blamed for hundreds of deaths in connection with its insurgency in northern and central Nigeria. The rewards ranged from N50 million ($317,000, 245,000 euros) for the suspected leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, to N10 million for various Boko Haram “commanders”.

JTF Denies Alleged Killing Of 20 Ladies By Boko Haram

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The Joint Task Force [JTF} in Maiduduri, the BornoState capital has refuted media reports that about 20 university female studentswere killed by suspected members ofBoko Haram. Two national dailies reported yesterday that the ladies were killed between 1 am and 2 am on Thursday while they were asleep in their homes. Spokesman of the JTF in Borno, Lt-Col. Sagir Musa in a text message to LEADERSHIP SUNDAYthat the purported killing of the ladies by Boko Haram was not true, adding that the rumour was intended to cause disaffection and crisis in the state.

Comments On Insecurity : Obasanjo Fires Back At Gowon - How He Fell Out with Jonathan

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the weeker took on former Head of State, retired General Yakubu Gowon for describing him as “highly irresponsible” for criticising President Goodluck Jonathan’s ‘weak’ approach to the insecurity in the North-East.

General Gowon used the phrase on Obasanjo at the launch of a book, Stay At The Top, authored by a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN), Omoniyi Komolafe, last week.  Gowon’s remark was captured in the media thus: “Obasanjo is highly irresponsible to have made such comments about the present government.

Many people have condemned what he (Obasanjo) did in Odi and Zaki Biam. So, it was irresponsible for him to defend it or accuse the present administration.”


The former Head of State referred to Obasanjo’s response to a question on the Boko Haram crisis in Warri recently, where Obasanjo said there was need for President Jonathan to be decisive in tackling the insecurity, just as he did in dealing with the militancy in Odi, Bayelsa State in 1999.

Why Nigeria can’t break –Tinubu

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Former Lagos State governor and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on all Nigerians to “utilize our diversity as a strength and rally to make a better country.” Tinubu made this call while receiving an honorary degree of Human Letters, Honoris Causa given to his mother, Alhaja Habibat Mogaji, the Iyaloja General by the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria during its 50th convocation yesterday. According to Tinubu, “We are one .

I'm frustrated, says EFCC chair, Lamorde

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Anti-graft boss explains how accused, lawyers stall trial

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, yesterday gave reasons the agency could not secure conviction of treasury looters. He told the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes in Abuja that the judiciary is the main culprit hindering the EFCC from prosecuting the big thieves.

Revealed: Policeman Molests Woman In Presence Of Crying Baby

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A police corporal with the Imo State Command is currently in trouble for molesting a nursing mother, who had gone to the station to seek refuge.

Saturday Sun gathered that Mrs. Maureen Anyalebechi, from Umukabi  Autonomous Community, in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, Imo State, had, on November 10, 2012, gone to Umuguma Police Station to pass the night, when she could not locate the residence of her brother in the World Bank area of Owerri West Local Government Area.

Police raid mainland clubs, Basketmouth's Embarssy lounge affected

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On Friday November 23rd, the Nigerian police, without warning or any particular reason, raided four clubs located on University Road, Akoka, Yaba Lagos. The raid, led by the DPO from Yabo-Sabo police station, affected Basketmouth's EmBARssy lounge located at 12 University Rd, where at least 10 individuals were arrested without any reason. They were released the next day.

Four Die, 10 Injure In Ogun Auto Crash

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Four people  yesterday were reportedly killed while 10 sustained various degrees of  injury  in an auto crash that occured on Abeokuta-Lagos road in Onihale village in Ifo local government area of Ogun State.
According to an eye-witness, the accident involved a Lagos-bound bus with registration number Lagos XY178 LSR which skided off the road  and summersaulted while coming from Abeokuta.

Photo: We Can't Survive Without Robbery - Three Blood Brothers

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Three blood brothers, recently in Lagos, made startling revelations when they confessed that they earn their livelihood through armed robbery. In fact, the eldest of the brothers confessed that they used their younger brother to get vital information on their victims.

Joshua, The Seller "I Sold Human Parts to Churches And Ritual killers"

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November 21st will ever remain indelible  in the heart of Oloko villagers as members of the palace guard to the community leader of Ajara Topa community in collaboration with a vigilante group operating in the area arrested a man who allegedly eats and sells human parts to ritualists, operating from a hole he dug under the Gbaji bridge along the Badagry-Seme border.

Gunmen Slaughter 20 Ladies For Wearing Mini Skirts And Trousers

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Barely 24 hours after over ten people were slaughtered in Maiduguri, twenty ladies who were prone of wearing mini skirts and trousers were Friday slaughtered in their separate homes in Maiduguri Metropolis by yet to be identified gunmen.

This ugly development is one of its kind, as many believed that most of the daily killing in Borno are only targeted at men and security agencies.

The slaughtering of about twenty different ladies our Correspondent gathered took place in the early hours of Friday precisely at about 1 to 2am when most of residents were still asleep in their houses due to 6am to 9pm Curfew imposed on the state in the past five months.

LG Unveils Anti- Mosquito Hi-Tech Air Conditioner In Nigeria

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Technology News — LG Electronics, a global leader in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, unveiled its newest advanced residential air conditioner (RAC) which utilizes ultrasonic wave technology to repel mosquitoes. LG’s “Anti-Mosquito” air conditioner has been shown in tests conducted in a Peet Grady

Nigerian Muslim Riot Leaves 4 Dead

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KANO  - A mispronunciation taken to be blasphemous in Nigeria's north sparked a riot by Muslim youths Thursday, leaving four people dead as well as a church and shops burnt, police and residents said. "What happened in (the town of) Bichi was misinformation," Kano state police chief Ibrahim Idris told reporters. "Rumours went round that someone blasphemed the Prophet and there was a breakdown of law and order." Residents reported four people dead along with the church and Christian-owned shops burnt. Soldiers and policemen deployed in the town.

Lagos To Demolish 20 Houses At Jakande Estate

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The Lagos State Government has marked more than 20 houses for demolition at Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, near Isolo, Lagos following the death of two sisters when a two-storey building collapsed in the estate on Wednesday. When we visited the estate this morning, officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LSBCA, were busy marking the defective buildings in the estate for demolition.

Woman Jailed For Dumping Baby In Latrine

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A 25-year-old woman, Ms Toyin Akinbobola, has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for dumping her day-old baby inside a pit toilet at her idanre home, Ondo State. Akinbobola, who was found guilty by a Chief Magistrate in the Idanre Judicial Division, Mrs. Folashade Aduroja, last Friday dumped the baby in the toilet minutes after giving birth to her on October 18.

Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

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Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women
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“Why don’t we just install a microchip into our women to track them around?” joked another.

“If I need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I’m either married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist,” tweeted Hisham. “This is technology used to serve backwardness in order to keep women imprisoned,” said Bishr, the columnist.


“It would have been better for the government to busy itself with finding a solution for women subjected to domestic violence” than track their movements into and out of the country.