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Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has challenged the permanent forfeiture of a property known as Flat 7b No 16, Osborne Road Ikoyi, Lagos to the Federal Government. The property was the same one linked to the dismissed Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke where the EFCC recovered the sums of $43,449,947.00, €27,800 and...

A former President, Christian Association of Nigeria, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has asked the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari why life is becoming harder for Nigerians after it promised them change. The former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos asked the question in a piece entitled, ‘The Truth and Nothing But the Truth,’ which was sent to...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has suspended the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr Mounir Gwarzo. Gwarzo is suspended in order to allow for an unhindered investigation of several allegations of financial impropriety levelled against him. This was contained in a statement signed by Deputy Director, Press,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to reports of the slave auction in Libya describing it as appalling and unacceptable. The president said efforts have commenced bringing back home to Nigeria, victims who are stranded in Libya or any other country and also rehabilitated. Using his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, to react to the reports...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme. He rejected a call by the American envoy to the UN Security Council to sever ties with the North after its latest ballistic missile test. Speaking on a visit to the Belarussian capital Minsk, Mr Lavrov asked...

Arsene Wenger is not expecting Jose Mourinho's Manchester United to 'park the bus' when they take on Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday. Both teams go into the game on the back of three successive Premier League victories, with United sitting four points and two places above Arsenal in the table. United are looking for their first win in eight attempts...

It looks like President Trump's Wednesday and Thursday morning have left him feeling very defensive of his actions, so much so that he's targeted the NYT, Democrats and Theresa May for his actions the previous day. Apart from this, he's also constantly touting the tax cuts law and the amazing economy under his rule. 🐦 Departing JBA_NAFW for St. Charles,...

David Silva has signed a new one-year contract at Manchester City, the club has confirmed. The Spain international, who has been at the Etihad Stadium since 2010, has put pen to paper on a new deal that will keep him at the club until 2020. Silva has been in exceptional form thus far this season, with Pep Guardiola's side threatening to run away with...

Pep Guardiola has apologised for his frenzied reaction to Manchester City's late winner against Southampton. Raheem Sterling curled a brilliant effort home in the 96th minute, strengthening City's grip on top spot in the Premier League. The club now lead city rivals Manchester United by eight points, winning 13 of their 14 games thus far this season...

Cristiano Ronaldo earns a staggering £308,000 every time he posts a picture on Instagram, according to a new study. The Real Madrid superstar has 116 million followers on the social networking site, which centres on sharing pictures and videos. While Ronaldo's feed mostly consists of pictures of his ever-growing family, the 32-year-old also shares...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said a total of N421.33m is ready to be paid to whistle-blowers for the November batch. She said the amount included that of the whistle-blower for the cash recovered from a building in Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. Adeosun disclosed this while answering questions from State House correspondents, after...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Senator Ben-Murray Bruce have sent congratulatory messages to Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, for winning the Best International Act award at the MOBO Awards. At the 2017 edition of MOBO Awards, Wizkid beat Jay-Z, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and others to clinch the award. The two who could not hold back...

Britain could extend financial support to Zimbabwe to help stabilize its economy and clear its debts💵 with international lenders but such support will be linked to ‘democratic progress, foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said. Zimbabwe🇿🇼 owes the World Bank and the African Development Bank a combined $1,8 billion in arrears emanating from loans...

An urgent evacuation plan has been devised for migrants facing abuse in Libyan detention camps. It was drawn up at an African Union-European Union summit in Ivory Coast. Libya's UN-backed administration joined the agreement, but has only limited control over the territory, raising questions about how it will work in practice. The migrants will be...

Nigeria and Libya will expect to face growing pressure from their counterparts in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to end their exemption from production cuts and accept an output quota, when ministers meet on Thursday (today) for a closely watched summit. The production cuts deal, which began on January 1 and called on OPEC countries...

Scientists studying nine samples – including hair and teeth – supposedly from yetis, say the samples are not from a huge hominin but in fact mostly belonged to bears. Just one sample, taken from a curious stuffed “yeti”, bucked the trend – the creature turned out to be a taxidermy mash-up boasting the hair of a bear and the teeth of a dog. “It demonstrates...

Scientists studying nine samples – including hair and teeth – supposedly from yetis, say the samples are not from a huge hominin but in fact mostly belonged to bears. Just one sample, taken from a curious stuffed “yeti”, bucked the trend – the creature turned out to be a taxidermy mash-up boasting the hair of a bear and the teeth of a dog. “It demonstrates...

The General Secretary, Textile Union Workers, Mr Isa Aremu, said the 2019 election would be determined by the dignity of labour and commitment in payment of workers’ salary. Aremu said this in an interview in response to government’s plan to raise workers’ salary after negotiation by the newly inaugurated 30-member committee on new minimum wage. According...

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District (APC), Sen. Shehu Sani, has offered scholarships to 20 students from his constituency to study various courses at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Wednesday shortly before their departure...

The tomb in which Jesus Christ may have been buried dates back nearly 1,700 years, scientists have discovered. Tests carried out on the remains of a limestone cave in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, date it back to around 345 CE, National Geographic reported. Previous evidence had only dated the tomb back 1,000 years, to the Crusader...

Melania Trump’s first White House Christmas decorating choices are getting slammed hard on Twitter. First Lady Melania Trump, 47 oversaw all of the 2017 White House Christmas Decorations and even though she claimed to want to make the place feel warm and welcoming, the opposite came true. Stephanie Grisham, Melania’s Director of Communications shared...

Following several ‘save our soul’ messages from Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya, the Federal Government has responded to the maltreatment of its citizen in the country. Nigerians numbering 242 from Libya were returned to the country on Tuesday evening. The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos on Libyan Airline plane. A recording...

Ayo “Wizkid’’ Balogun, Mary Njoku, Amaka Osakwe and Iyin Aboyeji are nominees for The Future Awards Africa’s Young Person of the Year Award, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The award for this year is themed “Nigeria’s New Tribe’’ and will hold on December 9 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. Bukunyi Olateru-Olagbegi, Chairman, Central Working...

In a massive punch to Flat-earthers and the flat-earth theory, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared an image of a moon with a horizontal shadow over it. The caption states: “A Lunar Eclipse flat-earthers have never seen.” Here, he allows the photo speak for itself. The primary claim in flat Earth theory, of course, is that it is flat. During...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or the Alma telescope, the researchers spotted signs of as many as 11 low-mass stars forming near supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, according to a release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. These early-stage stars or protostars are nearly 6,000 years old and are in the formative...

1777 – El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civil settlement in the Spanish colony of Alta California, was founded as a farming community. 1807 – Maria I of Portugal (pictured), the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people departed Lisbon for the colony of Brazil just days before Napoleonic forces invaded. 1947 – The United...

It's been a busy couple of days on Twitter 🐦 for President Trump, praising his daughter, touting the economy's growth (over and over again) and also sharing racist videos that vilify Muslims. 🐦 Remarks from the Roosevelt Room with SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell, SpeakerRyan and Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. 🐦 Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq...

A German court has rejected the appeal of a former Auschwitz guard against serving his sentence on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. The Celle state court ruled that Oskar Groening was in good enough health to serve his four years in prison. But his attorney said he'd pursue further action to keep the 96-year-old free and the court said it wasn't...

Two US citizens are being held in Thailand after they posted an online picture of themselves posing with their buttocks exposed at a temple. The tourists had taken the picture at Bangkok's famous Wat Arun temple and posted it on Twitter and Instagram. Immigration authorities told the BBC the pair, Joseph and Travis Dasilva, both 38, would be fined...

South Sudan has ended the use of CE, EE, SSJS, UNS, WS and NBGS number plates and unveiled a new series. The country has launched the new series of nationalised country code SSD, the National Transport and Safety Authority announced on Wednesday. These will be the only numbers the country will recognise after registration from December 13. "All parties...

Barcelona have targeted Chelsea star Willian as an alternative should they fail in their attempts to sign Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool, as per reports. The Catalan side saw their approaches for Coutinho knocked back by Liverpool in the summer as the Anfield side demanded €200 million for him. The 25-year-old, however, handed in a transfer request...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had said Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming; rather, he stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained. He, however, noted that some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built. Fashola...

Everton have hired Sam Allardyce as manager, ending a prolonged search following the October sacking of Ronald Koeman. The Toffees announced that Allardyce will finalise terms at the club's USM Finch Farm training ground on Wednesday. Caretaker manager David Unsworth will remain in charge for Everton's match against West Ham on Wednesday night at...

Pope Francis visit to Myanmar was planned well before the Rohingya refugee crisis erupted in August.  The visit was intended to upgrade diplomatic ties between the Holy See and Myanmar, and to enhance the status of the small Roman Catholic community in the country, many of whom come from other vulnerable minorities. The Pope was visiting as...

The lawmaker representing Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has described the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, as fictitious. The debate on the 2018 budget proposal started on a dramatic note at the plenary on Tuesday when the first speaker, Abaribe, dismissed the 2018...

Tomori Uriel, The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), has charged university of Ilorin to be the first digitalized university in Nigeria. Mr. Amadi, the Telecommunication expert, in his lecture said,  "The world has gone from analog to digital, and we want Unilorin to became the first smart (digital) university in Nigeria." He stated...

Kareem Zainab, Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, has bagged the ‘Most outstanding Public Servant of the Year Award’, in recognition of his outstanding contributions towards efficient service delivery in the education sub-sector by The New Telegraph. newspaper. Ever since Prof....

Scientists have recently observed humpback male dolphins in the region presenting females with large marine sponges in the hope of impressing them.  They also observed male humpback dolphins acting as "wingmen" for each other-- this type of male cooperation is unusual in dolphins given that paternity can't be shared.  This is the first...

Embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has finally broken silence on the allegations of corruption levelled against him. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Channels Television which aired during News At 10 on Monday, Mr Maina insisted that he was innocent of the allegations preferred...

Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald newspaper reports. New President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to form a cabinet this week. Mr Mugabe resigned last week after a military intervention and days of mass protests. Calls...

Former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden criticized President Donald Trump's attack of CNN over the weekend, saying he could not believe a President was capable of "such an outrageous assault" on a free press or the First Amendment. The retired United States Air Force four-star general, who is now is a CNN national security...

Just two weeks after announcing his retirement from international duty, legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had admitted he could play for the Italy national team again.  Buffon bid a tearful farewell to the Azzurri on November 13, just minutes after Italy fell to Sweden in a two-leg playoff and failed to reach the World Cup for the first...

The glow from a ring of incandescent red lava in the crater of Bali’s Mount Agung is clearly visible, as the likelihood of a large eruption on the popular holiday island continues to grow. The burnt orange glow atop Mount Agung could be easily seen at night and in the thick ash column that Indonesia’s disaster agency said was being sent nearly two...

Declaration of Independence of Albania (1912) 1470 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Annam (Vietnam) launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War. 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society (coat of...

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korean media say, quoting military officials.  The news was confirmed by a US government source, according to Reuters news agency.  South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the missile flew eastward from Pyongsong in South Pyongan province.  It is not clear how far it went or...

2018 Grammy nominations are here! On Tuesday (Nov. 28), Andra Day revealed the Big 4 categories -- best new artist, record of the year, song of the year, and album of the year -- live on CBS This Morning, and shortly thereafter, the Recording Academy announced the nominees in all 84 categories. JAY-Z leads the pack with eight nominations this year,...