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A 27-year-old man, Uber driver, James Ejemba, was on Wednesday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly absconding with his employer’s Toyota Corolla car valued at N2 million. Ejemba, whose address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The police prosecutor, Inspector Benson Emuerhi, told the court that the accused committed the offences with some other persons still at large on February 14 at Ile-Zik Bus Stop, Ikeja, Lagos. He alleged that the accused stole the car with registration No. SMK 694 EU belonging to one Mrs Ngozi Ireoha. Emuerhi said the accused however…

A 33-year-old jealous lover, Lukman Madotti, who allegedly poured acid on his fiancee, Toyin Muyiba, was on Wednesday arraigned before an Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court for attempted murder. His plea was, however not taken at the court and was remanded in Ikoyi prisons. The police prosecutor, ASP Clara Adegbayi, had told the court that the offence was committed on April 9 at 6.00 a.m. at No. 11, Alhaji Lasisi St., Idi-Oro, Mushin, Lagos. According to her, the jealous lover poured acid on Muyiba, 20, whom he had accused of flirting around. READ: Trump wrote own health letter, says physician Harold…

Donald Trump’s former doctor has said he did not write a 2015 letter declaring the then-Republican presidential candidate’s “astonishingly excellent” health, US media report. “[Mr Trump] dictated that whole letter,” Harold Bornstein told CNN. The White House has not yet commented on the physician’s allegation. Mr Bornstein also said that Mr Trump’s bodyguard had carried out a “raid” on his offices in February 2017, removing all of Mr Trump’s medical records. In an interview with CNN, Mr Bornstein said the 2015 letter suggesting that Mr Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” was not his professional…

Liverpool number two Zeljko Buvac is a serious candidate to replace Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. (Pravda BL, via Mirror) Arsenal are reluctant to pay their next boss as much as Wenger’s £8.5m-per-year deal. (Daily Mail) Former Barcelona manager Luis Enrique is at risk of pricing himself out of the job by demanding £25m-per-year. (Mirror) England’s medical team fear Harry Kane, 24, has jeopardised his chance to be in peak fitness at this summer’s World Cup but rushing back to action with Tottenham. (Times) Manchester United’s Ivorian defender Eric Bailly, 24, is worried about his future at the club after being…

Total world military expenditure rose to $1.73 trillion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1 per cent from 2016. The 2017 expenditure is highest level since the Cold War, with the US, China and Saudi Arabia topping the list. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said that the spending translated into $230 per person. But military expenditure in Africa decreased by 0.5 per cent in 2017, the third consecutive annual decrease since the peak in spending in 2014. The US remained the world’s largest spender with $610 billion unchanged year-on-year. The US accounted for over a third of global…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers faced questions in parliament on Tuesday a day after Reuters reported that Canada wants the legal authority to turn back thousands of asylum seekers crossing the border illegally. A Canadian official familiar with the matter told Reuters that Canada wants to amend a bilateral agreement to allow it to block border-crossing refugee claimants but that the United States is not cooperating. Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, or STCA, asylum seekers who arrive at a formal Canada-US border crossing going in either direction are turned back and told to apply for asylum…

The Osun State Internal Revenue Service, IRS, has shut down Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, over non-payment of over 1.8 billion naira owed the state. The agency carried out the action after obtaining a court order Wednesday morning. IRS sealed the Senate building, the administrative block and the bursary department of the foremost university. Also affected is the main gate along road seven while the institution’s lecture rooms and hostels were left un-approached for the exercise as it remained a-no-go-area for the tax collectors. New Telegraph investigations revealed that officials of the state revenue generation stormed the institution as early as…

Emirates airline is investigating how a woman flew 4,200 miles from Manchester to Delhi on her husband’s passport. A relative of Geeta Modha said she “accidentally” picked up her partner Dilip’s passport when she set off on a business trip to India on 23 April. The family member said the “shocking” error was not spotted at check-in or on boarding the Emirates flight and Mrs Modha only realised at Delhi airport. Emirates apologised saying its “usual high standards were not followed”. ‘Stranded in Dubai’ Mrs Modha’s relative, who asked not to be identified, said the mistake was only discovered in…

Not many people understand or can manage with a sex addict. Most see them as promiscuous people who cannot just discipline themselves but there’s more to it. To proffer solutions, relationship charity Relate is calling for people with a “crippling” addiction to sex to receive help on the NHS. Two sufferers speak about the impact it has had on their lives. “At its worst, even having sex five times a day wasn’t enough.” Mother-of-three Rebecca Barker said the compulsion took over her life in 2014 and ruined her relationship. Rather than leading her to cheat, her addiction meant she was…

The federal government of Nigeria has ordered that security be beefed up around places of worship and markets in the Northeast of the country following a twin suicide blast in Mubi, Adamawa state. Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the the federal government was shocked and outraged by the suicide bomb attacks on a mosque and a market in Mubi, Adamawa State on 1 May. “This desecration of a place of worship by criminals is tragic and condemnable,” Osinbajo said in a statement by his spokesperson, Laolu Akande. Osinbajo expressed condolences to the victims and their families, and to the…