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Disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar will rot away in jail till he dies, after earning between 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing scores of young girls under the guise of medical treatment. “I’ve just signed your death warrant,” Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said as she handed down the sentence after a week of gut-wrenching testimony by over 150 of Nassar’s victims. “You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again,” the judge told the 54-year-old Nassar in a tense Lansing, Michigan, courtroom. “Anywhere you walk destruction will occur to those most vulnerable.” Minutes…

Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue, FIRS, Mr. Tunde Fowler, on Tuesday, warned tax avoiders that there is no hiding place for them when the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). Fowler’s warning was contained in a keynote address at a workshop for professionals advising clients on participation in the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) in Kano. He described VAIDS, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Finance, offering tax defaulters a time-limited window to truthfully declare hidden incomes and assets, pay up taxes due over a maximum of three years and escape consequences such as interests and…

…Charges Members To Advance Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday inaugurated the Governing Council of the Citizens Mediation Centre (CMC), urging members of the Council to work assiduously to enhance the capacity of the Centre to provide free and effective alternative dispute resolution of matters. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the inauguration ceremony, held at the Lagos House in Ikeja, said his administration will continue to ensure the growth and expansion of the CMC in recognition of the important role the Centre plays in mediating on disputes reported in respect of all matters that…

Apprehends Four Others Over Attack On LAGESC Officers, Vehicle Impounds 150 Waste Carts, Suspects Charged To Court The Lagos State Government on Wednesday arrested a total of 24 persons including cart pushers, street traders and some residents for dumping waste on road medians and canals contrary to the Environmental Sanitation Laws of the State. The suspects, who have been charged before the Special Offences Court sitting in Ogba, Ikeja, were arrested in an early morning operation carried out by men of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) recently inaugurated by the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. Giving details on…

England will face Spain and Croatia in League A of the inaugural UEFA Nations League. Wales were drawn alongside the Republic of Ireland and Denmark in League B, while Northern Ireland were grouped with Austria and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Scotland, without a manager since Gordon Strachan left, were drawn in League C alongside Albania and Israel. The first group games take place in September this year, with the finals scheduled for June 2019. Wednesday’s draw took place in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gareth Southgate’s England last faced Spain in a friendly in November 2016, which ended in a 2-2 draw. Their last…

Twin car bombs outside a mosque frequented by jihadist opponents in Libya’s second city Benghazi killed at least 34 people and wounded 87, hospital sources said on Wednesday. The eastern city has been relatively calm since military strongman Khalifa Haftar announced its “liberation” from jihadists in July last year after a three-year campaign, but sporadic violence has continued. The bombers struck after evening prayers on Tuesday, blowing up two cars 30 minutes apart outside the mosque in the central neighbourhood of Al-Sleimani. Read Also Super Eagles through to CHAN quarter finals There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the…

Defending champion Roger Federer reached his 14th Australian Open semi-final with a straight-sets victory over Tomas Berdych. Second seed Federer, 36, beat the Czech 19th seed 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 6-4 in the Rod Laver Arena night session. It was their 10th meeting at Grand Slams, and an eighth win for the Swiss player. Federer goes on to face unseeded 21-year-old Hyeon Chung of South Korea in the last four on Friday. Britain’s Kyle Edmund takes on sixth seed Marin Cilic of Croatia in the first semi-final at 08:30 GMT on Thursday. Federer’s most recent win over Berdych was a straight-sets…

Keystone Bank Limited has denied having in its custody any illegally hidden money belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria or any of its agencies. Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district had accused the bank of colluding with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to conceal about $137 million and thereafter illegally withdrew $4 million. But the bank, in a statement by the General Counsel & Company Secretary, Dr. Michael Agamah on Tuesday said, “We wish to state categorically that Keystone Bank Limited has never illegally hidden or withdrawn any amount of money belonging to the Federal Government…

The Lagos State Government has suspended the union activities of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, on Lagos Island indefinitely, following the crisis rocking the Island chapter. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who disclosed this shortly after the Security Council Meeting held at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja and chaired by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, said the decision was to forestall any further breakdown of law and order and ensure that the peace in the area is not hampered. Edgal, while urging members of the NURTW in Lagos Island to comply with the directive, said that Government would…

All Progressives Congress national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday said that his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari was not connected with the critical statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Buhari’s presidency. Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman said the visit by Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State, to the Presidential Villa was scheduled since last week. ”President Buhari periodically schedules talks with Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande, as he does with other Nigerians and APC figures, to discuss substantive issues pertaining to the governance of the country and matters concerning the party. ”This visit…