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Abiodun Joseph, a notorious internet fraudster has been arrested after he impersonated the ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi via a Facebook Account, and duped two Nigerian ladies based in the United States of America of various sums of money. Joseph who was apprehended by men of the Ogun state police command last Wednesday, April 19th at Ilese confessed to the crime. He says he used the Ooni’s pictures on his Facebook account, and in no time, Ladies started sending him friend requests, with many comment about his good looks and them wanting to be his “Oloris”…and of course, this…

Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S Senators on the situation in North Korea. The briefing will take place at 1900 GMT. Aides said they were working with the White House to schedule a similar briefing for the House of Representatives. All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said White House spokesman Sean Spicer…

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday admitted the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to bail on health grounds. Kanu was arrested on October 15, 2015 in Lagos and charged with treason and terrorism. The 47-year-old leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who also operated a pirate radio Biafra. In a brief ruling, Justice Binta Nyako, said that she was convinced that Kanu was ill and needed more medical attention than the Nigerian Prisons was giving him. “The first defendant, Nnamdi Kanu, has appealed to the court for bail based on health grounds…

The Akwa Ibom government says it has provided free anti-malaria commodities in all public health facilities in the state for the treatment of malaria among its citizens. The state Health Commissioner, Dr Dominic Ukpong, disclosed this on Tuesday in Uyo in a broadcast made to mark the 2017 World Malaria Day celebration. Ukpong said that the state government had saturated health facilities with drugs and facilities such as Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACTs), Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SPs), Microscopes and Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits. He announced that the state government had established two sites for parasite and vector sentinel in Eket and…

When last week, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke in order to allow unfettered investigations of both public officers, the most striking immediate reaction was the SGF asking: who is the Presidency? State House correspondents had accosted the then SGF as he left a meeting with the Vice President. It is standard practice at the State House for correspondents to lay ambush. Babachir Lawal obviously did not know that he had been suspended from office. If the Vice…

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign was targeted by a group of Russian hackers last month, according to a report by a cybersecurity research group Tuesday. The Pawn Storm group, which has been linked to several high-profile attacks in the West, used “phishing” techniques to try to steal personal data from Macron and members of his En Marche! campaign, Japan-based Trend Micro said. Pawn Storm, also known as APT28, is also believed to be behind the attacks last summer on the US Democratic National Committee, thought to be aimed at undermining Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. It is widely suspected…

The palace of Nigeria’s Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, has denied allegations that the influential Muslim leader has embezzled government money allocated to the palace since his ascent to the throne in 2015. The anti-corruption agency in northern Kano state said earlier that it was investigating corruption allegations against Emir Sanusi. Palace financial secretary Mahe Bashir Wali denied at a press conference that the emir had bought executive cars, including a Rolls Royce, with government money. The vehicles had been given to Emir Sanusi by friends as a gift, he said. Mr Wali also denied that the emir used government…

From the resounding setbacks in Congress to the stunning policy flip-flops, Donald Trump has certainly been confronted with a steep learning curve in his opening months at the White House. While the new US president has shown a capacity to change both his tone and his positions, Trump has struggled to convey a clearly articulated worldview. As the symbolic milestone of his 100th day in power, which falls on Saturday, draws near, a cold, hard reality is setting in for the billionaire businessman who promised Americans he would “win, win, win” for them. At this stage of his presidency Donald…

Serena Williams has responded to comments made by Ilie Nastase regarding her pregnancy. Nastase earned the nickname “Nasty” for his on-court outbursts and gamesmanship in his playing heyday in the 1970s. But it also described his game, which earned him seven Grand Slam titles, two in singles, and more than 100 ATP titles. He’s in the tennis hall of fame. “It disappoints me to know we live in a society where people like Ilie Nastase can make such racist comments towards myself and unborn child, and sexist comments against my peers,” Williams wrote in an Instagram post. “I have said…

Justice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, April 24, 2017, struck out a N100m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on the grounds of incompetence. The former minister; his wives, Fati and Moroophat, and sons, Gbolahan and Babajide, had, through their counsel, Lawal Pedro, SAN, in the suit, sued the Commission for “unlawful invasion of their houses and seizure of some of their properties.” They had urged the court to declare the seizure of items from…