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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday 1 February, 2016 arraigned one Prince Spencer Adikibi, before Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt on a 2-count charge bordering on forgery. The complainant, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited alleged that sometime in 2008 the defendant, a former Based Transceiver Station (BTS) land acquisition officer for MTN in Port Harcourt allegedly forged and signed a renewal of Tenancy Mast Space Document to one Allwell Onyeotito, the landlord of the said property where MTN Mast was erected. According to investigation, the lease was meant for 10 years…

A Nigerian woman has run up a £330,000 bill for NHS treatment after she gave birth prematurely to quadruplets in a UK hospital. The woman was taken ill on a flight from the US to Nigeria via Heathrow. It comes as a group of MPs have urged the government to take “urgent action” to recover more money for treating foreign patients. A Public Accounts Committee report says the system for recouping costs from overseas patients is “chaotic”. The case of the Nigerian woman is thought to be one of the NHS’s biggest unpaid bills for an overseas patient. The woman,…

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the US government to allow people holding immigrant visas from seven majority-Muslim nations into the United States despite President Trump’s executive order banning them. In a temporary restraining order issued late Tuesday, Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ordered the government not to cancel any validly obtained immigrant visas or bar anyone from the seven nations holding them from entering the U.S. But it was unclear whether the order will have any effect. The State Department ordered all visas from the seven countries revoked on Friday, and the government has maintained that orders similar…

Prof. Francis Otunta, the Vice Chancellor (VC), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, in Abia, has confirmed the discovery of a new drug for the treatment and cure of HIV/AIDS. Otunta told newsmen at the university campus on Wednesday that the finding followed years of scientific research by the institution. He said that the breakthrough was made by Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, a researcher in the university. According to him, Ezeibe had presented the drug to the University management, Senate and Council, where he explained the processes he went through to arrive at his finding. The VC also said that Ezeibe…

Nigeria international, Kelechi Iheanacho was completely dropped from the Manchester City team that pummeled West Ham Utd 4-0 at London Stadium. Iheanacho place in the team is increasingly dimming following the arrival of Brazilian forward Gabriel Jesus who scored his first Manchester City goal. City, who left striker Sergio Aguero and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo on the bench, led when Kevin de Bruyne played a one-two with Jesus before stroking home. Four minutes later, they doubled their lead when the impressive Leroy Sane beat two defenders and his deflected cross was tapped home by David Silva. And the game was as…

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he is being judged by different rules to other Premier League bosses. The Portuguese boss tried to contain his frustration at the performance of referee Mike Jones during Wednesday’s 0-0 draw with Hull at Old Trafford. Mourinho highlighted Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp’s exchange with fourth official Neil Swarbrick during their 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Tuesday. “You know clearly I am different. The rules for me are different,” he said. Former Chelsea boss Mourinho, who earlier had walked out of a BBC TV interview, added: “Yesterday a fourth official told a manager: ‘I enjoy…

US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations is not anti-Islam, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign minister said on Wednesday. UAE’s Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, whose country like neighbouring Saudi Arabia is a close ally of Washington, said it was “wrong to say” that the decision by the new US administration was “directed against a particular religion”. “The United States has made… a sovereign decision,” he said at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, pointing out that it was “provisional” and did not apply to “the large majority” of the…

Pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, 37, has apologised to his congregation after fleeing naked when husband of his mistress caught them in action. According to the Daily Mail, the married pastor apologised to his Church for having sex with a woman from the congregation in the middle of the afternoon. Pastor Simmons was at Claynisha Stephens’ home in Tallahassee, Florida, to discuss a charity project when they became intimate on her daughter’s bed at around 2pm on January 17. They were caught less than an hour later by her husband Benjamin, 38, who had returned home with their sick six-year-old son…

When people do eat breakfast daily, they’re less likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease like high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure. And people who skip this morning meal are more likely to have risk factors like obesity, poor nutrition and diabetes or high blood sugar. This is a key guideline on dieting just issued by doctors belonging to American Heart Association. Eating more calories earlier in the day and consuming less food at night may also reduce the odds of a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac or blood vessel diseases, according to the doctors. “When we eat…

The Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill upgrading Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) to a University of Science and Technology. Mr Adeyinka Mafe, the Majority Leader, moved the motion for the third reading of the bill during plenary in Abeokuta and was seconded by the Minority Leader, Mr Olawale Alausa. The bill was originally entitled “A bill for a Law to Provide for the Establishment of Moshood Abiola University of Technology and for Matters of Administration and Discipline of Students Connected Therewith.” The bill is now entitled: “A Bill for a Law to Provide for the Establishment…