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Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has refuted claim by one of the suspects arrested over the raid on the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili. Earlier, one Lawrence Ajojo claiming to be a Chief Superintendent of Police, had alleged that he is Malami’s consultant after being paraded for leading armed men to the residence of the judge. “I am not an officer of the Nigeria Police but a consultant for the AGF; he did not send us to raid Mrs Odili’s house,” Ajojo said. This was after the Police at Force headquarters on Thursday paraded…

Despite the stiff opposition by the South South Senators, the bill seeking to amend Niger Delta Development Commission Act to accommodate some oil producing states in the country has scaled a second reading. The nine states captured in the NDDC Act are Cross River, Edo, Delta, Abia, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Ondo. However, Senator Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Lagos West), the sponsor of the bill, sought the inclusion of Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi and others that have attained the status of oil producing states in the NDDC. Adeola noted: “Following the discovery of oil in Bauchi, Lagos and Ogun, these states…

The son of Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, whose s3x tape went viral on the internet months ago, has declared intention to join the porn movie industry. Archbishop Williams is the presiding archbishop and general overseer of the Action Chapel International ministry in Accra, Ghana and the founder of the Charismatic Movement which started 20 years ago in Ghana and other parts of West Africa. Dee Willis, the controversial son of the popular Ghanaian clergyman, on Twitter, tweeted “I want to be a porn star.” Recall that six months ago, Daniel Williams in an attempt to disgrace a video vixen who…

Akwa Ibom Government would soon commence construction of roads worth multi-million naira in some parts of the state following the approaching dry season. Briefing correspondents after the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Udom Emmanuel at Government House, Uyo, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Ini Ememobong said the approval has been given for the construction of 2.1Km Ukpong Street, 2.1Km Effiong Esang Street with 800m discharge drain in Oron Local Government Area. According to him, contract has been awarded for the construction of a 21.5Km Ikot Ayan Ediene-Ikot Ntia-Urua Naira-Ikot Nseyen-Nkwot-Nung Ukim Road with 45m span…

The head of the British military has admitted that western forces did not have “insight and understanding” of Afghanistan before invading the country. Gen Sir Nick Carter noted that the army had not been defeated by the Taliban but had been let down by poor political judgment. During at times heated appearance before the House of Commons’ defence committee, he argued that the current Taliban regime were more moderate than the extremists who controlled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The UK Chief of the Defence Staff was questioned for two hours by MPs over why the “mightiest forces ever put together” with…

Despite Twitter ban in Nigeria, Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai who surfaced on the microblogging platform on Wednesday, November 10 has come under fire by some Nigerians. This is as the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed Wednesday explained to journalists in Abuja why Twitter suspension in the country is yet to be lifted, noting that it has only fulfilled 10 out of 12 conditions given by the Federal Government. The Governor whose last tweet was on June 6, a day after the Nigerian government suspended the activities of Twitter, caught the attention of Nigerians when he replied…

Google lost an appeal against a €2.42-billion ($2.8 billion) antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for Europe’s competition chief in the first of three court rulings central to the EU push to regulate big tech. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals. The shopping case was the first of three decisions that saw Google rack up 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. The company could face defeats in…

The Joe Biden administration announced Wednesday to invest an additional $785 million to stymie the spread of the coronavirus in hardest-hit communities.   The financial stimulus will impinge on those who are at the highest risk of death and disease — people of color, people with disabilities, and people living in rural or low-income areas.   This infusion of money builds on billions of dollars invested in equity-focused programs, such as expanding access to vaccines at community health centers and supporting health workers that have helped decrease disparities in death rates and closed racial and ethnic gaps in vaccination rates among adults.…

A 24-year-old girl packed seven distinctions to emerge the overall best graduating medical student in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Dr. Uzoaku Odinakachukwu Amadi was Wednesday announced at the 18th Induction Physician’s Oath taking ceremony (Sponsio Academia) of the University. Amadi with registration number 13/CS/MB/701 also bagged best in Anatomy, Physiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Laboratory Medicine and Paediatrics. Others are Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Community Medicine, and Family Medicine. Born in 1997 from Imo State, she attended Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Owerri, and emerged the best graduating student from nursery to secondary schools’ level. The Ikeduru-born…

Despite criticisms from the public, the Senate Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government. The loans are $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000 and a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan” for the Federal Government. The World Bank, African Development Bank, and the French Development Agency (AFD) are among the funding agencies. Buhari had said the loans would stimulate the economy and create jobs. Senate’s approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. The report was presented by the Chairman of the Committee,…