An Ikeja special offences court in Lagos has fixed January 20, 2025, for the arraignment of Ahmed Kuru, former managing director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), over allegations of N76 billion and $31.5 million fraud.   Kuru is to be arraigned alongside Roy Ilegbodu, managing director of Arik Air; Kamilu Omokide, receiver manager of Arik Air; Union …

Among the second seeds based on their Fifa world ranking, Wales will be in Pot 2 for the draw – meaning one of their opponents will be a top seed from Pot 1, such as Spain, France or England. As for the countries from Pots 3, 4 and 5, Wales do not yet know whether they will be in a …

Adsilico AI can produce many versions of a digital heart This is the first of a six-part series on how AI is changing medical research and treatments. The heart in front of me beats and moves like a human organ, but has no blood flowing through it, nor does it live in a human body. It’s a computer-generated heart, or …

Manchester City kept their grip on top spot by beating St Polten in their penultimate group game on Thursday night. Captain Alex Greenwood was taken off on a stretcher in the first half before Lily Murphy opened the scoring in the second period. Barcelona joined City in the last eight with their 3-0 win at Hammarby – ending the Swedish …

Northumbria Police/PA Wire Tom Voyce retired from rugby in 2013 and has been living in Alnwick since 2020 A body has been found in the search for former England rugby international Tom Voyce, who went missing in an area flooded during Storm Darragh. Police feared the 43-year-old had died after trying to cross Abberwick Ford, near Bolton, Northumberland, in a …

The Niger State Police Command has arrested one Habibu Umaru and two accomplices for the alleged m8rder of his sister in Bosso Local Government Area of the state.      The State Commissioner of Police, CP Shawulu Danmamman, who disclosed this during the end of the year press briefing at the police headquarters in Minna on Thursday, December 12, 2024, …

Afe Babalola’s law firm has written a petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, (LPDC) asking it to strike out the name of Lagos-based legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi, from legal practitioners in Nigeria for allegedly violating certain provisions of the rules of professional conduct for lawyers.  The 90-page petition dated December 6, 2024, was signed by a partner in the …

Delta State Police Command has confirmed the brutal k!lling of Sir Paul Offor, a prominent community leader and businessman in Issele-Azagba, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state.    Offor, a Knight of the Catholic Church and an All Progressives Congress (APC) leader was reportedly m8rdered on Tuesday night, December 10, 2024 in his office located at the busy …

The Special Anti-Cultism Squad, formerly known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra State, have been accused of raiding students’ hostel at night and randomly arresting students.  Some students of the Federal Polytechnic Oko said they were asleep in their respective lodges when officers stormed their hostels, broke into their rooms, and picked them up after accusing them of …

Sean “Diddy” Combs drugged and then r@ped three men at two Manhattan, New York hotels and at his Hamptons estate as recently as 2022, according to new lawsuits filed in New York on Thursday, December 12.     One of the men recalled that during his drugged sex session, once Combs was finished raping him, he handed him off to …