The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 792 foreign nationals for their alleged involvement in cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scams, marking the largest such operation in the commission’s history. The commission in a statement released aid among those arrested are 148 Chinese nationals, 40 Filipinos, two Khazartans, one Pakistani, and one Indonesian. The agency said the …
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A flight attendant from the French Caribbean island of Martinique has become the oldest woman to win the Miss France beauty pageant. Angélique Angarni-Filopon was crowned champion on Saturday, Dec. 14, at the age of 34, telling women it’s “never too late” for a career change. The competition, which has run since 1920, had previously banned women over the …
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Twelve people have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in what appeared to be an accident at a ski station in Georgia. The bodies of 11 foreigners and one Georgian national were found in bedrooms on the second floor above an Indian restaurant at the ski station of Gudauri, in the north of the Caucasus country, police said on Monday. …
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A 12-year-old girl has been charged with manslaughter after an old man Bhim Kohli was found injured in a park, before later dying of his injuries. The man, a grandad of 80, was seriously assaulted as he walked his dog in Franklin Park, Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, UK on September 2. An inquest into his death opened at Leicester Coroner’s Court …
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Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has stated that he did not ask anyone to plead with Afe Babalola (SAN). Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State for a defamation suit filed against him by the legal icon regarding his book, ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System.’ Recall that the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour …
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has thrown its support behind footballers Ademola Lookman and Chiamaka Nnadozie, as both players vie for top honours at the CAF Player of the Year awards. Lookman is a strong contender in the men’s category, while Nnadozie is in the running for the women’s category. Lookman will compete in the men’s category against Ivory Coast’s …
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A 30-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested for allegedly who duping an Indian woman of Rs 4.45 lakh (N8m) The accused, Mathew Emeka was arrested from Delhi on Sunday, December 15, 2024, by Wayanad police in Kerala. According to the police, the accused tricked the resident of Nenmeni by claiming to have sent dollars as a gift and …
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The Presidency has described the remarks about Nigeria made by the newly elected United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, as a “c0.ck and bull story.” President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, insisted that Badenoch ”lied” about her ‘’upbringing” in Nigeria. In an interview she had, Badenoch recounted how her brother was allegedly …
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A man from Northern Nigeria has said that he cannot live in the North if Nigeria splits and the North becomes a country of its own. He shared this in reaction to an X user who claimed northern Nigeria would have been more developed if it was a country on its own. Disagreeing with the original poster, the X user …
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A Nigerian lawyer and pastor’s wife, Princess Jemimah, has advised mothers to check their young daughters’ virginity. Sharing a method for checking virginity as passed on to her by her own mother, the lawyer said she believes in purity although she lost her battle against s3xual immorality many years ago. “HOW I CHECK MY DAUGHTERS VIRGINÎTY. You …
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