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According to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium, more than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya, and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The so-called “Pandora Papers” investigation — involving some 600 journalists from media including The Washington Post, the BBC and The Guardian — is based on the leak of some 11.9 million documents from 14 financial services companies around the world. Some 35 current and former leaders are…

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Eldest son of legal icon, late Rotimi Williams, SAN, Ladi Williams, SAN, has died of Covid-19 complications at age 74. His death was confirmed by his younger brother, Kayode Williams, who said his late brother died of COVID-19 complications. He died around 3am at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. He said: “I just lost my elder brother, Ladi Williams, aged 74+, to Coronavirus. He passed on at 3am, this morning (Sunday).” His son, Kunle Williams, also confirmed the incident, but added that his father was fully vaccinated, having taken the…

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The sit–at–home ordered by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was totally observed in all parts of the South East as cities in the zone were deserted. The sympathy sit-at-home was declared by IPOB for people from Southeast not to be part of Nigeria’s Independence Day celebration, saying that there was nothing to celebrate. Apart from the incident in Oboama Nguru in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State where enforcers of the sit-at-home burnt to death a commercial bus driver, people just stayed in their homes. The area witnessed…

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Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun State, on Friday blocked the Ede/Ife road and the Ife/Ibadan expressway to protest the death of one of their colleagues and 400-level student of the Department of Foreign Languages, Aishat Adesina. The students during the protest halted vehicular movement on the roads, leading to traffic gridlock, while many commuters looked for alternative routes to reach their destinations. The development has however led to the closure of the institution. A statement on Friday by the varsity’s spokesperson, Abiodun Olanrewaju, announced the immediate…

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, said he had directed a conditional lifting of the ban placed on the operations of the micro blogging site, Twitter, in Nigeria in June. Buhari disclosed this in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark the nation’s 61st independence. He described the social media as a very useful platform but regretted that some users have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute criminal activities, propagate fake news, and promote ethnic and religious sentiments. The President said, “Social media is a very useful platform that…

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Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State Governor, yesterday signed the anti-open grazing bill into law. Abiodun, who assented to the bill during a security council meeting in the State Secretariat at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, urged the security agencies to swing immediately into action and enforce the law. The signing of the anti-open grazing law by the governor followed the decision of the Southern Governors’ Forum in August, setting the September deadline to pass the law across the states. The Ogun State House of Assembly had on July 8, 2021, passed the bill. The…

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