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The Chief Magistrate of a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old man, Biodun Lukeman, to 10 days community service for stealing N61,000. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Ipaye Nwachukwu, in her judgment, ordered that the convict must put two hours daily for 10 days in serving the sentence. The convict, whose address is unknown, pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of stealing. Prosecutor Anthonia Osanyade told the court that the convict committed the offence at Orile Iganmu in Lagos, sometime in July. Osanyade said that the…

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Worse than expected were the key fundamentals, including Gross Domestic Product, GDP; inflation, employement/ unemployement, capital importation, among others as Nigeria’s econpmy came under review yesterday. National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said, yesterday, that Nigeria’s GDP at constant basic prices, contracted in the second quarter 2016 (Q2’16) by 2.06 per cent after shrinking 0.36 in Q1’16. It said the non-oil sector declined due to a weaker currency, while lower prices dragged the oil sector down. A slump in crude prices, Nigeria’s mainstay, has depressed public finances and the value of…

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Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook. Zuckerberg, who is currently on a business visit to Nigeria, made the promise at a meeting with software developers and ICT entrepreneurs on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that social media application currently allowed the use of Hausa language on Facebook. “I am glad we support Hausa and we are planning on supporting a lot more languages soon.” Zuckerberg also expressed his willingness to work with local content providers in bringing Nigerian communities to…

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Ekene Aboji, 35, a prophet with Jesus Miracle Ministry, Ifite-Awka, was arrested by the Anambra State Police for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old boy after a vigil. Anambra State’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Nkeiru Nwode, said in Awka, yesterday, that the alleged defilement of the boy by the prophet occurred on August19 at the Church premises. Nwode told newsmen that medical report showed that the victim sustained bruises on his neck and anus, adding that investigations were ongoing. In Nwode’s words: “This is a case of homosexual and unnatural offence;…

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Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, stormed the office of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday, protesting over non-accreditation of medical and dental programmes in the institution. The students, who defied the early morning downpour, stormed the office of the governor to express their displeasure over the administration of Lagos State University College of Medicine, LASUCOM. The students were armed with placards with different inscriptions like: “Our parents are frustrated, they think we have been rusticated’, ‘Ambode; release N100 million to LASUCOM’, ‘Ambode, please save us from shame…

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Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of Borno State, Barrister Kaka Shehu Lawan, has deposed 40 reasons to support his claim that the erstwhile governor of the state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff precipitated the Boko Haram insurgency that has led to more than 20,000 deaths and displacement of more than two million persons in the Northeast. Reacting to Sheriff’s demand for apology and facts on his claim first made at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA conference in Port-Harcourt, Lawan articulated 40 reasons he said showed that Sheriff’s arrogance and desperation…

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Scammers, parading as non-governmental organizations(NGO) have been using fictitious names to defraud corporate bodies and individuals by claiming they are representing the interests of the Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has said it has discovered no fewer than 40 fake NGOs involved. Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Commandant of the NSCDC in the state, revealed. Abdullahi said the illegal NGOs were running nothing more than a certified scam by their actions. “We discovered that many of them were only interested in posing…

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The Federal Government has promised to sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. The president made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu. According to the statement, Buhari, who was speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya, on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), said that African countries had a lot to learn from Japan on developing agriculture. He…

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