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Mother, 23, went on huge shopping spree after council put £52,000 in her bank account by MISTAKE Michaela Hutchings blew £9,000 on trip to Birmingham's Bullring Centre She bought designer clothes, shoes, jeans, sunglasses and other luxuries The 23-year-old transferred £40,000 into an investment account Council just managed to stop a further £44,500 being wired to her account Court heard how she had been influenced by her former partner Sentenced to a 12-month community order and 150 hours unpaid work   Michaela Hutchings spent £52,000 Litchfield Council put in her account by mistake, instead of reporting the error A young woman went on a marathon shopping spree hours after a bungling council accidentally credited her bank account with £52,000. Michaela Hutchings, 23, spent £9,000 on expensive designer clothes, sunglasses and other items after finding the money in her account. Instead of reporting the error, she also gave her mother Elaine £1,...

Femi Fani-Kayode Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have stormed the home of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for receiving N840m from the Director of Finance, Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman. Fani-Kayode wrote on his official Facebook page, “Today the EFCC invited me to come their office on Monday. I have their letter. I agreed to be there. Now they have surrounded my house. “The letter of invitation was served this morning and it was dated May 6. They said I should report on the 9th. Can someone please tell me why they are at my gate? They can’t even wait because they want to detain me so badly and keep me away for the weekend. “I never refused their invitation. Why all this? I leave them to God.” Fani-Kayode, who was the Director of Publicity for Jonathan’s campaign organisation, was said to have received the money in January, 2015. The money was said to have emanated from the Central ...

A section of Computer Village To reduce the massive unemployment in the country, GSM dealers have appealed to the federal government to create an enabling environment for overseas phone manufacturers to set up factories in Nigeria. Mr. Yisu Alijafaru, the Task Force Chairman of GSM Village in Abuja who made this call on Friday in Abuja, said that the move would also make Nigeria a phone producing country and preserve the foreign exchange. He also advised the Federal Government to create an avenue for phone investors to establish manufacturing industries in the country. “We have well educated and willing people who are ready to learn the production processes of phones whether here in Nigeria or outside the country, if the government can sponsor them. “ Some of our members have engaged in ICT trainings individually and have been able to master software and hardware as relating to computers. “ The government can even start with bringing people to teach us how t...

According to Twitter User @tullar360, a car was on fire some moment ago on Oba Akran Road, Ikeja. From the look of the picture shared, the car is totally damaged

Buhari signed the 2016 budget into law today. Read his remark during the signing below 1. It gives me great pleasure today to sign the first full-year budget of this administration into law. I thank the leadership of the National Assembly, in particular, the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and indeed all members of the National Assembly for their cooperation in making this a reality.  2. The budget is intended to signpost a renewal of our commitment to restoring the budget as a serious article of faith with the Nigerian people. This Administration is committed to ensuring that henceforth the annual appropriation bill is presented to the National Assembly in time for the passage of the Act before the beginning of the fiscal year. 3. Through the 2016 budget, aptly titled "Budget of Change’’, the government seeks to fulfill its own side of the social contract. The Budget I have signed into law provides for aggregate expen...