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   A Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja has granted a remand application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking to remand Femi Fani-Kayode on an alleged N1.5 billion fraud. Mr. Fani-Kayode, the former spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization in the 2015 presidential election and the former Minister of Aviation, was brought before Chief Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi at about 10:55 AM yesterday. Femi Fani-Kayode When the matter was called at about 12:30 PM, the anti-graft counsel, Mr. A. N. Anana, told the court of the application for an order of remand dated May 10, 2016 brought pursuant to Section 261 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) of 2011 of Lagos State, pending when he will be properly arraigned at the appropriate court. "We have an application before the court, an order of remand dated May 10 brought pursuant to Section 261 of ACJL. Attached with it is a nine paragraph affidavit of urgency deposed to by one

  A 2015 internal memo given to SaharaReporters from Nigeria’s Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FSAN) office of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that tomato paste imported from China, and sold throughout Nigeria, falls far below national food safety standards. This latest case of food fraud is not the first time Nigeria has dealt with substandard food product imports. In June 2015, NAFDAC issued a warning against consuming imported frozen poultry meat, which was found to be a “causative factor” in non-communicative diseases (NCDs) and antibiotics resistance. A 2012 study found that certain chocolates and candies imported in Nigeria contained dangerously high levels of metals. FSAN discovered this after conducting a study in which 314 packets of tomato paste purchased in Lagos were analyzed in a laboratory to determine whether they had a tomato content of at least 28 percent, the minimum requirement specified by the Codex Alimen

    According to twitter user Adamson Stivey, a motorcyclist ‎was hacked to death by unknown persons in the early hours of today at Lobi Quarters area of Makurdi, Benue State.‎ Residents of the state say the incident might have happened at about 5am.

In an audacious heist involving thousands of coordinated withdrawals, 100 thieves in Japan made away with $13m in just under three hours and what's more, none of them have been apprehended. Police believe that as many as 100 people worked together using forged credit cards containing account details illegally obtained from a bank in South Africa. The attack which took place on the morning of May 15th appears to have been the brainchild of a criminal mastermind.The fake cards were used in 1400 ATM's and each person made a withdrawal 100,000 yen – the maximum allowed by the cash machines, they were able to cart away more than 1.4bn yen (US$12.7m)  Japanese police have requested the assistance of the authorities in South Africa, via Interpol in establishing how the credit card information was obtained.Transaction data retrieved from the cash machines suggests that the criminals used information for 1,600 credit cards issued by the unnamed South Africa

Chief bomb maker in Boko Haram terror group was shot dead today May 23rd. According to a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sani Usman, the chief bomb maker was one of the sects capable hands involved in making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), coming after their chief scientist, called Abu RPG (who has been killed long ago). The chief bomb maker was killed by one of the body guard of the Boko Haram terrorists leader, Abubakar Shekau as he was about to run away just like several others are doing because of the intensity of Operation CRACKDOWN. In a related development, one Julelebeeb who was appointed to take over is now completely blind because his two eyes were shattered by shrapnel, in the process of preparing an IED to consolidate his appointment. According to the statement, this development has dealt a devastating blow on the terrorists capacity on IED preparation, suicide bombing and their ability to sustain their crimina

The World Health Organisation has described Onitsha, the commercial capital of the South Eastern region, as the most polluted city in the world. WHO noted in its recent report after measuring the air quality from over 3,000 cities in the world, Onitisha ranked as the lowest. Kaduna, Aba and Umuahia are also among the 20 cities with the worst air quality globally. The health agency stated that a study of Onitsha found more than 100 petrol filling stations in the city selling low-quality fuel, just as there were several refuse dumps, fuel spills along with high levels of arsenic, mercury, lead, copper and iron in its water. The WHO said,” The level of pollution in Onitsha is getting increasingly serious. Onitsha’s average annual PM10 was recorded to be 594, which is nearly 30 times greater than the recommended annual PM10 level of 20.” Confronted with such information in another society, perhaps, the Anambra State Government would have declared a s

FILE PHOTO: Surging crowd at an Immigration recruitment test in 2014. Nigeria’s employment crisis worsened in the first quarter of 2016, with unemployment rate rising to 12.1 per cent, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said on Friday. The bureau said in its latest Unemployment Watch report that between December 2015 and March 2016, the population of unemployed Nigerians increased by 518,000 to over 1.45 million. Economically active or working age population, the NBS said, increased from 105.02 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 to 106 million by the end of March 2016. However, actual population of people willing, able and actively looking for work increased by 1.99 per cent, from 76.9 million in fourth quarter of 2015 to 78.4 million in the first quarter of 2016. The report said failure of government to meet its target of creating a minimum of 1.5 million jobs required for the period to keep the unemployment rate c

A man held his (ex) girlfriend’s leg to beg her not to break up in street of China‬ recently. He was so desperate that he pulled stockings of the girl off A group of audience gathered to watch the drama. The girl got extremely furious; she slapped the man on the face 12 times. But even this did not stop him from trying. The girl eventually had to run away barefooted

According to reports, the young boy pictured was brutalized by his Step Mother. She cut his tongue, broke his arms and legs, damaged his right eye and castrated him with a blade. How sad! No further reports on whether she has been apprehended yet. Photo Credit: Twitter | YMRigasa

  President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended his scheduled official visit to Lagos State, earlier billed for Monday May 22, 2016. The president will now visit Lagos after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday. The fasting is expected to begin June ending. Mr. Shehu said the president is faced with ‘scheduling difficulties” difficulties The president’s office had scheduled the two-day visit, where he was to commission completed projects across the state. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will now represent Mr. Buhari at a low-profile event, Mr. Shehu said. He told PREMIUM TIMES most projects lined up for commissioning during Mr. Buhari’s visit will now be placed on hold until after the Ramadan. “The president is faced with scheduling difficulties difficulties and that is the reason for the postponement,” Mr. Shehu said. Mr. Shehu said a similar trip to Edo

No fewer than 13 persons died on Sunday after a commercial bus en route from Enugu State had a head-on collision with a trailer at Ofeme Junction on Umuahia Road, Abia State. Two other passengers in the 18-seater bus belonging to Peace Mass Transit Limited with number plate, AKL895YY, reportedly sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident that happened around 11am. The trailer en route to Enugu State from Port Harcourt, River State, was said to be on top speed and lost control, veering into the path of the bus, which was a few kilometres away from its destination – Umuahia. It was gathered that the trailer driver fled the scene immediately after the crash. An eyewitness, who identified herself simply as Sharon, said some of the passengers were mangled in the bus while  others were thrown on the road as crowd gathered to rescue the injured. She said she was in another bus travelling to Ebonyi State, adding that he counted eight lifeless b

A businessman identified as Fortune, who was kidnapped alongside his childhood friend, Jane, on May 11, 2016, said they were tortured for giving their captors expired ATM card. Fortune, who was rescued alongside with Jane by operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Rivers State, said they were kidnapped after his stolen car was recovered by the police. He explained that he had called Jane to escort him to Kalla Police Station, adding that they were accosted by the hoodlums on their way to retrieve the car from Kalla Police Station. Disclosing that their captors took them to a forest somewhere in Igwuruta in Obio/Akpor LGA, Fortune said they inflicted injuries on his head and body when they discovered that the ATM machine at the bank could not release money for them. He said, “At the long run, we discovered that we were somewhere around Igwuruta, very deep inside the forest. Our kidnapper stabbed us, beat us and even took my expired ATM c