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Preventing corruption is better than curing it as recovering stolen funds is costly, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said.

The Anambra Peoples Assembly (APA) has distanced the state and the people from the struggle for the secession sponsored by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The National Industrial Court, Abuja, has fixed Sept.26, to hear the case of Felix Adariku and 256 other disengaged workers’ of the Total Exploration and Production Company.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has arrested Prof. Lucy Ogbadu, the Director-General of National Biotechnology Development Agency, over alleged N23m fraud.

The Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative (HOFOWEM), an initiative of Mrs Bolanle Ambode, wife of the Lagos State Governor, on Thursday empowered 103 widows to sustain their means of livelihood.

The absence of Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf on Thursday stalled the trial of former National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki in an FCT High Court Maitama.

A suspected kidnapper, Akachukwu Agu, has confessed to consistently raping a female magistrate kidnapped and kept in his custody.

The Presidency on Thursday said the retention of the Presidential Aircraft, NAF 001, in London where President Muhammadu Buhari is currently receiving medical attention was borne out protocol, national security, diplomacy and prestige.

The Ikorodu community of Lagos state has announced that it will conduct ritual rites on Friday, 30th of June, 2017 following the continuous attack on residents of the area by suspected ritual cult group, Badoo.

Barely 24 hours after the gruesome murder of a couple and their three children at Olopomeji, Odogunyan in Ikorodu Lagos state by suspected ritual cult Baddo, nemesis has caught up with a member of the group, who was caught and burnt alive by an angry mob.