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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, stormed the Lagos Head Office of the Dangote Group. According to TheCable, the anti-graft agency’s operatives were carrying out a search on forex allocations to the company during the tenure of Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, declined comments on the development. However, a Dangote employee confirmed that EFCC operatives were at the company’s head office. “They asked for documents on forex transactions with the CBN,” the employee said.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has explained how an undercover reporter breached its system and got mobilised for the scheme even after serving in 2019. Days after the report went viral, the spokesman of the NYSC Eddy Megwa explained that the reporter used different phone numbers to beat the system. “It is not that we don’t have checks and balances in place to detect possible breaches of the system. When the undercover reporter first put in his data, the system rejected him because he had served in the scheme before. He later changed his email address and his phone number which made the system to accept him. And he was initially posted to Osun State,” he said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “He did that because he was out for a particular purpose. We are looking at the situation and ensure that it does not happen again. We don’t have a database of graduates to serve in the scheme. We only rely on the lists sent to us by the senates of the various ...

A video revealing the moment a convict, Deobra Redden, attacked a Clark County District Court Judge, Mary Holthus, in Las Vegas, United States of America, is trending on social media.  The video revealed the moment Redden moved from where he was standing and jumped into the judge’s bench to attack her.  The PUNCH reports that the convicted criminal attacked and assaulted the Las Vegas judge during a hearing on Wednesday after she refused to grant him bail.  Witnesses told The Independent that a courtroom marshal was hospitalised with a dislocated shoulder and a gushing cut on his forehead after being hurt while attempting to remove the defendant.  The Las Vegas district court in a statement said, “We commend the heroic acts of her staff, law enforcement, and all others who subdued the defendant.  “The court remains committed to a safe and secure courthouse and courtrooms. We are reviewing all our protocols and will do whatever is necessary to protect the judicia...

The latest attack came barely two weeks after the insurgents perpetrated a similar attack in Chibok, where they killed two persons and looted food stuff in some houses before settling them ablaze. Suspected Boko Haram terrorists in military uniform have killed 12 persons and abducted one in Gatamarwa and Tsiha communities in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. The latest attack came barely two weeks after the insurgents perpetrated a similar attack in Chibok, where they killed two persons and looted food stuff in some houses before settling them ablaze. The Police Public Relations officer, Borno State command, ASP Nahum Daso Kenneth, confirmed the attack saying 12 corpses were recovered. “The gunmen shot sporadically at the people in the two communities. So far, 12 corpses were recovered and two were injured,” he said. He said the police commissioner and other security heads had ordered discreet investigation into the matter to bring the perpetrators to book. According to Dail...

An Elephant’s pregnancy is for the duration of 22months. The longest among Mammals. It is almost impossible for elephants to birth twins. This is because mothers rarely have enough milk to feed their babies (calves). However, it is possible but both rarely survives.  A female elephants have 4-5 (most) babies during their life time.  Normally, without being pregnant, an elephant lie to sleep only for 3-4hours a day due to their weights getting up.  A pregnant elephant sleeps while standing most of the time; though they do not sleep deep.  A pregnant elephant feeds for around 20hours a days against their 18 hours of feeding while not pregnant—And while they approached their 20th months of pregnancy, they begin to starve themselves so they can loose weight. This practice is a natural routine for them to be able to give birth easily.  And when the Baby elephants are born, they do not have the necessary build up microorganisms in their guts to digest plant materials ...