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             The Nigerian Police Force paraded kidnappers of Deputy High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to Nigeria and others,today 12th July 2016.The Nigeria Police Force paraded an eleven man kidnap gang terrorizing Kaduna,FCT and other North-Central States of Nigeria today,at the Peace-Keeping Hall,Force Headquarters,Abuja.In a press release today,the Nigerian Police wrote that  ''In a coordinated operation based on intelligence and technical support,the Intelligence Response Team {IRT} of the Nigeria Police has smashed an eleven man kidnap gang that had for some time now terrorized Kaduna State,the FCT and other North-Central States of Nigeria.The dare devil criminal gang was responsible for the abduction of the Sierra-Leonean Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria,Maj Gen. Alfred Claude-Nelson on June 30,2016,the Executive Director of Dangote Grop and many other high profile kidnap for ransom in recent times.The modus operandi of these criminal elements includes mounting road b

                        The Lagos State Governor Mr Akinwunmi Ambode today tuesday said hiss administration has concluded plans to massively revamp the health sector,just as he among other things,revealed that the sum of N10bn has been earmarked to upgrade the health facilities across the state.Governor Amode,who spoke at the 4th Quarterly Town Hall Meeting held at the Muslim Community Praying Ground in Badagry,said modern equipment would be procured to facilitate treatment,while government would also invest massively in capacity building of the medical staff,all in a bid to provide world class health care for the citizenry.Governor Ambode said ''We have commenced a comprehensive action to rehabilitate and upgrade the facilities in all our hospitals.Modern equipment will be procured to facilitate treatment and we will invest in capacity building of our medical staff.We intend to spend over N10bn on our hospitals across the State before December this year.We will recruit and tra

                  The EFCC has called on Nigerian students to buy into the war against corruption,economic and financial crimes in Nigeria.The plea was made today,July 12,2016,when National Association of Management and Business Administration Students,Adamawa State University,Mubi,Adamawa state,paid the Commission a courtesy call at the EFCC Academy,Karu,Abuja.The Commandant of the Academy who was represented by Abiodun Adebanjo,welcomed the students and told them that the Commission has the mandate of Preventing,Investigating and Prosecution of all cases of economic and financial crimes in Nigeria.Head,Enlightenment and Re-orientation Unit,who was represented by Zainab .B. Tifi explained that the unit is responsible for preventive mandate of the Commission and this mandate is carried out by sensitizing the publics on the ills of corruption by enlightenment and re-orientation of the masses through a well designed programmes meant for different categories of people in Nigeria.Francis M

                      Madonna is in Malawi to tour a medical centre that she is supporting in the country.The 57 year old super star visited a paediatric surgery and Malawi's first ever intensive care unit at the Queen Elizabeth central Hospital which is set to be complete by early 2017.Madonna is travelling with her son Rocco,15 and her two children adopted from Malawi,10 year olds David and Mercy.Madonna met with Malawian President Peter Mutharika and Health Minister Peter Kumpalume to talk about her charity work.The picture above,Madonna captioned the picture ''Met with His Excellency President Peter Mutharika!.We discussed food security,educaion for girls and staffing for our new Pediatric hospital in Blantyre with Nurses And Clinical Officers.mwmwmw Raising Malawi''-Madonna.Then the picture below with her two adopted children she captioned it ''Join Mercy,David and myself at the NEw Pediatric Surgery Hospital in Blantyre adjacent to Queen Elizabeth hosp

                              Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger weds tennis player Ana Ivanovic in Venice.The German team captain and World's 25th women tennis player tied the knot today after dating since 2014.Manchester United midfielder Schweinsteiger and tennis ace Ivanovic held their wedding service at Venice City Hall before sailing across the Venice canal today tuesday.More photos below.                                                                                                                                                                

                          The EFCC on 11th July 2016,secured the conviction of Pastor Emmanuel Markus Anga and Atin Victor Generous before Justice Abubakar Jauro of Gombe State High Court on two count bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretense.Justice Jauro convicted and sentence the convicts to seven years imprisonment on count one {conspiracy},the sentence are to run-concurrently,and also convicted and sentence Generous to another seven years in count two {Obtaining by false pretense},the sentence are to commence on 11th July,2016.Anga and Generous are alleged to have in November 203,deceived David Madison,into believing that they were employees of foreign exchange business,Gora Commanding Resources,which they claimed belonged to Philemon Gora,who is still at large.Madison was lured into believing that his investment of five hundred thousand {N500,000.00} would yield him ten percent {10%} interest as returns on a monthly basis.He however discovered later that the 1

                The newly appointed Chairman ,Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission {LASIEC},Hon. Justice Ayotunde Adeyoola Philips has disclosed that the Commission would soon embark on a tour of the 57 Local Government/Local Council Developmeent Areas of the State.Speaking at a meeting with Electoral Commissioners and the Permanent Secretary of the Commission,the Chairman said the purpose of the tour is to enable members of the Commission familiarize themselves with the terrain in the various parts of the State in preparation for the conduct of the next election into the 57 Local Government/Local Council Development Areas.She added that,the tour would also afford members the opportunity to assess the state of offices allocated to Electoral Officers of the Commission in the various local government and local council development areas {LG & LCDAs}.Justice Ayotunde Phillips promised that the Commission would conduct free,fair and credible elections into the LG & LCDAs.Sim