Negotiations between Nigeria, the United States of America and the Island of Jersey for the return of fresh $300m from former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha, has reached an advanced stage, Daily Trust heard yesterday. The Special Assistant to the President on Justice Sector Reform and National Coordinator for Open Government Partnership, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, A presidential aide, also said the figures being reported [£210m – equivalent to $267m or N82bn) are wrong. She said negotiations and litigation on money have been ongoing for over three years between the USA, Island of Jersey and Nigeria. The presidential aide refuted reports that the money will be divided between Nigeria, US and Jersey. Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu said the decision of the court in Jersey is that the fund belongs to Nigeria, adding that the concluding part of the negotiation is to determine how it would be utilised. “We have been in court over the fund; finally the court has agreed the money be ...
Popular Telugu TV actress, Naga Jhansi committed suicide at her residence in Hyderabad by hanging herself on Wednesday. The 21-year old actress is said to have taken such an extreme step after a failed relationship with her boyfriend Surya aka Nani. Jhansi and Nani are said to have been in a relationship for a while now but Nani's parents were against their relationship. They were unhappy with him planning to get married to Jhansi and this did not go down well with her. Police officials reached her residence after they were informed by neighbours of the actress' death. Officials shifted her body to Gandhi Hospital and have started investigating the case. Reportedly, police officials are waiting for the post-mortem report and will begin their investigation after that. Jhansi is known for her role in popular Telugu daily soap Pavitra Bandham. The actress hails from Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh and lives alone in Srinagar Colony in Hyderabad. This is not th...
Nollywood Actor, Paul Obazele, in an interview, talks about how the Nollywood industry is been controlled by gays and lesbians. Gistvic Reports. When asked how the industry has been taken over by homosexuals. Paul Obazele said He said: "I have said it times without number that the industry is controlled by gays and lesbians; I am not hiding it. It is obvious and known. Even some television owners are gays and lesbians, and that is satanic. When I was president of the AMP, I published their names. Saying you were born a homosexual is a lie."
A teacher has been sentenced to death by hanging for raping a four-year-old student so badly that she had to have her intestines realigned. Mahendra Singh Gond is due to be hanged next month after he raped the child on June 30 last year in India's Madhya Pradesh district. He raped the girl so badly that he rearranged her insides, then he dumped her body in a jungle area, assuming she was dead. A desperate search was launched, before the girl's family found her with agonising injuries and rushed her to hospital. Her injuries were so severe that she had to be airlifted to a Delhi hospital where she had an operation to realign her intestines, reports Times Now News. Gond was arrested within hours of the horrific attack and he was convicted after the girl made a statement during her recovery. Gond was sentenced to capital punishment on September 19 last year. He is due to be executed at 5am on March 2. However, the hanging can still be stopped by the Supreme Court or the Preside...
President Buhari this morning delivered his keynote address at the 20th Anniversary of the international Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, Netherlands. See more photo below To support financially for the development of the blog kindly call this number below +2348064941352
Victims of domestic violence in New Zealand will now be allowed to take up to 10 days paid leave from work to try to escape the abuse. This is part of a scheme to address the nation’s "shocking" levels of family violence. Introducing the scheme, which is the first in the developed world, Greens MP Jan Logie, a member of the ruling Labour-led coalition, said the leave would help victims to move homes or settle children into new schools. She said it would also help to protect victims from abusers, who often stalked them at work or tried to sabotage their careers. "This is a win for victims, a win for employers, and a win for society," she said. "This law is a world first and it will make a significant difference for people trying to escape domestic violence." New Zealand has one of the world's highest rates of domestic violence, a phenomenon that has been blamed on a range of factors, including high levels of alcohol and drug use as...
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has identified the late former military Head of State, Sani Abacha, as the biggest thief in world history, stating that 21-years after, more loots linked to the former dictator were still being uncovered. Omokri was responding to the claim by Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, that Northerners are rarely arrested for advance fee fraud, popularly known in local parlance as Yahoo Yahoo. Speaking at the Northern Youth summit organised by Northern Hibiscus Initiative in Kaduna on Saturday, El-Rufai said although the North was the most backward and uneducated region in Nigeria, it was a thing of pride that Northerners were rarely arrested for Yahoo Yahoo and other financial crimes. El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated and unhealthy northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern Nigeria. We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why is it t...
Famous Mexican drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been found guilty on all counts against him and is expected to spend the rest of his life in a US jail El Chapo who escaped from prison twice, made his first successful attempt in 2001 and broke out of a Mexican jail by hiding in a laundry bin. Then, in 2014, he fled jail through a mile-long lighted tunnel which his associates had fitted with a motorcycle on rails. He was arrested again in 2016 and extradited to the US the following year. On Tuesday, Guzman was convicted of running a criminal enterprise that amassed him a $14 billion (£11 billion) fortune. He ran the Sinaloa cartel, becoming the world's most notorious drug baron since Pablo Escobar, the Colombian who was shot dead in 1993. The 61-year-old showed no emotion as a jury in New York found him guilty of 10 drug-related charges. He will be sentenced on June 25, and will face a mandatory life term. After the verdic...
Barcelona Star Lionel Messi showed his skills yet again in a new Pepsi Advert. MySportDab report Messi uploaded a behind the scenes video to his Instagram page as he filmed an advert with one of his brand endorsements. He places a half-empty bottle on top of a football before chipping the ball through a nearby hoop, watching the drink rotate in the air before landing flat on the floor. Messi sees the bottle land perfectly still on the floor before turning to the camera and smiling as he walks away. For some it was merely yet another sign that he is the Greatest of All Time (GOAT). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bJx7g-864
R&B singer, Chris Brown has landed himself in another trouble after being accused of rape in Paris. According to French publication 'Closer', the 29-year-old R&B star is currently under investigation by French police after a 24-year-old woman claimed he sexually assaulted her in his hotel room this month. She said Chris Brown raped her on the night of Jan. 15-16th after meeting at a club located near Les Champs-Elysees in France . The woman filed a complaint to the police claiming that Brown invited her to his hotel room at Le Mandarin Oriental along with another woman. However, in her testimony, she claims that she ended up in a single room with Chris Brown where she claims she was raped. She also alleges that Breezy's bodyguard and his friend also abused her. Paris parquet already opened a case and began investigating into the claims that she was raped her at Chris'hotel room. The police opened a case and are currently invest...
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