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Lagos State Government says residents of the state spend over N1bn on parties and entertainment every month.Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Ademorin Kuye, said this on Thursday at the briefing of the ministry in Alausa, Ikeja.He said the benefits of entertainment industry had not been fully utilised in Lagos and the country, adding that taxes that should accrue to the government were spent on social gatherings. There is merriment tax in the constitutio
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A veteran guitarist, Fatoke Abiodun, was on Tuesday sentenced to three years imprisonment for drug trafficking at the Federal High Court, Lagos.The 62-year-old Abiodun was a former guitarist with King Sunny Ade, a foremost Nigerian musician.Abiodun had pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful exportation of 1.575kg of cocaine during his arraignment on February 26, 2013.Prior to the judgment, defence counsel, Mr. Bayo Onifade, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as Abio
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The controversial Sunburn Yacht brought to Lagos by former Senator Tokuboh Afikuyomi and financed by Diamond bank plc recently disappeared from the Marina water in Lagos under a mysterious circumstances. Since its disappearance, neither the bank nor its promoter Lone Seed has come out to state why the yacht suddenly disappeared. It can now be revealed that the missing boat has found its way back to river Thames in London where it originally came fro the boat was said to have been spotted
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Private jets used to smuggle cash, fugitives FGThe Federal Government on Sunday said illegal consignments and cash in local and foreign currencies were being smuggled on daily basis in and out of the country aboard private jets.It also said some persons that securities agencies had declared wanted were being airlifted out of the country aboard private and chartered jets.As a result, it insisted that pilots flying such jets must declare the passenger manifest before being allowed to
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Former Golden Eaglets coach, Fanny Amun, has been arrested by policemen from Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos State for assault. Amun was said to have attacked a man identified as Okechukwu while he was walking along the street in Surulere.According to eyewitnesses, Amun attacked the man because he had the impression that his wife was dating and sleeping with Okechukwu. Okechukwu later went to Bode Thomas Police Station to report.Amun was subsequently arrested.His wife was also invited a
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Friday, May 10, 2013
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has arrested a trader, Olisaemeka Osefoh, for importation of counterfeit medicines and fake Rough Rider condoms into Nigeria.Thegazellenews.com reliably gathered that the estimated street value of the goods was N106, 210, 000.Some of the drugs seized include, Mycoten cream, Neurogesic ointment and Skineal cream.Osefoh in his statement, said he was in partnership with a cartel based in China, where the products
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
A three story building owned by the FourSquare Gospel Church in Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos has trapped several construction workers.Emergency workers said they rescued one person, but four other are still trapped in the building.National Emergency management Agency NEMA official said while the rescue work was going on at the Foursquare Church building collapse, two other building collapsed in Bariga and
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
The Senator Emmanuel Paulker-led Committee on Petroleum Upstream which is currently investigating the involvements of the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Dieziani Allison-Madueke and some of her stooges, Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko will definitely be answerable not just to tax payers but the Nigerian masses if the matter is swept under the carpet as the usual practice.The Committee, this office gathered is charged to look into the allegations of fraudulent dealings and illegal transfer of four oil
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
The fabrication making round on online media platforms and soft-sell magazines on succession tussle involving Access Banks Group Managing Director, Aigboje Aig-Imoukuhede and his longstanding friend and partner, Herbert Wigwe, the current Group Deputy Managing Director, has been discovered to be untrue. Our investigation has revealed that Herbert Wigwe will assume leadership at the Bank upon Aigbojes retirement.In the report copied from the social media and prominently published by Leaders
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
The revelations cropping up about the Daniel Ademinokan/Doris Simeon/Stella Damasus love triangle seem to be unending.With all the accusations against Doris coming from Daniel and Stellas loyalists about her lacklustre performance in the bedroom and all, fresh revelations have arose, stating that if Daniel marries Stella, he would be committing bigamy because Daniel and Doris are not DIVORCED yet as he has led the media to believeThe story we gathered was that, he tricked her into moving t
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