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A police operation is underway at the busy mall near Bondi Beach after the suspected stabbing on Saturday afternoon, according to the news site.     Hundreds of people on Saturday were evacuated from a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia after a suspected stabbing. A police operation is underway at the busy mall near Bondi Beach after the suspected stabbing on Saturday afternoon, according to the news site. Two witnesses told Reuters they heard shots...

  Some of the governorship aspirants vying for the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State have knocked the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, for declaring that there is no vacancy at the state government house, Akure.  SaharaReporters had reported that at the APC national secretariat on Friday in Abuja, shortly after his screening ahead of the party’s primary election slated for April 20, Aiyedatiwa had...

A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Staff, Mr Monday Osazuwa, has narrated to an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former Governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect the sum of $3 million cash in tranches.   Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) on Friday said that he was a dispatch rider in Zenith Bank since...

SaharaReporters earlier reported how Bobrisky was arrested last Wednesday evening by personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos State.     A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday morning sentenced a popular crossdresser and socialite Idris Okuneye better known as Bobrisky to six months in jail without the option of a fine over naira abuse. SaharaReporters earlier reported how Bobrisky was arrested last Wednesday evening by personnel of the Economic...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released details of 18 out of the 26 fresh multi-million-dollar and naira corruption charges preferred against Emefiele.     A high court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has granted bail to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in the sum of N50 million. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released details of 18 out of the 26 fresh multi-million-dollar and naira...

It was learnt that Rogers was abducted by the assailants at about 9 pm on Thursday close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt, the state capital.     Some gunmen on Thursday night kidnapped the Channels Television reporter in Rivers State, Mr. Joshua Rogers. It was learnt that Rogers was abducted by the assailants at about 9 pm on Thursday close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The...

The Russian instructors arrived in the country on Wednesday night, public broadcaster Radio Television du Niger (RTN) reported on Thursday, airing footage of a military plane unloading cargo.     A Russian military cargo plane has transported a team of instructors and various equipment to assist the Nigerien army with counterterrorism training, Sputnik reports.   The Russian instructors arrived in the country on Wednesday night, public broadcaster Radio Television du Niger (RTN) reported on Thursday,...

A youth identified as Titus Durkwa David has narrated how he was assaulted, brutalised, humiliated, and detained by members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, Borno State for wearing an Afro.    Afro is a hairstyle popular with black people in the 1970s in which the hair is cut into a large round shape.    David said he was tagged a criminal for wearing the hairstyle and brutalised by 10 members of...

  Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has described N15.6 trillion for the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as “wasteful and a highway to fraud.”    The former Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, insisted that the award of the Lagos-Calabar Highway Project did not meet the minimum threshold of due process.   SaharaReporters had reported Umahi, while featuring on Channels Television’s Morning programme on Thursday, said that the Lagos-Calabar...

Enahoro Erijoh, the private secretary to the member representing Isoko South constituency 11 in the Delta State House of Assembly, Ferguson Onwo is said to be at loggerheads with his principal following the alleged continued deduction of a percentage from his salary.   SaharaReporters gathered that the alleged salary percentage deduction by the former majority leader amounted to millions of naira.   This occurred during the 7th Assembly between 2019 and 2023.   Meanwhile, it...