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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission delivered two checks totaling N11.9m to a parish of God's Redeemed Christian Church in Rivers State. It is said that the amount was stolen by a deacon of the RCCG, Cyril Idakwoji. EFCC South-South Zone Head, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, explained on Wednesday that Idakwoji, a former employee of Access Bank, was the church's account officer for the bank. He said the suspect diverted church funds for private use rather than transferring them to the church's bank account. Giving the checks to the pastor in charge of Province 4 of the RCCG, Salihu said: "He (suspect) falsified the letterheads of the region of the church and the signature of the pastor in charge of the region. accountant of the church to execute their criminal plans in the RCCG ". The stolen funds were returned by the bank, which had fired the suspect. Speaking after receiving checks from the anti-graft agency, the pastor of Province 4 of the RCCG, Port Har...

Anthony Joshua has refused to rule out a British full-weight bout against Tyson Fury despite his complications to return to the ring, reports The Independent. Fury's latest fight, a blatant win to snatch Wladimir Klitschko's heavyweight title, was in November 2015 and has since been stripped of his license by the British Boxing Control Board. Joshua, who is defending his IBF and WBA titles against Carlos Takam in Cardiff on Saturday, said he would like a fight if Fury can get in shape. "If you want to fight and get your license with 30 or 40 stones, if you want to get into the ring and show that you can move and control that weight, people will watch you." "What was the weight of his fight (Fury) - 18 stones? Even if he returned to 22 kilos, (George) Foreman came back bigger when he was at his best," added Joshua. Fury, 29, previously flirted with the idea of ​​getting into the ring with "bodybuilder" Joshua and said he would eliminate th...

The 76th National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Democratic People's Party (PDP) has approved rates for the purchase of nomination forms for all charges to be challenged at the December 9 convention. In a statement signed and made available to journalists by the party's national secretary of publicity, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said that the nomination form for the post of national president amounts to N3 million, while that of the national vice president is N2 millions. He said, "The cost of the nomination form for the office of the National Secretary is N2 million. All other national officials, including the National Advertising Secretary, the National Treasurer, among others will pay the sum of N1.5 million each , while ex-officio members will pay N500, 000. "

A 50-year-old stepfather, identified as David Ekong, has been tried before a chief magistrate court in Ikeja for allegedly having carnal knowledge of two of his stepdaughters. Ekong, bricklayer and resident of 30 Abule Oki Street, Iyana Ipaja, a suburb of Lagos, is being tried for corruption, rape and assault. The police prosecutor, Inspector Clifford Ogu, previously told the court that the crimes were committed on 2 and 4 September 2017 at the accused residence. According to Ogu, the accused, who married the mother of the two girls, raped the first 16-year-old girl and desecrated the second girl, 12, on different occasions. He said: "The defendants threatened to kill them if they tell their mother." Ogu said that when the first girl resisted his advance a few weeks after raping her, the accused beat her to stupor. He added: "It was then that the girl told her mother what the accused had been doing with her and her younger sister. "The mother reported ...

On Wednesday, Finance Minister Ms. Kemi Adeosun stated that the Federal Government would apply the sum of $ 3 billion to refinance debts inherited from the previous administration. The spending is part of the $ 5.5 billion foreign loan obtained from international financial markets, according to the minister. Adeosun, who appeared on a television program in Abuja, according to a statement made by his Special Media Adviser, Mr. Oluyinka Akintunde, said that the proposed $ 5.5bn loan consisted of the refinancing of equity debts for a sum of $ 3 billion and a new loan of $ 2.5 billion for the 2017 budget. The minister said that the 2017 budget faced liquidity problems, which partly explained why the Federal Government sought to borrow $ 5.5bn from the international financial market. She said the other reason was to get $ 3bn to refinance part of the domestic debt incurred by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. The minister said that under Jonathan, the country's de...

The controversial personality in the air (OAP), Daddy Freeze, has stated that premarital sex is not condemned in the Bible. He also said that there is nothing wrong with having sex every day, insofar as both parties enjoy it The OAP said this in response to a statement attributed to popular 34-year-old American celebrity Amber Rose, in which she admitted to having demanded sex every day from a 21-year-old Savage, who is her boyfriend. In his shared reaction on Instagram, Daddy Freeze said: "This publication raises two fundamental questions: "1: Can you have sex every day? "Well, the answer is yes, there are people who are very sexual and enjoy sex every day, sometimes a day. "So if you are one of these people, do not be embarrassed or embarrassed to ask your partner, that's what they signed up for." According to the ancient Jewish system based on the Torah, once a couple is engaged, they can have sex but can not live together until it is seale...