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Some youths sus pected to be fraudsters, 'Yahoo boys'  were spotted throwing money inside a river in a new video making rounds on social media.  Many believed the act is fetish related as they could be seen chanting and spraying cash while taking turns to wash their faces with the water. Watch the video below … View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ladun Liadi (@ladunliadi)

World’s b iggest philanthropist, Bill Gates and one of the world’s richest has earned a new title: he is the biggest landowner in the U.S. The Microsoft’s co-founder and his wife Melinda have been named the top owners of US farmland, having acq uired 242,000 acres (almost 1,000 square kilometres) across more than a dozen states. According to The Land Report, their largest holdings are in Louisiana, where the couple has 69,071 acres and Arkansas 47,927 acres. The couple also holds 20, 588 acres in Nebraska, 25,750 acres in Arizona. and 16,097 in Washington state, the couple’s home state. Land Report magazine reported that the Gates family began acquiring land in the 90s, as part of plans to diversify assets. The couple acquired then more than 100,000 acres of farmland across the US. But this number has since doubled, the magazine reported. Since the early 2000s, Gates and his wife have been engaged in several en deavours to help farmers in developing countries....

Joe Biden, the President-elect of the United States of America, has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet. The President-elect made announcement when he named additional 20 members of the office of the White House counsel. Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, and served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the President Barrack Obama administration. She, alongside other lawyers of the Office of White House Counsel will be advising the President, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the president and the White House. A statement on the Biden-Harris transition website said that Badejo was general counsel of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis which was chaired by James Clyburn, House Majority Whip. “ Her prior government service includes serving as Counsel for policy to the Assistant Attorney-General in the Civil Division of the U.S. D...

The court-martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State capital has sentenced Trooper Azunna Maduabuchi to death by firing squad for killing the adjutant of his unit, one Lieutenant Babakaka Ngorgi. Trooper Maduabuchi was arraigned for murder after shooting Lieutenant Ngorgi in July 2020 at close range in Bama Local Government of Borno State for refusing to grant him a welfare pass. He was on Tuesday sentenced to death by firing squad after he was found guilty at the court session held at the Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri. Some other four soldiers were arraigned for manslaughter and sentenced to various years of imprisonment. One of the soldiers Sergeant Sani Ishaya was sentenced to four years, Bidemi Fabiyi sentenced to two years while Private Musa Bala and Private Abdulraheed Adamu were sentenced to one-year imprisonment each.

Ten newborn babies died on Saturday in a fire at a state-run hospital in western India, officials said. There were 17 infants in the unit for sick newborn babies when the fire broke out in the early hours of Saturday at the Bhandara District General Hospital in Maharashtra state. Seven infants died due to smoke suffocation, and three from burn injuries, Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope told reporters. Seven babies were rescued by the nurses and ward staff. All the infants were aged between a few days and three months, Bhandara district health official Prashant Uike said. The government has ordered a probe into the incident and a safety audit of all neo-natal care units in the state. Initial reports indicated that the fire may have been caused by a short circuit in one of the incubators, Tope said. “The staff said the ward quickly filled with lots of black smoke,” the minister added. Legal requirements for a post-mortem had been waived and the bodies of the children handed to t...

Acting as ‘ritualist’ doesn’t make me one –Kanayo O Kanayo Kanayo O Kanayo, has made an indelible mark in Nollywood and the story of the film industry cannot be told without according him his pride of place.  However, the actor has also had to deal with the impression some people have of him as a ‘ritualist’ because he has played the role of an occultist in movies several times. During the week, Kanayo, who is also a politician, had uploaded a picture on his Instagram page of the hundredth birthday of Ezinne Anyanwu, the mother of an actor, Chika Anyanwu. One of his young followers then made a comment that he was surprised the old woman had not been used for ‘blood money’ rituals by Kanayo. While many thought the actor would take offence with the comment, he told Saturday Beats during an interview that things like that did not bother him. he said, “Many of our youths are not focused and they see the social media as a place to get back at some people.  The most unfortunate thing is th...