How rapper, Snoop Dogg was stopped at Italian airport with $420,000 in cash
Italian police stopped American rapper Snoop Dogg at Lamezia Terme airport on Saturday for trying to board a plane with over $420,000 in undeclared cash. Police seized half the money and opened an investigation, local media said. The "Drop it like it's hot" singer had performed two shows in the south of Italy and was on his way to the UK, where he is slated to take to stage at the Kendal Calling Festival, according to the AGI news agency.
Lagos fire disaster: Dead children begged mother not to lock them in
The three siblings, Christiana, Feranmi and Pelumi, who were burnt to death in the fire that engulfed some shops at Mechanic village, Oke-Afa, Isolo area of Lagos State, would have escaped death last Thursday, had their mother granted their wish.
INEC office burnt down in Abia
Unknown persons have burnt down the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Obingwa Local Government Area, Abia State.
Infertility: Hospital halves cost of IVF
Reprieve may have come the way of Nigerians seeking children as St. Ives Specialist Hospital, Lagos, has again slashed the cost of its In-Vitro Fertilisation, IVF, by 50 per cent.
Ooni is alive, Oodua Chief Priest insists
Osogbo—The Chief Priest of the ancient town of Ile-Ife, Chief Olajide Farotimi Faloba has described as untrue the news of the demise of Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade.
Papa has a new bag of debts
Unfortunately, the National Assembly in its self-serving wisdom ignored this faux pas, and it is doubtful if the banks ever repaid this loan. Nigeria’s external debt stock has alarmingly continued its unrestrained spiral and now exceeds $10.3bn as at 30th June 2015, while the outstanding Domestic stock has also risen to N8.4 Trillion; furthermore, the debt stock of state governments has also risen above $10bn to make up a consolidated outstanding National debt of almost $64bn.
