Australian police have charged a 21-year-old woman with fraud after she allegedly spent US$3.4 million that her bank mistakenly gave her, with much of the money reportedly lavished on handbags.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, GFATM, an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives, has suspended disbursement of funds for malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, following discovery of large scale fraud by recipient organisations in Nigeria.

Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, denied media reports that he surreptitiously and clandestinely leaked a letter written by former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor and now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, to then President Goodluck Jonathan on the non-remittance of $49.8 billion from oil sale to the Federation Account.

ABUJA—Finally, the corrected version of the 2016 budget was, yesterday, handed over to the Presidency through the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters Senate (Senator), Ita Enang.

BEFORE July 2015, cattle rustling had been a nightmare to cattle rearers across the core Northern states in Nigeria, but it only took a Federal Government directive for the problem to come to national attention.

THE craze for money, affluence and fame has landed a self acclaimed prophet of an old generation church in deep trouble in Ondo State. Aside the allegation of being fetish in his ministerial activities, the prophet, Moses Abiodun was equally accused of obtaining money under false pretence from unsuspecting members of the public, who thronged his church for miracles and deliverance from poverty and satanic attacks.

Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said, yesterday, that there were no quick solutions to the nation’s problems.

ABUJA— Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has ordered the military trial of two Major Generals of the Nigerian Army for what military sources said were offences contrary to service discipline.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja, said the process of recovering stolen funds had become tedious.

ABEOKUTA—Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, condemned rivalry for supremacy among traditional rulers in the South-West.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has donated a three year old chimpanzee named Patience to a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Pandrillus, operator of the Drill Ranch Afi Mountain

The seven Kano State students and their driver, who died on Tuesday while returning from Lagos after attending a national quiz competition along Iroko road, via Ibadan, Oyo State, were buried at the Tarauni Graveyard, Kano yesterday amid tears.

ABA—What would have been a major ethnic clash was averted yesterday in Aba, Abia State following protests over alleged killings of two Igbo butchers at the Waterside abattoir by soldiers.

Indigenous companies operating in Nigeria, yesterday said that declining oil prices may derail the local policy of the federal government as international oil companies, IOCs continue to defer or cancel their capital projects.