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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that its operatives found cash sum of $1m in the bedroom of an Abuja mansion of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd). The anti-graft agency alleged that the ex-CDS purchased the house in which the money was found with dollar equivalent of N1.1bn said to have been fraudulently removed from the accounts of the Nigerian Air Force in 2013. It said although, Badeh had denied ownership of the property, his belongings, including photographs were found in it during a search by the operatives of the commission.

Gen. Murtala Muhammed was assassinated on February 13 1976 in a coup attempt when he was on his way to his office. Along with him that very moment was the sole survival of the attack, Sergant Michael Otuwu, who narrated what transpired that moment 40 years ago as the former head of state is been remembered. Had the coup plotters led by Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka not noticed the door of General Murtala Muhammed’s Mercedes Benz car open minutes after it was sprayed with bullets from AK-47 assault rifles, triggering another round of firing,

Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria A monthly poll tracking the performance of governments at all levels in Nigeria, and providing feedback from the public to their elected officials, has recorded President Muhammadu Buhari’s first major approval rating slide. The February survey by Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria, GAIN, said more Nigerians for the first time since December 2015 scored Mr. Buhari low on jobs, economy, and power. In earlier months, the poll found that majority of respondents did not blame President Buhari for Nigeria’s current economic troubles.

Yakubu Gowon Nigeria’s former military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, has confirmed his paternity of a 48-year-old man recently deported from the United States. Mr. Gowon announced Wednesday that a DNA test had proven Musa Jack Ngodadi is his biological son. Musa Gowon, who had been in jail in the U.S. for 22 years, was pardoned by President Barrack Obama in 2015, cutting short the 40-year prison term he was to serve for alleged drug related crime of which he was found guilty on November 18, 1992. Musa, a striking lookalike of the former head of state, returned to Nigeria on January 1, 2016, after the U.S. Immigration officials deported him.

  Mikel and other foreign-based players are given a March 21 deadline to arrive for the Egypt games – Coach Samson Siasia wants all players to be in camp early – He says the homebased players are already preparing hard Ahead of the crucial 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Super Eagles interim head coach, Samson Siasia, has given March 21 as the deadline for the arrival of foreign-based players. Siasia has already barred defender Segun Oduduwa and midfielders Stanley Dimgba and Usman Mohammed from showing up at the Bolton White Apartments camp of the Super Eagles, after they reported late to the camp of the U-23 team without earlier permission.

We can work it out? This week South Africa's President Jacob Zuma visited Nigeria and stressed that Africa's two economic giants could work together. Relations have been fraught, not helped by South African deaths in a Nigerian pastor's building and a $5bn Nigerian fine for a South African phone company. Here, two writers take a tongue-in-cheek look at how the nations see each other. How us South Africans view Nigerians Milton Nkosi, Johannesburg

PSG are a good football club. They have great players. They're chic. But I'll stick my neck out and predict that they are unlikely to win the Champions League. In this season at least.   The Chelsea-PSG R16 second-leg game was proof enough that a Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich would run circles around the Parisian club. Chelsea were wasteful. They looked exasperated without the ball and flustered with it. They had so much time and space in front of the PSG goal for so long. But their bag of tricks has been empty all season.

  Workers of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company protesting the retrenchment of their colleagues in Lagos The highly pronounced power failures across the country in the past few days may worsen following a partial system collapse that occurred on Tuesday, and the continuous drop in electricity generation due to what the government says is the vandalism of pipelines that supply gas to the power plants. As a result, power generation dropped to 1,580.6 megawatts on Wednesday.

A strike at Nigeria's state oil company has been suspended after talks between trade unions and the company's head, who is also minister of state for petroleum, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on its Twitter account. The strike began on Wednesday over restructuring at NNPC.

The number of people who lost their lives in the collapsed building in Lekki, Has, has risen to 35.   The death toll in the collapsed five-storey building owned by the Lekki Gardens that crumbled on Tuesday, March 8, after an early morning down pour, has risen to 35, with a mother and four of her children among the dead. The building which was under construction at Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi in the Lekki area of the Lagos State, according to reports, had many construction workers and artisans sleeping inside when it came down.

The personnel file of a would-be suicide bomber who identifies as Australian is among tens of thousands of documents about Islamic State fighters leaked to Britain's Sky News. The digital files contain 22,000 names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadists. The German Government, which has also been give access to the documents, believes they are authentic. Though not independently verified, the lists all have one thing in common: candidates offering themselves as suicide bombers.

The crash – the first caused by a self-driving car – tore off its radar, flattened its tire, and crumpled its side. The bus driver was not at fault, the footage shows Newly released video shows the moment a Google self-driving car learned the hard way not to tussle with a public bus. The collision happened on Valentine’s Day 2016, when a Google vehicle struck the side of a public bus in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View. Footage recorded by cameras on the bus shows a Lexus SUV, which Google had outfitted with sensors and cameras that let it drive itself, edging into the path of the bus that was rolling by at about 15mph.

President Jacob Zuma with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari during a state visit to Nigeria on 8 March 2016. Image: Elmond Jiyane GCIS   Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s rebuke to MTN Group Ltd. in front of President Jacob Zuma shows the continent’s biggest mobile-phone company still has a fight on its hands to reduce a mammoth $3.9 billion fine.

Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street ties, while Clinton brought up his opposition to a 2007 immigration bill, saying he aligned with the far right Bernie Sanders was linked to an unlikely array of Republicans by Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, as the latest Democratic debate saw both candidates digging deep into each other’s records to find fresh angles of attack in an increasingly sterile format. With immigration policy dominating the ninth such clash between the two candidates, held in Miami, the former secretary of state claimed that by opposing a 2007 immigration bill, Sanders had aligned himself with far right groups. “Sanders stood with Minuteman vigilantes in their ridiculous efforts to hunt down immigrants,” claimed Clinton.

Novak Djokovic says he hopes Maria Sharapova emerges from her current situation “stronger” after the former women’s world No 1 failed a drugs test at the Australian Open. Sharapova told a press conference on Monday that she had tested positive for meldonium, which was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances on January 1. “I obviously wish her all the best,” said Djokovic, who shares a racquet sponsor with the Russian and has famously done impressions of her on court.

Minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has clarified that, contrary to reports, the federal government has not unbundled the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Speaking to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the presidential villa, yesterday, Kachikwu said rather what the ministry has carried out is a reorganisation of the NNPC. He said: “We have not unbundled NNPC. We had a press conference yesterday (Tuesday) where I explained this. What we have simply done is reorganisation. We have five business entities focused on business – Upstream, Downstream, Refineries, Gas and Power – that are there before.

  Odion Ighalo Former Nigeria defender, Yisa Shofoluwe, and former Flying Eagles coach, James Peters, have said Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, can pick up his scoring form for the Super Eagles when the team face Egypt in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier later this month. The Eagles will face the Pharaohs, who are top of Group G, in a double-header on March 25 in Kaduna before heading to Alexandria for the return leg on March 29. Ighalo has been in a good form for Watford this season. He has scored 16 goals for the Hornets, helping them to cement their place in the English Premier League,

  Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun The Federal Government is currently working to expose another 11,000 ghost workers on its payroll in its second batch of staff audit. This is coming shortly after the government deleted 23,000 ghost workers from its payroll and saving the nation N2.29bn per month. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the end of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.