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Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo has been implicated in a $4.9 million money laundering scandal. Fresh revelations reveal that Obasanjo uses his Foundation to launder millions of dollars. Checks reveal Obasanjo uses the Foundation’s Ebola relief activities as a front for laundering money supposedly collected from the Lebanese community in West Africa

Senators and members of the House of Representatives that will constitute the 8th National Assembly and ministers to be appointed by President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on assumption of office receive welcome perks amounting to N9bn.

Stan Collymore believes that Manchester United’s new signing Memphis Depay will allow Juan Mata to play in his favoured number 10 position with the Dutch star starting on the right wing, as per Bleacher Report. The Red Devils announced an agreement for the highly-rated forward had been struck with PSV yesterday, following a much talked about transfer saga, with some of Europe’s elite clubs.

Nicola Sturgeon The Scottish National Party (SNP) won a landslide in Scotland on Friday, destroying the Labour party north of the border in a historic leap forward which could increase pressure for a fresh referendum on independence. The nationalists won 56 of 59 parliamentary seats in Scotland in Thursday’s general election, final results showed, up from just six at the last vote in 2010.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said all funds for the payment of allowances of all National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and ad-hoc workers engaged for the 2015 general elections have been released to those affected. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.

The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu yesterday mocked the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, insisting that his deathwish advert on president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari led to the loss of President Goodluck Jonathan at the elections. Muazu took to his verified Twitter handle, to mock Fayose with the post, "Fayose: I have evidence that Muazu worked for APC. We hope it's not the kind of evidence he once said he had that Buhari was dying?"

 The Supreme Court, yesterday, threw a spanner into proposed plans by the National Assembly to override the President's veto on amendments to the constitution achieved by the assembly and endorsed by the state houses of assembly. In a ruling, a seven-man panel of justices of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, ordered the lawmakers to maintain status quo on the matter until June 18.