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Over N400 billion was paid as bribes to civil servants in the first year of President Muhammad Buhari’s administration. This is according to a new report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in conjunction with the National Bureau of Statistics. The National Corruption Report titled, “Bribery: public experience and response 2017” jointly coordinated by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and United Nations Office of Drug and Crime (UNODC) disclosed that “almost a third of Nigerian adults (32.3 per cent) who had contact with a public official between June 2015 and May 2016 had to pay, or were requested to pay, a bribe to that public official.” About 90.2 per cent of those living in the North West believe that government is very effective in fighting corruption. In the North East, the figure is 88.4 percent, it drops to 72.6 percent in the North Central, 68.9 percent in the South West, 41.2 percent in the South East and 41.3 percent in the South South regio...

US President Donald Trump sparked another political firestorm Tuesday when he doubled down on his initial response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that ended in bloodshed, saying there was “blame on both sides.” The Republican president — who one day ago solemnly denounced racism and singled out the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis as “criminals and thugs” — also hit out at what he called the “alt-left” over the weekend melee. Trump has faced days of criticism from across the political spectrum over his reaction to Saturday’s unrest in the Virginia college town, where a rally by neo-Nazis and white supremacists over the removal of a Confederate statue erupted in clashes with counter-demonstrators. The violent fracas ended in bloodshed when a 20-year-old suspected Nazi sympathizer, James Fields, plowed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, leaving one woman dead and 19 others injured. In a rowdy exchange with journalists at Trump Tower in...

The wife of the Ebonyi State governor Mrs Rachael Umahi, on Wednesday, said she would take legal action against Mrs Joy Okochi, a policewoman who allegedly poured hot soup on her house-help Chinyere Igwe. Mrs Umahi speaking in Abakaliki through her Chief Press Secretary, Mr Donatus Owo, said the planned intervention against the culprit was to ensure that the victim gets justice. Umahi decried the lukewarm attitudes of some citizens of the state in handling the case and the alleged threats to the lives of both the victim and her parents by some people. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred on June 24. Igwe, 15, a house-help to Okochi was said to have sustained serious injuries from the incident. Meanwhile, Mr Godwin Igwe, the Director of Child Welfare Development in the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, condemned how the police was handling the matter. Igwe alleged that the police officers handling the case had i...

The Devil who Loved me - Episode 1 ********* He pounded away. It was the same away he did it every time…pull my clothes, pull his trousers…suck my Tips and tell me how beautiful I am before he starts pounding. I looked at him with his yes closed and wondered what must have made me like him. It definitely wasn’t his money; I was a lot richer than him….maybe it was because he was funny? I looked at him as he closed his eyes and beads of sweat formed above his brows; all I could wish for was for his to cum on time. Today was to special for me to stop him halfway. Suddenly he let out that all too familiar groan that signaled his much awaited release. His hold on the top of the mattress beside my head became firmer, and then he started his epileptic-like movement as he came. Acho: Tee, you are so sweet Me: get up, I have to clean myself, hope your bathroom is clean. Running water? Acho: Yes it is. He made himself a cup of milo as I strode along to the bathroo...