This may sound like fairy tale, but it is real. A Nigerian couple that migrated to God’s own country in search of greener pastures resorted to pseudo marriage to secure the green card believed to be a ticket to heaven. First, the man introduces his betrothed wife to his American darling as his sister to pave way for his marriage to the American lady. Join discussion...

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro yesterday underscored the severity of the nation’s security situation, informing the House of Representatives that only the whole national budget of N2.87 trillion was enough to effectively police the country. Contending that the allocation of N202 billion to the police in the 2009 budget was grossly the inadequate, Okiro stated emphatically: “Nigeria Police Force (NPF) would need N2.87 trillion, the entire 2009 budget of the country, to make police more effective.” “The whole budget of Nigeria would not be sufficient if the police have to be fully equipped as to be able to combat crime in the country,” the IGP stressed. Join discussion...

Nigeria ’s export of crude oil and gas is under threat following the Federal Government’s appointment of Cobalt International Services Limited as pre-shipment inspectors for the nation’s 21 crude oil export terminals. As a fall-out of the appointment of Cobalt, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Union [NUPENG] and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria [PENGASSAN] of the Department of Petroleum Resources [DPR], issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to reverse the decision or risk industrial disharmony in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. Join discussion...

Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports. Join discussion...

Nine gay men in Senegal have been sent to jail for "indecent conduct and unnatural acts". Homosexual acts are illegal in Senegal but lawyers for the men said the sentence was the harshest ever handed down to gay men in the country. Join discussion...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wanted by the FBI: agents, language specialists, computer experts, intelligence analysts and finance experts. The FBI said on Monday it had launched one of the largest hiring blitzes in its 100-year history involving 2,100 professional staff vacancies and 850 special agents aimed at filling its most critical vacancies. The agency, which seeks to protect the United States from terrorist attack, fight crime and catch spies, among other duties, said it currently has more than 12,800 agents and about 18,400 other employees. Join discussion...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared former Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai wanted. A statement by the Commission says the former minister “is wanted for abuse of office and misappropriation (of )public funds to the tune of N32 billion.” “The need to declare El- Rufai wanted became imperative following his failure to honour a simple invitation from the commission to respond to weighty allegations levelled against him in petitions being investigated by the Commission”, the statement added. It will be recalled that the Commission had written El- Rufai some weeks ago to appear before it on November 28th 2008. Instead of honouring the invitation, he wrote back through his counsel asking the EFCC to send its questions to him. He had claimed then that he was writing an examination outside the country. This prompted the Commission to grant him another three (3) weeks grace. But instead of seizing the opportunity to respond to the weighty allegations against him, he has resorted to a hide and seek game, and an appalling show of impunity on the pages of newspapers. Join discussion...

There is a mild debate by some sceptics of the prowess and resolve of Nuhu Ribadu and his real efforts at unbiasedly battling corruption during his tenure as EFCC chairman under the Obasanjo regime. Few call him just an Obasanjo bull dog. Well the evidence here from SaharaReporters proves that Nuhu Ribadu did all he could within his limited jurisdiction as an employee under a dictator regime to mete out justice fairly and impartially. SaharaReporters revealed the real list of scoundrels the EFCC submitted to the Government and how this list was doctored by the administration to remove cronies of the then President. Join discussion...

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, effected withdrawal the of its operatives from the offices of The Honda Place, THP, the business premises of the Vaswani Brothers, under lock and key since last Wednesday. Offices of The Honda Place in Abuja, Lagos and Kano had been sealed off by the EFCC following a petition against it by Globe Motors over alleged breach of distributorship agreement. But the attorney of the federation and minister for justice, Chief Michael Andoakaa, on December 31, 2008, directed the commission to vacate the THP offices pending the determination of issues raised by the embattled Vaswani Brothers. The letter signed by the director of public prosecution in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Salihu Aliyu, as learnt, did not get to the EFCC until January 2, 2009. Join discussion...