The global corruption watchdog, Transparency International, has ranked Nigeria as the 39th most corrupt nation in the world.
According to the Corruption Perception Index 2014 released on Wednesday, Nigeria scored 27 out of a maximum 100 marks to clinch the 136th position out of the 175 countries surveyed for the report.
Nigeria appeared to have improved by eight points against its 2013 rating of 144th of 175 countries last year.
It will be recalled that the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index ranked Nigeria 35th most corrupt...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
13-year-old flees home with suspected lover
The police in Lagos are battling to find a 13-year-old girl, Chikwuo Ezennia, who reportedly fled her house with a yet-to-be-identified man, suspected to be her lover.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Ezennia, who is in Basic 4, had come to Lagos from Nneni village in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State to spend her holiday with her relatives.
Our correspondent gathered that the girl, however, fled her relatives’ apartment on Ishola Bello Close, Iyalla Street, Alausa, Lagos, in the afternoon of Thursday, November 20, when the family had...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Oops! Rihanna Accidentally Reveals That Kanye West Is Going on Tour in 2015
Kanye West, we're gonna let you finish, but Rihanna already spilled the beans.
While promoting her charity earlier today, the Barbados beauty also accidentally broke the news that Yeezy is planning to go on a North American tour next year. Oops!
RiRi tweeted, "Help Clara Lionel Foundation make a difference! Bid on exclusive items in the #DiamondBall auction: http://smarturl.it/CLFa #GivingTuesday," and among the lavish items up for bid...
Suicide bomber targets Iranian ambassador’s house in Yemen
A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador’s residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security officials said, killing as many as three people.
Ambassador Hasan Nam Wadi was not harmed when the attack took place in the diplomatic district of Hada, officials said.
The Wednesday morning blast also heavily damaged several buildings in the area.
Interior ministry said that one of the embassy guards and two transpassers, a woman and a child, were killed in the attack, adding that four were injured, one in critical...
Head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemns IS ‘barbarity’
The head of Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious centres of Sunni Islam learning, on Wednesday condemned “barbaric crimes” committed by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
Militants are acting “under the guise of this holy religion and have given themselves the name ‘Islamic State’ in an attempt to export their false Islam,” Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb told the opening session of a two-day international conference in Cairo on fighting extremism.
“I wonder and ask why this blind division exists that has tainted Arab blood,” Sheikh Tayeb said,...
