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…Document reveals plan to reduce Africa’s dependence on Western currencies, particularly the U.S. dollar and the International Monetary Fund pressure * U.S. and British intelligence (MI6) launched over 110 Tomahawk…

Health

No hiding Place: UK based Nigerian certified Cancer Nurse, ABIOLA AKILLA arrested for running over British policewoman, found over speeding, sentenced to 30-months Jail Term … ‘Immediately I saw the police I was confused, I couldn’t explain what came over me as I was afraid to go to prison,’ says suspect *Had no driving license or insurance, plus her little baby strapped to the back seat *51-year old got pulled over by PC Caroline Green, knocked her down without looking back, left her lying seriously injured on the road; made victim suffer five broken ribs, leg and arm injuries with cuts, bruises near head, developed PTSD *“Her front wheel went over my ankle, then she drove up my leg. I was in so much pain I thought she’d snapped my leg. I fell back and cracked my head on the concrete and she drove over my ribs and my right shoulder. I had a crushing feeling all over my body and was screaming in pain. She was so close to my head, and in between the first and second wheels going over me I managed to get into a foetal position. Then the back wheel went over my legs, pelvis and stomach”-PC Green *BY IYABODE ADEBAYO/SPECIAL Correspondent, reporting from London

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Nigeria

‘My LIFE in Danger, MEND Killers After Me’-Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s ex-president *Lament: ‘I Don’t Know any Cynthia White or Any Reformed Niger Delta Avengers’ * “Goodluck Jonathan is Never a Sponsor of Niger Delta Crisis”-Ikechukwu Eze, Media aide to GEJ * “Jonathan is Grand Patron of Niger Delta Avengers”-Jomo Gbomo, Spokesman, MEND *MEND: “GEJ Sponsoring Niger Delta Avengers to Destabilize BUHARI’s Government”

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International

HITMAN BUSTED, Military Career Ruined! Tennessee’s Air National Guardsman, JOSIAH ERNESTO GRACIA Arrested after applying on Assassins’ web to kill an American for $5,000 cash …in a conversation with an undercover FBI agent, 21-year-old suspect charged with applying to be a hitman on a parody online *Fake hitman website nabs Air National Guardsman after he allegedly applied for murder-for-hire jobs “The website was created to advertise a cybersecurity startup. When it failed, it would get inquiries for hitman services, as such its administrator converted it to a parody site with false testimonials from people who claimed to have used its services”-Criminal complaint *“Josiah Ernesto Garcia, of Tennessee, came across www.rentahitman.com as he was searching for contract mercenary jobs to support his family”-U.S. attorney’s office for Middle Tennessee *BY SAM DONALDS/SPECIAL Crime Correspondent, Tennessee

Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘AFRICA’S Stolen Treasures cost me 40 Million NAIRA of my Family Inheritance’-Obafemi Lasode, a former President of Nigeria’s Music Industry …Says: ‘I produced SANGO, the legendary African King’, ‘Paradise Park’ on Nigeria Television Authority Network, won Worldfest Houston Gold Award and United Nation’s Song for Peace award’ * ‘I Have Scripts for 5 other epic movies such as: Osun, Queen Mother, Point of No Return, the story of the Badagry Slave Route, Others * ‘Unending crisis in PMAN is a microcosm of Nigeria as a whole’ * ‘Why majority of Nigerian Musicians are POOR’ BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Entertainment

World EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW after 42 YEARS in MUSIC: I Have No Regret as a Musician, Regret living in a Wrong Nigerian Environment-STELLA MONYE, Nigeria’s Samba Queen, ‘Oko Mi Ye’ songstress … Nigerian Musicians need to be more creative to Survive, I see Artistes playing Music in America Subway *‘Entertainment could be a major source of revenue for Nigeria instead of oil’ *‘We don’t have creative people in government, every politician in power for their pocket’ *‘PMAN Corrupt as Nigeria: wrong people in wrong places’ *‘During Charly Boy’s reign as PMAN President, Nigerian musicians had health insurance, No continuity in policy at the end of tenure’ *‘Lay-about (busy-bodies) created problems for PMAN, Real musicians don’t have time for brouhaha in the Music industry, PMAN need professional handlers to save it from comatose’ ‘Bongos IKWUE and I working on a collaborative entertainment gig unraveling soon’-MONYE *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor

World EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW after 42 YEARS in MUSIC: I Have No Regret as a Musician, Regret…

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Media

NIGERIA is only the best country in Africa that enables Fairest Free Press-Minister of Information & Culture, Lai Mohammed …‘Our country has a vibrant enabling environment, pluralistic freedom for press’ *Nigerian media will never be a threat but key partners in the progress of the country *“It is a well-known fact that freedom of expression is a fundamental human right enshrined in our various statutes and legal mechanisms, a key feature of democracy across the world. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights captures this succinctly” *“We launched a national campaign against fake news and hate speech in 2018. It was a campaign that brought the issue to the front burner of our national discourse. Journalists within the West African sub-region should join hands with our various governments to curb the activities of journalists who taint the our image, good works and put to disgrace the ethos and professionalism of this very important profession” *BY SADE OLAYIWOLE/MEDIA Staff Writer, Abuja

NIGERIA is only the best country in Africa that enables Fairest Free Press -Minister of Information…

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Entertainment

ASSAULT: Nigeria Police detains Fela’s son, SEUN ANIKULAPO KUTI, Rejects Administrative Bail application

ASSAULT: Nigeria Police detains Fela’s son, SEUN ANIKULAPO KUTI, Rejects Administrative Bail application, block Access to…

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Crime

UNTIMELY DEATH: Man, 26, Kidnapped, Murdered for Guarding Sea Turtles…Group petitions Costa Rican Govt *‘Illegal Turtles’ killings, poaching of their eggs driving leatherbacks to extinction’-Chris, Head Eco-tour to Caribbean Leatherback Nesting Beach

  BY TIM LLOYD/REPORTER, COSTA RICA JAIRO Mora Sandoval was a 26 years old Conservationist who…

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Crime

BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIAN King of Scam on AMERICAN Student VISA, AMECHI COLVIS AMUEGBUNAM Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prisons For Fraud…Leading to $3.7 Million Loss to United States Companies *Ordered to pay $615,555.12 in Restitution for role in “Business Email Compromise” (BEC) scheme *Deceived, Send out Fake emails to companies in Northern District of Texas and elsewhere, containing misrepresentations that caused companies to wire transfer funds as instructed on a pdf document that was attached to email * ‘I Am Guilty of Conspiracy to commit Wire Fraud’-Amechi confesses * ‘Scheme involved at least 10 victims totaling a loss of approximately $3,700,000’-FBI BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF/UNITED STATES

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Business

DEVELOPING IN AMERICA: NIGERIA’S Economic & Social Rights Group, SERAP Begs President TRUMP to Release Sani Abacha’s STOLEN $500Million Nigerian Fund…’Money is Proceeds of Corruption traced to Nigeria’s ex-Dictator’ *Letter addressed to WHITE HOUSE, cites United States obligations as a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption * Pleads that Trump’s Administration “promptly initiate civil asset forfeiture proceedings” to ensure that the funds are swiftly returned to Nigeria *Reveals that Nigeria’s lost wealth from Abacha and his family had been frozen in accounts and assets around the world * United States Congress has discussed a bill that would see the Nigerian funds placed in a charity to support the victims of Boko Haram-INVESTIGATION * ‘We estimates in 2007 that developing countries lose up to $40 billion a year through corruption’-The World Bank * “President Barack Obama earlier met with Nigeria’s President Buhari and made a commitment to return this sum to the government of Nigeria. This has been subject to legal challenge, and the bureaucratic system in America”-Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Executive Secretary of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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ENCOUNTER:’Waheed Odusile, NUJ President should Abolish Bill on Confraternity Journalism’-Prof. Alexia Thomas, Chairman, TCLP, UK*Argues: ‘Nigerian Journalists are educated, enlightened, should not be disgraced on BEN Television London’*Echoes: ‘His View breaches Article 9, 19 UDHR 1948, Freedom of the Pen is Freedom of Rights’*States: ‘He can’t politicize Journalism, No where in the world Journalism registered as a Law’*Explains: ‘If you control peoples’ freedom of pen, then you have enslaved their rights’QUOTE: “Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose”-George Orwell

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THE GREAT FALL: NIGERIAN Court orders Seizure of 56 Houses belonging to DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE worth £45million…Still facing Corruption Allegation * Expensive Penthouses, Flats in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, others in UK, USA * Properties bought through front companies linked to Diezani and her cousin, Donald Chidi Amamgbo *Investigators found documents at Amamgbo’s office that confirmed he owned 18 companies and properties in Britain and the United States * ‘We ordered a freeze on five upmarket properties in the British capital linked to Alison-Madueke and a number of her associates’-UK Court BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief

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SHAME! Nigerian Man, EUGENE ORE of Wisconsin JAILED 5 years for STEALING $11.6Million in Tax Return…Pilfers Americans’ Debit Cards, Pin, Social Security, Date of Birth in Oregon and Washington DC *62 year old Nigerian filed multiple tax returns for years using the identities of thousands of taxpayers *Ordered to pay back the sum of $400,000 as Restitution *His American co-suspect, Curtis Sherman Pethley withdraw tax refunds from the prepaid debit cards after taking a 10-20 percent cut of the proceeds, wired the rest money to Nigeria * “Court documents revealed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began investigating the scheme in May of 2013. when a victim in Medford notified them of suspicious activity. Someone had electronically filed false federal and Oregon state tax returns using her and her husband’s personal information — including their social security numbers and dates of birth”- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief, Naija Standard

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FEDERAL Govt Warns Foreigners: We Will Route You Out from Hiding to Face Stiff Penalty If You Overstay your Visa in Nigeria

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Health

Nigeria’s Ex-Ambassador, Former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, DEBO ADESINA Fighting for Life in Coma, Suffers Stroke, Wife in Tears begging Tinubu for Help as Hospital bills Hit CAD$205,000

…Medical clinic warns, ready to end treatment over high-rising medical expenses *“My husband, H.E Adebowale (Debo)…

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Crime

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News: Thousands of NIGERIANS in PANIC Mode, Face Arrests as DHS, FBI Texas’ Office Uncover Alien, Social Security Numbers with ties to Fraudulent Purchase of Green Cards, U.S. Naturalization Citizenship

…Nigerian born American Senior Official, Associate in detention confess to have received $1million via CashApp, Zelle…

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Opinion

PAINFUL TRIBUTE TO MY POLYMATH NEPHEW, ISEUNIFE OSELUESEME OYEBANJO, NOW IN HEAVEN AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 32 YEARS: *QUOTE: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”-George Bernard Shaw

*BY DR GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/EXECUTIVE EDITOR & GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, Naija Standard Newspaper Inc USA HE…

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Technology

BREAKING News: Namibian teenage IT Genius shock the world, create First Innovative SIM -Free Communication Device

*Develops working communication prototype capable of making voice calls without relying on a conventional purchase of mobile airtime *Used discarded…

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Sports

FIFA President, GIANNI INFATINO enmeshed in Sex Scandal, secretly pays alleged Mistress Millions of Dollars, UEFA confirm development

…embattled Football head cries out: “I am innocent. The lady was my former employee” *“We are fully ready to boycott…

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LONDON Groove Weekly

Nigeria’s Buhari, IBB & Abacha’s Govt turned My Family into Pauper-OLUKEMI OLUFUNTO ADEGOKE Badenoch, UK Conservative Party Leader

…Recount odds, struggle while growing up in Nigeria before migrating to London *Lament: “After I was born by Nigerian parents…

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DIPLOMACY

INTERVIEW: As Humanitarian Envoy of GhandiMandela in the UK, I am humbled to be associated with lives, values and ideals of these two Great Men-Dr (Mayor)Cllr Amb., Gbola Adeleke

*Hosted Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her final major public engagement * ‘I made a conscious decision not to…

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Crime

N32MILLION SCANDAL! ASP Sylvester Azubuike SFU Lagos, O/C Legal SFU Lagos ACP Sa’idu Murtala Usman in Hot Soup, Under IGP’S Investigation

…Secretly withdraw a 15-year criminal case from Federal High Court without consent of the complainant, evidentiary documents attached *Slammed with…

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Media

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G NEWS: European Commission Showers Congress of African Journalists with Ovation as Champion in Africa Media Projects

…Ready for CAJ to maintain close contact with EU Delegations across Africa *World Organization of Writers commends European Commission for…

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Business

NIGERIA Hosts World Business for Expatriates’ Awards in Abuja

*Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aviation take leading roles in epoch ceremony to hold on Thursday, 20th August 2026 *Chief Host:…

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