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N150bn Loss Rocks Airlines as Debt War Threatens Shutdown

Nigeria’s aviation sector is facing a deepening crisis as the Airline Operators of Nigeria warns that domestic airlines have lost over N150bn in just...

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Nick Kamen, Madonna’s protégé, dies at 59 after long battle with cancer

Madonna's protégé and Levi's launderette model, Nick Kamen has died at the age of 59 after a secret battle with bone marrow cancer.  The Essex-born model, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, who was also a singer, died on Monday night, May 3, at his £1million flat in Notting Hill, West London.  Kamen had suffered from cancer for two years and was being nursed by his girlfriend, Lucinda, his older brother, Ronald Kamen, 65, told MailOnline today.  He said: 'His breathing was very shallow and he knew what was coming. He did fight it very hard. I was with him a few days ago. ‘We have been able to see him, but only one at at time due to the...

Justice: Court jails Ugandan Govt official for 40 years for embezzling $26.4M (video)

A Ugandan anti-corruption court on Friday, September 24, sentenced a government official to 40 years in prison and ordered him to pay $5.4 million in compensation for embezzlment.  Godfrey Kazinda was accused of embezzling $26.4 million from a scheme funded by the governments of Ireland, SwedeM and Denmark to help northern Uganda recover from the ravages of a decades-long insurgency by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army. Kazinda, a former accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister, was found guilty of “the offences of illicit enrichment, forgery, causing financial loss and conspiracy to commit felonies”, Justice Margaret Tibulya said, sentencing him to 40 years in jail. “You are ordered to compensate the government to a tune of 19,171,476,505 shillings,”...

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