Report from EFCC on how Lagos state Speaker Spent funds on foreign trips and his wife.

EFCC today March 18th revealed how Lagos Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji, squandered money on his wife, foreign trips and how on August 1, 2011, N4.4m was paid to him as “cost of allowance”; and his personal assistant and orderly pocketed N1.2m and N1.1m respectively.Premium Times reportsThe trial of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, continued Tuesday with the prosecution witness detailing how the defendants allegedly laundered millions of Naira.Adebayo Adeniyi, the EFCC witness, told the court how the defendants collected N13.5 million for honorarium, N4.5 million for renovation of the Speaker’s residence, and N1.5 million for the Speaker’s Guest House every month for six consecutive months.Mr. Ikuforiji and Oyebode Atoyebi, his aide, are facing a 54-count amended charge of...

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Puppy love? Miley Cyrus shares shy photo while snuggling with her dog after getting caught kissing Benji Madden

She was caught 'making out' with Benji Madden on Thursday, as MailOnline exclusively reported.And perhaps Miley Cyrus was feeling a little coy in the throes of her potential new romance, because she spent Saturday morning uploading shy, flirtatious photos of herself snuggling up in bed with one of her beloved pooches.The 20-year-old - who is an avid 'selfie' aficionado - could not help but share intimate images of her resting place along with her fluffy pals who get to sleep with her every night.Coy? Miley Cyrus posted a cutesy, enigmatic snap of herself being cuddled by her pooch on Saturday after rumours of her kissing Benji Madden at a Halloween party on ThursdayIn one snap, Miley is conservatively dressed in a T-shirt as she lays back on her pillow with her dog Mary Jane adorably...

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Going underground: The outlaws of New York's thriving subculture as seen by one photographer who spent years in city's underbelly

After graffiti artist Banksy argued last week that New York has lost its edge, a new book by photographer Tod Seelie is a poke in the eye to all those critics who claim the city has become too corporate and mainstream.Bright Nights: Photographs Of Another New York compiles a decade and a half of Seelie’s adventures exploring the city’s rich underbelly of alternative and underground culture.The New York documented by Steelie is one where people regularly climb bridges, party in railroad tunnels, and sail homemade rafts on the Hudson River. A ruckus band perform at a squat in Alphabet City, Manhattan in 2012: A new book by photographer Tod Seelie is a poke in the eye to all those critics who claim New York City has become too corporate and mainstream People on-board a makeshift...

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