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The Pandora Papers’s 11.9 million records arrived from 14 different offshore services firms in a jumble of files and formats – even ink-on-paper – presenting a massive data-management challenge A 2.94 terabyte data trove exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and …

A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities is launching today after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world. The project, known as Pandora Papers, is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained a trove of 11.9 million confidential files. The reporting, which is still ongoing, …

Jordanian authorities say the Pandora Papers’ claims threaten royal family’s safety. The ‘Pandora Papers’ is an investigation based on one of the biggest-ever leaks of financial documents which, on Sunday, exposed a hidden world of shielded wealth belonging to hundreds of politicians and billionaires. Considered as one of the largest ever global media investigations, the Pandora Papers involved more than …

Unit offices of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nnewi, Anambra were on Sunday set ablaze by yet to be identified gunmen. The gun wielding men were said to have operated for hours in the industrial town. A source, who pleaded anonymity, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the gunmen, who stormed the …

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has said that the bandits troubling the north have aligned with terrorist organisations to wreak large-scale havoc in the region. Governor Bello stated this weekend at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Specialist Hospital, when he visited some soldiers injured recently following attacks by bandits in Shiroro within the Kagara Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. …

The Archbishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, yesterday, declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not sincere in dealing with terrorists killing Nigerians. Wondering why it is difficult for the government to release names of sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists, the cleric declared that “Nigeria is decomposing from within.” Kukah spoke in a sermon at the Priestly …

To resume work Wednesday After long hours of deliberation with its National Executive Council, NEC, members, National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Monday suspended its 63 days old industrial action. Disclosing this in a chat with Vanguard the National President of NARD, Dr Godiya Ishaya said the suspension will take effect on Wednesday, the 6th of October, 2021. He …

…North Central tipped for national chairmanship Ahead of the October 31 national elective convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders and stakeholders of the party are set to square up against 13 governors of the party particularly for the position of the PDP national chairman. This is even as Vanguard gathered that key offices in the National Working Committee, …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government has concluded discussion with the Chief of Army Staff over the possession of a parcel of land situated near Oregbeni Market, along Ikpoba Hill, in Benin City belonging to the Nigerian Army. The governor disclosed this while receiving the new Comptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service, Edo State Command, Rabi Garba, …

By lgbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost Nigeria Bureau Chief Recent resolution passed by the Nigeria’s Senate and House of Representatives, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, to brand ‘bandits’, as “terrorists’, because of the unimaginable atrocities being perpetrated by them in the country, has been described as belated and screwed. Dr. Bode Ekundayo, a senior lecturer, at the Department of English & Literature, …