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Son of late Libyan dictator Gaddafi ‘freed after kidnapping’

Hannibal Gaddafi, the high-living businessman son of the late Libyan dictator, was freed late Friday, several hours after he was kidnapped in Lebanon by an unknown armed group, security sources told AFP. Lebanese police freed Gaddafi and were set to question him, one source said, without specifying where the businessman had been released. A second security source said Gaddafi had been "kidnapped by an armed group in the region of Bekaa while he was travelling from Syria, before being released on Friday night in the same region". Bekaa is an eastern stronghold of Lebane

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Dasuki and Nduka Obaigbena “I collected N670 million from Dasuki as compensation for Boko Haram attack”

Dasuki matters....  The Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of ThisDay newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, has said he collected N670 million from the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, as compensation for attacks on his newspaper’s offices in Abuja and Kaduna in 2012.   He said he also received compensation for the illegal seizure of newspapers by men of the armed forces. Mr. Obaigbena made the disclosure while responding to an invitation by the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) in connection to the ongoing probe into the usage of $2.1 billion arms

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CBN to publish names of treasury looters – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon publish the names of former government officials found to have looted the treasury. Buhari said the CBN delayed the publication of names in order to avoid jeopardising investigations and further recoveries. The president made the disclosure while speaking at the 15th session of the Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation lecture at the International Conference Centre, in Abuja. In his lecture, Buhari said during electioneering, the issue that gained “higher currency” in the psyche of the peo