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Cooking Gas Prices Soar as Nigerians Struggle to Cope

Nigerians across major cities are grappling with a sharp rise in the price of cooking gas, as Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) now sells for...

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Donald Trump fortune has increased to $3.2 billion – Forbes

Donald Trump's net worth has increased since leaving office in January of last, according to Forbes. The outlet's annual wealth tracker calculated the former president's net worth to be $3.2 billion, $700 million more than it was in September 2021. It's the most Trump has been worth since he became president.  Forbes estimated his value to be $3.7 billion in 2016 and fell by more than a billion in 2020 and 2021, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the global economy. The September 2022 figure earns Trump back his spot on the coveted Forbes 400 list at number 343. Trump was edged off of the list last year, the first time in 25 years that he was not included. The news comes...

US Rapper, 50 Cent to produce movie series on Hushpuppi

Curtis James Jackson III, American rapper and producer popularly known as 50 Cent, has announced plans to release a movie series based on notorious Nigerian internet fraudster, Ramon Abass. Best known as Hushpuppi, Abass was arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in June 2020, for defrauding over 1.9 million people, majority of whom were Americans. He was afterwards extradited to the United States for trial on July 3, the same year. As earlier reported by The PUNCH, a United States District Court sitting at the Central District of California on Monday sentenced Hushpuppi to 11 years and three months’ after he was found guilty of laundering proceeds of a school financing scam, business email compromise and other fraudulent cyber schemes. The...

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