Operatives of the of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday arrested a Bureau De Change operator and five other suspected money laundering syndicate for swallowing $156,000  (N31, 083, 000.00) at Excel Oriental Hotel along Airport Road, Lagos. The six suspects were arrested in the hotel while they were busy swallowing the large sums of money with the intention of exporting $156,000 to Brazil. Speaking on the arrest, the chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, said  the six suspected members of the group, including a Bureau de Change operator, had been apprehended in connection with swallowing $156,000 according to Vanguard.

Queen Elizabeth II

Early life

Princess Elizabeth aged 3, 1929

Elizabeth was born at 02:40 (GMT) on 21 April 1926, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. Her father, Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), was the second son of the King. Her mother, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth), was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was delivered by Caesarean section at her maternal grandfather's London house: 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair.^[1] She was baptised by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May,^[2][c] and named Elizabeth after her mother, Alexandra after George V's mother, who had died six months earlier, and Mary after her paternal grandmother.^[4] Called "Lilibet" by her close family,^[5] based on what she called herself at first,^[6] she was cherished by her grandfather

Nigeria's Oldest School Pupil Dies At 94

 

A man believed to be the oldest school pupil in Nigeria has died at the age of 94, his family says. Mohammud Modibbo was unable to go to school as a child because he worked as a trader, travelling around the country.  BBC reports that he decided to enter primary school in his mid-80s and had recently begun secondary school in the northern city of Kano.