Новости за 02.07.2021

Grammy-award winning singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, clocked 30 years old today and his fans are celebrating him on Twitter with the hashtag #Burna30. The 30-year-old Ye crooner recently emerged as one of the winners at the 2021 BET Awards, making it his third consecutive win for the Best International Act category….

The country’s external reserves maintained a downward trend as it lost $905.5m in June, figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed on Thursday. According to the CBN’s data on the movement of reserves, the reserves fell to $33.32bn as of the end of June 30 from $34.23bn on May 31. The reserves stood…

AN Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Thursday sentenced a cleric, Prophet Olakanye Oni, to life imprisonment over the circumstances that led to the death of a woman who came to him for spiritual healing. The prosecution team led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, Ekiti State, Mr Julius…

The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday said it had arrested fine persons who allegedly exhumed corpses at a church cemetery in Ondo town , Ondo State. According to the police, the suspects are  Opeyemi Odetola, Lanre Akintola, Clement Adesanoye, Alowonle Kehinde and Jubril Jimoh. The suspects, who were nabbed on Saturday, were alleged to…

There is tension in Enugu State as men of the Nigerian Army reportedly invaded two communities in the Nkanu East and Nkanu West local government areas of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the affected communities are Ekpoffo and Akpugo. Although the reason for the invasion could not be immediately ascertained, villagers who spoke from…

The Oba of Jebba in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Abdulkadir Adebara, and the Serikin Hausawa of the town, Yusuf Gwadabe, have dragged the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, before a Kwara State High Court  over the planned installing of a new leader for the Hausa community in the ancient…

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested 25-year-old Adetoro Kazeem for the alleged blackmail and extortion of a woman to the tune of N7m. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Oyeyemi said the suspect, a resident of Paara Street, in the Alakia area…

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti division, on Thursday, sentenced a 24-year-old man, Dayo Asiwaju, to life imprisonment for raping a college student with charms. He was tried and found guilty on two counts bordering on rape and unlawful possession of charms. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, in her judgment, said, “The sole issue for determination…

An angry mob has set a suspected phone thief and Point-of Sale terminal robber on fire in Ughelli, Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect was caught by vigilantes after dispossessing his victim. It was learnt that the suspect was shot by the vigilantes before he was set ablaze along Ughelli Road by Glass…

The Federal Government on Thursday said it would go after highly-placed Nigerians and other collaborators of the Independent People of Biafra leader,  Nnamdi Kanu. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who stated this at a press briefing in Abuja, said irrespective of the collaborators’ standing in country, they would all face the full…

Nigerian long jumper, Ese Brume, hopes to end up on the podium at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which starts this month in Japan. Speaking with our correspondent, Brume, who recently broke the 25-year African record set by Chioma Ajunwa at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, said after breaking the record she wanted to win a medal…

The Department of State Services, on Thursday, paraded 12 of Sunday Igboho’s followers, saying one other was being profiled. The DSS said a joint team of security operatives had raided Igboho’s residence early on Thursday based on an intelligence report. Parading the suspects at the national headquarters of the secret police, its spokesman, Peter Afunaya,…

Kano Pillars chairman, Yahaya Surajo, says Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, is free to leave the club any time he gets an offer from Europe.     Musa rejoined Pillars on April 13, until the end of the 2020/21 season but his contract includes a clause that allows him to leave once he finds a club…

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said mass defection would rock both the Peoples Democratic Party, and the All Progressives Congress between now and December. He said politicians, would during the period, start realigning ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Governor stated this at the inauguration of the reconstructed William Jumbo, Ernest…

Former WBA Intercontinental light heavyweight champion, Peter Oboh, has urged Efe ‘Nigerian Pit Bull’ Apochi’s management team to ensure he wins his next fight, saying another loss may derail the Nigerian’s ambition of winning a world title. Brandon Glanton upset Apochi in a cruiserweight fight last week, with a rematch likely. A worried Oboh called…

President, Nigerian Basketball Federation, Musa Ahmadu-Kida, says D’Tigers star Michael Eric would be missed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after Eric ruled himself out of the Games despite recovering from COVID-19, The PUNCH reports. Eric, 33, who recently won the European Championship with CSKA Moscow, pulled out of the provisional squad, saying he would…

Breastfeeding athletes will be allowed to bring children to the Tokyo Olympics “when necessary”, organisers have announced, after criticism from mothers over tough rules on bringing family to the Games. The clarification was welcomed by some athletes as a relief, but US football star Alex Morgan slammed organisers for keeping her in the dark about…

Fear has gripped residents of Igbokofi, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State following the invasion of their village and arrest of an activist, Kunle Garb . The foreign police reportedly whisked Garb away last week Thursday,  following his resistance against  the alleged encroachment of some parcels of land in Ogun State, Nigeria, …

The  Nigeria Football Federation and the Government of Maryland have agreed to foster a relationship on a number of programmes designed to enhance the development of football in Nigeria and the State of Maryland. At a meeting in Baltimore, NFF president  Amaju Pinnick, and the Governor of Maryland, Boyd Rutherford, agreed on a number of…

’Tosin Oluwalowo World Athletics has disqualified the Nigerian women’s 4x400m team from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics following some technical errors in the race where they secured qualification at the Lagos Open Athletics Championships on June 24. The Nigerian quartet – Nse Imaobong, Favour Ofili, Knowledge Omovoh, and Patience Okon-George – ran a Season’s Best 3:26.83…

The Professional Golfers’ Association on Nigeria has conferred on the Captain of HSD Golf and Country Golf Club, Richard Etonye, the life vice-president of the association. PGAN, in a letter addressed to Etonye and signed by its Executive Director, Dr Tony Philmoore, congratulated him on the award. Etonye is currently the Permanent Secretary, Bayelsa State…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has released the final list of successful candidates for the 2019 recruitment exercise for Narcotic Officer cadre and the first of three batches for the Narcotic Assistant cadre. The agency directed all successful candidates to report for training at its academy in Kotton Rikus, Jos, Plateau State, on Saturday…

The African Union, the Federal Government and COVAX, a coalition consisting of the World Health Organisation ,  Gavi and Epidemic Preparedness Innovations,   on Thursday expressed surprise about  the European Union’s decision not to accept AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India. The Director of the African Centre for Disease Control, Dr John Nkengasong,  and the African Union…

Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone D, has said it seized contraband, including diesel, textile materials, vehicles, used tyres, rice, among others, worth N51,238,235, in the last five months. The zone comprises Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Plateau, Benue and Nassarawa states. The FOU Comptroller, Adesanmi Omiye, at a press conference at the…

A businessman, Biola Idris, has been brought before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ita-Elewa, Ikorodu, for allegedly assaulting his wife. It was gathered that the victim on June 16, 2021, made a complaint to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team that Idris allegedly locked her up in their factory and assaulted…