Новости за 23.09.2021

National boxing featherweight champion, Taiwo Agbaje, says he is ready to make Nigeria proud as he eagerly looks forward to his first professional fight in the UK at the University of Bolton stadium after being out of the ring for a long time. Agbaje, popularly known as ‘Esepo’, last fought in December 2019 due to…

A businessman, Abiodun Adewale, has accused a yet-to-be-identified man of stealing his five bags of rice valued at N117,500 around the Command Barracks area in Ipaja, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect posed as a soldier when he contacted Adewale on the phone to supply him 12 bags of rice for some soldiers…

• Family begs as kidnappers demand N5m for 68-year-old Rivers victim Suspected Fulani herdsmen have abducted three persons, including a pregnant woman, and demanded N10m ransom for each of them. The victims were reportedly kidnapped on Sunday along the Igbo-Ora-Sokoto Road while going to visit their friend in Rounda, in the Abeokuta-North Local Government Area…

The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested 10 suspects for allegedly setting ablaze the house of the Chairman of the Abakaliki Local Government Area of the state, Emmanuel Nwangele. The suspects, it was gathered, also allegedly burnt Bosco Guest House, Abakaliki, owned by the chairman’s Special Assistant on Internally-Generated Revenue, Mr Okechukwu Oniybe. A source…

The Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi State has confirmed that three people were killed in a fatal crash that occurred on Tuesday at Dungulbi village, close to the Muslim burial ground site. Our correspondent learnt that two people also sustained varying degrees of injury in the crash. The state Sector Commander, FRSC, Yusuf Abdullahi,…

The Enugu State Police Command on Wednesday said it had launched a manhunt for the gunmen who attacked and killed two policemen attached to the command. The two victims were said to be on duty with three other colleagues at a checkpoint at Nachi in the Oji River Local Government Area of the state when…

Men  of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 52-year-old man, Jimoh Mutaliu, for allegedly procuring two abortions for his 16-year-old niece. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly impregnated and procured abortions for the victim. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday….

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has imposed a six-month jail term on one Adedoyin Oyekan, who claimed to be a prince from the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, for offences bordering on cybercrime. A statement on Wednesday by the Head of Media and Publicity of the…

Residents in the Ijora area of Lagos State on Wednesday trooped out in large numbers to scoop fuel from a fallen diesel tanker. PUNCH Metro gathered that the loaded 50,000-litre tanker was heading for Abuja when the driver lost control as the vehicle fell around 5pm. The impact of the collision to the ground was…

THE Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened to declare a month sit-at-home protest in ‘Biafraland’ if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu is not brought to court on October 21. The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, made this known on Wednesday in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra…

THE Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, has decried the dilapidation of the National Assembly Complex, noting that some offices in the White House section of the building leak whenever it rained.  Elumelu raised a point of order under privileges, to lament the situation during plenary, on Wednesday.  The lawmaker warned that…

THE Federal Government said it has been working to prosecute Boko Haram financiers and the fight against terrorism in the country. The government said the Office of the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice had reviewed over 1,000 case files out of which 285 had been filed before the Federal High Court….

Defending champions D’Tigress will have a tricky encounter in their hands when they face Ivory Coast in the quarter-final of the 2021 Afrobasket at the Palais Polyvalent du Sports in Yaounde, the Cameroonian capital on Thursday (today). D’Tigress qualified for the quarter-finals after finishing top of Group B with wins over Mozambique and Angola while…

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Mother, Infant and Child initiative has helped over 3,000 indigent women in the state to produce healthy babies. Sanwo-Olu said this on Wednesday during the inauguration of the MICH initiative at Alausa, Ikeja. The MICH initiative with the theme, ‘A Threat to Nutrition is a Threat…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have commiserated with renowned musician, King Sunny Ade, over the death of his wife, Risikat Adegeye. Risikat, who was a member of the sixth Lagos State House of Assembly, died on Tuesday in Lagos after a…

Alhaji Ali Buwari is a 30-year old father of four and youth leader in Buwari community, Yobe State. His grandfather, grandmother and uncle were injured when the Nigerian Air Force jet mistakenly bombed the community on Wednesday, last week. In this interview with DOGARA BITRUS, he narrates the agony of the community Can you describe…

ANGRY youths have set the country home of Sokoto State Commissioner for Security and Career Studies, Col. Garba Moyi (retd), in Isa LGA, the home town of the commissioner. The irate youths burnt down Col. Moyi house after he was allegedly accused of complicity with the bandits attacking the area. Report also indicated that the…

DR Seinye Lulu-Briggs, widow of late oil magnate and philanthropist, Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, has narrated her ordeal and how she recovered from COVID-19 after she was placed in the Intensive Care Unit. Seinye spoke virtually during a thanksgiving to mark the 20th anniversary of the O.B Lulu-Briggs Foundation in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday….

Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, on Wednesday received the report on Billiri crisis, during which property valued at millions of naira were destroyed. The governor assured that the recommendations contained in the report submitted by the ‘Commission of Inquiry into the February Billiri Violent Crisis’ would be implemented to guard against future occurrence. Yahaya stated…

Stakeholders in the maritime industry have said that the government should not be involved in the procurement of port scanners but should leave such business to private operators. In an interview with our correspondent, the National President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, Dr Increase Uche, said that the government should have…

A fortnight ago, in Lafia, Nasarawa State, the states of the North-Central geopolitical zone of the country came together to strategise on how to locally implement the National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change. Recall that the action plan was launched in Abuja on March 18, 2021. Women are more at risk to the…

Thirteen days after he was abducted by gunmen on the Emuoha-Kalabari Road in Rivers State, the whereabouts of an expatriate worker of Lubriks Construction Company is still unknown. The expatriate was one of those supervising the construction of the Trans Kalabari Road project, which crisscrossed three local government areas, namely, Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru and Degema. He…

The acting Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the 1999 Constitution must be changed for Nigeria to begin to move in the direction of peace and development. Adebanjo described the 1999 Constitution as the problem of Nigeria, even as he restated his position on restructuring. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader…

THE report of the forensic audit into the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission presented to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), offers him another opportunity to jumpstart his slumbering and ill-defined anti-corruption campaign. The audit report, prepared by a team of forensic auditors in collaboration with 16 reputable audit firms at the…

A tiler, Okey Eze, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 350 wraps of cocaine with a street value of N2.3bn. Eze was arrested with the drug weighing 7.70 kilogrammes on Wednesday during an inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian airline…