Новости за 28.01.2023

The Inspector of General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the prosecution of holders of Police Community Relations Committee Identity Cards with effect from December 2022. The IG directed that whoever is found parading with the invalidated PCRC ID card should be arrested and prosecuted. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in

The Chairman, Joint Association Persons With Disability, Ishiyaku Adamu, has decried what he described as hardship faced by his members over the redesigned notes. According to Adamu, who doubles as State Coordinator Actionaid Local Right Programme in Gombe, his members were starving following the decision of traders not to sell with the old notes. Our

The Imo State Government has revealed its plans to boost economy in the state using tourism. Speaking during a Saturday webinar, titled ‘Opportunities in tourism in Imo State,’ organised by the Chief Economic Adviser to the state government, Prof Kenneth Amaeshi, the state Commissioner for Tourism, Jerry Egemba, reiterated the commitment of the government to

Residents of Calabar in Cross River State have resorted to keeping vigil at Automated Teller Machine centers in search of the new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria, who monitored the situation around the metropolis, reports that the ATM points across the city have been taken over by long queues of people scrambling to

With three days to the January 31 deadline for Nigerians to swap their old naira notes to the redesigned ones, long queues have persisted at Automated Teller Machines and Banks in Taraba State. This is as shop owners, tricycle riders and small business owners have started rejecting the old notes as the Central Bank of

Resident doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, have suspended its five-day warning strike. The group said it considered the plight of stranded patients who are in need of critical and emergency care before arriving at the decision to suspend the strike after an emergency meeting on

The convoy of the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, was attacked in the Coker area of Aguda in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state. Some suspected hoodlums were said to have shot guns and destroyed some of the campaign vehicles in Adediran’s convoy during the attack on

Deeply concerned with the Central Bank of Nigeria policy on redesigned naira notes and for security reasons, Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, had written to the Presidency to postpone the visit of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the state. This is contained in a statement by Ganduje’s Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar,

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has demanded a slight extension to the January 31st deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the swapping of the old naira notes for the new ones in commercial banks of the country. Atiku said the pain caused by this action is one

Some major roads in Osogbo and Ilesa were on Saturday blocked by protesters, said to be displeased with the decision of the Election Petition Tribunal that sacked Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor. The protesters, who prevented vehicular movement along Osogbo/Ikirun road, also blocked Gbongan/Osogbo road to traffic and beat up many commercial motorcyclists that were

The Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, has partnered TechnipFMC, a global offshore oil and gas firm, in its drive for local content and manpower development. Some PTI academic staff participated in the training on subsea system operations anchored by TechnipFMC which kicked off in the Institute’s campus on Friday. Subsea engineering is a multidisciplinary

A game-worn jersey of basketball superstar LeBron James sold for $3.7 million at auction Friday, five times more than the previous record for one of his shirts. The sale comes with interest even higher than usual in the 38-year-old LA Lakers icon as he nears the NBA’s all-time scoring record. Sotheby’s in New York sold

Moises Caicedo has pleaded with Brighton to accept a club-record transfer fee amid interest from Arsenal in the midfielder. The Premier League leader has reportedly seen a £60 million ($74 million) bid turned down for the Ecuadorian international. “I am proud to be able to bring in a record transfer fee for Brighton which would

A group known as Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction Coalition has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra and its factions that multiple sit-at-home orders could deprive the Igbo winning 2023 presidency. This is contained in a statement jointly signed on Friday by the group’s Chairman, Rev Obinna Akukwe and the Secretary, Dr Pat Anyanwu.

Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed on Saturday, killing one pilot, in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises south of the capital New Delhi. The crash involved a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30, carrying two pilots, and a French-built Mirage 2000, operated by a third. Both aircraft had taken off in the morning from the

The Director-General of the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, has condemned the attack on the fire service men and vehicles that responded to a fire incident at Enya filling station, Halli Brothers, Wuse Zone 1 Abuja, on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the filling station went in flames

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 50-year-old man and five others for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State several times. Among the suspects were 40-year-old and 37-year-old men. The spokesman for the command, Ahmed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, disclosed this in a statement made available

The Bible Society of Nigeria on Friday held a fundraiser event towards the accomplishment of a new Bible House for the organisation. The event held at Shepherd Hill Baptist Church in Lagos and was graced by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who served as the Chairman of the day; the President of the Christian Association of

Following the Friday judgement of the Osun State Election Tribunal which sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke and declared former Governor Gboyega Oyetola as the winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election, some student bodies have kicked against the development. The National Association of Nigerian Students, Zone D, in a statement obtained by The PUNCH, signed

Buhari Jika, a younger brother to the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People Party in Bauchi State, Haliru Jika, and some of his relatives have dumped the party and joined the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in support of Governor Bala Mohammed’s second term bid. Also, the Campaign Coordinator of former Governor Mohammed Abubakar, Auwalu

British airline Flybe on Saturday said it had ceased trading and all flights had been cancelled. “We are sad to announce that Flybe has been placed into administration,” the airline tweeted. “Flybe has now ceased trading. All Flybe flights from and to the UK are cancelled and will not be rescheduled,” it said. The United

Immediate past governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, has described the verdict of the election petition tribunal which validated his victory in the July 16, 2022 governorship election, as a collective victory for the state and the nation’s democracy. Oyetola, while speaking with newsmen in his country home, Iragbiji, said there was no victor, no

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, on Friday inaugurated some newly completed projects at the state-owned university in Bokkos. Lalong inaugurated the projects as part of activities for the sixth and seventh combined Convocation ceremony of the institution. The governor described the institution as most cherished and that the new projects would enhance teaching and

A Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside an east Jerusalem synagogue during the Jewish Sabbath on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Israelis in years that risked sparking widespread violence. The shooting came a day after a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including an army raid in the occupied West Bank that

Barely a month to the presidential election, the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party is facing an uphill task to convince five of its elected governors to campaign for its flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Governors Nyesom Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Seyi Makinde and Samuel Ortom of Rivers, Abia, Enugu, Oyo and Benue states