Новости за 14.03.2023

The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy nearly doubled to 190 on Tuesday after the record-breaking storm triggered floods and landslips in its second strike on Africa in less than three weeks. After brewing off Australia in early February, Freddy traversed the Indian Ocean and made landfall in southeastern Africa in late February, before

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Teslim Folarin, on Tuesday, came hard on a former deputy governor of the state and current deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (South), Taofeek Arapaja, over his remarks on a live radio station in Ibadan. The PUNCH reports that Arapaja was featured on

  Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested four suspects who specialised in robbing unsuspecting members of the public in military uniform. The suspects were also said to belong to cult groups who terrorise people in Benin, the Edo State capital. At a press briefing on Tuesday, the command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor,

The outgoing British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Catriona Laing, described the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections as fascinating and offered future assuredness for democratic governance in the country. The polls, which were conducted on Saturday, February 25, 2023, had the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the winner. The Independent

The Iwo Traditional Council has called on the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to lift an executive order placed on some monarchs in the state. The council, in a statement on Tuesday signed by its head and paramount ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, appealed to the governor to repeal the order, which had denied

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police to pay an Uber driver, Adedotun Clement, the sum of N5 million as compensation. Clement was allegedly assaulted by officials of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency and the Nigeria Police Force during the first

  A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Epe, has barred the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sawo-Olu, from installing or recognising the Alaketu-elect, Adelaja Akeem, as a monarch in the Ketu area of the state. The court also ordered Akeem to stop parading himself as the traditional ruler of the Ketu town in Ikosi-Ejirin

Gianni Infantino is set to be waved in for a third four-year term as FIFA president when world football’s governing body holds its annual congress in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday. Delegates from the 211 member federations will have a limited choice at the 73rd FIFA Congress, between re-electing the 52-year-old incumbent by acclamation

Alejandro Garnacho has vowed to come back “stronger than ever” after being ruled out for Manchester United and world champions Argentina due to an injury suffered against Southampton on Sunday. The 18-year-old forward was withdrawn 17 minutes after stepping off the bench in the second half of United’s 0-0 draw following a challenge by Southampton’s

The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Lagos State, Olanrewaju Jim-Kamal, has distanced himself from the purported endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by the Alliance of Registered Political Parties, saying he was not part of the declaration. According to him, the inclusion of his name and the NNPP was a sign that

Tension has gripped residents of the Toru Angiama community in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State as three farmers were killed by suspected herdsmen who invaded the community. Many farmers were also reportedly abducted during the attack. The PUNCH gathered that the hoodlums killed one Mr Dennis, his son and one other person while

    A 30-year-old man, Ezekiel Babalola, on Tuesday, was arraigned at the Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ado Ekiti for allegedly stealing 17 kegs of palm oil. Police prosecutor, Inspector Olubu Apata, told the court that Babalola and two others, who are currently at large, stole the kegs of palm oil belonging to one

A Tunisian court has condemned to death two nationals of the North African country for a 2020 suicide attack that killed a policeman near the United States embassy, local media said on Tuesday. The penalty would amount to life in prison, the reports said, as Tunisia has had a moratorium on executions for more than

The Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on election security met at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s headquarters in Abuja in preparation for the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. Photos from the meeting, as well as a statement, were shared via INEC’s Twitter handle on Tuesday. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, in a statement, urged political parties

    The International Air Transport Association, on Tuesday, disclosed that the trapped funds belonging to foreign airlines operating in Nigeria have reached $743,721,097 from $662m in January 2023. IATA disclosed this in a letter addressed to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, signed by the Area Manager West and Central Africa, Dr Samson Fatokun,

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a car snatcher in the Ojodu-Berger area of the state and recovered two vehicles in his possession. The 36-year-old suspect, Dayo Jimoh, was said to have hijacked two vehicles at gunpoint last Saturday along with two others who are currently at large. The police made this known in

The Nigeria Customs Service in Ogun State has impounded 115 smuggled goods including 11 trailers of rice, 19,806 litres of petrol and 29 artefacts worth N231, 218, 506 between January and February. The Customs Area Controller of Ogun 1 Area Command, Bamidele Makinde, disclosed this on Tuesday during a press briefing on the scorecard of

  Commercial and economic activities in Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area, on Tuesday, in Anambra State, were halted as women in the community staged a protest over the death of a 72-year-old woman, Mrs Charity Okoli. Mrs Charity was attacked last week at her residence in Umunze and some parts of her body were

The Lebanese pound sank to a historic low against the dollar on the parallel market Tuesday, the latest sombre milestone in an economic meltdown that has plunged most of the population into poverty. Officially pegged at 15,000 to the dollar, the pound was trading at 100,000 against the greenback, dealers said — a dizzying plunge

Facebook owner Meta announced a fresh wave of job cuts on Tuesday, part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company’s “year of efficiency” as the US tech sector continues to downsize. In an email to employees, Zuckerberg said Meta would shed 10,000 jobs over the next few months, targeting middle management, and that 5,000

Two schoolgirls have confessed to stabbing to death a 12-year-old girl in Germany, police said Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the country. The victim, known only as Luise, went missing on Saturday afternoon after leaving a friend’s house near the town of Freudenberg, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Luise’s body was

The Gombe State Coordinator, Shettima/Tinubu Campaign Council, Jamilu Gwamna, has said he did not threaten mothers in the state that they would lose their children should they vote for the Peoples Democratic Party in next Saturday’s elections. Gwamna made this disclosure during a press conference in Gombe while refuting allegations by the PDP campaign office

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party in Oyo State, Michael Lana, has stepped down from the race and endorsed the candidacy of the state governor, Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party. He made his position known on Tuesday at a press conference, which was held at Iyaganku Quarters in Ibadan, the state

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Israel on Tuesday it would react to any possible “violations” at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, issued the warning less than two weeks before the start of Ramadan and amid an escalation in the

A Nigerian man, Onyeghani Dumkele, who allegedly murdered an up-and-coming artiste, Shaun Douglas Chabalala, 23, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. MSN reported that the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court also sentenced 37-year-old Dumkele to an additional 15 years imprisonment for aggravated robbery, plus a twelve-month suspended sentence on the condition that he be deported to his