Новости за 19.05.2023

The United Kingdom has warned its citizens in Nigeria from travelling to Anambra State. The warning came two days after an attack on the convoy of United State consulate workers in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Tuesday. It would be recalled that the convoy carried nine Nigerian nationals:

The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Emeka Orji, on Thursday said the National Assembly had invited the association for a meeting on Friday (today). The invitation came against the backdrop of NARD’s five-day nationwide warning strike, which entered day two on Thursday. Residents doctors across 79 tertiary health facilities embarked on

Political thugs on Thursday took over the Benue State House of Assembly complex in Makurdi and harassed some lawmakers. Our correspondent gathered that the suspected political thugs smatched vehicles belonging to some lawmakers perceived to be against the resumption of plenary session. The PUNCH had exclusively reported that the lawmakers suspended plenary to protest unpaid

The stunned policeman, whose left cheek Seun Kuti sandpapered on the lagoon last Saturday, didn’t turn the right cheek. I know why. He feared losing his eardrum and, or a couple of teeth. Seun doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ and His temptation story. He doesn’t believe in Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), either. Does he believe in

The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered further remand of embattled Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, for additional four days in police custody. The singer was taken to court on Tuesday for assaulting a policeman, Inspector Mohammed Aminu, on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos last Saturday as captured in a viral video. The Chief

In Psychology, the theory is called self-serving bias. This life theory speaks to the issue of humans blaming other humans for their pitfalls; but ascribing glory and credit to themselves when they record rounds of successes. When things go wrong, we rarely blame ourselves. We are quick to push the root-cause on somebody else, especially

Sylvanus Ayang and Musa Mohammed on Thursday in Abuja continued with their respective fairytale runs at the ongoing DavNotch Senior Tennis Championships by advancing to the quarter-finals. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ajang had on Wednesday caused the tournament’s biggest upset after he took out Nigeria’s number one, Uche Oparaoji, in the round

The Borno government has introduced a new dress code for Muslim students in government secondary schools across the state. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, it is with effect from the 1st Term of 2023/2024 session. Director, Schools Management, State Ministry of Education, Bukar Mustapha-Umara, stated this in a statement in Maiduguri on Thursday.

Members of the Nigeria Hunters and Forest Security Service on night duty in Inisa, Osun State, along the Osogbo/Kwara boundary road in the early hours of Thursday rescued a toddler straying along the expressway. According to sources, the toddler was coming from the Okuku end of the road towards Ikirun, when NHFSS men intercepted him

The Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Duoye Diri, has said the Niger Delta region is still unhappy with the three per cent allocation of the operating cost of oil companies to host communities, provided in the Petroleum Industry Act 2022. This was as he said the region that produces ‘the golden egg’ must not be allowed

As the Dangote Refinery begins operations next week, the supply of 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to the facility is going to commence, the Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, announced on Thursday. Kyari, who disclosed this at the ongoing 4th Nigerian Oil and Gas

The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu on Thursday commenced the distribution of  54,781 free learning materials to primary school pupils in the state. The beneficiaries were in the schools across the 18 local government areas of the state. At the distribution of the materials, held at St James’ Mega Primary School, Irowo, Akure,  the

The Association of Private Educators in Nigeria and The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools have described the claim by the Teachers Registration Council, that over 70 per cent of private school teachers in the South-West States are unqualified as unfair and not factual. Recently, TRCN, the regulatory body for the teaching profession in

A 24-year-old Islamic teacher, Mosediq Toheeb, was on Wednesday remanded by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court for sexually assaulting a six-year-old pupil at a Quranic school. The court presided over by Magistrate Patrick Nwaka, remanded the defendant who was arraigned on two counts of sexual violation preferred against him by the state police command. The

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has called for the integration of nutrition education into the school curriculum. It stated that the introduction of nutrition education from childhood through adolescent levels is a sustainable strategy to promote well-informed citizens on the consumption of fortified foods. It made this call on Thursday, during a media roundtable

The Federal Capital Territory Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Thursday, said it arrested 34 suspects during its raids on illicit drug dens in the territory. The agency’s FCT Commander, Kabir Tsakuwa, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja. Tsakuwa said some of the suspects had been charged while those

Armed men have started seizing the opportunity of the gridlock being caused by the collapsed section of the Ijora-Olopa Bridge in Lagos to dispossess unsuspecting motorists and passers-by of their valuables. PUNCH Metro reports that a portion of the bridge caved in on Tuesday and traffic was quickly diverted to the other lane. The diversion,

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said the Federal Government had sued Elixir Asset Management Limited and Elixir Investment Partners Limited, along with two of their directors at the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos over allegations of fraud worth over N3bn. In a statement issued on Thursday by the SEC, it was

Three men, Friday Effiong, Michael Chukwu and Alex Essien, were on Thursday sentenced to nine years and five months imprisonment by an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court sitting in Tinubu Lagos Island for stealing. The Magistrate, Oluwatosin Erinle, sentenced them after they pleaded guilty to the charge against them. The convicts were arraigned on April 11, 2023,

The Lagos State Government has announced the diversion of traffic from the Ijora area of the state owing to a failed deck-on-pile bridge at Ijora-Olopa inbound Ijora-Oloye. The diversion will be in place until the repairs of the failed portion are carried out by the Federal Government, a statement signed by the Commissioner for Transportation,

The Muslim Rights Concern has urged Muslim aspirants vying for the position of the President of the 10th Senate to withdraw to allow a Southern Christian to contest for the position. The Executive Director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, made the call on Thursday. The Islamic human rights group noted that it wants the Senate

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, on Thursday, condemned the excessive use of force by policemen enforcing the ban on the use of commercial motorcycles in certain parts of the state. Owohunwa made his position known when he visited a motorcyclist who was seen being assaulted by policemen in a recent viral video.

The Ekiti State Police Command in two separate cases on Thursday arraigned four men over alleged possession of Indian hemp and forgery. While 27-year-old Lasisi Dada was arraigned before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged possession of Indian hemp, three others, Onibonoje Timileyin (27), Bello Tumise (16) and Ahmed Olasunkanmi (29), were taken

A 21-year-old housemaid, Praise Etim, was on Thursday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court sitting at Tinubu Lagos Island for allegedly stealing N4m from her employer. The defendant, who is facing a count charge preferred against her by the police, was docked before Magistrate Atinuke Adetunji. The police prosecutor, Inspector Cyriacus Osuji, told the court

The programmes line up for the inauguration of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, as President and Vice-President respectively, have been released by the Federal Government. The lineup, scheduled to hold in a space of eight days, was released during a press briefing on Thursday, by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the