Breaking News this Afternoon in Nigeria Wednesday 29th January 2020
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US-based body, Reseau Docteur, plans for blacks
US-based organisation known as Reseau Docteur, a French connotation for ‘Doctors Network’, is said to planning to change the narrative and negative image attributed to blacks, not only in the US but wherever they are domiciled. The organisation founded by a Nigerian, Dr. Alexander Oladele, in actual sense, is said to be borderless and
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Political bias undermines anti-corruption fight, public faith – Police chief
Chukwudi Nweje, Lagos The easiest way to kill corruption in Nigeria is to have a good police force. This was the summation of the Area Commander, Area F of the Lagos State Police Command, Olusoji Adebayo, in a paper he delivered in Lagos on Wednesday. Adebayo, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), spoke during
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Transport union boss tasks Kogi gov, Bello, on fairness
John Adams, Minna The Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Kogi State branch has urged the newly- sworn-in governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to put behind the experience of the November 2019 governorship election in the state and carry everybody along in the interest of peace and development of the state. The RTEAN
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Eko Electric to begin new VAT rate on meters from Feb. 1
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has announced that the prices of meters sold to customers under the Meter Asset Provider scheme would be reviewed upward from Feb. 1. Mr Godwin Idemudia, General Manager, Corporate Communications, EKEDC, who made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday, said the review was to reflect the increase in Value Added
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Stop demarketing Nigeria with religious persecution falsehood, FG warns politicians
The Federal Government has admonished desperate politicians and the political elites with vested interest to desist from spreading the falsehood about religious persecution in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who gave the admonition in London on Wednesday said that those who engaged in the act were doing so to demarket
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Court remands Kwara Ex-Finance Commissioner for money laundering.
LAYI OLANREWAJU, Ilorin The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State, Mr Ademola Banu before a Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on charges that border on money laundering. Banu was arraigned alongside Travel Messenger Company Limited and one
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Man bags one-year imprisonment for online fraud
Rose Ejembi, Makurdi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Makurdi zonal office, on Wednesday, secured the conviction of one Abdulkadir Musa Inna, before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State. Inna is to spend the next year in prison custody after he was arraigned and convicted on a
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Teacher drags husband to court for giving N300 daily for 3 children’s upkeep
A primary school teacher, Munira Muhammad, has dragged her husband, Lawal Ibrahim before the Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, for giving her only N300 daily for the upkeep of their three children. Muhammad who resides within Kaduna metropolis, on Wednesday told the court that Ibrahim occasionally gave one measure of grinded maize and millet
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9,000 U.S. soldiers threaten to leave Korea over funding row
About 9,000 members of the U.S. military, stationed in South Korea, on Wednesday urged to leave if a dispute over the sharing of the costs for the 28,500 U.S. soldiers stationed in the country remains unresolved. According to U.S. Armed Forces, upon expiration of an agreement on funding from 2019, no follow-up deal for the
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FEC: Ministry of Health makes presentation on Lassa Fever, others
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the maiden 2020 meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) expected to make presentation during the meeting included the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transportation and Federal Mortgage Bank. NAN gathered
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JUST IN: Balogun Market on fire, 7 buildings affected
Muritala Ayinla No fewer than seven buildings are presently on fire on Martins Street as fire gutted the popular market situated on Lagos Island. As at the time of filing this report, the exact cause of the fire could not be ascertained but traders were seen scampering for safety and desperately looking for means to salvage their goods. It was learnt that building where the fire started from has collapsed while there is still confusion in the entire area. Officials of the emergency response teams such as the Lagos…
JUST IN: Thiem stuns Nadal in four-set thriller to reach Aussie Open semis
Spanish top seed Rafael Nadal was denied a place in the Australian Open semi-finals after Austria’s Dominic Thiem rattled him with a powerful display to win a four-set thriller. Fifth seed Thiem won 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 7-6 (8-6) in Melbourne. Thiem missed two match points before taking a third to win in four hours and 10 minutes, reports the BBC. The 26-year-old will now face Germany’s Alexander Zverev on Friday – both men’s first semi-final at Melbourne Park. Either Serbia’s defending champion Novak Djokovic or Swiss third seed…
Obaseki threatens to ‘deal’ with Oshiomhole over Edo crisis
From Cajetan Mmuta, Benin Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Wednesday dared to confront his predecessor and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, if he (Oshiomhole) continues to disrupt activities in the state. Governor Obaseki said Oshiomhole as a governor would not tolerate a fraction of the misdemeanour and misbehaviour he (Oshiomhole) is undertaking today. Speaking a meeting of the 18 APC local government Chairmen in Benin the state capital, Obaseki said he would show Oshiomhole that he (Obaseki) is the governor of the state.…
EFCC arraigns businessman, ex-Director of Punch Newspaper over N350m fraud
John Chikezie The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arraigned a businessman, one Olalekan Abdul and a former Executive Director of the Punch Newspaper, Azubike Ishekwene over an alleged N350m fraud. The duo was charged alongside one Morakinyo Bolanle (now at large) before Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos. The defendants were docked on a 15 amended count charge bothering on forgery, falsification of book and account, conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. The offences contravened sections 411, 365, 366 and 335 (2)…
Ortom: Insurgency’s pushing Nigeria into religious crisis
From: Cephas Iorhemen, Makurdi Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has expressed worry that the growing insecurity situation being witnessed in the country is pushing the nation into religious crisis. The governor stated this Wednesday when he received the Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command Makurdi, Air Vice Marshal Olusegun R. Philip who paid him a courtesy call. He noted that the security agencies have been overstretched by the activities of insurgency, banditry and other criminal activities, stressing that lack of standard equipment had also posed a big challenge…
Pogba ‘desperate’ to play, says Solskjaer
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is “desperate” to play after having his ankle cast removed following surgery earlier this month but there is still no timeline for the Frenchman’s return, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said. The 26-year-old has made only eight appearances in all competitions this season having been sidelined for three months earlier in the campaign before deciding to undergo surgery. “Paul’s had a terrible season with injuries, he’s desperate to play football,” Solskjaer told reporters ahead of Wednesday’s League Cup semi-final against Manchester City, where they will…
Aussie Open: Zverev breaks Grand Slam semis barrier with win over Wawrinka
*As Muguruza marches into semis German seventh seed Alexander Zverev recovered from a slow start to beat former champion Stan Wawrinka 1-6 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the Australian Open on Wednesday to reach his first career Grand Slam semi-final. Zverev was once considered one of the leading ‘Next Gen’ contenders to break the Grand Slam hegemony of Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer who have shared the last 12 majors between them. But the German, who beat Federer and Djokovic on his way to the 2018 ATP Finals…
Coronavirus fears prompt shut down of Abuja supermarket
Fears of a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in the country has prompted the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to shut down a popular supermarket in the nation’s capital city, Abuja.Panda Supermarket, located in the Jabi area of the FCT, is one of the retail shops in Abuja, selling products like wines, pastries, baby products, drinks, seafoods among other items.The FCCPC on its official Twitter handle, @fccpcnigeria, noted that it “discovered seafood and animals imported illegally from China in the store. It also added that it discovered products with expired…
Kobe Bryant: Investigators say chopper missed clearing hillside by just 20ft
The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant missed clearing the top of a hillside in Southern California by just 20 feet before it crashed and killed all nine passengers aboard.The doomed chopper narrowly missed the mountain in Los Angeles before the “high energy, devastating impact”, the National Transportation Safety Board revealed on Tuesday, reports The Sun.“This was a high-energy-impact crash and the helicopter was in a descending left bank,” said NTSB Investigator Jennifer Homendy.Kobe’s body was identified among the group of nine victims killed in the Sunday afternoon crash in California, the…
Coronavirus: Japan evacuation flight from Wuhan lands, 5 reported ill
*As death toll from China virus hits 132, with 1500 new infected cases reported The first chartered flight carrying 206 Japanese nationals evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday – four of them showing symptoms of fever or coughing.Japan has confirmed seven patients, including a Japanese tour bus driver who had been infected after coming into contact with Chinese visitors – the first reported case of a possible transmission inside Japan, according to the health ministry.“I was extremely worried that I was stuck…
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