The Police Command in Borno State has re-arrested a convict, Kyari Kur, who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Maiduguri. Kur also known as Henry, escaped from the facility in September after part of the perimeter fence collapsed due to a major flood incident. The Police Public Relations Officer, of the Borno command, ASP Nahum Daso, stated that Kur was apprehended on Thursday after police at Gubio Divisional Headquarters received credible intelligence about his movements. In a statement on Friday, Daso said that the police acted swiftly and arrested the convict in Gubio town. “The Police Command in…
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Retired Assistant Comptroller-General ACG of Immigration, Sunday Fagbamigbe, has revealed that Nigeria has over 320 unmanned illegal border routes, which fuels insecurity in the country. Fagbamigbe, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Friday warned that the illegal routes will “provide avenues for insecurity, proliferation of arms, and dumping of unwholesome goods in the country.” He also said that the porous borders had also encouraged the thriving illegal drug and human trafficking all over the country. The former immigration boss advised the Federal Government to strengthen border security by investing in advanced technologists like electronic sensors,…
UNICEF has prevented one million doses of vaccines to the Borno State government in line with efforts to vaccinate residents against cholera. Prof. Baba Mallam, the state’s Commissioner for Health and Human Services, disclosed this while receiving 669,569 doses of the vaccines in Maiduguri. Represented by the Director of Disease Control and Immunisation in the Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Board, Fati Ali, Mallam explained that the initiative is timely, considering the potential outbreak of waterborne diseases following the recent floods in the state. He added, “UNICEF is one of the partners supporting and collaborating with the state 100 per…
The Rivers State Government has responded to the Court of Appeal’s decision, which upheld the Federal High Court’s ruling that nullified the N800 billion budget passed by four members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Edison Ehie. In a statement signed on Thursday by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Israel Dagogo Iboroma, SAN, the state government emphasised that the Appeal Court’s judgment did not reinstate the Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the assembly. Justice Iboroma clarified that Amaewhule and 26 others had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, on…
The Senate on Thursday in Abuja strongly condemned the recent local government elections conducted in many states for chairmen and councillors describing them as sham and rape of democracy. It consequently vowed to do the needful about the charade for survival of democracy in Nigeria through required constitution amendments. Condemnation of local government elections by the Senate followed a motion sponsored by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Abba Moro (PDP, Benue South) on local government election conducted in Benue State last Saturday which he described as a sham. Seconding the motion, Senator Emmanuel Udende (APC, Benue North East)…
The Ondo State House of Assembly on Thursday halted the legislative process of granting approval to the 2024 supplementary budget over the failure of the Commissioner for Finance, Mrs. Omowumi Isaac, to honour the invitation of the parliament. The lawmakers who were infuriated over the decision of the Finance Commissioner to snub them despite being summoned threatened to issue a bench warrant against her. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa had sent a bill to the Assembly to amend the 2024 appropriation bill on the consolidated revenue fund of the state of a sum of N487,437 billion. With the sum of N246,198 earmarked…
Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, has said that the worsening economic situation under President Bola Tinubu’s administration is fuelling mental health cases, among other factors. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, stated this in his message as Nigeria joined the global community on Thursday to commemorate this year’s World Mental Health Day. In a post on his X handle, the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 general election said mental health remains one of the critical health issues not given the due attention it deserves in Nigeria. He lamented that suicide cases in the country, fuelled…
Police operatives in Ondo State have apprehended a 34-year-old man, Monday Chukwu, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Kefa Ofando, 30, to death over a N2,000 debt. Chukwu reportedly stabbed Ofando with a pair of scissors after a heated argument at Akintola village in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. Ofando gave up the ghost while he was being rushed to the hospital, having lost much blood due to excessive bleeding. According to Ondo State Commissioner of Police Oladipo Abayomi, what started as an argument degenerated into the killing of Ofando. “Operatives of the Ondo State Police Command attached…
A 67-year-old Lebanese, Zuhier R Akar, has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for sexually exploiting two teenage girls in Kano. Akar was sentence by a Federal High Court sitting in Kano, presided by Justice S. M Shuaibu, on Wednesday. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Kano Command arraigned Akar on two counts of trafficking and sexual exploitation. Justice S M Shu’aibu found Akar guilty, sentencing him to 14 years in prison without the option of a fine but ordered him to pay N2 million for medical treatment of the victims. According to the prosecution,…
Former Minister of Transportation Chibuike Amaechi has said that he is angry with the way Nigerians are responding to the current economic challenges. Amaechi made this known in an interview with Igbere TV. The former governor of Rivers State also said he expected youths to storm different streets and protest against the high cost of living but he has not seen anything that shows that they are serious. “People should be angry because you cannot see a group of people stealing your money without doing anything. I am really angry with the citizens because they are not doing anything. “Look…