Month: November 2022

BREAKING: Nigeria’s ex-Minister, Paul Unongo, Is Dead

Aliyu Aliyu

Until his death, Unongo, the second republic Minister of Power and Steel, was the chairman of the Governing Council of Nigerian Educational Research Development Council. A former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Paul Unongo, has died at the age of 87. Unongo, an indigene of Jato Aka in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, died on Tuesday morning in Jos, Plateau State capital. In 2017, he succeeded Maitama Sule as the chairman of the Northern Elders’ Forum. A close family source confirmed his death…

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NURSING FATHER: Nigeria Begins Paternity Leave For Civil Servants

Abibat Babalola

Just 14 days, not to be for more than once within two years and for a maximum of four children. Here are ‘stringent’ conditions for aspiring nursing fathers The Nigerian has approved the commencement of a 14-day paternity leave for federal civil servants. The paternity leave, which is for serving male officers whose spouse delivers a baby, is said not to be for more than once within two years and for a maximum of four children. . READ ALSO Boy, 13, Fathers Child With 9-Year-Old Cousin US Announces No-Interview For…

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Best Journalists In Nigeria: List of Who Won What at 2022 NMMA

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Punch is best newspaper, Channels best TV, Daily Trust’s is best editor, Innocent Duru won 4,  Afeez Hanafi and Collins Nweze cleared 3 each; Meet the winners at the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA) 2022   The Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA) held its 30th edition in Lagos, commercial capital of Nigeria, where journalists with outstanding entries in 2021 were rewarded. Platforms Africa compiled names of the Winners of the 30th edition of the 2022 Nigeria Media Merit Awards and what they won. Newspaper of the Year Punch…

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BREAKING: Senegal Defeat Ecuador 2-1, Become First African Nation To Qualify For Round Of 16

Ganiyu Amodu

Senegal have clinched a berth in the knockout stage of the ongoing World Cup, becoming the first African nation to qualify for the next round. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Court Sentences IGP To 3 months In Prison Ex-Comoros President Given Life Sentence Over Passport Scandal Three Boys Gang-Rape Akure High School Female Pupil US Bans Sales Of Tech Equipment Of Chinese Huawei, ZTE Over Security Concerns The Terranga Lions defeated Ecuador 2-1 at the Khalifa International Stadium to finish second behind Netherlands in Group A.

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JUST IN: Court Sentences IGP To 3 months In Prison

Abibat Babalola

ABUJA–The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice M. O. Olajuwon, held that the IGP should be committed to prison and detained in custody for a period of three months, or until he obeys an order it made since October 21, 2011. “If at the end of the three months, the contemnor remains recalcitrant and still refuses to purge his…

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Indian Man Burns Himself To Death In Language Protest

Ganiyu Amodu

An octogenarian man burned himself to death in southern India in protest at what he called New Delhi’s attempts to impose nationwide usage of Hindi, a language mostly spoken in the north, police said Sunday. Language is an emotive issue in India where hundreds of languages and dialects are spoken, but English serves as the main official medium while state governments use regional languages. According to the most recent census in 2011, fewer than half of Indian citizens speak Hindi – just under 44 per cent. But last month a…

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Ex-Comoros President Given Life Sentence Over Passport Scandal

Ganiyu Amodu

A court in Comoros has sentenced Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, ex-president of the East African country, to life in prison for “high treason”, regional media reports and the AFP news agency have reported. According to Tanzania Daily News, Sambi, who is a political rival of incumbent President Azali Assoumani, was sentenced by the State Security Court, a special judicial body whose rulings cannot be appealed, after he was convicted of selling passports to stateless people living in the Gulf. “He betrayed the mission entrusted to him by the Comorians,” public prosecutor…

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Three Boys Gang-Rape Akure High School Female Pupil

Abibat Babalola

How Idris Matthew,17, Olawale Tobi, 18 and Ajayi Micheal, 17, “lured victim into the bush at the back of the school gate and gang-raped her,” Police give details       Three secondary school students have been arrested by the police for gang-raping a 14-year-old SSS 1 girl in Ondo State. The suspects identified as Idris Matthew,17, Olawale Tobi, 18 and Ajayi Micheal, 17, carried out the crime in Akure High School in the Akure South Local Government Area of the state. The victim was said to have gone to…

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Boy, 13, Fathers Child With 9-Year-Old Cousin

Aoko Benjamin

DNA tests conducted by the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe have revealed a 13-year-old boy is responsible for impregnating his nine-year-old cousin, who has made international headlines. Media reports indicate the girl, from Tsholotsho District in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North province, has since given birth to a baby girl at the United Bulawayo Hospital through Caesarean section. READ ALSO: Lafia Varsity Opens Up On Report Student Impregnated Lecturer Hospital Shuts Down As “Ghosts” Rape Nurses, Patients 84 Year-Old Grandfather Rapes Eight Year-Old Girl Story Of Betty, World’s…

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No NIN, No Train, Nigeria Gives New Condition For Boarding

Aliyu Aliyu

“If you don’t have a NIN you are not going to board our train. It is as simple as that,” the Minister of Transportation Mua’zu Sambo has said. Sambo, while inspecting the test running the train route between the Abuja and Kaduna said operations would resume within seven days from Nov. 27 with new requirements to board the train. The minister said that this was to enable passengers to get used to the new requirements for enjoying the train La.aservice. He said: ”The issue of whether the train will start…

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