Month: May 2024

‘Primary 4 To JSS 1,’ Here’s Danger Of Rushing Children’s Education

ADEOLA YUSUF

Education expert and Professor of Educational Management at UNILORIN offers words of advice to parents         A Professor of Educational Management at the University of Ilorin, Yunus Fasasi, has advised parents not to rush their children’s education at all levels, maintaining that making children to deliberately jump certain classes during their formative years has some dangers. Prof Fasasi gave the advice while delivering the 256th inaugural lecture at the University of Ilorin on Thursday. Though he focused on the rush of children into higher Educational institutions at…

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Speaker Lampoons Minister For Speaking Against Plan To Marry Off 100 Girls

ADEOLA YUSUF

Niger State House of Assembly Speaker Abdulmalik Sarkindaji has lashed out at the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, for opposing his decision to sponsor the wedding of 100 girls orphaned by banditry. He said she was being misled. Sarkindaji told reporters that the minister does not know anything about his constituency and their needs and has no right to criticise his decision. He said Kennedy-Ohanenye never called to seek his opinion before going to press. The Speaker said he only agreed to support the marriage of the girls, who…

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Court Remands Father For Allegedly Defiling 13-Year-Old Daughter

ADEOLA YUSUF

A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, remanded a 58-year-old man, Joseph Gamor in Awarjigoh Correctional centre for allegedly defiling his 13-year-old daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya refused to take his plea. Adekomaiya ordered the defendant to be remanded until July 29, pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). Gamor, who lives at the back of Golden GLO Bus stop, Imeke, Badagry, Lagos, is being tried for alleged defilement. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Ayodele Adeosun told the court that the offence was committed in…

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Pregnancy Complications Cause Mental Disorder In Women – Expert

ADEOLA YUSUF

A Bauchi-based neuropsychiatric, Dr Adamu Babaji has identified pregnancy, complications and prolonged labour during child delivery as leading cause of mental disorder in women. He stated this in an interview with Newsmen in Bauchi on Monday. Babaji, who is also the Head of Psychiatric Department. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital (ATBU-TH), Bauchi, said that poor attendance of antenatal clinic and other psycho-social factors also resulted to high prevalence rate of the disease. “We have our clinic days three times in a week and during this days we always register 15…

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46-Year-Old Teacher Gives Birth To Quadruplets, Appeals For Help

ADEOLA YUSUF

A secondary school teacher, Mrs Sabina Mamah, who gave to quadruplets after 14 years of marriage, has called for assistance from well-meaning Nigerians. Mamah, who hails from Obollo Orie in Udenu Council Area of Enugu State, gave birth to three boys and a girl. She told the Newsmen that she was currently at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) in Enugu and is unable to defray her delivery bills. ”I got pregnant around October 2023 and after an ultrasound, I was told that I was carrying quadruplets. “So I…

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30-Year-Old Woman Remanded For Allegedly Assaulting, Robbing Police Officer

ADEOLA YUSUF

30-year-old woman, Comfort Yughemba, was, on Tuesday, remanded by a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court for allegedly resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, robbery, raising false alarm and inciting breach of public peace. The Magistrate, Christy Ikpe, who did not take the defendant’s plea for want of jurisdiction, adjourned the case till June 19 for further mention. The Police Prosecutor, Insp Inedu Friday, told the court that the case was reported by one PC Akor Success, an officer attached to ‘B’ Division Police Station, High Level, Makurdi, on May 5. Friday said…

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Nigerian Govt Suspends Cybersecurity Levy

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Government has suspended the controversial 0.5% cybersecurity levy on electronic banking transactions. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris said President Bola Tinubu ordered the suspension following deliberations by members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). READ ALSO Jailed For Life, Court Imprisons Nigerian Man Who Killed Wife In UK How Senior Nigerian Customs Officer Committed Suicide How Enugu Govt Awarded N100bn Contract To 4 Day-Old Company Wife Loses Eye, Son Dies, Tragedy Hits Football Star Babangida’s Family The minister spoke at the State House in…

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Jailed For Life, Court Imprisons Nigerian Man Who Killed Wife In UK

ADEOLA YUSUF

A Nigerian, Olubunmi Abodunde, who murdered his wife, Taiwo, with a skateboard and blamed his loss of control on medication has been jailed for life in the United Kingdom. Media reports had indicated that Abodunde, 48, a resident of Exning Road, in Newmarket, Suffolk killed his wife on 28 November, 2023. He admitted to killing Taiwo, who suffered “catastrophic brain injuries”, according to BBC reports. Ipswich Crown Court heard “a degree of ferocity” was involved in her death at the couple’s family home in Exning Road. Abodunde must spend a…

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How Senior Nigerian Customs Officer Committed Suicide

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Details of sad news that happened weeks after a deputy commissioner of police killed himself by hanging with a noose   A Chief Superintendent of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab Magaji, has tragically taken his life with a gun, a month after a deputy commissioner of police serving with the FCID in Lagos killed himself by hanging with a noose. According to reports, Magaji, who served at the Customs headquarters in Abuja, reportedly shot himself with a pump-action riffle at his residence in Kano a few days ago.…

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How Enugu Govt Awarded N100bn Contract To 4 Day-Old Company

ADEOLA YUSUF

. “We smell a rat,” Labour Party speaks on what it knew about deals   The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has called on Nigeria’s anticorruption agencies to investigate the agriculture partnership agreement recently signed between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic Farms Limited alleging that the transaction might be a conduit to siphon the resources of the state. The party, in a statement on Sunday signed by its Chairman, Comrade Casmir Uchenna Agbo, and Publicity Secretary, Onuora Odo, questioned the propriety of the transaction, pointing out…

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