Category: Crime/Health

Fake Milo Beverage Floods Market, NAFDAC Begins Mop-up

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Bauchi State Office of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, has begun a three-day exercise in markets in Bauchi State to mop up fake Milo chocolate drinks in circulation. The Bauchi State Coordinator of NAFDAC, Dr Paul Kamai made this known on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi. ”The NAFDAC office began the inspections in markets and superstores to get rid of the fake Milo in circulation following a directive from the Headquarters. “This exercise will last for three…

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Slained Abuja Crossdresser Identified As Probe Continues

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command said it has identified the corpse of a crossdresser found on Katampe-Mabushi Expressway in Abuja as Ifeanyi Chukwu-Agah Benedict. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, in a statement on Wednesday identified the crossdresser as a 33-year-old man. Benedict was said to have hailed from Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The statement by Adeh, a Superintendent of Police, said: “Sequel to a case of culpable homicide and discovery of an unidentified male corpse earlier mistaken for a female on August 8,…

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’19 Mths After Burying Mum;’ Dangote Group’s Spokesperson, Roseline Okere, Dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

. ‘Sad, Shocking,‘ What friends wrote on the Guardian newspaper’s ex-energy editor   A former energy editor with the Guardian newspaper, Roseline Okere, is Dead Platforms Africa reports that Okere, ŵho until her death, was a staff at the communication department of the Dangote Group, died 19 months after burying her late mother, Madam Victoria Inegbonoise, in January 2023. The news of her demise was confirmed by the editor of The Guardian newspaper, Femi Adekoya, on Monday after an enquiry on the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC’s) WhatsApp group.…

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How Ogun State, Chinese Firm’s Deals Led To Presidential Jets’ Seizure

ADEOLA YUSUF

▪️ Roles ex-govs Daniel, Amosun played in business transactions with firm they now tagged as scammer   Two former governors of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun and Gbenga Daniel, have given details of how the business rift between the state and a Chinese Firm led to the seizure of three Nigerian presidential jets in France. The duo also vowed to support Federal Government’s efforts to recover the national assets seized by a French court. A Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Company Limited, had got judgment from the court, which led…

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‘For Daddies Too,’ Why Breast Milk Is Good For Adults – Expert

ADEOLA YUSUF

“No jokes, here are the health benefits,” Dr Efunbo Dosekun, a medical doctor with a specialty in pediatrics, offers details in this interview culled from Saturday Sun + her advice for women   What motivated you to bring women together for the sake of finding a lasting solution to the healthcare issues among women and children? As far as l am concerned, particularly to African culture, women, children and babies are vulnerable, especially babies. Again, I felt that referral system when we do have an acute problem suddenly with our…

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Cleric Kills Five For Money Ritual, Throws Remains Inside Well

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested eight suspected serial ritual killers and 15 others over alleged murder, robbery and rape. The Command’s Commissioner, CP Ayodele Sonubi, made this known while parading the suspects in Ibadan on Friday. Sonubi said the command got information about the act of one of the suspected serial ritual killers on August 10 when it was reported by one Ayede and immediately swung into action. He said that residents of the community had noticed an offensive odour oozing out of a building belonging to the…

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Gunmen Kidnap Over 20 Medical Students In Benue

ADEOLA YUSUF

Over 20 medical and dental students, along with a House Officer, have been kidnapped by gunmen in Benue State. The students, from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos, were on their way to attend the annual convention of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students, FECAMDS, in Enugu. The kidnapping occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the Otukpo area of Benue State, where the students were ambushed by the gunmen while travelling together. READ ALSO How Nigerian Govt Turned Citizens To Beggars – Afe Babalola Nigeria’s Inflation…

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Minding the Mutating Protest, By Tunde Akanni and Amira Obi-Okoye

ADEOLA YUSUF

Most credible English Language Dictionaries provide at least 10 synonyms for the word protest – object, disagree, oppose, complain, disapprove, declare, insist, affirm, avow, declare, grouse, holler, belly-ache. One Thesaurus, in fact, offers 106 synonyms and antonyms of the word “protest”. Yet writers don’t often consider any of them good substitute for “protest”, because over the decades, the word has assumed a much deeper, complex and lethal meaning. Palpably so, perhaps. The past decade or thereabouts, protests have become a dominant instrument of people and issue management across the local…

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Daily Times Ex-Journalist, Simon Ugwu, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

He was at a training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) organised by NAEC few hours before his death.   Nigerian financial journalist and an ex-energy editor with Daily Times Newspapers, Simon Ugwu, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Ugwu’s death was announced on the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) WhatsApp group on Sunday, quoting his wife, Mrs. Ugwu, to have confirmed the news. ‘3rd Staff In 12 Months,’ The Nation Journalist, Tajudeen Adigun, Is Dead Onyeka Onwenu: I’ll Always Perform ‘Waiting For Me’ On Your Behalf – King Sunny Ade…

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‘Wrong, Unreasonable,’ Abati, Punctures Reps Members’ Call For Kyari’s Sack

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘This, not NNPCL CEO, is the problem with the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.’ What the Arise TV breakfast talk show anchor said on live programme Dr. Rueben Abati, a veteran journalist and former Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, dismissed call by a fragment of the House of Representatives to sack the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari. Platforms Africa reports that Abati, the lead anchor in the popular Arise TV breakfast talk show,…

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