Category: Crime/Health

Ghana Lifts Remaining Covid-19 Restrictions As Infections Decline

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Ghanaian government has announced the further easing of Covid-19 restrictions in response to a sustained decline in infections both globally and domestically. The decision comes as the country has experienced a significant decrease in Covid-19 cases over the past five months. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the remaining restrictions will be lifted, including the requirements for pre-departure testing and testing at all points of entry for passengers. Additionally, the Covid-19 health declaration form for international travellers has been suspended as of May 20. While restrictions are being…

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How I ‘Accidentally’ Impregnated My Deputy – Education Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tony Mwaba Kazadi has confessed that he “accidentally” impregnated his Deputy Minister, Aminata Namasia. Gatekeepers News reports that Kazadi and Namasia, despite being married, developed feelings for each other as they worked together in the DRC education ministry. According to The Heritage Times, a DRC journalist, Lungila John took to Twitter to reveal the affair between both officials that led to the deputy education minister’s pregnancy. The duo have come under heavy criticism from citizens of…

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Nigerian Business Mogul, Chief Michael Subomi Balogun, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerian top business Mogul, Otunba Subomi Balogun, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Balogum, Founder of the First City Monument Bank Group, died in a London Hospital of old age related ailment. The consullmate financial expert , philanthropist and boardroom giant , renowned for his sartorial elegance , according to reports coming in , died at the age of 89 on Friday May 19,2023. This is a breaking story. More to follow.

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London Court Jails Nigerian Three Years For Flogging Son

ADEOLA YUSUF

An argument by the father, 66, that his action was to discipline his son couldn’t fly. He was, asides three years in jail, also ordered to pay £500 in compensation to his son   An appeal court in London, the United Kingdom, has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years in jail for physically abusing his nine-year-old son. The offender, 66, initially got away with 22 months imprisonment at the end of his trial at the Crown Court in Woolwich, South-east London, which the government disagreed with. Following the government’s appeal…

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Strike: Doctors Shun Talks, Medical Tourism Gulps $3bn In Three Years

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerians spent about $3bn on foreign healthcare-related services from 2020 to 2022, according to findings by The PUNCH. The total spending for the period under review was obtained from the Balance of Payments database of the Central Bank of Nigeria. This came to the fore on Tuesday as the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors insisted on starting a warning strike on Wednesday. The doctors are starting the strike despite the fact that the Federal Government said it had begun talks with their parent body, the Nigerian Medical Association. READ ALSO:…

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Seun Kuti In Custody, Case Transferred to Criminal Investigations Unit

ADEOLA YUSUF

Singer handcuffed, transferred to Panti The Lagos State command of the Nigerian Police Force on Monday transferred the case of the Afro beat singer Seun Kuti, to the Criminal Investigation Department Panti for further investigations. Platforms Africa was informed at the state headquarters of the command Monday morning that the case was transferred to Panti after the artiste submitted himself to the police as promised by his lawyer Femi Falana on Sunday. Benjamin Hundeyin, state spokesman of the police told our correspondent Seun Kuti came early in the morning and…

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How Bank Staff Pushed Debtor’s Wife To Death – Police

ADEOLA YUSUF

Four staff of ZEFA Microfinance Bank have been arrested after one of them pushed a 50-year-old Vivian Omo, the wife of their debtor which led to her death. The suspects whose bank is situated at Abule Ijoko Lemode area of Ifo local government area of Ogun state reportedly went to the house of their debtor and started packing the belongings of the defaulter. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. Oyeyemi explained that the four suspects have been…

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Jailed: Two UK-Based Nigerians Murdered Man To Steal His Fake Rolex Watches

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Murray was killed in a honeytrap robbery after Temidayo Awe, a third-year undergraduate student at Coventry University, and three others plotted to drug and rob him due to the Rolex watches he had been seen wearing on Instagram which turned out to be fake Two Nigerians, Temidayo Awe and Ikem Affia have been found guilty of manslaughter for their involvement in the murder of Saul Murray in Luton, UK. One of the Nigerians arrested, Awe a third-year undergraduate student at Coventry University, was involved in the death of a father…

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How Nigerian Bishop Allegedly Raped Assistant Pastor

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    Victim gives dirty details of allleged sex crime to Court during Bishop’s trials   A 23-year-old assistant pastor on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluwafeyiropo is standing trial on an amended three-count-charge bordering on rape and sexual assault, to which he pleaded not guilty. The assistant pastor (name withheld) testified for the prosecution at the bishop’s trial. She was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel,…

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Trump Sexually Abused Magazine Writer Carroll – US jury

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“He branded her a liar after abusing her, she she is awarded $5m in compensatory and punitive damages.”   Jurors have decided that former US president Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar. The jurors’ decision on Tuesday, dealt the former U.S. president a legal setback as he campaigns to retake office in 2024. The nine-member jury in Manhattan federal court awarded about $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. READ ALSO: Best 100 Universities in…

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