Stepson ejects 75-year-old Imo widow from house
A 75-year-old widow, Mrs Dorothy Onwudirimba, has alleged forceful ejection from her house after her stepson, Okonkwo, destroyed the property on December 6. PUNCH Metro gathered that the widow, alongside her children and grandchildren, was left homeless after Okonkwo and some other persons removed the roof of the house and threw the family’s property outside. Narrating her ordeal, the mother of five said she bought the land where the house was built after her husband died. “When the police left our compound, one of my stepson’s children, Chinonso, entered the house and started throwing my property away. How can you eject a widow from her husband’s house?” he added.
Source:Punch
December 12, 2022 10:35 UTC
FG, recover $205m unremitted funds
THE recent discovery of $205.01 million unremitted to the Federation Account by oil firms calls for serious scrutiny. With public revenues crashing and debts mounting, the government should adopt a zero-tolerance attitude towards unremitted funds. In this case, the RMAFC, having drawn attention to it, the relevant government agencies should have acted swiftly to recover the outstanding sums. The major defaulter, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, unabashedly announced that it made zero remittance to the Federation Account in the seven months to July, 2022. The NNPC’s failure to contribute to the Federation Account means that it has not funded the statutory joint account of the three tiers of government at all this year.
Source:Punch
December 12, 2022 08:56 UTC
Stop Rate for 364-day Bill Moderates to 13.05% amid Strong Investor Demand…
Read audioIn the just concluded week, CBN sold T-bills worth N104.36 billion, to mop up the matured N82.36 billion in bills (OMO and T-Bills). Notably, the stop rate for the 364-day bills fell to 13.05% (from 14.84%) given the almost 2x subscription level compared to a sale amount of N104.36 billion. Similarly, the stop rates for 91-day and 182-day bills moderated to 6.49% (from 6.50%) and 8.00% (from 8.05%), respectively. Meanwhile, in the OMO market, we saw N15 billionworth of OMO bills mature without refinancing. In the new week, T-bills worth N16.25 billion are expected to mature.
Source:Punch
December 12, 2022 06:11 UTC
Nigeria ranks 6th in Africa visa openness report | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
Nigeria has ranked sixth in the Africa Visa Openness Report released by the African Union (AU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Furthermore, 42 countries offer visa-free travel to the nationals of at least five other African countries and three countries offer visa-free travel to the citizens of other countries in the continent. Also, 24 countries offer a visa-on-arrival to the nationals of five or more countries and 14 countries offer a visa-on-arrival to 35 or more African countries. The report, also known as the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), measures the extent to which African countries are open to visitors from other African countries. For each country, the AVOI calculates the number of African countries whose citizens must obtain a visa before travelling there.
Source:The Guardian
December 12, 2022 03:55 UTC
Sit-at-home: Gunmen kill pregnant woman, others, burn police van
Three persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Enugu on Saturday by hoodlums enforcing Simon Ekpa’s five-day sit-at-home order in the South East. Sources said that a bullet hit the woman who came for early morning market where she hid in a store. A short video clip of the incident, which our correspondent obtained, shows a white police patrol vehicle on fire. They were reported to have engaged the policemen in a gun duel and eventually succeeded in setting ablaze the police patrol vehicle while the operatives fled. Why are you disobeying it?’“Shortly, I saw a police patrol vehicle coming and immediately, they engaged them in a shootout.
Source:Punch
December 11, 2022 21:20 UTC
Kill all the lawyers
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2Tamuno Igbikiberebima is an unlikely star in an action movie. Like their male counterparts in Rivers State, female lawyers have not been spared. This pattern of killing of lawyers in and around Port Harcourt is not history. Former First Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, John Aikpokpo Martins, says of these attacks on lawyers in Rivers State that “it is so normal to kill a lawyer for defending others.”Increasingly, many Nigerian lawyers now live on the horns of a choice between silver and lead. Today, the emergency affects lawyers all over the country and requires the Bar Association to re-imagine itself and its capabilities.
Source:Punch
December 11, 2022 19:30 UTC
Poverty ‘glows’ in states amid mounting debt burden | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
In a breakdown, the DMO said the total public debt stock consists of domestic debt of N26.92 trillion and external debt of N17.15 trillion. The total domestic stock as of September 30, 2022, was N26.92tn while the total external debt stock as of September 30, 2022, was N17.15 trillion. Most of the states still depend on federal allocations to fund their budgets, as their internally generated revenue remains perennially weak. This is surely not sustainable.”A breakdown of states’ debts shows that the Lagos State government is leading the pack with N797. When debt forecloses opportunities, the poor get poorer.”He said to deal with the problem of mounting debt, states need greater autonomy to create their wealth, stressing: “every state is endowed with natural resources.
Source:The Guardian
December 11, 2022 16:45 UTC
En-Nesyri: Africa’s history maker
Youssef En-Nesyri scored in the closing minute of the first half to give Morocco a 1-0 lead against Portugal in the quarter-finals at the FIFA World Cup on Saturday. At this World Cup, Nesyri also became the first Moroccan player to score in two different World Cups. He scored a goal against Canada in the group stage, and the goal against Portugal was his second in Qatar. His first World Cup goal was against Spain at the group stage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. With three goals at the World Cup, he is Morocco’s leading scorer at the quadrennial tournament.
Source:Punch
December 11, 2022 10:41 UTC
Delta win National Sports Festival
Team Delta were on Saturday officially declared winners of the 21st National Sports Festival in Asaba, the state capital. Delta’s neighbours, Bayelsa, came second with 132 gold, 115 silver and 90 bronze medals, followed by another of their neighbours. Team Oyo emerged fourth with 50 gold, 51 silver and 62 bronze medals, while Lagos secured 41 gold, 57 silver and 74 bronze medals to come fifth. Rivers completed the circle of all-Southern states’ domination with 35 gold, 57 silver and 117 bronze medals to occupy the sixth position. Kano broke the Southern dominance with 19 gold, 27 silver and 30 bronze medals to emerge seventh on the medals table.
Source:Punch
December 11, 2022 08:08 UTC
Jailed Senegal journalist falls ill on hunger strike | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
A jailed Senegalese journalist critical of President Macky Sall has been hospitalised on the ninth day of a hunger strike in protest at his treatment, a media union and a lawyer said Saturday. Pape Ale Niang, director of the Dakar Matin news site, has been held for more than a month following his arrest on November 6. “Overnight (Friday to Saturday) he was taken to a clinic to be hospitalised,” he said in a statement. Niang has accused the authorities of kidnapping him, psychological torture and “arbitrary and unfair imprisonment” in a jail near the capital Dakar. Senegal was ranked 73rd out of 180 in RSF’s 2022 press freedom ranking, falling 24 places from the previous year.
Source:The Guardian
December 11, 2022 01:24 UTC
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Source:The Guardian
December 09, 2022 20:03 UTC
Power-drunk ex-defence chief’s son damages car, beats owner
A naval officer, Kayode Petinrin, has been accused of assaulting a Lagos motorist, identified simply as Sola, in the CMS area of Lagos State. Kayode is said to be the son of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Oluseyi Petinrin, a retired Air Chief Marshal. He, however, said some Air Force officers guarding the house threatened to shoot if they got closer to the gate. He said, “This Petinrin (Kayode) was just disciplined. The military police had to withdraw.”The police spokesperson said the property belonged to the Air Force, adding that efforts were being made to officially inform the Air Force authorities about the case for further action.
Source:Punch
December 09, 2022 18:14 UTC
Cholera: An underreported and underestimated vaccine preventable disease | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by consumption of food or water contaminated with the bacterium; Vibrio cholerae. Cholera is underreported, and as many as 2.9 million cases, and 95,000 deaths are suspected to occur each year (https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/infection-sources.html#ref-one). Since the beginning of the year 2021, 10,833 suspected cholera cases have been reported with 112 confirmed cases and 289 deaths. In the last one month, an increasing number of cholera cases has been reported across states. Blood group O is known to be associated with increased vulnerability to severe cholera (cholera gravis) [Ref: WHO position paper on Cholera vaccines.
Source:The Guardian
December 09, 2022 02:59 UTC
Ex-Guatemalan President, deputy jailed 16 years for corruption
Guatemalan former President (2012-2015) Otto Perez Molina gestures before listening to his sentence during a hearing at the court in Guatemala City on December 7, 2022. - A Guatemalan court is due to rule on December 7 in the trial of former president Otto Perez Molina, a retired general who came to power in 2012 on a promise to end corruption and resigned in September 2015 over customs fraud. The court will also rule on his vice-president Roxana Baldetti, who resigned in April of the same year over the corruption scandal. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP)A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced former President Otto Perez to 16 years in prison, finding him guilty of leading a massive customs fraud scheme while in office. After the sentence was handed down Perez, 72, told reporters, “I truly feel frustrated, I feel disappointed.”He said he would appeal the ruling.
Source:Punch
December 08, 2022 17:45 UTC
“I Am Serving Nigeria by Having Many Wives”: Regina Daniels’ Hubby Ned Nwoko Sparks Massive Reactions
Popular Nigerian billionaire businessman and actress Regina Daniels’ husband, Prince Ned Nwoko, is making headlines with his statement about men in the southern part of the country. According to Nwoko, southern men who stay away from polygamy are contributing to prostitution in the country. Ned Nwoko claims average southern man has one wife and many girlfriends. Netizens react to Ned Nwoko's statement on polygamySee some of the reactions below:jeffryprettypretty:"Ashawo ancient of days don drop quote." Regina Daniels and hubby Ned Nwoko show off dance moves during Delta campaignMeanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Regina Daniels and her billionaire husband, Ned Nwoko, were in Delta North as part of the latter’s ward-to-ward campaign ahead of the 2023 election.
Source:The Guardian
December 05, 2022 08:54 UTC