By Abimbola Ogunnaike The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that it is targeting one million children for digital birth registration in Kano State this year. The UNICEF Chief Field Officer in the state, Rahama Rihood Mohammed Farah, made this disclosure during a meeting with Kano stakeholders on digital birth registration in Kano. Represented by Michael Banda, he said birth registration had been given great priority in the sustainable development goals, describing registration of children under the age of five as a major tool in protecting children and their rights. He noted that though Nigeria has made…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Ahead of the inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, 29 May, 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari and his family have moved into the Glass House at the Presidential Villa in Abuja This was disclosed by the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, via a video shared on her official Instagram page after taking the incoming First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu around the State House. During the tour of the Villa, Mrs Buhari introduced Senator Tinubu to the various areas of the house, providing detailed explanations regrading the history and importance of each edifice.According to the First…
Some dignitaries loyal to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday, 12 May, 2023, stormed Unity Fountain for the Day 47 of the hangout, counting down to presidential inauguration on Monday, 29 May, 2023. An ally of the former Lagos state Governor, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, who is also the Panel Chairman of the ongoing Open Discourse on Renewed Hope agenda of the incoming government at the hangout was in attendance to grace the discourse on Judiciary reform. Former presidential aspirant, Ahmad Garba also visited the hangout where he said this the place to be and a symbol of unity.…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Oyo State Police Command, on Friday, 12 May, 2023 arrested the suspected killers of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ogunleye Daniel, alongside their 80 years old spiritual healer, one Gabriel Adeniyi. It was gathered that the deceased, Daniel, who was a resident of the Ori-Agogo community, Odo-Ona Kekere in the Oluyole Local Government area of the state, was killed by the suspects after robbing him and other members of his family. Daniel was serving at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku in Ibadan, the state capital before he was murdered. The suspects were Oyetumbi Ademola, Michael…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Suspected Fulani militants attacked and killed about seven persons in Warkan village, Atyap land in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, an Ogun State based national newspaper reports. The newspaper gathered that several houses were also razed down by the attackers with the number of those injured yet to be ascertained. A source told the newspaper correspondent that the attackers stormed the village in their numbers, saying that a search is ongoing to ascertain the casualties in the area. He stated that the most worrisome is the inability of those in authority to take proactive…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 12 May, 2023 ordered a housewife, Doosur Samuel to sweep the premises for 21 days for pouring hot water on a 15-year-old girl. The police charged Samuel who lives at Logo 1, Makurdi with causing grievous hurt punishable under Section 248 of the Penal Code Laws of Benue, 2004. Samuel pleaded guilty to the charge. Magistrate Kelvin Banongo in his ruling condemned the act of the convict He ordered the convict to clean the premises from 10am to noon with effect from Friday to June 5, on a daily basis except…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Coventry University student Temidayo Awe, who played a part in the Saul Murray honey trap killing in Luton has been convicted of the manslaughter of a dad-of-six. The third year undergraduate played a part in the honey trap that led to 33-year-old Saul Murray dying of stab wounds outside his flat in New Town Street in the early hours of February 27, 2022.Awe, together with three others, plotted to drug and rob Murray after seeing images of him on Instagram wearing Rolex watches. Detectives identified 31-year-old Ikem Affia as the main suspect responsible for Mr Murray’s…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned one Usman Hammed before a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogudu for allegedly assaulting his landlady, Josephine Durodola, at her residence at No 25, Olaniyi Street, Agiliti, in the Mile 12 area of the state. The defendant was arraigned on Thursday, 11 May, 2023 before Magistrate M.O. Tanimola for assault. The prosecutor, Inspector Donjor Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 8, 2023, around 9pm at No 25, Olaniyi Street, Agiliti, in the Mile 12 area of the state. Perezi, who added that the defendant…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Anambra State Police Command has arraigned a 75-year-old man, Albert Eligbue, from Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based V!olence Court in Awka, the state capital on Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 for allegedly forcing a widow, Patricia Eligbue, to drink water used to bathe the corpse of her husband’s nephew. During court proceedings, the prosecutor, Inspector Onyema Ayogu told the court that the defendant was accused of forcing a widow and sister-in-law to drink water used to wash the corpse of her late brother-in-law as proof of her innocence over his death.Ayogu said…
Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have agreed to put forward $187 million as capital base for the proposed Central Bank of West Africa. This would make fund available for infrastructure development and solid liquidity of the region. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray disclosed this while presenting the status of the community at the ongoing First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Wednesday, 10 May, 2023. He said studies on the size and distribution of the capital and reserve pooling have been finalized, explaining however that “…