The Nigerian Diaspora community has remitted $168.33 billion to the country in the past eight years, according to World Bank reports collated by our correspondents. This is as foreign investments inflow into the country fluctuated in the period under review and caused a scarcity of foreign currency which has since led to the free fall of the naira. According to data from the World Bank and Budget Office of the Federation, Nigeria’s Diaspora remittances have played a key role in assuaging the impact of foreign exchange scarcity and keeping the country’s forex reserve afloat. In 2022, the World Bank stated…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike with agency report A 22-year-old Canadian actor named Saint Von Colucci has died at a South Korean hospital after undergoing surgeries to look like K-pop Superstar Jimin of BTS. The actor died in the hospital on the morning of Sunday, 23 April, 2023. Von Colucci died after suffering complications from the cosmetic procedures he had a few months ago, reports aceshowbiz.com. According to his publicist, Von Colucci spent $220,000 on 12 plastic surgeries so he could play the K-pop star for a US streaming network. He went into surgery on Saturday night to remove implants from his…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Ameerah of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Hajiya Kaltume Abubakar, has disclosed that the association fed 500 orphans in the state to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr festival. Abubakar disclosed this on Monday, 24 April, 2023 in Jos, Plateau State capital that the gesture was to free people from hunger. The Ameerah, who said that feeding the poor was an obligation that should be met by every capable Muslim, added that sadaqah was important, especially when done for the sake of Allah, and it had a way of giving one joy. “It is not just…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike with agency report Jury selection is scheduled to start Tuesday, 25 April, 2023 in a civil trial pitting Donald Trump against a prominent former American columnist, E. Jean Carroll, 79, who claims he raped her in the 1990s. According to Carroll, Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store and then defamed her after she went public with the allegations years later. Trump, who is facing a slew of legal woes that threaten to derail his 2024 run for a second term in the White House, denies the allegations. The start of the trial comes…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A tragedy occurred at Branco Street in the Mafoluku area of Lagos State on Monday, 24 April, 2023 as a yet-to-be-identified male meat seller slumped and died while attending to a customer at around 5pm in the community, reports an Ogun State based national newspaper. An eyewitness who identified himself simply as Tunde told the newspaper that the deceased had finished selling the meat and was waiting for payment when he suddenly slumped. “The man is a regular meat hawker in this area and he was hawking along the street as usual when a woman called him…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) has disclosed that it secured the conviction of no fewer than599 persons across the country since its inception in 2004. The Benin Zonal Commander of NANTIP, Nduka Nwawenne, made this disclosure during a consultative workshop with judges and magistrates in Benin, organised by the Uromi Justice Development Peace and Caritas Initiative (Uromi JDPCI), on Monday, 24 April, 2023. Nwawenne said NAPTIP’s first conviction was recorded on November 19, 2004, when a convict was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the then chief judge of the state, Justice…
Police operatives in Kitengela, Kajiado county, Kenya have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Olivia Naseren, for allegedly stabbing her two-year-old daughter to death and feed on her remains. Naseren reportedly killed her child, Glory Njeri, after she parted ways with the minor’s father.Police operatives in Kitengela, Kajiado county, Kenya have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Olivia Naseren, for allegedly stabbing her two-year-old daughter to death and feed on her remains.This occurred after she became violent and started breaking household items shortly after locking herself in the house while playing with the baby. Police operatives in Kitengela, Kajiado county, Kenya have arrested a…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike After ten days of continuous fighting in Sudan, the United States has disclosed that warring factions had brokered a three-day ceasefire which would take effect as from today, Tuesday, 25 April, 2023. U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said in a statement issued on Monday, 24 April, 2023 that, “To support a durable end to the fighting, the United States will coordinate with regional and international partners and Sudanese civilian stakeholders to assist in creating a committee to oversee the negotiation, conclusion, and implementation of a permanent cessation of hostilities and humanitarian arrangements in Sudan”. According to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 24-year-old man, Agbo Onuabuchi has been remanded in the Enugu Correctional Service for allegedly strangling and burying his friend, one Peter Ukekwe, aged 44 in a shallow grave at Amori community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state earlier this month, April. Onuabuchi, a native of Ebonyi State, but resident at Ogidi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, was arrested by men of the Enugu State police command. The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe confirmed the development in a statement made on Monday, 24 April, 2023 “The suspect and…
By Quadri Adeniyi Olorunfunmi Domestic violence, also called “domestic abuse” or “intimate partner violence”, can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure, or wound someone. Domestic abuse can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. It can occur within a range of relationships including couples who are married,…