Operatives of The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command have arrested one Khadija Ali for abandoning her one-day-old baby along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market, Mpape area of the territory. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Josephine Adeh, who confirmed the arrest of Ali in a statement issued on Sunday, 5 January, 2025, said that the arrest by operatives of the Mpape Division followed a distress call by residents that a newborn was abandoned in the area. According to Adeh, upon the receipt of the distress call, the neonate was promptly…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
The World Health Organization (WHO) has disclosed the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, a global health emergency. The WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus made the announcement at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland WHO’s emergency committee on the epidemic had reportedly met on the matter Thursday, 2 January, 2025 and recommended designating the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, PHEIC. The decision had been “almost unanimous,” Didier Houssin, chair of the emergency committee, said at the press conference. “The main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday, 6 January, 2025, for Accra, the capital of the Republic of Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, 7 January, 2025. Mahama, who served as the 12th President of Ghana between 2011 and 2017, was re-elected in December 2024. He will succeed President Nana Akuffo-Addo( 2017-2025). President Tinubu’s trip to Accra is at the invitation of the president-elect, who had visited the Nigerian leader earlier in December. Mahama and President Tinubu have a longstanding personal relationship, just like Nigeria and Ghana maintain a longstanding bilateral relationship.…
By Funke Egbemode It is the fourth day of the year. It’s an opportunity to do something new, refocus your life and do things differently. This is the best time to look back, nod or shake your head, depending on what you see. Was 2024 a year you’ll like to do again what you did or is 2025 a year you are determined to change some things? This is the first Saturday of the year. You probably are not at work. Spend today to process where you were in 2024 and plot where you want 2025 to take you. Bose,…
Three Nigerians arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking on 5th March 2024 in Saudi Arabia has been released after spending 10 months in detention. The trio are Hadiza Abba, Fatima Umate Malah and Fatima Kannai Gamboi and were at Prince Mohammad bin Abdul Azeez International Airport Madinah, Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking. Announcing their release in a statement on Sunday, the acting spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform that three Nigerian nationals, Hadiza Abba, Fatima Umate Malah and Fatima Kannai Gamboi, arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested a wanted drug kingpin and Lagos socialite, 61-year-old Alhaja Aishat Ajoke Elediye on New Year Day in her mansion at Okota area of Lagos following the interception of a truckload of illicit drug consignment from her staff same day. Alhaji Ajoke known in the drug underworld and social circle as “Iya Ruka”, has her true identity shrouded in mystery for years while she remained on the wanted list of NDLEA for leading one of the drug cartels operating from Mushin area of Lagos. The lid was however blown off…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has announced that the state government will subsidise the cost of petrol to farmers in communities affected by Boko Haram insurgency. Zulum made the announcement on Friday evening, 3 January, 2025, in Bama town when he flagged off the distribution of farm inputs to over 5,000 farmers hitherto displaced by Boko Haram insurgents. The Governor said a litre of petrol sold between N1,000 and N1,200 in Maiduguri will be subsidised to the farmers for N600, noting that this is aimed at alleviating the financial burdens faced by farmers in communities that have suffered economic…
A convicted Socialite and arrowhead of an International Human Trafficking network operating across the Middle East with an operational base in the United Arab Emirate (UAE) Dubai, and has been on the wanted list of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) since the past five years, Uadiale Christiana Jacob aka Christy Evan Osagie aka Christy Gold, has been arrested. Christy Gold, as she is fondly called by the gang members, was arrested and handed over to NAPTIP by the Officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on duty at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja,…
Ogun State Governor and Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has commiserated with the Governor and the people of Ondo State over the passing of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tayo Oluwatuyi. Oluwatuyi reportedly died on Saturday at a hospital in the state from the injuries he sustained in an accident while traveling from Akure to Ibadan, Oyo State, on December 17. Abiodun, in a condolence letter he sent to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, described Oluwatuyi’s death as a great loss to the government and the state at large as he prayed for the repose of…
A drinking competition in Agbarha community, Delta State, has turned tragic as two person died while two others hospitalized in the process. The deceased were involved in the competition to win N100,000. It was learnt that they took a substance alleged to be alcohol in full bottles in an attempt to finish it at once but in the process, they fell down and died instantly. It was also gathered that two others are being resuscitated in a hospital. As at the time of filing this report, Delta State Police Command has yet to comment on the sad incident. Source: Daily…