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      The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, today, January 22, 2020 handed over to the EFCC, MV GRATITUDE, a bunkered vessel and its crew of six for further investigation and prosecution. The suspects were intercepted on January 9, 2020, by the Nigerian Navy. Thé six member crew are: Victor Ita (captain), Rotimi Poroye, Henry Edet Bassey, Rahpael Adewale, Godswill Iko and Jonah Achieve. The Commanding Officer, Forward Operating Base, Commodore Suleiman Ibrahim, while handing over the vessel and crew disclosed that that the ship was laden with 1,000,000 liters of locally refined Automotive Gas Oil. They were arrested at the Brass inshore water anchorage. He assured of the Navy's determination to clear the waterways of illegal oil bunkering and sea pirates for legitimate business operators to thrive. Tasiu Abubakar, a Superintendent of Police who received the vessel and crew members on behalf of the EFCC, promised diligent investigat...

     Police arrest Inspector for alleged murder of widow in Akwa Ibom By -  | Published Date Jan 22, 2020 17:16 PM Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom state, Imohimi Edgal. The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom state, Imohimi Edgal, has ordered the arrest of a Police Inspector attached to the state police command, Bassey Ikpe, for allegedly killing a widow. Mr Odiko Macdon, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Uyo, on Wednesday. He said that the police commissioner had instructed the Deputy Commissioner, State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) to carry out thorough investigation into the matter. Macdon reiterated the command’s commitment to policing, with great deal of respect for human rights. The PPRO said that the decision of the police to finally look into the alleged murder was informed by the reports in some dailies and online media in the state. “The attention of the Akwa Ibo...

      A well-dressed man was caught red-handed shoplifting in a boutique in Gwarimpa area of Abuja. The man was caught via CCTV hiding some clothes in his underwear after a salesgirl at the boutique went to notify her boss of the price they bargained for an outfit he claimed he wanted to buy. He was forced to bring out the clothes he hid before being handed over to the police.More photos below.

      A burn victim who survived a gas explosion has shared photos of her transformation to celebrate her birthday. Yinka Matthews suffered the burn on June 8, 2013, when a gas cylinder in her kitchen exploded when she was trying to cook. Her body was badly burned in the fire and she was in a coma for 2 days. When she regained consciousness, she contemplated suicide and begged the doctor to inject her with a substance that'll kill her. Today, she's well and her skin shows no signs of the burns she once suffered. Sharing photos of what she looked like lying on her hospital bed shortly after the gas explosion and other photos of what she looks like now, She wrote: I have posted a lot of my burns pictures but I never had the courage to post the first picture after the gas explosion! Today I summon the courage to post my Testinomy in full. I survived what someone actually planned and wishes me but today I’m stronger braver and a inspiration. This picture is ...

      The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, arraigned one Akinola Ogunlewe alongside Babajide Soyode, before Justice A.R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The defendants are being prosecuted on five-count charges, bordering on money laundering. Count three of the charges reads: "That you, Akinola Ogunlewe and Abolaji Ogunlewe (at large) sometime in 2013, in Lagos , within the Lagos Judicial Division of the Federal High Court, being directors in BCE Consulting Engineers Limited a Designated Non-Financial Institution ("DNFI") aided the said company in failing to comply with the requirements of submitting to the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, a declaration of its activities as specified under section 5 (1)(a) of the money laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (As amended) and you there by committed an offence contrary to section 18(a) of the money Laundering (Prohibition) Act,2011 (As amended) an...

     For the second time in 24 hours, the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has reiterated the commitment of the anti-graft agency to ensuring that the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is repatriated to Nigeria to face criminal charges against her. Magu gave the hint in Ibadan on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, while fielding questions from journalists during  his working visit to the Commission’s Ibadan zonal office. He earlier told journalists when he was at the Ilorin Zonal Office on a working visit yesterday. He said the Commission had traced a number of criminal activities ranging from abuse of office, bribery, fraud, misuse of public funds and money-laundering to the former minister, who is currently at large to avoid questions on alleged criminal activities dotting her years as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The anti-graft czar, who wondered why her current country of abode has not surrendered her to...

      As part of efforts to ensure free flow of vehicular movement in the State, the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has stepped up its operations to arrest defiant pedestrians crossing major roads and highways across the metropolis. The Corps Marshal, LAGESC, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (Rtd), who stated this today during the monthly interface session with senior officers of the Agency at the Command Headquarters, Bo lade-Oshodi, noted that the Agency is focusing on attaining total compliance on the use of pedestrian bridges by the populace in line with the directive of the State Government. While highlighting the inherent risks associated with crossing the highways by road users, she disclosed that LAGESC officers have been directed to arrest any pedestrian crossing major roads and highways within a distance of 200 metres to a pedestrian bridge in the vicinity. She emphasised that the Lagos State Government is concerned about citizens who unnecessa...

       Boko Haram executes abducted Plateau student By Masara Kim Mr. Daciya, 22, executed by Boko Haram Jos, Nigeria: The Islamic State West Africa Province has executed a Christian hostage from Plateau State, Mr. Ropvil Daciya Dalep. Daciya, 22, a student of Biology Education in University of Maiduguri was abducted on Thursday January 9, 2020 near the Borno State capital. Kidnapped along with him is a 20years-old Zoology student of the same University, Miss Lilian Daniel Gyang and one other. The third hostage, MK gathers was released but the two Christian Plateau natives remained in captivity. On Tuesday, the distressing video of Mr. Daciya’s execution was shared online by SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks the activities of terrorists around the world. A still image taken from the distressing execution video A still image taken from the distressing execution video In the video, the masked executioner, apparently a child terrorist s...

          The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has called for private discussion between the governors of the South-West and the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami, over Amotekun, the security outfit of the South-West states. He said the foundation of the country had not been put at risk with the Sou th-West regional security outfit launched by the governors of the zone in a bit to confront the insecurity in their states. The former Lagos governor, however, warned that, that fabric could be torn by what he called the “dangerous rhetoric of those who should know better.” In his first intervention in the controversy surrounding Amotekun, Asiwaju Tinubu said: “Those claiming that this limited, inoffensive addition to security threatens the Republic have taken themselves upon a madcap excursion. “Those claiming that the Federal Government seeks to terribly suppress the Southwest have also ...

      22nd January, 2020 This is a public health advisory on a new virus; the novel coronavirus (nCoV), by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. As this is a new virus, and new information is emerging every day, this advisory will be updated as new information and research on the virus and its impact on populations become available. The first case of a novel (new) coronavirus (2019nCoV) strain was confirmed in China on the 7th of January 2020. According to preliminary investigations, most patients either visited or worked in the Huanan Seafood wholesale market, Wuhan city. As at the 20th of January 2020, 278 laboratory-confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV infection including six deaths have been reported to WHO globally since the first case was reported on the 31st of December 2019. Many of the initial cases were thought to have contacted the virus through animal-to-human transmission from the market, but human-to-human transmission has also been established. Global surv...

      A number of Nigerian English words have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time. The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. 1. BUKA: One particularly interesting set of such loanwords and coinages has to do with Nigerian street food. The word buka, borrowed from Hausa and Yoruba and first attested in 1972, refers to a roadside restaurant or street stall that sells local fare at low prices. 2. BUKATERIA: Another term for such eating places first evidenced in 1980 is bukateria, which adds to buka the –teria ending from the word cafeteria. 3. DANFO: The informal transport systems that emerged in Nigeria’s huge, densely populated cities have also necessitated lexical invention. Danfo, a borrowing from Yoruba whose earliest use in written English is dated 197...

      January 22, 2020 Press Statement Killings: Amotekun, A Vote of No Confidence on Buhari Presidency- PDP...Says Buhari Cannot Guarantee National Security, Unity The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following a wide consultation and after an extensive meeting on the security situation in the country today, states that Amotekun and such other security apparatus in various parts of the country are direct vote of no confidence on the Buhari Presidency’s handling of security in the country. The party says the failure to take a decisive step to stem the escalated wave of killings by insurgents; the refusal to rejig the security high command and a lack of commitment to track down and prosecute even confessed perpetrators of mindless killings are all pointers that the Buhari-led APC administration cannot guarantee the security of lives and property in our nation. The PDP notes that the failure of the Federal Government to pro...

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