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 Fire Guts Storey Building On Lagos Island Fire broke out of a storey building in the popular Balogun Market in Lagos Island on Sunday. As of the time of filing this report, the building was still on fire and traders were trying to salvage as much as they could of their goods. The building houses shops where they sell fabrics. Credit: Oluwafemi Dawodu. Check for update later. More photos below.   

NSCDC rescues newborn baby abandoned in dilapidated building in Jigawa A newborn baby was found abandoned inside a dilapidated building at Kandahar B Quarters in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa State.    Spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, Adamu Shehu, who disclosed this in a statement said the baby was rescued alive at about 5:am on Sunday, October 9, 2022. Shehu said the baby was taken to the General Hospital in Hadejia, where she was certified healthy by a medical doctor.  "The baby was discovered in a dilapidated building by one Zakar Mohd, a resident of the area who was returning from the mosque after observing morning prayers," the statement read.   "He heard the cry of the baby that was placed by a netted fence meant to deter animals from gaining access to a planted Guinea Corn in the building,"   "He immediately reported the incident to the Ward Head, Ballaji Ali who informed NSCDC personnel at the

African Countries Ranked by Unemployment rate in 2022 1- South Africa 🇿🇦 34.5% 2- Namibia 🇳🇦 33.4% 3- Nigeria 🇳🇬 33.3% 4- Angola 🇦🇴 32.9% 5- Djibouti 🇩🇯 28.4% 6- Eswatini 25.8% 7- Mozambique 🇲🇿 25.04% 8- Lesotho 🇱🇸 24.6% 9- Rwanda 🇷🇼 23.8% 10- Botswana 🇧🇼 23.3% 11- Republic of Congo 🇨🇬 23% 12- Senegal 🇸🇳 22.6% 13- Gabon 🇬🇦 22.3% 14- Libya 🇱🇾 19.6% 15- Ethiopia 🇪🇹 19.1% 16- Sudan 🇸🇩 17.7% 17- Tunisia 🇹🇳 16.1% 18- Sao Tome & Principe 🇸🇲 15.9% 19- Cape Verde 🇨🇻 14.5% 20- South Sudan 🇸🇸 13.9% 21- Algeria 🇩🇿 12.7% 22- Zambia 🇿🇲 12.2% 23- Mauritania 🇲🇷 11.5% 24- Morocco 🇲🇦 11.2% 25- Gambia 🇬🇲 11.2% 26- Tanzania 🇹🇿 9.5% 27- Comoros 🇰🇲 9.4% 28- Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 9.2% 29- Mauritius 🇲🇺 8.7% 30- Eritrea 🇪🇷 8% 31- Mali 🇲🇱 7.7% 32- Egypt 🇪🇬 7.2% 33- Malawi 🇲🇼 7% 34- Kenya 🇰🇪 6.6% 35- C.A.R 🇨🇫 6.6% 36- Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 5.7% 37- Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 4.8% 38- Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 4.6% 39- Ghana 🇬🇭 4.5% 40- Guinea 🇬🇳 4.4% 41- Liberia

The floods have risen again to destroy the livelihoods of our people. Across five local governments, plus communities in sister States like Delta and Kogi. The past week has been devastating for our people.  Emergency holding camps are set up in the nearest highlands, as we have been evacuating hundreds of internally displaced people from affected areas. Scores of other displaced people are thronging in daily to seek shelter, food and healthcare. As a government we are committed to alleviating the sufferings of our people with resources available to us.  I wish to call upon public spirited individuals and corporate bodies to join us in providing the needed succour to our displaced brethren. I visited the IDP camps to get a feel and have personal assessment of the conditions. We will not abandon our people to fate. This is another reason we must take issues of the environment seriously, and work to stop all human activities that aggravate this condition. CC. Soludo CFR. More photos belo

Call Reno Omokri to order - Metuh Urges PDP, Atiku PDP Chieftain, Olisa Metuh, Asks Party To Issue A Disclaimer To Reno Omokri's 'Inciting' Anti-Igbo Posts He wrote; “The time has come for the Peoples Democratic Party to issue a disclaimer to Reno Omokri's posts. Whilst he is not a member of the Presidential Campaign team, his closeness to the Presidential candidate and his open support for the party may mislead people to believe his posts as representating the views of the Party. There is no way any responsible or respectable democrat can condone such insensitivity. We did not join politics to mock or disparage any set of individuals, least of all a whole tribe. The founding fathers of the PDP had noble ideals and its ideals and values should not be desecrated by any individual, on the altar of a false strategy to engineer hatred against any tribe or stroke an ethnic contest. I spoke with Reno yesterday morning and he agreed on issue based campaign only, this is a comp

Pope Francis gives Cardinal Okpaleke new appointment His Holiness, Pope Francis has appointed His Eminence, Peter Cardinal Okpaleke, to serve as a member for the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life. The Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia’s appointment was among some recently created Cardinals to be members of different dicasteries of the Roman Curia, the Vatican announced. This is contained in a statement on Saturday through Fr Mike Umoh, the National Director of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja. “The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life was established by Pope Francis on 15 August 2016 with the ‘Motu Proprio’ ‘Sedula Mater’, which describes the responsibilities and functions that previously pertained to the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Pontifical Council for the Family,” It stated. According to the statement, the Cardinal’s new responsibility came among other Cardinals appointed as announced by the Vatican. Cardinal Okpaleke was among the 20 pre

Lagos State Government, in collaboration with Temple Company, has commenced the training of 200 youths in 10 different empowerment programmes in line with its drive to equip interested youths across the State with creative skills. Speaking at the kick-off of the training and orientation ceremony for the 200 successful applicants held recently at the Tayo Aderinokun Lecture Theatre, University of Lagos (UNILAG), the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Pharm. Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf congratulated the beneficiaries of the programme for scaling through the rigorous selection process.   The Commissioner, represented at the event by the Executive Secretary, Lagos State Film and Video Censors Board, Mrs. Adebukola Agbaminoja, said the initiative seeks to train participants in Filmmaking, Creative Writing, Animation 101, Audio Engineering & Music Production, Graphics Design, Multimedia Design, Film and Screen Production Design, Project Management, Fashion Design and Media Studies. Sh

FG Moves To Release 30 Per Cent Of Prisoners Across Nigeria Aregbesola made this known when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. The minister said that the interface was necessary as more than 90 per cent of the inmates were being held for contravening state laws. Aregbesola also said that over 70 per cent of the 75,635 inmates at present were awaiting trial. The minister said that the federal offenders in the system were far less than 10 per cent, adding that the bulk of people in custody were those who have run foul of state laws.  

More Bodies Recovered From Ogbaru Boat Mishap.                       More bodies have been recovered following Friday's boat mishap at Umunnakwo in Ogbaru Council Area.                                  The families of the victims and some survivors who waited for the arrival of recovered corpses could not contain their tears as they narrated their experiences to the ABS.                           Mr Bernard Achonu from Isiala Mbano but resides in Mputu town who lost his wife and three children aged between two and six, said his family left in order to move to a safe place as the water has submerged almost all the communities but regretted that the engine boat capsized due to dangerous waves. Others who lost family members including Messrs Kenneth Ezi, Mathew and Sabastine Umeorji, and Dominic Dala- Amuzie expressed grief and shock over the incident saying that mostly children and women died in the ill- fated boat.                           The sailor of the ill- fated boat, Mr

TWO SUSPECTED INTERNET FRAUDSTERS ARRESTED FOR KILLING A 40 YEARS OLD MAN FOR RITUAL.  Operatives of Ogun state Police Command have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters popularly call yahoo Boys for killing a 40 years old man Abdullahi Azeez , cut him to pieces and used him for money making ritual.  The suspects; Friday Abinya Odeh 21 years old and Poso Idowu 20 years were arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters on the 9th of June 2022 by the relations of the victim, who reported that the victim left his home at Kobape area on the 8th of June 2022 and did not return since then.  Upon the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, directed the anti kidnapping unit of the state Criminal Investigation Departments to take over the investigation and unravel the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of the man.  In compliance with the CP's directive, the SP Taiwo Opadiran led team subsequently embarked on technical and intelligence bas

Cleric’s wife, 2 children, sisters found dead in Enugu community Wife of an Anglican cleric, her two children and two sisters were discovered dead at Amutenyi village in Obollo-Afor, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State. The victims were found dead in two separate rooms inside their apartment on Saturday morning, October 8, 2022. The victims are; Mrs. Chinyere Odoh, her two children: Udochukwu Odoh ‘f’ aged 7 and Chukwuemeka Odoh ‘m’ aged 4 as well as her two sisters, Martina Ezeme and Ngozi Ezeme. It was gathered that concerned neighbours, who noticed their unusual absence, raised the alarm as the woman’s husband, Rev. Adolphus Odoh, was said not to be at home. Odoh, a teacher in Community Secondary School (CSS), Ehandiagu, Nsukka LGA, is resident in Obollo Afor, where he was posted as a pastor in an Anglican Church. A villager said it was when the husband returned home that he and neighbours broke the door to discover that the entire family had died. “The family is from Ehandia

POLICE ARREST ARMED ROBBERS WHO ATTACKED KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY  Men of the Kwara state police command have arrested a 20-year-old armed robbery suspect, Ridwan Abdulfatai, from Oke Fomo Ilorin and two other members of his gang.  The spokesman for the Command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, who confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Kwara on Sunday, October 9, said the suspect attacked the students of Kwara State University, at about 3am on October 7. He said they were all robbed at their hostel called ‘Downtown’ hostel by armed hoodlums and their property forcefully carted away.  “While approaching the suspected hide outhideout of the gang, the team was sighted by the hoodlums and the armed robbers took to their heels, one Ridwan Abdulfatai ‘M’ aged 20yrs, from Oke Fomo Ilorin was arrested by the detectives. Consequently, the suspect under intense interrogation confessed he is the leader of a robbery gang terrorizing the Malete community and its environs, stating also that he is also a jai

NDLEA intercepts over 2.4million tramadol pills from Pakistan at Lagos airport . As notorious drug kingpin bags 7 years imprisonment Desperate attempts by the tramadol drug cartel to smuggle into Nigeria over Two Million Four Hundred and Sixty-Five Thousand (2, 465, 000) tablets of the pharmaceutical opioid in 225mg and 250mg, weighing Two Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty Six kilograms (2,356kgs) with an estimated street value of One Billion, Forty Million Naira  (N1, 040, 000, 000) through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos have been foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The seizure of the drug on Friday 7th October came barely a week after about 13.5million pills of the same opioid worth over N8.8billion were recovered by NDLEA operatives from one of the mansions of a billionaire drug baron in the highbrow residential estate, Victoria Garden City, VGC, Lekki Lagos.  Following credible intelligence, the Agency had shown in

PRESS RELEASE CONFIDENCE BUILDING: IGP EMBARKS ON VEHICULAR PATROL  OF 6 NORTHERN STATES, COMMISSIONS STATE-OF-THE-ART PROJECTS  Assures Personnel of Sustainable Drives to Protect Nigerians, Improved Internal Security  The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, today 9th October, 2022, concluded a 6-day duty tour of 6 Northern states to commission state-of-the-art projects completed by his administration including modern police stations with barracks attached to them, renovation of vital police infrastructure such as police training schools, buildings for tailoring department and the band section, etc.   In the course of commissioning the projects and engaging community stakeholders as part of a confidence building exercise, the IGP and his team travelled by road and conducted patrols from Abuja to Kaduna; Kaduna to Kano; Kano to kazaure [Jigawa State]; Kazaure [Jigawa State] to Dandagoro [Katsina State]; Kano to Damaturu [Yobe State] [tranversing parts o