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About 50 Nigerians, Ghanaian Sex Workers Arrested In Ghana About 50 commercial sex workers have been arrested in Koforidua, Ghana, GhanaWeb reports. The operation was initiated by a Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Michael Baafi, and the police.  According to a source, some of the suspects arrested in brothels in parts of New Juaben South Municipality who were trafficked were majorly Nigerians.  Baafi confirmed the arrests on Sunday, June 11, 2023, when speaking at Pentecost International Worship Center in Koforidua to climax the National Youth Week celebration by the Church. He said, "I directed the Police to carry out an operation to arrest all those prostitutes who come to our town yesterday and left the central police station around 1:00 am. "They managed to arrest almost about 50 people. I will make sure they arraign them before court tomorrow before I leave. "About 99 per cent are Nigerians and they are coming here to dent the good image of Koforidua. Eve...

CRACK BETWEEN SGF, AKUME AND GOVERNOR ALIA WIDENING AS TSAV, ASEMA SHUN THANKSGIVING MASS If signs from the Thanksgiving Mass attended by Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, yesterday in Daudu are anything to go by, then the crack between him and his god-father, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sir George Akume is widening. Benue APC State Deputy Chairman, Stephen Tsav, and the party’s Chairman for Guma Local Government Area of the state, Lazarus Asema who both hail from Mbawa District were conspicuously absent at the Thanksgiving occasion yesterday, raising eyebrows. The crack is believed to have occured over the issue of the Speakership of the Benue State House of Assembly where Governor Alia and his men gave SGF Akume and his camp a bloody nose with the emergence of Aondona Dajoh as Speaker over Becky Orpin. The development was considered a “biting of Akume’s finger that fed Alia” as the SGF had preferred Becky Orpin and given instructions to the Benue Chapter o...

DEMOCRACY DAY: WHY I SACKED NEWLY EMPLOYED BENUE WORKERS - GOV. ALIA 12th June, Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State on Monday explained why he sacked newly employed civil servants by his immediate predecessor. Alia who gave the explanation during a statewide broadcast to mark this year’s Democracy Day, noted that the wings of democracy which he has benefitted from to serve Benue people cannot be taken for granted. “We see our mandate as an opportunity to right the wrongs, to rekindle hope in the electorate that a better Benue is possible and indeed at hand,” he said. The governor, who also paid tributes to the icon of democracy, late Moshood Abiola, assured that his administration would not be a government for any particular party, any ethnic group or any religion, stressing that every Benue residents would be always treated fairly, with respect and decorum. He explained, “Again, as we mark Democracy Day in Benue State, we owe you all explanations about the few key decisions we have ...

Actress Uzo Aduba expecting first child with husband Robert Sweeting;  debuts her growing baby bump on the Tony Awards red carpet Nigerian-American actress, Uzo Aduba has revealed she's expecting her first child with husband Robert Sweeting. The 42-year-old disclosed the exciting news on the 2023 Tony Awards red carpet on Sunday, June 11.  The actress, who rocked an orange Christian Siriano, unbuttoning her coat to reveal her baby bump, confirmed the news to People on the Tony Awards red carpet on Sunday evening, while a rep also confirmed she's expecting. 'The happy couple is over the moon about their growing family and are excited to be parents,' an unnamed insider said. She cradled her baby bump over the oversized matching orange pants on the red carpet. She later announced her baby joy on Instagram, writing: 'What a blessing. My husband Robert and I are so happy to enter this next chapter together as parents. I am beyond excited. I get to be someone’s Mommy! I k...

Clandestine laboratories pose threat to public health, national security  Marwa . As INCB gathers African, Asian countries in Lagos for training, collaboration Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that the recent discovery of clandestine laboratories for the production of methamphetamine and the seizures of captagon, fentanyl, and other deadly substances in Nigeria further underscores the growing threat of illicit drugs to public health and national security. The NDLEA boss who stated this in Lagos on Monday 12th June in his opening remarks at the Global Rapid Interdiction of Dangerous Substances (GRIDS) twinning programme being organized by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said if drug trafficking cartels can maintain effective network across the globe, it is expedient for drug law enforcement agencies to forge a clear formidable lead ahead of them to win this all-importan...

 Man Celebrates As His Two Wives Give Birth Within 24 Hours A man from Kwara State, Sheshi Daudu Maza, in a viral post on Monday celebrates his two wives who delivered their babies within a few hours interval. The first wife, Hussaina, delivered a baby girl on Thursday, while the second wife, Maryam, gave birth to another baby girl hours later.    Sheshi shared the news of both deliveries on his Facebook page. He wrote, "God’s blessing may come as a surprise, and how much u receive, depends on how much, ur heart can believe. My first wife Hussaina has given birth to a bouncy baby girl both mother and the child are well." Announcing the birth of his second daughter, he wrote, "Fly in the plane of Ambition & Land in the Airport of Success. God has blessed us with another baby girl again, my second wife Maryam just put to birth, and both mother and the child are medically sound and ok.”  Credit: Facebook | Sheshi Daudu Maza More photos below. 

REMEMBERING MKO: SANWO-OLU CHARGES NIGERIANS ON SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has urged Nigerians to remain steadfast, guard the fledgling democracy jealously and remain united as one great people. The Governor, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat today at an event to commemorate the National Democracy Day Celebration, held at St. Leo's Catholic Church and the Late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola’s residence in Ikeja, Lagos, said Nigerians should continue to have faith in the Renewed Hope mantra of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sanwo-Olu stated that the story of June 12 and the events that followed have been adequately documented and will continue to be told to generations of Nigerians, adding that “June 12 was, no doubt, a watershed and a turning point in the political history of Nigeria”. He said, June 12, 1993, was a day Nigerians set aside their multi-ethnic and multi-religious colourations an...

 IMO APC MEMBERS TRAVELLING TO ABUJA DIE IN AUTO CRASH Tragedy struck on Monday as members of the All Progressives Congress from Imo State who were travelling to Abuja for the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly on Tuesday died in an auto crash. It was gathered that the bus they were travelling in had a head-on collision with another bus at Agbor in Delta State. Several eyewitnesses said that three persons in the bus had been confirmed dead, while others who sustained various degrees of injuries were rushed to hospitals. Two males from the Amaraku community in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state and a female from the Ogbor community in the same LGA died in the auto crash. A chieftain of the party, who doesn’t want to be mentioned, said that the victims were the coordinators of the senator-elect for Imo North, Patrick Ndubueze, and the House of Representatives member-elect for Okigwe North Federal Constituency, Mirriam Onuoha.

I inherited N11bn unpaid salaries — Plateau gov The Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, on Monday, said that the immediate past administration led by Simon Lalong left a debt burden to the tune of N11 billion as unpaid salaries of workers. Mutfwang disclosed this on Monday in Jos while addressing the citizens during an event organised by the state-owned media in conjunction with the office of the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor to mark the Democracy Day celebration. He said out of a wage of N2.9bn for the month of February 2023, only N900 million was paid to the workers by the past administration. The Governor said “Over the years, Plateau state had deviated from the right paths and that is why we decided to steer the state to the right. With the little we have seen since taking over, there is a lot of work to be done. We inherited a civil service on strike. Out of a wage of N2.9bn for February 2023, only N900 million was paid. As of now, I can tell the peop...

 Gunmen kill one, abduct three in Bauchi — Police The Police Command in Bauchi State has confirmed that gunmen killed one person and abducted three others, including two community leaders in the Ningi Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the command, SP. Ahmed Wakil, confirmed the development on Monday in Bauchi. He said that the gunmen attacked a community known as Balma, killing one person and abducting three others, including two community leaders, late on Saturday. Wakil said the two community leaders were a village head in Balma community and a ward head in the Bakutumbu community. The spokesman said that the command had on Sunday received a report from its Balma outpost that gunmen had attacked the village. “They shot sporadically and took away the village head, Alhaji Hussaini Saleh, who is 48 years old,” he said. Wakil said that the village head was abducted alongside one Idris Mai Unguwa and another man named Ya’u Gandu Maliya, who is 45 years old. He said,...

 Northern elders knock Shettima, warn against imposition of Senate President A northern socio-political organisation, under the aegis of the Northern Elders Forum, has again warned against the imposition of the 10th Senate President, insisting that 109 senators-elect be allowed to choose their leaders. This was just as the northern elders cautioned that religion, either Islam or Christianity, should not be a deciding factor in who leads the 10th Senate. The organisation noted that it had repeatedly cautioned the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to respect the rights and privileges of elected members of the National Assembly to choose their leaders and campaign “for its preferences with sensitivity and decorum.” The northern elders knocked Vice President Kashim Shettima over his comments that “under the current dispensation, the worst incompetent Southern Christian is better than the most puritanical Northern Muslim for the Presidency of the Senate of the Federal Republic of...

DSS seizes Emefiele’s passport, plans home, office search 12th Jun 2023  The Department of State Services has confiscated the passport of the suspended Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, it has been learnt. The service, it was also learnt, may search Emefiele’s home and office this week. Following his suspension on Friday as a result of the ongoing investigation of his office and the planned reforms in the financial sector, the service arrested Emefiele in Lagos and flew him to Abuja in a private jet on Saturday. The spokesperson for the service, Peter Afunanya, in a statement said Emefiele had been taken into custody and was under investigation. However, a source in the DSS on Sunday said it was standard procedure for his travel document to be seized pending the conclusion of the ongoing investigation. The source added that the office and residence of the suspended apex bank governor would be searched. The source said, “Of course, Emefiele’s travel document would be confisc...

22 ways Buhari’s govt looted Nigeria’s wealth, inflicted heavy suffering on the masses, By Femi Falana, SAN facebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonemail sharing buttonlinkedin sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonmessenger sharing button : News Express | : 12th Jun 2023 12:52pm: : 456 22 ways Buhari’s govt looted Nigeria’s wealth, inflicted heavy suffering on the masses, By Femi Falana, SAN Caption: •Femi Falana, SAN Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them. In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and how huge sums of money can be recovered not just to subsidize fuel but also provide funds for development. 1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expat...

Ikokwu 4: Late Chima Ikwunado Family Decries Nigeria Police Refusal To Release Corpse 3 Years After Torture To Death Family members of The Rivers State-based auto mechanic, Late Chima Ikwunado, have stated that his corpse is yet to be released after being allegedly arrested, extorted, and tortured to death by personnel of the Nigeria Police Force in 2019. This was disclosed by the brother to the deceased, who simply identified himself as Tony in an interview with newsmen in port Harcourt revealed that the body of his brother was yet to be buried three years after his death. It had been reported that Chima and his apprentices, Victor Ogbonna, Osaze Friday, Ifeanyi Osuji and Ifeanyi Onyekwere were arrested for driving against traffic and thereafter tortured at Mile 1 Police Station by SP Benson Adetuyi. At the point of arrest, the policemen took N93,000 found on Chima and remanded him on allegations of car theft. In detention, he alongside others was tortured in the most brutal manner in...

Comedian, Woli Arole sets to break Guinness World Record for 5,000 hours prayer marathon Nigerian comedian, Woli Arole has disclosed his plans to organise a 5,000-person prayer vigil with the goal of setting a Guinness World Record. This comes after a Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci finished a yet-to-be-confirmed 120-hour cook-a-thon which drew global attention. The 33-year-old announced his decision to participate in the pray-a-thon on his Instagram page on Monday. He added that the date and time has been established, but is yet to be revealed. He wrote, “This is beyond setting a RECORD. This is to stir the heart of MEN to PRAY… We PRAY until something Happens. We are SET!”