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A gay Missouri police sergeant has won almost $20m in damages, after being told to “tone down the gayness” to get a promotion. Keith Wildhaber of St Louis county alleges he was passed over for promotion 23 times. A witness testified that one of Sgt Wildhaber’s superiors described him as being “way too out there with his gayness”. Local officials say there will be leadership changes to the police board. Sgt Wildhaber filed a lawsuit against the police in 2017, after allegedly being passed over for a promotion 23 times despite stellar performance reviews. The lawsuit alleges that in 2014…

The Consul General of Nigeria in Johannesburg, Mr Godwin Adama, has confirmed the murder of another Nigerian, Mr Chikamso Ufordi, in South Africa. NAN gathered that the deceased was allegedly shot dead by unknown assailants in a suspected love affair tangle. Reacting to the development on telephone on Tuesday, Adama however said he was yet to get the full report. According to him, although the incident is highly condemnable, incidences like that are common in South Africa with one of the highest crime rates in the world. “Murder statistics in South Africa indicate that over 50 people are violently murdered…

Celebrity disk jockey and singer, DJ Cuppy, has said that she does not give cash gifts to her fans because she feels it is a way of paying people to be your fans. Cuppy, daughter of billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, said this in a tweet on Monday. Read Also: Bayelsa INEC educates women on election “To all my Cupcakes that complain I don’t do money giveaways, I hear you… BUT I’ve always felt like that was essentially paying people to be your fans?” she wrote. To all my Cupcakes that complain I don’t do Money Giveaways, I hear you… BUT…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa, has organised a sensitisation forum for women in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District on the forthcoming governorship election in the state. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the forum is being held simultaneously in the three senatorial districts of the state — Bayelsa East, Bayelsa West and Bayelsa Central. The State Director, National Orientation Agency, Mr Ide Oduasekpar, urged the women to take the message of the forum to their families and the public at large. He said that women had a role to play in society because they were in charge…

As part of renewed efforts to eliminate the persistent traffic gridlock along the Dutsen Alhaji axis of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Abuja, the FCT Ministerial Task Team on free flow of traffic in the territory has ordered banks and owners of business premises around “Dutsen Alhaji first gate area” to immediately revert to the original land use of their properties by changing their entry points. The directive was a fallout of an inspection tour of the route by the road traffic and other officials of the FCTA Departments of Development Control and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board. Chairman of…

Flying Doctors Nigeria, West Africa’s first Air Ambulance service, recently scored another first when it won the International Assistance Group, IAG, accreditation. Founded in 1992, the Paris, France based International Assistance Group, IAG is the world’s largest alliance of independent assistance companies and accredited providers. Its network specializes in worldwide roadside, medical, travel, corporate and home assistance for business and leisure travellers, expatriate workers and corporate clients. IAG’s operational network key strength lies with its stringent quality criteria in their respective markets. In a release signed by one of the medical directors of Flying Doctors and its second largest shareholder,…

***We are worried that FG will sign agreements it knows are difficult and sometimes impossible to implement, Lawan *** The Programme will only compound the problem of regular flow of fund and personnel management, ASUU    ABUJA- THE Senate has intervened between the Federal Government and Academic  Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), saying that it would summon the Federal Government to speak on plans to capture the Universities into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).   Speaking yesterday in Abuja when the  Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) led by its President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi visited him in his office, President…

A Kogi-born Port Harcourt-based businessman, Alhaji Jimoh Garba, has said that the emergence of former Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello, Edward Onoja, as the number-two citizen of Kogi State, was a welcome development that would fast track the development of the state. According to Garba, the governor’s decision to replace the impeached Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba, with Onoja who is his running mate for the November 16 governorship election, was in order. He noted that the duo of Bello and Onoja understand each other better, maintaining that they would be able to work together harmoniously to bring…

Two safety agencies of Lagos State Government on Monday discovered five containers laden with rotten fish and other edibles in Apapa area of the state. The shocking discovery was made during a site inspection of the containers following reports of air pollution and release of toxic gas into the environment at one of the off duck terminals in Apapa. NAN gathered that the site inspection was conducted jointly by Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA). “The joint-team discovered edibles, including fish, which had become rotten due to faulty refrigerators. READ: Senate wades into…

The Senate leadership on Monday waded into the raging dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Federal Government over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Senate President Ahmad Lawan, alongside some members of the Senate, met with ASUU leaders at the National Assembly to better understand the crux of the matter between the varsity teachers and the Federal Government over the payroll system. ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi who led his team, presented the union’s position and argued that the IPPIS should not be run within the university system in the country because…