Author: Opalim Lifted

The state police headquarters reported on Friday that no fewer than 21 different weapons were retrieved from non-state players throughout Lagos in March. This comes right after the service claimed that it had increased its efforts to seize illicit weapons in accordance with instructions from Inspector General of Police (IG) Alkali Usman. At his first news conference at the Officers’ Mess in Ikeja, Police Commissioner Owohunwa Idowu provided the specifics and assessed security activities during the most recent general election. He claimed that the leadership had implemented the closed circle theory of law enforcement to seize these illicit weapons while…

Yahuza Isah and Auwalu Mohammed were sentenced to execution by hanging by a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Kubwa for the death of a tricycle rider. In his decision, Justice Asmau Akanbi-Yusuf stated that, based on the evidence presented, the defendants had a common purpose when they plotted to murder and rob the deceased, Mohammed Shaibu, on January 7, 2020. Akanbi-Yusuf also ruled that Isah and Auwalu failed to show any evidence to refute their arrest in connection with the crime. “The prosecution counsel, Mayowa Adefioye, has proved beyond reasonable doubt the offense of conspiracy, armed robbery, and culpable…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) raided a sexual enhancement shop on Friday in Onitsha, Anambra State’s Progressive Science and Allied Dealers lane, Bridge-Head Market. Usman Amen, the agency’s Chief Laboratory Technologist, who headed the investigation and enforcement team from Lagos, said the sexual store was found selling unregistered and expired drugs. Amen named several sexual enhancement medications, including Delay Viagra, Afrofranil, Breast Enhancement, Ass Enhancement, Rocket in Pocket Men Gel, and Tramadol. NAFDAC set to prohibit the use of bleaching creams He said, “We came from Lagos based on a tip-off before we arrived…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, comprised of thirty-six state governors, has urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to quickly apprehend and punish those it has recognised as plotting to establish a temporary government, rather than making comments and inflaming the politics. The governors who denounced any illegal means of regime change, on the other hand, promised to fight such a move, as well as to continue to defend Nigeria’s democracy as chosen leaders. In a communiqué issued yesterday at the conclusion of the 4th gathering of the governors by NGF Chairman and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, they cautioned…

On Friday, South Africans demonstrated in Pretoria and Cape Town against a law that was recently enacted in Uganda that makes it a crime to be publicly LGBTQ. Demonstrators urged Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni not to approve it while singing and waving banners. According to the rights organisation Human Rights Watch, the new legislation would be the first to prohibit simply identifying as homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), even though Uganda is one of more than 30 African nations that already forbid same-sex relationships. Angola legalises same-sex marriage as US continues push for LGBTQ rights About 100 protesters…

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a fine of N5 million on Channels Television for violating the broadcasting law in a programme with Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate. This is conveyed in a letter addressed to the chief executive officer of the television station and dated March 27. The letter was exclusively obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja. The letter, with the title “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview, A Sanction,” was signed by Balarabe Ilelah, the commission’s Director-General. It read in part: “The NBC monitored the broadcast of a live interview…

After five months of protest action, the bulk of South Africa’s public sector unions consented to a 7.5% pay raise on Friday, according to a government statement. Experts have previously cautioned that the two-year, multi-term agreement is considerably higher than what the government had incorporated into its 2023 budget and will jeopardise attempts to control excessive public expenditure. Unions in the public sector comprise roughly 1.3 million employees and have been demonstrating in different degrees since November 2022. Salary talks started in May, with unions originally requesting a 10% raise, which the government denied. In later rounds of bargaining, the…

Senegal has reported an epidemic of the highly deadly H5N1 bird flu on a chicken farm in the country’s northern region, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). The epidemic happened on March 18 on a field near the town of Louga in the hamlet of Potou, not far from the Langue de Barbarie National Park, where an H5N1 breakout was identified on March 12, according to the Paris-based WOAH, quoting Senegalese officials. “An epidemiological link between both outbreaks is highly likely,” it said. Chile detects first case of bird flu in human The epidemic killed 500 of…

A top official with the state-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company told media on Friday that fourteen workers were killed and dozens were wounded in a goldmine fall in Sudan’s Northern State. 24 killed in DR Congo goldmine collapse According to Moataz Hajj Nour, a portion of a hillside fell near the al Jabal al Ahmar mine, situated 70 kilometres from Wadi Halfa city, causing the fatal mishap on Thursday. According to Sudan News Agency (SUNA), witnesses said workers were excavating with large equipment, which triggered the fall.

In reaction to a serious drought that has struck the nation, Tunisia on Friday instituted an allotment system for drinkable water and prohibited its use in farmland until September 30. According to senior agriculture ministry official Hamadi Habib, Tunisia, which is experiencing a fourth consecutive year of severe drought, saw a decline in its dam capacity to roughly 1 billion cubic meters, or 30% of the maximum, as a result of a lack of rain from September 2022 to mid-March 2023. The use of drinkable water to cleanse vehicles, irrigate gardens, clear sidewalks, and maintain public spaces was also outlawed…