Author: Opalim Lifted

The United States’ cultural affairs representative in Nigeria, Ms. Julie Mckay, has guaranteed the creative industry of her nation’s support for the Film sector’s expansion. She made the assurance on Friday in Jos while touring cultural sites, museums, and the National Film Institute (NFI) and inspecting facilities at the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC). On Thursday, the envoy paid a call to the Film Corporation and met with the board of directors. Mckay reaffirmed her nation’s resolve to work with the Film Corporation to promote young development after meeting with the NFC earlier this year in Abuja and Jos. “Since we…

Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, Ooni of Ife, has called for calm and order in the ancient city of Ile-Ife and its environs. The appeal was made by Ooni, who spoke through his Second-in-Command, Obalufe of Ifeland, Oba Idowu Adediwura, in an interview on Friday in Ile-Ife. He claimed that as the royal father of Christians, Muslims, and traditionalists, and as a global leader who promotes peaceful coexistence, there was no cause for his house to be in turmoil. He stated that as a direct descendant of Oduduwa, the progenitor of the Yoruba race who also taught peaceful coexistence, he…

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…