Author: Opalim Lifted

Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, a clergyman, was placed on detention on Monday by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly raping two of his church members (names withheld). The founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry” was detained by Justice Ramon Oshodi at Kirikiri Correctional Facility awaiting the completion of his bail requirements. The defendant was given N20 million bail with two sureties in the same amount by Oshodi. According to him, one of the sureties must be the owner of a building in Lagos State, and the value of the building must be sufficient to pay the bail amount.…

After a two-day warning strike by aviation unions to urge their demand for implementation of their conditions of service, the intentions to demolish agencies’ offices to construct an airport city, and other various demands, there is a protest at the Lagos Airport as travelers stay stranded. Even though several airlines attempted to fly into Abuja in the early hours, their attempts were thwarted by aviation union members who took control of the airport and blocked the entrance and departure points of the aviation agencies’ annex headquarters with their vehicles. While everyone was loitering around the airport, employees of the agencies…

A list of ongoing investigations published on the British parliament’s website on Monday indicates that the Commissioner for Standards launched an inquiry against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this month. According to the list, the subject under inquiry was a “declaration of interest”. The investigation got going on April 13. The probe, according to a spokesperson for Sunak, is related to his wife’s ownership of stock in a daycare company. Upon learning that Akshata Murthy was a stakeholder in a business that would profit from a government policy on financing for childcare revealed in the March budget, the opposition party,…

In memory of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said would not have been possible without the contributions of 29 women from political and civic society, a celebration was held on Monday. The Queen’s University Belfast chancellor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, commended the winners of medals and honorary degrees as “determined, unstoppable forces for peace” and worked with the political parties to execute the agreement throughout her tenure as secretary of state. They included the late Mo Mowlam, Britain’s first female minister for the area, who was actively…

After a fight between the military and paramilitary broke out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) called for a cease-fire. Buhari called the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces as undesirable while General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, the interim president of Chad, paid him a visit on Sunday in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Buhari also referred to the fighting that took tens of lives as regrettable in a statement released by the spokesperson for the president, Mallam Garba Shehu. The two leaders discussed the regrettable situation and urged the surrounding nations and the international community to…

The R21 malaria vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India has received approval from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This information was provided on Monday during a news conference in Abuja by Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director General of NAFDAC. Nigeria now joins Ghana as the second nation to accept the novel malaria vaccine created by the University of Oxford. According to Prof. Adeyeye, the vaccine is recommended for use in children between the ages of 5 and 36 months to prevent the development of clinical malaria. She said the country expects to get…

Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s most well-known democracy advocates in recent years, was sentenced on Monday to three months in jail for a police officer’s data breach, according to a post on Wong’s Facebook page. The 26-year-old gained notoriety in 2014 when, as a bespectacled youngster, he emerged as a leader of student-led democratic demonstrations that resulted in 79 days of road closures in the middle of the financial district. According to the post, he was punished on Monday for violating a court order prohibiting the disclosure of private information regarding a police officer who fired shots during a…

Woman sells her baby to offset bank loan in OgunOlaide Adekunle, a 33-year-old lady, reportedly sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to pay off a bank loan. The suspect, who purportedly hails from Sango in Ogun State’s Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, reportedly left her home for Lagos, where she sold the infant to an unnamed bidder. Following a complaint made by the suspect’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, at the Sango divisional headquarters and men from the Ogun State Police Command detained the suspect. This was revealed in a statement on Monday by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state’s police public relations officer.…

In order to commemorate the completion of 10,000 brand-new, contemporary dwellings in Pyongyang’s newly developed Hwasong District, North Korea organised a ceremony on Sunday, according to the country’s official news agency KCNA. According to the source, the leader Kim Jong Un and many other top government officials, including the premier of the cabinet Kim Tok Hun, attended the event. The accomplishment comes two months after Kim broke ground on a new home development, which the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) called “another opulent socialist street full of the people’s happiness.” North Korea said that it will construct 50,000 additional flats…

In response to the recent increase in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG), the Nigerian Navy (NN) has maintained the presence of her capital ships at sea and instructed operational bases to intensify efforts to control their areas of operations. This was said in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, Director of Information for the Nigerian Navy. According to Ayo-Vanghan, the recent wave of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) decreased to an all-time low in 2022. Despite deliberate attempts to keep piracy in the GoG to a minimum, he said that two…