Author: Opalim Lifted

Famous Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Toyin Abraham has shared the mystery of her birth and her spirituality. Toyin in an interview with Vanessa Obioha, spoke about her spiritual gifts, alongside other milestones. The actress explained that it took the spiritual intervention of a cleric to resurrect her after her parents threw her away after birth because she was stillborn. She said: “One of the problems I encountered back then was because I didn’t listen to myself. I’m extremely spiritual. I do hear the voice of the Lord and also see it in my dreams, but I would want to follow…

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, Benue State, on Tuesday ordered that a 40-year-old housewife, Charity Upev, and her son, Tertsea, be remanded in a custodial center for alleged culpable homicide. She and her son had beaten her inlaw to death. The police charged Charity and her son with criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. Magistrate Roseline Iyorshe did not take their plea. Iyorshe adjourned the matter till February 8 for further mention and transferred the case file. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Jonah Uletu, told the court that on January 24, the Divisional Police Officer of ‘E’ Division Police Station, Makurdi,…

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has said that there was no basis for the current scarcity and price increase of Premium Motor Spirits (PMS) across the country. The PENGASSAN President, Mr. Festus Osifo, and its Secretary General, Mr. Lumumba Okugbawa, in a statement on Monday, regretted the hardship that Nigerians were being subjected to as a result of the scarcity and price increase. The statement said that data made available to the union showed there were over 30 days of PMS sufficiency in the country. “We understand that the parameters imputed into the old…

The price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) has risen to N340 per litre in Dutse, the Jigawa State Capital. The situation has subjected the residents, especially motorists, to chaos and hardships due to the scarcity of the commodity. A media correspondent who monitor petrol filling stations on Sunday observed that long queues of vehicles distorted normalcy at the stations. The filling stations are selling the product at an exorbitant cost of N340 per litre while the Dutse NNPC mega station Retail Stations had been under lock and key since Jan. 8 following a fire outbreak. Also, most of the filling…

Liberia’s President George Weah on Monday told parliament he would run for reelection this year after a first term marred with graft allegations and an economic downturn. Weah, 56, took office in 2018 in the West African country’s first peaceful change of power in seven decades and is constitutionally eligible to run again in the Oct. 10 poll. “I will be coming to you shortly to ask you to renew my term, a mandate that you give me six years ago,” he said in parliament on Monday, vowing to pursue transformation, growth, and peace. Liberia is still recovering from a…

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a thirty-six-month Extended Credit Facility arrangement for Guinea-Bissau in the amount of SDR 28.4 million (about US$ 38.4 million, or 100 percent of quota) for Guinea-Bissau to support the West African nation’s economic recovery and policies to improve governance, on Monday. The IMF Executive Board decision enables an immediate disbursement of SDR 2.37 million (about US$3.2 million). Disbursements of the remaining amount will be phased throughout the programme, subject to two initial quarterly reviews—to ensure close monitoring of reforms, followed by five biannual reviews. The IMF ECF-supported programme aims…

Naira is now on sale, no thanks to the scarcity of both old and new notes in bank halls and their Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) terminals. In many cities, Point of Sale (PoS) operators, bureau de change agents, and emergency currency hawkers sold old and new notes to desperate Nigerians in need of cash yesterday. Many ATM terminals in Lagos and Abuja, for instance, were empty. The few that dispensed old and new notes had crowds waiting to make withdrawals. At a terminal along Fatai Atere Way in Matori, Mushin, the struggle to secure positions in queues resulted in fisticuffs.…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for pragmatic collaboration among stakeholders toward eliminating leprosy in 120 countries by 2030, in synchrony with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target. The NMA President, Dr. Uche Ojinmah, made the call in a statement by Dr . Sebastine Oiwoh, the Chairman, of the National Committee on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) of NMA, on Sunday in Ibadan. The media reports that the NMA had a state commemoration of World Leprosy Day 2023, an annual event celebrated every Jan. 29. Ojinmah had joined medical doctors in reiterating the need to “ACT NOW and END LEPROSY” on…

Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa at the weekend before fleeing, police said. Officers have given no indication of a motive for Sunday’s shooting. The incident follows a spate of mass gun attacks last year that shocked the nation. In July, gunmen killed 19 people in random shootings within hours of each other. “These victims were killed by criminals, and we will not rest until we find out what happened and who was responsible for (this) callous and cold-blooded attack on these unsuspecting victims,” said Eastern Cape South African Police Service…

Facebook on Monday asked a London tribunal to block a collective lawsuit valued at up to 3 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) over allegations the social media giant abused its dominant position to monetize users’ personal data. Meta Platforms Inc (META.O), the parent company of the Facebook group, is facing a mass action brought on behalf of around 45 million Facebook users in Britain. Legal academic Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, who is bringing the case, said Facebook users were not properly compensated for the value of personal data that they had to provide to use the platform. Her lawyers said users should…