Author: Michael Right

Shop owners in Ghana have threatened to shut down their establishments next Monday in protest at the depreciation of the cedi, the local currency. With the exchange rate at 10 cedis to the US dollar, traders are struggling to stay in business as the price of importing and clearing goods keeps rising. Prices for the majority of essential products and services in the country have doubled in the past few months, but incomes have remained relatively stable. “We are demonstrating against the government to show the extent that we are suffering… The intention is not to punish the consuming public,”…

Former Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has urged Nigerians to carefully assess a presidential candidate’s qualifications before choosing them to be the country’s next leader. Sanusi made this known at a gathering in Lagos State on Wednesday The former monarch said that competency, not ethnicity or other prejudices, should be the basis for choosing the country’s leaders. Prior to the elections, the electorate, according to Sanusi, should examine the plans and programs of the candidates. He said, “Political aspirants should also be asked about their plans for hospitals and education amongst other key undeveloped areas in the country. “The…

Kobe Bryant’s widow has been awarded $16m (£13.6m) in damages over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the US basketball star and his daughter in 2020. Following the discovery that photographs taken by firefighters and sheriff’s officers in Los Angeles County had been distributed, Vanessa Bryant, 40, claimed to have experienced panic attacks. The county must now compensate Mrs. Bryant for her emotional distress, according to a federal jury. Chris Chester, a co-plaintiff, will receive $15 million. Kobe Bryant inducted into NBA Hall of Fame In January 2020, the Bryants’ helicopter crashed in California, killing Mrs. Bryant’s…

Sheikh Goni Aisami, an Islamic cleric in Yobe State, is believed to have been slain by a soldier on Friday. Senate President Ahmad Lawan has urged the appropriate authorities—particularly the police—to secure swift justice for Aisami. According to a statement issued by Lawan’s spokeswoman, Ola Awoniyi, the appeal was made on Wednesday while Lawan was in Gashua, Yobe State, paying a sympathy visit to the late Cleric’s family. The Senate President talked to journalists after joining the family members in praying for the late Sheikh’s peace along with him and his entourage. “I’m taking this opportunity to urge the authourities,…

Due to production issues, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and its other significant partners lost 9.4 million barrels of crude oil in the month of May. This information was provided by NNPC in its most recent submission to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). Force majeure, fire outbreaks, industrial strike activities, and maintenance at several crude oil terminals dispersed throughout Nigeria, according to the study, were the causes of the production shutdowns. Based on the average Brent price of $113.34 for May, the 9.4 million barrels of crude oil are worth around $1.068 billion. For instance, the study…

The U20 Girls National Team, Falconets, had to spend 24 hours at the Turkish airport on their way back from the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup The Nigeria Football Federation has listed a number of reasons for this as well as the inability to obtain transit visas for the team at the Istanbul Airport. “The NFF did not book the team’s tickets from Costa Rica; FIFA did. FIFA also did not envisage the hitches that saw the team delayed for more than three hours in Bogota, and another one hour in Panama. By the time the team got to Istanbul,…

Russian soldiers, on Wednesday, launched a missile attack on a Ukrainian railway station on the nation’s Independence Day, killing 22, he claimed. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned for days that Moscow may attempt “something exceptionally brutal” this week. Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council via video that the deadly attack occurred in Chaplyne, a community of around 3,500 inhabitants in the central Dnipropetrovsk area. A further report from the president’s office stated that an 11-year-old child was killed by rocket fire in the settlement earlier in the day. “Chaplyne is our pain today,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to…

IGP Usman Alkali Baba, the inspector general of police, has directed that CP Abubakar Lawal be sent to the Kano State Police Command as the next commissioner of police in charge of the state. CP Kolo Yusuf and CP Ahmed Ammani were also posted by the IGP to lead the Zamfara and Enugu State Police Commands, respectively. CP Abubakar Lawal, who was transferred to the Kano State Police Command in response to the retirement of the previous commissioner of police. CP SS Dikko, hails from Daura in Katsina State and is a graduate of the esteemed Ahmadu Bello University in…

Eno Ubi Otu, director of finance and accounts for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on suspicion of taking part in a N25 billion fraud. Otu was being questioned by EFCC agents in connection with an alleged diversion of over N25 billion in tax payments, according to a highly placed source who verified the situation on Wednesday night. Otu, who appeared at the EFCC office early on August 24, 2022, was still being questioned at the time of publication. The insider also revealed that the arrest was a part…

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has come under fire from the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, for imposing sanctions on a number of particular radio and TV stations, claiming that doing so could lead to press emascu­lation. Wabba claimed that the NLC learned of the license cancellations of 52 media outlets, including electronic television and radio companies, with shock. He called the NBC’s explanations for why the affected media outlets didn’t pay for their license renewal “draconian.” “While we understand that the NBC has a regulatory duty to ensure rules keeping, we believe that the action taken…