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DOCTOR, NURSES NABBED OVER MISSING PLACENTA IN KWARA HOSPITAL
The police in Kwara State have commenced an investigation into the disappearance of the umbilical cord and placenta of a newborn baby at Government Cottage Hospital, Iloffa in the Oke-Ero Local Government Area of the state. The suspects detained by the police include a resident doctor, three nurses and a ward attendant at the hospital….
POLICE DISMISS INSPECTOR FOR ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING
The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed a police inspector and demoted three erring officers while sanctioning others over crimes and irregularities. The Force Headquarters made the development known in an official correspondent posted on the NPF X handle Friday night. The statement indicated that in a decisive move to uphold the highest standards of professionalism…
POLICE RESCUES VICTIMS OF MOTOR ACCIDENT IN ABIA STATE
The Abia Police Command have rescued Five victims who were involved in a fatal motor accident along Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway, near Lekwesi Umuchieze in Umueneochi LGA of Abia State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Maureen Chinaka disclosed this in a statement that the driver lost control while descending a slope at…
TINUBU APPROVES PAYMENT OF N3.3TN POWER SECTOR DEBTS
As part of measures to address the epileptic power supply ravaging the country, President Bola Tinubu has approved the gradual payments of power sector debts estimated at over N3.3tn. Consequently, about N1.3tn owed power generating companies by the Federal Government will be paid via cash injections and promissory notes, while about $1.3bn (N1.994tn using the…
FG TO INAUGURATE N8.1BN ERINJE ELECTRICITY PROJECT IN ONDO
The Federal government is set to inaugurate the Eight point one Billion Naira, Erinje Electricity Project in Okitipupa council area of Ondo state by the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC. According to the states representative on the board of the commission, Honourable Otito Atikase, the electricity project, will be commissioned by the Minister of the…
WEST AFRICA MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT TERRORISM, BANDITRY, TINUBU TELLS FAYE
President Bola Tinubu has called on West African countries to unite to defeat terrorism, human trafficking, banditry and other criminal activities affecting the region. President Tinubu made the call at the State House in Abuja while receiving President Bassirou Faye of Senegal where he advised leaders in the region to make the people the point…
MAKINDE APPROVES RECRUITMENT OF 7,000 PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN OYO
Oyo State Government is set to recruit 7,000 teachers for public primary schools across the state. The state government also revealed plans to recruit 100 caregivers for special schools across the state. This was disclosed by the executive chairman of Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Nureni Adeniran, during a press conference held at the…
LAGOS COURT CONVICTS COSMETIC SURGEON, ADEPOJU OVER CLIENT’S DEATH
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has convicted a medical doctor and founder of MedContour Services Ltd., Dr. Anuoluwapo Adepoju, who conducted a failed plastic surgery that resulted in the death of one Nneka Onwuzuligbo in 2020, FIJ reports. This was disclosed by a former Director-General of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection…
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER GUILTY OF CHILD SEX OFFENCES AGAINST PUPILS
A teacher has been found guilty of having sex with two schoolboys. Rebecca Joynes, 30, groomed the teenagers from the age of 15, Manchester crown court heard, and was on bail for sexual activity with the first child, boy A, when she began having sex with the second, boy B, by whom she went on…
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: WORLD NUMBER ONE GOLFER HANDCUFFED AND CHARGED AFTER TRAFFIC INCIDENT
The world No 1, Scottie Scheffler, has teed off in the second round of the US PGA Championship after an extraordinary sequence of events that occurred on Friday morning after he tried to drive into the course and was subsequently arrested, detained and booked on four separate charges by police. Dramatic footage showed the golfer being led…