An unidentified Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Cyprus has been allegedly gang-raped at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers in Kokkinotrimithia.
According to In-Cyprus, the woman reported the rape to Cyprus authorities on Thursday after being abused on Tuesday by five men who are also from Nigeria.
The police also said that the alleged sexual assault took place a few minutes after midnight
They added that investigations are. ongoing.
Yet-to-be-identified assailants invaded the St Martin’s Catholic Church, Ihiala, Anambra State, tying the security men on duty before proceeding inside the church premises.
Although the details of the incident were still sketchy but our correspondent gathered that the incident happened late on Thursday
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme has been reviewed from N70 per meal for schoolchildren to N100 in Delta State.
The state Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support Services, Dr Darlington Ijeh, who stated this in Asaba, frowned on the manner in which the caterers were shortchanged.
Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, on Thursday, assured that elections will be held in all parts of the country.
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos State has sentenced a 23-year-old man, Ganiyu Ismaila, to three years imprisonment for unlawfully belonging to the Aiye confraternity in the state.
No fewer than 6 persons lost their lives while 13,226 persons were displaced during the recent flooding that ravaged Kano State.
The Executive Secretary of the Kano State Emergency Management Agency, Saleh Jili, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kano late Monday.
Jili also said that a total of 14,364 farmers lost their farm produce during the disaster.
“A total of 13,226 persons were displaced while 14,364 farmers lost their farm produce. So, in all, over 30,000 people were affected by the flood this year,” he said.
The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, has attacked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, saying he cannot win the 2023 presidential election.
Soludo said the LP candidate was playing a game with his election bid, adding that Obi did not have the necessary structure in place to win the Presidency on the Labour Party platform.
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a suspected fraudster, Joseph Nwakibe, who was said to have been invited to Yola by his friend Obinna Ajima (still at large) for joint fraudulent activities.
The police said Nwakibe was in possession of 10 expired Automated Teller Machine cards, which he allegedly swapped with victims’ cards at the ATM point in order to defraud them.
This was disclosed in a statement by the command on Friday, signed by its spokesman, Suleiman Yahaya.
The Governor of Anambra state, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said the alleged investment of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the state government is worth next to nothing.
Soludo stated this on Thursday during an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today which was monitored by The PUNCH.
Front runner presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress); Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party; Peter Obi (Labour Party) and Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso (New Nigeria Peoples Party) are expected to speak at a debate today (Sunday).
The debate is organised by pro-democracy group, the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD) in collaboration with Arise Television.
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said he will defeat his opponents in the 2023 general elections the way Arsenal triumphed over Chelsea in the English Premier League.
Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League table with a 1-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday courtesy of a Gabriel goal.
While congratulating the Gunners, the former Vice President who is also an Arsenal fan promised to do the same for Nigerians in the February 2023 presidential election
He wrote on his official Twitter handle “Great win, Arsenal, even after a goalless first half. As Arsenal did in this game for we, the fans, we will also Recover Nigeria for Nigerians”.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has tasked Nigerians to entrench ethnic and religious tolerance in their domains to foster peace and unity in the country, following the spate of insecurity confronting the nation.
Buhari gave the charge on Sunday at the end of a two-day official visit to Nasarawa State for an inspection of the ongoing construction works at the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Development Institute, Lafia, which began on August 1, 2022.
The President who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, said the Federal Government decided to build the AMEDI, Lafia because of its commitment to the development of agriculture and to guaranty food security across the nation.
Former First City Monument Bank manager Nwachukwu Placidus has been sentenced to 121 years in prison by Justice S. N. Odili of the Anambra State High Court in Onitsha, Anambra State. Placidus was found guilty of using N112,100,000 of a customer’s fixed deposit funds for personal gain. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Enugu Zonal Read More
As heavy rain demolish Suleja Prisons, 119 prisoners manage to escape Following hours of intense rain on Wednesday night that partially damaged the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger state, no fewer than 119 prisoners have managed to flee. This was revealed in a statement released on Thursday morning by Adamu Duza, the spokesman for the Nigeria Correctional Read More
Music Producer Napji calls out Davido over unpaid dues. Napji states that he was paid 500,000 Naira each for producing ‘FEM’, ‘Jowo’, and ‘Sunlight’ off Davido’s 2020 album.Napji who was credited as a producer on all three songs shared that he was yet to get his royalties and publishing while promising to share more information Read More
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has warned commercial drivers against using unpainted vehicles for transportation in the state.
The spokesperson for the agency, Taofiq Adebayo, in a statement, said in view of the need to comply with the laws and regulations guiding the operation of all commercial vehicle operators, the state government again warned that all intra-state commercial bus operators must ensure that their vehicles were painted in red or yellow with black stripes or be impounded by the government.
Adebayo said, “The General Manager of LASTMA, Bolaji Oreagba, gave the warning over the weekend in Oshodi, informing that the agency will commence an enforcement exercise on all unpainted commercial vehicles from Monday, November 7, 2022, across the state.
Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; and its northern and eastern counterparts, Arewa Consultative Forum and Ohanaeze Indigbo, respectively, on Saturday, backed the proposition by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that the image of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo should be on one of the naira notes to be newly designed.
Atiku, who took to his Twitter handle to congratulate the former President for his role in restoring peace in Ethiopia after two-year-long crisis, also said Obasanjo deserved a Nobel Peace prize for the feat.
