EFCC, NYSC Embark on Walk against Corruption in Sokoto

The personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Sokoto State in the early hours of Friday embarked on a road walk to sensitize the general public on the dangers of corruption.

The walk, which started at 8 am, commenced from Shehu Kangiwa Square, Sokoto through Emir Yahaya Way, Ahmadu Bello Way and back to the square where the public were addressed.

Speaking at the event, the EFCC Zonal Head for Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara States, Abdullahi Lawal, said the anti-graft agency set aside Friday, February 14, being the Valentine’s Day, to engage the youths and sensitise them on the fight against corruption, as the day has a lot to do with them |||READ MORE …

International Condom Day: Pathfinders Urges Protection, Abstinence

As Nigeria joins the international community to mark this year’s condom day, Pathfinders International has urged Nigerian youths to stay protected or abstain from unwanted sex.

The organisation made the call during its female condom sensitisation campaign and distribution programme at the University of Abuja, yesterday.

Speaking at the event, Pathfinder Program officer, Reproductive Heath and Family Planning, Kosy Izundu, however said that much sensitisation was needed to help the youth make informed decisions and choices about their health, especially in the area of unwanted sex |||READ MORE …

Valentine: Foundation Distributes 8Million Condoms To Nigerians

Global AIDS organization, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has distributed over 8million free condoms across Nigeria in the past 9 years in its national intervention against HIV Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases.

This was revealed at the press briefing organized by the Foundation in collaboration with the National Agency for the control of AIDS (NACA) and NOI Polls, held in Abuja yesterday to mark the 2020 International Condom Day (ICD) and also the presentation of results of a national poll on condom access and utilization in Nigeria |||READ MORE …

Breaking: Lagos closes 16 companies over N126.19m tax evasion

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service(LIRS) on Friday announced that it had closed 16 companies in the state over alleged failure to remit about N126.19m consumption tax.

The organisation’s Director of Legal Services, Mr Seyi Alade, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the companies’ tax liabilities were from 2014 to 2016.

Alade,who spoke with NAN during LIRS state-wide tax law enforcement exercise, added that  the  companies were audited for the periods, but had not made the payments to the State Government |||READ MORE …

The Rock’s Daughter, Simone Johnson, Signs With WWE to become a wrestler

WWE has added a member of wrestling royalty to its training center. Simone Johnson, the daughter of WWE legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has signed with WWE and begun training at its Performance Center in Florida, the company announced Monday.

Simone, 18, is the only child of Dwayne Johnson and his ex-wife Dany Garcia. She began training at the Performance Center in late 2018, but only on a part-time basis.

Johnson’s grandfather, Rocky Johnson, and great-grandfather, “High Chief” Peter Maivia, are both WWE Hall of Famers |||READ MORE …

Somalia: Child Rapists Executed By Firing Squad

A firing squad has executed two men in north-eastern Somalia for raping and killing a 12-year-old girl, according to a BBC report.

Prosecutors said they relied on DNA evidence for the first time to convict them.

Aisha Ilyaas Aden was abducted, gang-raped and killed near her home in Galkayo, in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in February 2019 |||READ MORE …

Singapore Airshow hit by virus fears as 70 exhibitors pull out

More than 70 exhibitors including US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin have pulled out of the Singapore Airshow over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, but organisers insisted Sunday that Asia's biggest aviation event would still go ahead.

Precautionary measures -- including a major reduction in public attendance and temperature screenings -- have been imposed ahead of the opening of the event which opens Tuesday in the city-state, which has reported 40 coronavirus infections.

Organisers were also encouraging attendees to greet each other by bowing or waving instead of shaking hands |||READ MORE …

Thai mall shooting survivors tracked killer via CCTV

In a fourth-floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall, shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.

Barricaded in the women's toilet with a few dozen others, Chanathip Somsakul, a 33-year-old music teacher, and his wife pored through social media and made frantic calls to friends and family.

Their daughter Chopin sat watchfully on a ledge, a three-year-old bystander to a mass killing without precedent in Thailand |||READ MORE …

JAC-Elizade scoops auto industry-leading awards

DUE to its soaring profile and acceptability in the Nigerian market, JAC Motors, being promoted by Elizade Autoland, bagged three awards in 2019.

The automobile brand clinched the prestigious accolades at Nigeria Auto Journalists Association, NAJA, Awards and the Nigeria Automotive Industry Awards held in Lagos, December 17 and 27, respectively.

The two industry bodies honoured JAC Motors with the Most Improved Brand of the Year awards. The award in this category celebrates outstanding automobile initiatives that have had the most positive impact in the industry |||READ MORE …

Dunamis Church Constructs Road In Nasarawa To Ease Movements

The leadership of the Dunamis International Gospel Center(DIGC) has constructed and commissioned about  one kilometer road ( boundary road) at Mararaba, Nasarawa, Nigeria.

DIGC’s president, Paul Enenche, who commissioned the road on Saturday, uploaded the photos and video from the event on his Facebook page.

In an exclusive chat with THE WHISTLER, the assistant pastor of DIGC Mararaba, Ben Jackson, said that the newly commissioned road was an answer from the church to one of the pressing needs in the area as plying the road had become a menace to the people |||READ MORE …

Okowa Inaugurates 700-Capacity Hostel, Other Projects At Delta NYSC Camp

The Governor of Delta, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, has assured authorities of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of the state government’s continued support to the scheme.

The governor gave the assurance on Thursday while inaugurating a 720-capacity hostel for NYSC members at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku.

He recalled that the camp was in a poor state when he visited in 2018, and expressed delight that the camp had begun to wear a look befitting a place where Corps members spent time before being deployed to parts of the state for primary assignment |||READ MORE …

INSECURITY: Take us home, IDPs beg Buhari

AMID claims and counter-claims of successes in the war against insecurity by the Federal Government and its critics, hundreds of internally displaced persons, IDPs, in Plateau and Benue states are yet to see the successes.

Reason: They want to return to their various communities but cannot because it will be suicidal to do so as those who forced them to flee for their dear lives are still occupying their lands.

Therefore, they are pleading with President Muhammadu Buhari to help them return home, to their normal lifestyle and farming occupation, which they have abandoned for several months since their displacement |||READ MORE …

Overhead water tank falls into classroom, kills two students in Anambra

Two students were killed and two others injured on Wednesday when an overhead Tank filled with water fell into a classroom of Royal Kings Foundation nursery and primary school Nkpor-Agu in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State.

The 13-meter tank which had a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters, fell down while the pupils were learning in their classrooms. According to the PPRO, Anambra state police command, SP Mohammed Haruna, in a statement said on the 05/2/2020 at about 11:15 am, an overhead Tank filled with water fell into a classroom of Royal Kings Foundation nursery and primary school Nkpor-Agu in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State.

He said the police patrol team led by DPO Ogidi Division CSP Mark Ijarafu rushed to the scene. On arrival, it was discovered that the overhead tank of about 800 gallons capacity filled with water fell from its high stand in a neighbouring house adjacent to the school on the roof of the pre-nursery class and directly into the classroom. As a result, Four children sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to Idemili hospital Nkpor for medical attention |||READ MORE …

BREAKING: Explosion rocks Ekiti Govt House

Building affected by the explosion

There was palpable fear at the Ekiti State Government House in Ado Ekiti and its environ this morning following a loud bang, suspected to a bomb explosion, ripped through the peaceful and siren state capital.

The incident which occurred at about 7:40 am on the morning of Saturday caused scare and tension as people scampered for safety. After the explosion, there was a cloud of heavy smoke coming out of the government house |||READ MORE …

Boko Haram crisis is getting worse, says MSF Head of Mission

The Nigeria Head of Mission of Medicine San frontier Mr. Luis Eguiluz believes  the Boko Haram crisis in the Northeast is getting worse and the  humanitarian needs are getting massive by the day.

Eguiluz,in an interview   published on the MSF website said that  over seven million people directly affected  by the crisis  are currently dependent on humanitarian aid for survival.

More than two million people are displaced |||READ MORE ….

Trump fires 2 impeachment witnesses, accused of exacting revenge

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired two key witnesses in the impeachment investigation against him, as he started an apparent campaign of retaliation just two days after he was acquitted by the Senate.

Trump fired Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, just hours after dismissing Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army lieutenant colonel, according to statements released by Sondland and Vindman’s lawyer.

“The most powerful man in the world – buoyed by the silent, the pliable, and the complicit – has decided to exact revenge,” Vindman’s attorney David Pressman said in a statement, adding his client was “escorted” from the White House |||READ MORE …

Amotekun: Southwest AGs ratify legal framework

In line with the constitutional requirements for the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Operation Amotekun to be operational in combating security challenges within the Southwest states, the Attorneys-Generals of the six Southwest states on Friday night put finishing touches to the required legal framework

According to the details of the agreed framework, each of the Southwest states of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos will have its own legislation and its own security network operatives which will bear the name Amotekun Corps.

Unlike when the absence of some state Governors at the inauguration of the Operation Amotekun outfit caused some furore in the media, all the Attorneys-General were present at the meeting |||READ MORE …

MISS-BEHAVIOR Female teacher jailed for 10 years for having sex with two underage pupils in her husband’s Jeep

Lindsay Anderson, 32, has been jailed for ten years after having sex with two teenage pupils

A FEMALE teacher has been jailed for ten years after having sex with two underage pupils in her husband’s Jeep.

Lindsay Anderson, 32, groomed the 14 and 15-year-old with gifts and drugs after meeting them at Carpentersville Middle School in Geneva, Illinois.

The mom-of-one admitted in a filmed police interview that she sexually assaulted the boys “several times”.

She also smoked pot with the 15-year-old before sexually molesting him after driving him to a nature park |||READMORE ….

Buratai Removed Top Army Officers From NSA Office

Crisis between two top Nigerian security chiefs, the Chief of Army Staff Tukur Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai and the National Security Adviser retired Major Gen. Babagana Monguno, heightened on Tuesday when the former removed senior army officers from the office of the latter allegedly without sending replacements.

Although President Muhammadu Buhari has not formally reinstated Mr Monguno as NSA, he still holds the fort in the office, advises the president on national security issues, attends cabinet and security council meetings.

DAILY NIGERIAN exclusively gathered that the “mass transfer” of army officers critical to the smooth running of the office had laid bare the strategic office responsible for digesting intelligence reports and briefing the president |||READ MORE …

FG pegs number of SIM cards Per mobile phone user to three

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr.Isa Ali Ibrahim Patanmi

The Federal Government has pegged the number of the numbers of SIM Cards to be registered by a single individual to three.

This the government said in a statement is meant to curb kidnapping and banditry.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim , issued the directive to the Nigerian Communications Commission On Wednesday |||READ MORE …