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Following the on-going nationwide strike, the Plateau Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has chided some members of the state branch of Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, of tampering with and adulterating reagent in the laboratories. The doctors also accused the striking health workers of locking up hospital stores and denying those working access to consumables, an indication that the striking health workers were out to sabotage effective healthcare service delivery in the state. But JOHESU and National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, in a reaction, said they had no issues with NMA but the government, stressing that what was…

The Presidency Sunday lamented that some set of Nigerians that had fed fat on the nation’s treasury through corrupt means were working hard to dislodge President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, APC, in collaboration with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through the slogan “change the change.” Those behind the campaign to ensure that President Buhari was sent packing in the 2019 elections, according to the Presidency, include lawmakers, police, Customs and Immigration officials, and civil servants. Others, according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, include importers of…

Two Nigerians, who operated a London-based cybercrime group, have been jailed after reportedly stealing more than £1million. Emmanuel Mmaduike and Olawale Kashimawo, both 31, obtained thousands of business email addresses and passwords which they used to divert payments from companies to themselves, according to the UK National Crime Agency. They were said to have operated from south-east London and spent the money on “a lavish lifestyle.” Sky News reports that they hired a helicopter, drove “flash cars”, and “posed for photographs of themselves with wads of money, expensive watches and drinking champagne.” Known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), the operation…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to submit himself for an independent inquest in his handling of the N1.4 trillion oil subsidy regime. A statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, said “Such inquest, which is already backed by state governors across board, will not only expose humongous corruption but also show the world that our African Union (AU) Anti-Corruption champion had not been totally spotless.” According to the party, “We invite Nigerians to note that the demand by governors to probe all subsidy deals since 2015 is a direct indictment on President Buhari as…

Aliko Dangote Foundation has earmarked N10 billion for empowerment of vulnerable women in the 774 local government areas in the country. Already, 25,000 disadvantaged women in Niger State have benefited from the foundation’s unconditional Micro-grants Programme. This brings the total number of women beneficiaries to 256,500 across in seven states of the federation. Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Aliko Dangote Foundation, stated this weekend at the flag-off ceremony held at Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre, Minna, the Niger State capital, saying 1,000 women were drawn from each of Niger State’s 25 local government areas. “The Micro-grants programme is one component…

The Police have apprehended two suspected gang leaders who were declared wanted in connection with the April 2, 2018 multiple bank robberies in Offa, Kwara State. This brings the number of suspects in Police custody to 22. The two suspects were identified as Kunle Ogunleye, 35, a . k . a Arrow, a native of Oro town in Kwara State; and Micheal Adikwu, a dismissed Police Corporal and a convict. The Force spokesman , Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that the two suspected arrowheads have confessed to their roles in the heist and would be…

The lust of the body tempted a 53-year-old pastor to have slept and impregnated an under age girl and he was publicly flogged contrary to his priestly calling. GossipMill purported that Prophet Michael of Celestial Church of Christ parish in Ilashe, Ogun State, was disgraced for allegedly abducting and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who was missing since February. The suspect from Ondo State allegedly abducted the girl in February and sexually abused her for months till she became pregnant. It is said that Michael hid the girl in his house despite a search party launched for her whereabouts by the…

He is 121 years old. Born on 24 December 1896, according to his birth certificate from the Mexican state of Veracruz and his official identity card from the National Electoral Institute, Manuel Garcia Hernandez never bothered calling the people at Guinness World Records to make his actual age official. Already, Guinness had recognised Masazo Nonaka of Japan, the man who currently holds the title of the oldest born on 25 July 1905. Btt, Garcia is eight years older than Nonaka. Alice Pagan, a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records, said she would ask the company to check it out. “We ask…

Rafael Nadal won the Rome Masters for the eighth time on Sunday when he defeated defending champion Alexander Zverev 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 after a stunning comeback. German second seed Zverev was 3-1 up in the decider before two rain stoppages halted his momentum. Top seed Nadal raced away with the last five games to secure a 32nd Masters title and ensure a return to the world number one spot. The 31-year-old also showed why he will once again be the runaway favourite when Roland Garros begins in a week where he’ll be bidding for an 11th French Open title. Zverev,…

May 26 is fixed for a re-scheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for more than 12,000 candidates across the country, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) confirmed Sunday. Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s Head of Media, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said more than 12,000 candidates are expected to sit for the mop-up examinations in a few of its centres in the country. This category of candidates, he explained, are those whose biometrics were not captured during the initial period of the UTME in March. Benjamin said: ““It would also include those who…