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Female students of Zamfara College of Art and Science, who were abducted over 174 days ago, have pleaded with authorities to rescue them from being married off by bandits. In the viral video tweeted by a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, the students called on both the federal and state governments to come to their aid. The kidnapped victims, especially pleaded with the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal to rescue them and save them from being married off by their abdu+ctors. Recall that the students were kidnapped earlier in the year and the…

After three years, EndSARS that ended three years with horrific stories of carnage and loss of properties worth billions of Naira still stokes controversy and remains a guarded secret of both Federal and Lagos governments. Social media have been awash Sunday, July 23 that Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the mass burial of at least 103 protesters who were massacred by joint forces of the Nigerian Army and the police during the October 2020 mass protest against police brutality tagged “EndSars.” The media reported that a letter from the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency has confirmed a move…

Corpses of two siblings killed by a collapsed fence on Saturday in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State have been recovered  by residents of the area. The two identified as Gbolahan and Olayinka Atolagbe died after the fence of a neighbouring hotel collapsed on their house at Alao Street, Isawo, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of the state on Saturday, July 22 after heavy downpour. Aged nine and seven, the siblings’ corpses were recovered after hours of being trapped in debris amidst rescue efforts by residents of the area. The father of the deceased children, Ahmed Atolagbe, in an…

A malnourished girl who was on the jaws of death has cause to celebrate her birthday after she was rescued by the National Women Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Betta Edu years ago. Christian Etim, who celebrated her birthday Sunday, July 23 was rescued from the jaw of death at Ikot Ekpo axis of Calabar in Cross River State in 2017. The then one-year, six-months-old child was rescued alongside her teenage mother in 2017 by Dr. Edu, the ex-Director-General of Cross River State Primary Health-care Development Agency. The 16-year-old mother of the child, Esther Etim Effiom, was sent…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says court has not yet fixed a date for hearing on a lawsuit it slammed against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over unlawful regulations on customers’ social media handles. SERAP suit is anchored on “The failure to delete the patently unlawful provisions in the Central Bank of Nigeria (Customer Due Diligence) Regulations directing banks to obtain information on customers’ social media handles for the purpose of identification.” The CBN had last month issued a circular mandating banks and other financial institutions to implement and comply with the mandatory provisions on customers’ social media…

Parents of wards in Unity Secondary Schools in Nigeria are facing tough times following Federal Government’s increment of school fees. By the new arrangement, the parents would pay ₦100,000 per student as tuition fee following the decision of President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to increase such fees. Tinubu administration had, on May 29, withdrawn fuel subsidy and raised the price now to N617 a litre, thus exposing many Nigerians to untold economic hardships. Also read: Parents, school differ over death of SS3 student in Akwa Ibom This directive came in a circular from the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) and…

A four-year-old child survived as his parents, grandmother and apprentice died after inhaling poisonous fumes from a generator in Anambra State.  A trader, Ifeanyi, his wife, Amaka, two children, mother-in-law and apprentice were confirmed dead. The spokesperson for the Anambra State Police -Public Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident to Punch on Friday, July 21, 2023, said the police were yet to unravel the real circumstances surrounding their death. Also read: Suspected organs’ harvester in Anambra police net- Commissioner “The matter is still being investigated and the details will be communicated as soon as investigation is concluded,” the PPRO…

The Federal Government, States and Local Government Areas shared N907.054 billion in June, the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) said.   In a communiqué issued at the end of FAAC meeting for July 2023, the Federal Government got N345.564 billion, State Governments received N295.948 billion and Local Government Councils collected N218 billion.   A statement by FAAC’s spokesman, Bawa Mokwa, on Thursday said the meeting was chaired by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr. Oluwatoyin Madein.   Mokwa stated that the N907.054 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N301.501 billion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has rescued two underage girls forced into prostitution in a hotel in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. In a statement issued to journalists in Uyo on Thursday, July 20, 2023, spokesperson of the Corps in the state, DSC Ekerete Friday, said operatives raided the hotel on Saturday, July 15, following intelligence by another teenager who escaped from the hotel. According to the statement, the rescued girl had been taken from her parents and employed as a sales attendant in the Bar/Restaurant section of the hotel. She dutifully carried out…

After two months in the office, Governor Umo Bassey Eno has returned the 22 Commissioners, who served the immediate past governor of the state, Udom Emmanuel Governor, to his cabinet. Eno who had professed last month to go with people who worked with him in the trenches has disappointed many lobbyists who ‘‘wanted to crash is telephone with several calls for appointments and wanted to distract him from working.’’ However, Eno has infused his cabinet with Special Adviser nominee. The letter dated 19th July, 2023, addressed to the Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Udeme Otong…