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Twenty US states have sued the Biden administration after the US Department of Education ordered schools to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports teams. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and his counterparts in 19 other states in the lawsuit filed in the US district court in Knoxville on Monday August 30, asked the judge to allow them to separate restrooms, showers and locker rooms according to ‘biological sex’.  The suit also seeks for schools to be able to separate sports teams based on ‘biological sex’ and enforce dress codes as such, and not have to use a transgender person’s preferred…

A 50-year-old South African pastor has been sentenced to five life terms in prison for raping minors. Setabo Elias Molepo of the Global Life Changing Ministry Church at Ga-Madiba Mashashane village outside Polokwane, Limpopo, was convicted on five counts of rape by the Seshego Regional Court in Polokwane on Tuesday, August 31. Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Limpopo, Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, said the incidents happened between 2016 and 2017. Malabi-Dzhangi said that both victims, aged 11 and 13 at the time, were parishioners at his church in Ga-Madiba Mashashane. Malabi-Dzhangi said the victims are from poor families in the…

Nollywood actor, Ime Bishop Umoh, has taken to Instagram to show off his new house located in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital. The exact street the one-storey exotic house is located in Uyo is unknown yet. Popularly known as Okon Lagos, he revealed that he conceived the idea sometime ago and now happy that he has achieved it. He advised his followers on the social media platform to work hard and not allow social pressure to drown them as appearance is not reality. Okon Lagos also shared a sign post, revealing that the street has been named after him. The…

House of Big Brother Naija season 6, Tega has vowed to move on with her life in event of her husband no longer interested in the marriage. Tega was reacting to what would happen after the Big Brother House, her husband does no longer want to marry her. In a conversation with Boma and Liqourose, she stated that she ‘’will move on with her life because she’s the one who has everything and the fame.’’ Prior to this conversation, the housemate had repeatedly said that she has her husband’s backing to do anything in the house. Her husband, Ajeboh Dominic,…

The intention of the two political gladiators is still in the duvet. The recent inauguration of ward chapters of All Progressives Congress while another is in the waiting is a clear pointer of division. The attention of the public is drawn to the fact that there is a gulf indeed a deep crack in the APC, Akwa Ibom chapter. Like a king and a queen in an anthill, the two factions dwell together in one party. Unlike king and queen in the same sandy mould, they are two different personages towing a different path and serving different interest of their…

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom and a former two-term governor of the state and Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, have exchanged hot words over call for a state of emergency to be declared in Benue. Senator Akume who is the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue state, had in a press conference held Monday in Abuja castigated Governor Ortom for his outbursts over the worsening insecurity in the country and the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government to stem the tide. The Minister also among others accused the Benue…

Nigerian Government has disbursed N93,900,000 million loans to 939 women in Akwa Ibom under the National Women Empowerment Fund (NAWEF). NAWEF is a scheme established by the Federal Government to tackle poverty and unemployment among women, especially at the grassroots, and the micro credit intervention fund is managed by Federal Ministry of Women Affairs. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen who announced this last Thursday at the opening of the 21st National Council meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital said 6,142 women from eight pilot states including Akwa Ibom across the country benefited from the loans. A breakdown shows…

Fear has gripped the chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Imo, Jigawa, Anambra and Cross River states as they are summoned to an emergency meeting in Abuja over the ”conflicting and embarrassing” ex parte orders emanating from their jurisdictions. In a letter of invitation dated August 30, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the Chairman of the National Judicial Council, (NJC), Tanko Muhammad, summoned the judges to brief him on the incessant granting of conflicting orders and suits instituted by different political parties before the various courts. The spokesperson of the CJN, Soji Oye, confirmed the letter of invitation but did…

Kwara State magistrate court in Kaiama has jailed a 28-year-old man six months for stealing tubers of yam. Abubakar Bani was arraigned by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Kwara State Command for stealing the yams from farms in Tenebo village, Kaiama local government area of the state. The Kwara Public Relations Officer of the corps, Babawale Afolabi, said the suspect was caught on August 30, 2021, at about 6:00 a.m. by one Ismaila Ebbo Mohammed and his neighbours of Kibefandi compound, Kaiama. “According to the complainants, the Fulani boy has been stealing their yams in the farm…

No fewer than 3,008 prisoners are awaiting execution in various correctional centres in the country, Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, stated. Speaking at the 21st Regular National Council Meeting on Women Affairs held in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, Aregbesola regretted the involvement of women in capital crimes that lead to capital punishment and stressed the need for women to be given the necessary leverage for self actualization. According to him, women have the least figure of 56 while the male counterparts constitute the bulk of the offenders awaiting the hangman noose. Stressing the essential role women play…