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Dubai Police have arrested some women who stripped on a penthouse balcony for publicity stunt, The National, Dubai-based newspaper, reported. The photo seen by Straightnews went viral on social media after a group of naked women were filmed by someone in an adjacent building in the city’s upscale Marina neighbourhood. However, police said the group’s behaviour was “unacceptable” and “does not reflect the values and ethics of Emirati society”. The women detained face up to six months in prison and a fine of about £1,000 for violating public decency laws in the United Arab Emirates. Anyone who has shared the footage online could also…

Unidentified gunmen, Monday, set the Imo State Custodial Centre, Owerri ablaze, close to the State Government House, freeing 1,844 inmates. The Nation Newspaper reported that the hoodlums converged in front of the Imo State Government House, circling the roundabout and chanting solidarity songs for about 30 minutes before they set out to attack the Police Command Headquarters. They were said to have shot sporadically as they approached the Command headquarters and launched attack on the State Criminal Investigative Department (CID) as well as the former SARS. Our correspondent gathered that there was sporadic shooting on Monday morning which lasted for…

The police operatives attached to Festac Division, Lagos State have sent a 43-year-old man for medical examination to aid discreet investigation. Jonas Nnubia was arrested for defiling his wife’s niece (name withheld) at 1st Avenue, L Close, Festac, Lagos State. The victim was taken to the police station in the company of some officials of the Child Protection Network, Lagos State. The suspect alleged that the man had defiled her severally and warned her not to disclose his criminal act to anyone. The victim had been sent to the hospital for necessary medical examination and attention in order to assist…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned the public to stop or limit sharing of personal items this Easter period to avoid contacting SARS-CoV-2 virus. The virus, according to NCDC, can live on surfaces for several hours.#TakeResponsibility. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. World Health Organisation (WHO) listed fever, dry cough and tiredness as most symptoms of the virus. Meanwhile, NCDC has announced that Nigeria recorded 82 new COVID-19 cases on Easter Sunday. ”On the 4th of April 2021,…

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, sees as a tragedy the attitude of Nigerian politicians using religion to mobilise and win elections, but failing to use it to govern the country. Kukah who bared his mind on Sunday stressed the need for the country’s leadership to address insecurity, separatist agitation and poverty to avert Nigeria’s date with destiny. He stated this in his Easter message entitled: ‘Nigeria: Before Our Glory Departs,’ which was made available to journalists by the National Director, Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Padre Mike Umoh, in Abuja. ”This imaginary jihad won…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari to court for failing to order probe into allegations of missing N3,836,685,213.13 health funds in the country. The group said, “his failure to probe allegations that ₦3,836,685,213.13 of public funds meant for the Federal Ministry of Health, teaching hospitals, medical centres, and National Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are missing, mismanaged, diverted or stolen, as documented in the recently released 2018 audited report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.” SERAP via a statement issued on Sunday, April 4 by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare,…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) released report of COVID-19 for Saturday, April 3, without announcing any death. In what appears as an oversight, NCDC failed to officially record the death of Yinka Odumakin, the spokesperson of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Straightnews has found out. Earlier in the day, the demise of Odumakin had filtered the air that he died of COVID-19 complications at the Lagos State University Teaching COVID-19 Isolation Centre and Straightnews equally published the story. However, NCDC tweeted ”On the 3rd of April 2021, 50 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria,’’ but announced no-death status…

Today, April 4, 2021 is set aside by Christians as Easter Sunday all over the world to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday comes three days after Good Friday, and the Saturday before Easter is also considered holy by many and it is called Holy Saturday. Each year, Easter is determined by the Lunar Calendar of the Church, and the Sunday after the Paschall Full Moon is considered to be Easter Sunday. The Bible in Romans 6:9 says, We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.…

We have trodden the path of friendship We have climbed the lofty height of life We have descended the valley of despondency And came out unscathed in the midst of pandemic To behold another great season- Easter In the midst of economic hardship In the flanks of political turmoil And threshold of social chaos Let’s fly out from the cocoon of doubt And fasten breastplate of faith in God Remembering the selfless sacrifices Salvation, forgiveness Jesus Christ brought to mankind Straightnews extends new hands of fellowship And fresh love to our teeming readers May the joy, peace of the season…

The relegation-threatened West Brom won 5-2 after dusting Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, April 13, inflicting Thomas Tuchel’s first defeat as Chelsea manager in unusual fashion. Chelsea were down to 10 men for the most part of the game after Thiago Silva’s red card just moments after the Blues had taken the lead through Christian Pulisic in the first half. But West Brom, fighting for their lives in the relegation battle, played brilliant football against Chelsea in the Blues’ own backyard. Matheus Pereira and Callum Robinson scored twice to help struggling West Brom win 5-2 at 10-man Chelsea to boost…