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A 60-year-old man of Gravette, Arkansas, in United States has been taken into custody in his home state on charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property, according to a Department of Justice official. Richard Barnett who was photographed sitting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s seat with his foot on her desk during Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol building has been arrested. A New York Times reporter tweeted that he spoke with Barnett after his stunt in Pelosi’s office. In the video, he boasted about stealing a personalized envelope, but insisted he paid for it. “I…

Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki has scaled over court’s hurdle over certificate forgery levelled against him by All Progressives Party. This followed a ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Saturday, dismissing the case instituted by Mr. Williams Edobor, an APC’s member against him of Peoples Democratic Party. In the judgment that was delivered by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, court held that the Plaintiffs, failed to by way of credible evidence, discharge the burden of proof placed on them by the law. Mohammed said there was no iota of evidence before the court to establish that Obaseki forged either his…

Workers in Federal Government-owned universities the country are to begin a three-day protest on Tuesday next week in protest against government’s handling of the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS and other issues. Coming under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the unions arrived at the decision to embark on the protest on Friday night at a meeting held by the leadership of the two unions in Abuja. The communiqué was endorsed by Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, the National President of SSANU…

Magistrate Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital has warned parents of the abused 11-year-old student of Deeper Life High, Idoro Uyo to stay off the social media. The Magistrate’s warning followed a complaint by the lawyer to the school, Fidelis Igwe. The court presided over by Winifred Umohandy gave the warning Thursday when police arraigned seven accused people before the court for trial. “Let the media stay off, let the court do justice on the merit of the case,” the Magistrate was quoted as saying. Before now, Deborah Okezie Archibong had been using Facebook to fight against the purported molestation…

The striking staffers of the National Identity Management Commission NIMC suspended their strike action on Friday. The workers downed tools on Thursday, January 7 to press home their demands mostly unpaid allowances and the spread of COVID-19 in the agency for better remuneration as well as the provision of personal protective equipment PPEs to protect against COVID19. The strike was called off after both parties, NIMC workers and the federal government agreed to the interests of the workers and said that the needs would be addressed.The agreement was signed signed between  Asekokhai Lucky, the President of the Association of Senior…

Further deaths of 12 from COVID-19 complications were recorded in Nigeria on Friday, report by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has shown. Also, the country has 1,544 COVID-19 confirmed cases from 20 states including Federal Capital Territory. Of the number, Lagos State spiked with 739 cases while Plateau and FCT recorded 163 and 153 infections respectively. From the chart, Akwa Ibom has 11 new cases bringing total confirmed cases in the state to 476. NCDC tweeted on Friday, ‘’On the 8th of January 2021, 1544 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. ‘’The 1544 new cases are…

As COVID-19’s second variant rages, 1,325 more people have died in the United Kingdom- the biggest figure reported on any day since the pandemic began. It means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. This is as UK recorded another 68,053 new COVID-19 cases. It comes as a third COVID vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK. The government has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna. It joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5…

Boeing has accepted to settle $2.5 billion (£1.8 billion) US criminal charges over accusation that it hid information from safety officials about the design of its 737 Max planes. The US Justice Department the firm chose “profit over candour,” impeding oversight of the planes, which were involved in two deadly crashes. About $500 million will go to families of the 346 people killed in the tragedies. Boeing chief executive David Calhoun said: “I firmly believe that entering into this resolution is the right thing for us to do – a step that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our…

More than11 million people in Chinese Northern Province of Hebei are under lockdown, in an effort to contain the country’s worst Coronavirus flare-up. Chinese government has barred residents of Shijiazhuang, a provincial capital close to Beijing, from leaving the city, as major highways were blocked, train and bus stations closed and flights canceled. The lockdown comes as a total of 117 COVID-19 infections including 67 asymptomatic cases were detected in Shijiazhuang on Wednesday. On Thursday, Shijiazhuang identified another 66 positive cases, according to the Hebei provincial health commission. Since January 2, a total of 304 positive cases have been reported…

The US economy shed 140,000 jobs in December last year, according to government data released Friday, a sign the recovery from the pandemic’s damage has stalled. “The decline in payroll employment reflects the recent increase in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and efforts to contain the pandemic,” the Labor Department said. The recent spike in infections, which saw the single-day death toll top 4,000, led to renewed restrictions on businesses, which hit the leisure and hospitality sector particularly hard. Those businesses lost 498,000 jobs in December, according to the report. While the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7 percent, 10.7 million people…