Author: straightnewsng.com

The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, was stranded as security operatives denied her access to President Bola Tinubu on Monday afternoon, January 8.  It was gathered that Edu had tried to see the President after her suspension was approved but was denied access. A video shared online showed her vehicle being driven off afterwards. Tinubu suspends Minister  Earlier, Tinubu had suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, from office with immediate effect. A statement released by presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelali, said the President further directs the Executive Chairman of…

A 37-year-old man, arrested by the Abia State Police Command, is in the doghouse for allegedly engaging in “unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor.” Anumudu Chigozie, who is a resident of Umuobiokwa village, was alleged to have previously worked as an On-Air Personality (OAP) with a media house in the state. Chigozie was arrested by men of the Eastern Ngwa Division of the Abia State Police Command, following a report lodged against him on January 1, 2024. Although details of his arrest and his offence have not been made known, the PPRO of the Abia Command, ASP Maureen Chioma Chinaka…

Each member of the Super Eagles will pocket $35,000 bonus should they win the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations title. According to SCORENigeria, each member of the team will pocket a win bonus of $5,000 per match at the competition. A draw will fetch each player $2,500. This payment does not include the percentage of the upgraded $7 million prize money for the AFCON champions the players will negotiate with the NFF. Read also: AFCON overall Winners to cart home $7million- CAF The Super Eagles are looking to win a fourth title in Cote d’Ivoire They are drawn in Group…

As US marked the third anniversary of the violent attack by Donald Trump’s supporters, the country’s authorities on Saturday announced the arrest of three people wanted in connection with the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Jonathan Pollock, Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson were arrested early Saturday at a ranch in the southern US state of Florida, the FBI said in a statement. They will appear Monday in federal court in the central city of Ocala for  multiple charges, including assaulting and resisting civil servants as well as disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The FBI had offered a…

Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as their focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan and killed at least 126 people. The death toll from the New Year’s Day 7.5 magnitude quake in the Ishikawa region of Japan’s main Honshu Island was certain to rise, with 210 people still unaccounted for, authorities said. The work of thousands of rescue workers has been hampered by bad weather — with snow forecast for Sunday — and roads torn apart by gaping cracks and blocked by an estimated…

The winners of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations will receive a record seven million dollars (6.4 mn euros), a Confederation of African Football (CAF) statement revealed on Thursday. It is 40 per cent more than what Senegal pocketed for winning the last edition, in Cameroon two years ago. The runners-up in the Ivory Coast, who host the premier African football tournament from January 13 to February 11, will receive four million dollars. Losing semi-finalists get $2.5 million each and quarter-finalists 1.3 million each, according to the statement, which gave no other prize money details. Also read AFCON 2023: Super…

… $1m Akwa Ibom financial stimulus to Jubilee in limbo? After struggling in the depressed Nigerian economy, Jubilee Syringe Manufacturing has officially shut its operations in Awa Iman, Onna Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The company once touted as the largest syringe manufacturing venture in Africa is said to have owed its workers salary for months before it quit the shores of Akwa Ibom. The firm, which opened an operation in Nigeria’s South-south region of Awa Iman in the Onna Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and was inaugurated in 2017 by former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,…

Despite the wife withdrawing the case against the lawyer who assaulted her in Akwa Ibom, the State Government could still prosecute the man, a prominent lawyer in the state, has said. Lawyer Ekere Ebong, in a video that went viral assaulted his Pharmacist wife, Ekemini, at night in front of their residence in Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, on 14 December 2023, thus fuelling outrage by Nigerians on social media to call for his arrest and trial. In the video on social media, the assaulted woman wore only her underwear and had a bloodied face. In a statement announcing his arrest…

Nigerians are in for more hardships as Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and fuel marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday, clashed again over the removal of subsidy on petrol. The naira’s recent downward trend against the dollar has reignited the debate, with economists and marketers claiming a resurgence of hidden subsidies. The naira’s freefall against the dollar, closing on Tuesday at N998/$ at the official window and a staggering N1,225/$ on the black market, prompted the alarm by economists and marketers, The Punch Newspaper reports. Bismarck Rewane, CEO of Financial Derivatives Company,…

As part of the events to mark the 2024  New Year, four Nigerian Governors pardoned 96 prisons inmates in their different states. Benue pardoned 12, Gombe 39, Nasarawa released 14 while Taraba showed clemency to14. Benue Governor Hyacinth Alia pardoned 12 prisoners who served various terms at the Makurdi, Otukpo and Gboko prisons. In a statement on Sunday by his media aide Bridget Ikyado, the governor granted the inmates pardon during a prison visit. The gesture, according to the statement, conformed with the provisions of Section 212 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended and as part of efforts to decongest…