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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…

Two New Year babies born at Immanuel Hospital in Eket Local Government Area  of Akwa Ibom born on Monday gladdened the Akwa Ibom Governor’s wife, Pastor Patience Umo Eno. The first New Year Baby, a female was born to the family of Mr. David Jessie of Awa Iman, ONNA Local Government Area, by 12:02 a.m. on New Year Day, weighing 2.8kg at birth. The second baby, a male was delivered at 12:04 a.m. to the family of Mr. Israel Etop of Esit Urua, Eket Local Government Area. He weighed 3.5kg. The Governor’s wife extended gifts and cash to the babies…

As a way of appreciating the elderly citizens for their contributions to the society, Akwa Ibom Government plans to build a centre for them in the state. The State governor Umo Eno, who stated this during his New Year statewide broadcast on Monday, January 1, 2024,  explained that the centre would accommodate a hospital, library, supermarkets and other facilities beneficial to them. According to him, “We have concluded plans to build a centre for the elderly citizens in our state. This centre will house a hospital, library, supermarkets and other facilities for the use of our elders. “I believe that…

A paedophile member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Akwa Ibom State has hit hard rock for defiling a three-year-old pupil kept in his care by her parents for educational purposes. The corps member (name withheld) who was arrested and held alongside other criminal suspects may have his service truncated as he faces public prosecution. Parading the suspect the state headquarters in Ikot Akpan Abia in Uyo, the state capital, the Commissioner of Police (CP), Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Olatoye Durosinmi, advised parents to be cautious about whom they employ as tutors or caregivers for their underage or…