“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.”
Returned artefacts should be leased to foreign museums, says Shehu Sani
8-seater bike spotted in Nigeria.
Actress Omoni Oboli reacts after being criticized for passionately kissing RMD in a movie
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NDLEA plans tracking drug baron with immigration database
The NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen Buba Marwa (retd.), said this on Monday during a courtesy visit to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, in Abuja.
After a tour of the NIS database facility, Marwa commended Babandede for deploying technology to keep data for the use of the nation’s intelligence community.
“No doubt, the Nigeria Immigration Service database will be of immense use to us in NDLEA in our efforts to track drug barons and traffickers wherever they may be hiding across the world and we’ll take advantage of the new technology deployed by the NIS now that the NDLEA is on top of its game,” he said.The NIS boss said Marwa was the right Nigerian to handle the kind of task NDLEA was saddled with given his past records, experience and competence.
He added that it was not enough to send those caught with drugs to jail, membership of any drug cartel must equally be regarded and treated with similar measure.
Delta okada rider nabbed for raping passengers –
The acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, stated this on Monday in Asaba.
He said, “On March 19, 2021, around 9.30pm, after a series of intelligence gathering by cultivation of informants by the men of the Oghara Division, a serial rapist, who is a motorcycle rider and specialises in picking young girls at night as passengers, was arrested.
When he conveys passengers, he will divert them into the bush, rob them of their belongings and thereafter forcefully have carnal knowledge of them while threatening them with a dagger.
“A combined team of police and Army personnel swung into action and arrested Ovie Michael, a 35-year-old man; nine telephones of different makes, including that of his last victim, who reported to the police, were recovered from him.”
Other items recovered from him were an iPhone valued at N400,000, nine female handbags, two pairs of eye glasses, five phone chargers, two Automated Teller Machine cards and 13 SIM cards.
Edafe added that investigation was ongoing.
Eight states idle as Nigeria vaccinates 122,410
At least, 122,410 eligible Nigerians have, however, been vaccinated as of March 22, 2021 across the country since the exercise started.
These figures were contained in a document prepared by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, a copy of which our correspondent cited on Monday According to the document, the states yet to start vaccination as of Monday are Abia, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Oyo, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara.
The figure, which was compiled from the Electronic Management of Immunisation Data System Dashboard, showed that Lagos State had vaccinated the highest number of people with the state’s figure put at 36,009 citizens.
With the figure, the state described as the epicentre of the pandemic has reached 7.1 percent of target.
According to the document, Jigawa has vaccinated 19,226 with 28.1 percent of target reached; Bauchi has vaccinated 14,422; Ogun -9,765; Kaduna -7,099; Kwara -5,302; FCT -5,232; Nasarawa -5,133; Adamawa -4,150; Katsina -3,401; Osun -3,234; and Yobe -2,498.Others are Akwa Ibom -55; Anambra -10; Bayelsa -358; Benue -65; Borno -2; Cross River -366; Delta -214; Ebonyi -8; Edo -1,267; Ekiti -67; and Enugu -277.
The remaining states are Gombe -158; Imo -706; Kano -1,495; Ondo -887; Plateau -305; and Rivers -699.
The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib, had during the weekly press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said the country had not recorded any adverse effect of the Oxford AstraZeneca on any of those vaccinated so far.
Shuaib said the agency was aware of a case of mishandling of vaccine recorded at the Police Clinic in Falomo, Lagos.
Bankole, Daniel meet Buhari, canvass support to address challenges
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MARCH 23 – HEADLINES
NPA seals three illegal jetties – Punch Newspapers
A statement issued by the authority on Monday said that the decision followed the establishment of an inter-agency committee comprising of representatives of the NPA, the Nigerian Maritime Administration Agency, the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority and the Lagos State Inland Waterways Authority.
The statement signed by Assistant General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, Ibrahim Nasiru, said that the committee was spearheading the clearing of the waterways of lay-by barges and tugboats.
The committee solicited for the cooperation of stakeholders in ensuring that barge operations were executed according to laid down regulations.
Lady accused of k¡II¡ng her 10-year-old househelp remanded in prison custody
As schools resume, authorities must #TakeResponsibility to ensure;
✅Temperature checks at entry points for everyone entering the school environment
✅Compulsory use of a face mask
✅Provision of hand-washing facilities
✅Classrooms are well ventilated
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