A Family Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Thursday remanded a 31-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Michael Ayanlowo, at Abolongo Correctional Facility for allegedly defiling a 15- year-old girl. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Patricia Adetuyibi, who did not take the plea of Ayanlowo, ordered that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. Adetuyibi adjourned the case until Oct. 27 for mention. The defendant, who resides at Ofiki town in Oyo State, is facing a charge of defilement. Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Folake Ewe, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Sept.11…
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish Godswill Akpabio’s name as the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the 2023 Akwa Ibom North/West Senatorial District election. Delivering judgment, Justice Emeka Nwite, held that INEC’s refusal to accept and publish the name of Akpabio, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, was in contradiction with the law, having received the name from the APC as its valid candidate. Nwite, who said that the electoral umpire acted illegally, said the commission lacked power to have disqualified the 2nd plaintiff (Akpabio). The News…
Cambodia has seen a significant drop in maternal and child mortalities in the last seven years from 2014 to 2021, Health Ministry’s Secretary of State Youk Sambath said on Thursday. “Maternal deaths had declined to 154 per 100,000 live births in 2021 from 170 in 2014, while there were eight child mortalities per 1,000 live births last year, down from 18 in 2014,’’ she told a news conference. Sambath said that during the last five years, some 1.41 million mothers delivered their babies at health facilities across the Southeast Asian nation. She added that children aged under one year old…
A Kado Grade I Area Court Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced two native doctors to three months imprisonment each for selling adulterated traditional medicine. The convicts are Musa Ahmadu, 50, and Auwal Idris, 40, both of Jahi Village, Abuja, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency. Delivering judgment, the Judge, Mohammed Wakili, held that the court convicted and sentenced Ahmadu and Idris based on their plea of guilt . “The court having finds the convicts guilty of the offence, in line with their plea for mercy, “Ahmadu and Idris are hereby sentenced to three months imprisonment each…
Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, says he plans to sign the state Child Right Bill into law, as soon as the grey areas in the bill are sorted out and formalities concluded. Fintiri said this in Yola on Thursday at a formal launch of a book titled “Situation Analysis of Children in Adamawa (SITAN). ”This document was jointly put together by the state planning commission in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to address child related cases,” he said. He said investment in children was the right thing to do to secure the future of the children. “My administration…
By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS Former world number one Roger Federer has announced he is retiring from tennis next week. Federer revealed his decision on social media. “As many of you know, the past three years have presented me with challenges in the form of injuries and surgeries,” Federer said. “I’ve worked hard to return to full competitive form. But I also know my body’s capacities and limits, and its message to me lately has been clear. “I am 41 years old. I have played more than 1500 matches over 24 years. Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria must add value to its cashew nuts by increasing the processing capacity. Obsanajo said this on the sideline of the 16th edition of African Cashew Alliance (ACA) conference on Thursday in Abuja. The former president said that Nigeria grows a lot of raw cashews but only processes a fraction of them, missing out on a wealth of opportunity offered by booming global demand. According to him, it is painful and I am sad that only 10 per cent of what we produce that we process. “So, some people are taking advantage of our own hard…
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) says it is organising a nationwide capacity building programme for 740 SMEs on products branding and packaging. A statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Director-General of SMEDAN, Olawale Fasanya, said that the training would enable the beneficiaries to compete in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). “The key objective of the training is for Made- in-Nigeria products to become more competitive in the international market, within the context of the AfCFTA. “The training programme will take place in Owerri from Sept. 27 to Sept. 29, Lagos Oct.…
Australia’s unemployment rate has risen for the first time in 10 months as more people search for work. According to labour force data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday, the official unemployment rate in August was 3.5 per cent – up from 3.4 per cent in July. It represents the first month-to-month increase since October 2021. ABS data showed the economy added 33,000 jobs between July and August but the increase was offset by the participation rate growing from 66.4 to 66.6 per cent. In order to be counted towards the ABS’s unemployment measure, a person…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Nigerian inflation figures for August 2022 have risen to 20.52 per cent, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. The figures are higher by 3.52 per cent when compared to the rate recorded in August 2021 at 17.01 per cent. NBS blamed the surge in inflation on yearly basis on the “Disruption in the supply of food products; increase in import cost due to the persistent currency depreciation and general increase in the cost of production.” It said inflation rose higher in August compared to July because of “Decline…