Month: July 2018

Nollywood actress Akilapa docked for serial stealing

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An upcoming Yoruba actress and film maker, Yetunde Akilapa, who is also a career thief, was on Thursday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court charged with burglary and stealing valuables worth N7 million. The actress, 32,  who lives at Oladelola St., Ketu area of Lagos, is standing trial on a three-count charge of burglary and stealing to which she pleaded not guilty. Police Prosecutor Benson Emuerhi told the court that the accused committed the offences on June 27 at Mutairu Street, Shangisha, Ketu, a suburb of Lagos, at 2.10…

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Escape narrows for cave-trapped Thai boys as diver dies

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A former military diver helping to rescue 11 Thai boys, members of a football team and their coach trapped inside a flooded cave drowned Friday as officials warned the window of opportunity to free the youngsters is “limited”. The diver’s death raises serious doubts over the safety of attempting to bring the 12 boys and their football coach out through cramped passageways deep inside the waterlogged Tham Luang cave. But Thailand’s Navy SEAL commander indicated that rescuers may have little choice but to attempt the tricky extraction of the group…

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Japan hangs cult leader Asahara over deadly sarin attack

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Japan today carried out its largest simultaneous execution since 1911, hanging the leader of the doomsday cult, Shoko Asahara, that carried out a deadly 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, along with six of his followers. In 1911, Japan then hanged 11 people for plotting to assassinate the emperor. Asahara, the charismatic near-blind leader of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, had been on death row for more than ten years for crimes including the nerve agent attack, which shocked the world and prompted a massive crackdown on the cult. Japan’s…

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Buhari: It’s Satanic to suggest I am indifferent to killings by herdsmen

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President  Muhammadu Buhari met today with leaders of  the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN)  from 19 Northern States and Abuja and solicited their assistance in bringing to an end the spate of killings in the Middle Belt and Zamfara. Buhari recounted the efforts by the security agencies , the hundreds of arrests made against the slowness of the judiciary in convicting the suspects. He added that it is Satanic for anyone to suggest that he is indifferent about the carnage. Here is the text of the president’s speech I thank you…

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N-PDP becomes Reformed APC

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A rebel group announced its excision from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, calling itself Reformed APC (R-APC). Alhaji Buba Galadima, an engineer from Gashua, Yobe State, and former secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change was introduced as the National Chairman of the group. He told a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja that the R-APC includes all the progressive forces in the APC, without mentioning the names, except the parade of paperweight politicians who were named as ‘officers’. A major political player, Alhaji…

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Truck accident: FG to construct 10 Truck Transit Parks in 2019

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Dr Anthonia Ekpa, Director of Road Transport and Mass Transit Administration, Federal Ministry of Transport, said that the ministry would inaugurate 10 Truck Transit Parks (TTP) across the country in 2019 to reduce truck accidents. Ekpa disclosed this at a news conference at the sidelines of the Annual General Meeting of the Sub-Sahara Africa Transport Policy Programme (SSATP) held in Abuja. According to her, for government to resolve the issue of trucking, we are working to ensure that trucks are put in a particular location called the transit parks. She…

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50 African countries in China for security forum

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Fifty African countries are currently in Beijing, China for a three-week security forum for army chiefs on the platform of China-Africa Defence and Security. The meeting started on June 26, runs till July 12 and is part of the preparations for the launch of a strategic security and military cooperation between Beijing and Africa. The delegates, the forum details indicate, are discussing a major military roadmap aimed at protecting Chinese interests in the continent as well as improving African’s response to crisis situations. Opening the discussions, the Chief of the…

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China, African trade hits $170b yearly

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China’s bilateral cooperation with Africa has grown phenomenally in the past 40 years with trade leaping from $765 million to $170 billion a year. China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong said the growth was on the basis of interlocking interests since 1978. The minister said this has therefore made China Africa’s largest trading partner during the last few decades. In the same period Chinese investment in Africa reached a cumulative $ 110 billion. Chen said Africa’s debt to her country is economically sustainable and should be no cause for alarm.…

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Court jails Nigerian 14 years for trafficking, slavery in UK

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A British Court sentenced a Nurse, Josephine Iyamu, to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes, controlling them through voodoo. The London-based British citizen, Iyamu, 51, was found guilty in a “landmark modern slavery case’’ after the first prosecution involving victims outside Britain, the National Crime Agency said. The investigation involved cooperation between Police in Britain, Nigeria and the German city of Trier. It began after a brothel owner “raised concerns about the identity of a woman working there’’ with…

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FIFA reduces referees for World Cup’s finals

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FIFA’s Referees Committee has reduced the number of referees for the final phase of its 2018 World Cup in Russia. It has, therefore, selected 17 referees, 37 assistant referees and 10 Video Assistant Referees (VARs) for the final phase. Pierluigi Collina, the Committee’s head, told reporters in Moscow that this was because the number of referees at the 32-day competition has to be reduced at this point in time. “The number of referees has been reduced in view of the number of matches left and the teams that have qualified…

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