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The United States has said the late Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, had a “lot of blood on his hands.” The White House disclosed this on Monday in a condolence message after Raisi’s death. Raisi and some officials were involved in a helicopter crash in East Azerbaijan province. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Raisi was responsible for “atrocious” rights abuses in Iran and had supported regional proxies, including Hamas. Addressing reporters, Kirby said: “This was a man who had a lot of blood on his hands.” Kirby, however, said: “As in any other case, we certainly regret in…
Hundreds of traders on Monday stormed major streets in Benin City in protest against the unbridled hike in prices of foodstuffs in the state. reports that the traders were members of the Traders’ Welfare Union of Nigeria, Edo State chapter, and Ekiosa Market Traders Association. The traders, who also stormed the premises of the Edo State House of Assembly and the Secretariat of the State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), attributed the hike in prices of foodstuffs in markets across the state to the activities of market unions or associations. The protesting traders also decried the…
At least 7,395 young women are officially known to have been injected with Self-Injectable birth control methods in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies in parts of Cross River State. Director of family planning programme in the state ministry of health, Mrs Lucy Bassey Enakirerhi confirmed this figure at an event organised in collaboration with Society for Family Health and Children’s Investments Fund Foundation in Calabar to officially wind down a 2-year Empathetic Counseling for self-injection project in the state. She said this figure is only from January to April of 2024, adding that the acceptance of the project by…
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki Kano, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar, in a correctional centre for allegedly setting a mosque on fire, killing 14 people. He alleged that on the same date, at about 5:15 a.m., the defendant used petrol and set a mosque at Gadan Village on fire during subhi (Dawn) prayer. “The defendant poured the petrol on the carpet where Sani Suleiman and 24 others were praying, and closed the door. “In the process, several people sustained various degrees of injuries and were rushed to Murtala Muhammad…
By Miftaudeen Raji A member of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Prof Usman Yusuf said the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu has turned to hopelessness. Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) stated this in an interview Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. According to him, rather than inject the Nigerian people with some hope capsules, the Tinubu administration has made Nigerians more hopeless in the last one year. Renewed Hope has turned to hopelessness, Prof. Yusuf tackles Tinubu’s govt
Operatives of Safe Delta have arrested a forty-three year, 43yr old passenger, Friday Emmanuel with eight hundred and seventy-five rounds of live cartridges concealed in a sack wrapped with pieces of clothes. The arrest was made during a stop and search duty at the Head Bridge area of Asaba. The suspect was arrested on the 16th of May at about 09am DAILY POST reports. Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe confirmed the report. He said the operatives “intercepted a white Toyota Hiace Bus with REG. NO: AYB573XC, driven by one Friday Emmanuel, a 43-year-old male suspect from…
Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Ododo has vowed to deploy available resources to bring the perpetrators of Ogbe killings to book and guarantee security in the area. DAILY POST recalls that bandits allegedly killed two persons on Friday at Ogbe community in Yagba West Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, visited the community on Sunday on behalf of the governor. He sympathized with the people over the dastardly act and assured them that the government would do everything possible to bring the perpetrators to book and restore security in the…
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has secured a court order to complete the shutdown of 96 out of 183 microfinance and primary mortgage banks. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/money/1593141-ndic-secures-court-order-set-completes-shut-nigerian-banks-reasons Bello Hassan, the Managing Director of NDIC revealed this at a sensitisation seminar for Judges of the Federal High Court in Lagos. He added that the NDIC was committed to fulfilling its mandate of protecting depositors through bank supervision, failure resolution and liquidation so as to boost confidence in the financial system, Punch reports.
No fewer than 3,291 patients have been diagnosed of tuberculosis between January to April 2024 in Akwa Ibom State The Program Manager, Akwa Ibom State Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy Control Program, Ministry of Health, Dr Bassey Akpan, who disclosed this in Uyo, the state capital, during a media review meeting by Breakthrough Action-Nigeria stated that they were currently receiving treatment. Akpan said the number has made the state reach over 90 percent of its target in finding missing cases. He added that the state would not rest on its oars in identifying those with tuberculosis as any one case…
The Gbagyi ethnic group in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State claimed it has suffered significant losses due to the prolonged Bassa and Egbura ethno-political crises in the region. According to the Gbagyi Cultural Renaissance Foundation (GCRF), 115 Gbagyi members have died, and properties worth hundreds of millions have been destroyed since the conflict began in 1997. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting held on Saturday in Toto and signed by GCRF Secretary Musa Dnasuwa, the group expressed deep concern over the continuous attacks and intimidation faced by the Gbagyi people. GCRF pointed out that the crisis…