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Ukraine Invasion UK Freezes Putin, Lavrov Assets

Ukraine Invasion: UK Freezes Putin, Lavrov Assets

February 26, 2022 4:07 am

The Government of the United Kingdom has ordered that all assets of President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov be frozen over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier in the week.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Treasury on Friday issued a financial sanctions notice against the two men, adding them to a list of Russian oligarchs who have already had their property and bank accounts in the UK frozen.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had earlier informed his NATO partners that he was planning ‘imminent’ sanctions against Putin and Lavrov.

Downing Street said Johnson told …

Overcrowding Ecuador To Pardon 5,000 Prison Inmates

Overcrowding: Ecuador To Pardon 5,000 Prison Inmates

February 23, 2022 8:48 am

The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso has announced that about 5,000 prisoners would be pardoned in the coming days to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons, which were hit with riots that left more than 320 inmates dead in 2021.

“I hope that at least 5,000 people deprived of their freedom will be released,” the president told reporters.

He said he aimed ‘to end overcrowding by the end of the year and thus have a much more favorable environment for security and for social rehabilitation inside the prisons.’

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Ecuador’s 65 …

FG Declares ASUU Strike Illegal As Meeting Ends In Deadlock

FG Declares ASUU Strike Illegal As Meeting Ends In Deadlock

February 23, 2022 8:43 am

The conciliatory meeting which was conveyed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige to hold discussions on the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), ended early Wednesday morning in deadlock, with the Federal Government declaring the industrial action as illegal.

While the government has continued to maintain that the demands raised by the union were already being met, ASUU thinks otherwise.

Addressing stakeholders at the meeting, Ngige described the ongoing strike as a clear breach of the law, adding that the union did not go through the normal process before embarking on the industrial action.…

Court Orders Kyari, Six Others’ Detention For 14 More Days

Court Orders Kyari, Six Others’ Detention For 14 More Days

February 23, 2022 4:30 am

A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday granted the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) permission to further detain the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and six others for 14 days.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that others to be detained alongside Kyari are the alleged drug couriers named in the drug trafficking case involving the suspended head of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team.

Justice Zainab Abubakar gave the order for the detention of the seven suspects pending the completion of investigation into the allegations against them.

The others are Assistant Commissioner of Police …

Federal Govt Moves To Launch Campaign Against Money Rituals

Federal Govt Moves To Launch Campaign Against Money Rituals

February 21, 2022 2:42 pm

The Federal Government is set to launch a national sensitisation campaign against the growing scourge of money rituals, which has already claimed many lives, especially those of women and girls, in the country.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this in Abuja on Monday when he paid a working visit to the corporate headquarters of the Media Trust Limited.

‘Gentlemen, our visit today is coming at a time of great concern across the country over the rising cases of ritual murders by unscrupulous people, most of them very young, who are seeking to get rich at …

Insecurity Nine Abducted As Bandits Attack Sokoto

Insecurity: Nine Abducted As Bandits Attack Sokoto

February 20, 2022 10:53 am

Bandits on Saturday attacked Yar Tsakuwa village, in Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State, abducting nine persons, including the serving councillor of the area, Lawali Bello.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that two wives and a daughter of the former councillor of the area, Alhaji Abdullahi Garba, were among those abducted.

A resident who identified himself as Nazifi Abdullahi, narrated that the bandits came around midnight on Saturday and operated till 2:50am.

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They stormed and ransacked houses and shops, stole several motorcycles, food stuff and drugs.

‘They abducted …

WHO Reports First Wild Polio Outbreak In Malawi

WHO Reports First Wild Polio Outbreak In Malawi

February 19, 2022 4:15 am

The landlocked East African country of Malawi on Friday became the first country in the continent to report the first wild polio outbreak in several years.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the wild type 1 poliovirus was discovered in a child in the city of Lilongwe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced yesterday.

Laboratory tests had shown that it had apparently been brought in from Pakistan, it said.

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‘As long as wild polio exists anywhere in the world all countries remain at risk of importation of the virus,’ said WHO regional …

17 Persons Burnt To Death As Petrol Tanker Explodes In Ogun

17 Persons Burnt To Death As Petrol Tanker Explodes In Ogun

February 19, 2022 4:11 am

No fewer than 17 persons have been confirmed dead following yesterday’s petrol tanker explosion along the Lagos-Ibadan highway in Ogun State.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the accident happened around 5 am on Friday before the Isara bridge.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the fuel laden tanker caught fire before it exploded.

The spokesperson of the FRSC in Ogun, Florence Okpe, submitted that 14 of the bodies were burnt beyond recognition, adding that the FRSC was able to identify one man, one woman and a girl.

‘The total number of people involved is not …

Nigeria, 5 Others To Begin Production Of Covid Vaccines – WHO

Nigeria, 5 Others To Begin Production Of Covid Vaccines –WHO

February 19, 2022 4:06 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Nigeria and five other African countries have been selected to commence the production of COVID-19 vaccines, with the continent having had limited access to jabs.

‘Today I’m delighted to announce the first six African countries that will receive technology from the hub to produce their own mRNA vaccines: Egypt, Kenya Nigeria, Senegal South Africa, and Tunisia,’ Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced on Friday.

According to the WHO, they were selected as the first recipients of technology from the organisation’s global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure …

Five Hospitalised As Fire Razes Law School In Lagos

Five Hospitalised As Fire Razes Law School In Lagos

February 18, 2022 1:51 am

No fewer than five persons were hospitalised were rushed to the hospital following a fire outbreak at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School, located at Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island.

According to eyewitnesses who spoke to newsmen, the incident led to commotion among occupants who ran in different directions for dear lives.

An eyewitness, simply identified as Segun, narrated that the fire, which started at 10pm, was caused by an electrical fault, from the first floor of the five-story building hostel, accommodating about 1500 law graduates on the Lagos campus.

‘The fire came with a big bang. There …

FG Moves To Meet ASUU’s Demands, Constitutes White Paper Panel

FG Moves To Meet ASUU’s Demands, Constitutes White Paper Panel

February 18, 2022 1:43 am

The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the commencement of a move to meet one of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) after the university lecturers embarked on a one-month warning strike earlier in the week.

The Education ministry made this disclosure in a press statement issued by its Director of Press and Media Relations, Ben Goong, on Thursday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York.

Recall that the move by the government to inaugurate a white paper drafting panel coming almost a year after the visiting panels to tertiary institutions constituted by the …

IPOB Vows To Avenge Burning Of Supporters’ Houses

IPOB Vows To Avenge Burning Of Supporters’ Houses

February 17, 2022 6:06 am

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that anyone, including States Governors in the South-East who is seen sponsoring and encouraging the Nigerian Army and the Ebubeagu security outfit to burn houses and unleash violence on innocent people will never go unpunished.

The group also described the destruction of properties and killing of innocent people suspected to be IPOB members or supporters as genocide against Biafra land.

It added that the people involved would soon pay for their ‘treachery and cruelty‘ to fellow citizens.

In a statement on Wednesday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, …

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