The Anambra State Police Commissioner, Echeng Eworo, has ordered all the hotels operating in the State to henceforth promptly submit their guest lists daily to the nearest divisional police station in their areas or face serious sanctions.
This was contained in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, in Awka, the state capital which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York on Sunday.
The statement also directed proprietors of private/public hospitals in the state to promptly report anyone with bullet wounds or any related injuries in their facilities to the police.
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An Iraqi court adjourned a hearing Sunday to allow a man to formalise his religious marriage to a 12-year-old girl, according to a lawyer for the girl’s mother, who opposes the union.
Rights activists protested outside the Baghdad court with banners such as “the marriage of minors is a crime against childhood”, while lawyer Marwan Obeidi told AFP the case had been postponed until November 28.
The legal age for marriage in Iraq is 18 but can be lowered to 15 in cases of parental or judicial consent, according to charity, Save the Children.
“Religious marriages are not …
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya, has declared that henceforth, the Nigerian Army will engage bandits and criminals in a war.
Yahaya, who stated during a familiarization visit to 31 Artillery Brigade and Tradoc Minna, Niger State, said the army will be more resolute and decisive in dealing with them.
…‘I commend them on the job they are doing they should be more resolute and more decisive in dealing with the criminals and we will engage bandits just like in a war. We kill them and bring their
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday reacted to the report by the Lagos State EndSARS panel.
IPOB said the Lagos EndSARS report would not be complete without the Obigbo genocide report.
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Emma Powerful, spokesman of IPOB lamented that Nigerians have ignored the Obigbo massacre, which happened last year.
…In a statement he signed, Powerful said: ‘The global family of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of great leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU is watching keenly the Lekki toll gate massacre report, and the
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis.
Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban captured power, especially rural workers.
“We are going to start paying salaries from today. We will pay three months’ salaries,” Ahmad Wali Haqmal, spokesman for the finance ministry said at a press conference.
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Haqmal said salaries will be paid for the …
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has submitted a list of its top 1,000 debtors to the National Assembly as part of the strategy to intensify its debt recovery drive.
According to AMCON, the total current exposure on all eligible bank assets is estimated at N4.4tn.
The agency further stated that the market value of the assets had drastically decreased below the valuation at the time of acquisition owing to the socio-economic slump, making sales transactions exceedingly difficult to complete.
In a statement made available to the press, the list of “recalcitrant obligors” was presented to members of the …
Garba Shehu said Nigeria was included on the list of religious violators after Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, paid millions of dollars to spread falsehood against President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
The Senior Special Assistant, Media, and Publicity to President Buhari stated this while reacting to the removal of Nigeria from the religion blacklist by the Biden-led government of the United States of America.
Shehu, in a statement titled WHAT BIDEN’S REMOVAL OF NIGERIA FROM RELIGIOUS VIOLATION WATCHLIST MEANS said Nigeria should have never been on the list.
According to him, IPOB paid right-wing American lobbyists to spread falsehoods against the …
The Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NURW), has vowed to continue its strike until it has clear and convincing reasons to suspend the strike.
The workers made this known as the three-day warning strike reached its second day.
The President, NURW, Mr. Innocent Ajiji, however, said that the union is willing to negotiate with the management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation.
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Ajiji said the union hopes that the meeting with the management would yield a positive result.
…He said: ‘If nothing positive comes out, we will have to complete our
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that it has rescued 100 children and apprehended 120 suspected traffickers within six months in Akwa Ibom.
Mr Ubong Ekwere, Uyo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, disclosed this on Friday while giving updates on the activities of the command since he took charge six months ago.
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He said the trend of human trafficking in the state had changed, warning parents and guardians to be more vigilant about whereabouts of their children at any point in time.
…‘We
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that about four men were killed in a shootout in a frontier town near the western border with Congo while attempting to cross back into Uganda. A fifth man, a cleric named Muhammad Kirevu, was killed in ‘a violent confrontation’ when security forces raided his home outside Kampala, police spokesman Fred Enanga said.
A second cleric, Suleiman Nsubuga, is
Sudanese security forces fired teargas Thursday at anti-coup protesters who had stayed on the streets of northern Khartoum a day after 15 people were killed, witnesses said.
Dozens of demonstrators manned makeshift barricades built the previous day in the capital’s northern districts in protest against last month’s widely condemned military takeover.
Top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan — Sudan’s de facto leader since the April 2019 ouster of President Omar al-Bashir — detained the civilian leadership and declared a state of emergency on October 25.
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The move upended Sudan’s …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa says reports that a “diamond bra” was part of items seized from ex-Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, are false.
The anti-corruption chief made the clarification when he featured on Your View, a TVC programme.
In October, the Commission named assets forfeited by Diezani. They include properties in Banana Island, Foreshore Estate, 125 wedding gowns and 13 small gowns.
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Others were 41 waist trainers, 73 hard flowers, 11 suits, 11 invisible bras, 73 veils, 30 braziers, 2 standing fans, 17 magic …
