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Death toll in India building collapse jumps to 39

Death Toll In India Building Collapse Jumps To 39

September 23, 2020 4:16 pm

The death toll from an apartment block collapse in western India jumped to 39 Wednesday, officials said, as hopes of finding anyone else alive dimmed.

 

Emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have so far pulled 20 survivors from the rubble of the three-storey building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.

A senior NDRF official told AFP that recovery teams, aided by sniffer dogs, retrieved 39 bodies buried under brick and concrete after the block came crashing down before dawn on Monday.

“Five people are still missing so… …

India Bootleg Alcohol Death Toll Rises To 98 As Families Mourn

India Bootleg Alcohol Death Toll Rises To 98 As Families Mourn

August 2, 2020 5:49 pm

The death toll from a toxic bootleg alcohol scandal in the north Indian state of Punjab rose to 98 Sunday, officials and reports said.

Police have arrested 25 people so far over the worsening tragedy, which starting coming to light late last week, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

Hundreds of people die every year in India from illegal alcohol made in backstreet distilleries which sells for as little as 10 rupees (13 US cents) a litre, affordable for even the poorest.

The death toll from the illicit booze had risen to 75 in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district …

Nigerian Officials In Trouble As FG Probes Leakage Of Memos

Nigerian Officials In Trouble As FG Probes Leakage Of Memos

May 26, 2020 11:35 am

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has reacted angrily to the leakage of memos to the public allegedly by government officials.

The Nigerian government bemoaned that state documents, including classified ones, were being sent out by public officers.

Announcing that the matter is under investigation, it described the development as, “embarrassing.”

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The federal government declared that perpetrators will be dismissed and prosecuted.

Head of Civil Service of the Federation, (HOSF) Folasade Yemi-Esan, gave the admonition in a circular to the presidency, ministries, departments, agencies, security agencies, among others.

The circular

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ICPC

ICPC Officials Invade Pinnacle Office In Abuja

January 21, 2020 2:29 pm
The Management of Pinnacle Communications Ltd, a licensed Digital Switch-Over operator in Nigeria, has lamented the alleged illegal invasion of its Abuja office by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.

The invasion, which it described as despicable, unwarranted, and illegal happened on Wednesday at the company’s office located on Charles De Gualle street, Asokoro, Abuja with the ICPC officials allegedly citing an “order from above.”

The operatives of the ICPC had reportedly stormed the office with fully armed policemen in four vehicles, 3 Hilux vans, and a car, garbed in ICPC jackets that authenticated

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NDLEA Arrests Suspected Killer Of Officials

December 17, 2019 2:37 pm

The Ondo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a notorious drug merchant in the state over his alleged link with the murder of four of its officials.

According to the State Commander of the agency, Haruna Gagara who did not disclose the name of the drug kingpin, the drug merchant allegedly masterminded the killing of four of its men.

He described the arrest as a big catch towards apprehending others connected with the incident.

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Gagara disclosed this on Tuesday at the end of …

DSS Officials Chase Falana As He Drives Sowore Out Of Court

December 6, 2019 9:15 am

Scores of heavily-armed operatives of the Department of State Services are currently chasing the vehicle of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and lawyer to activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, after he drove them out of the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The move follows the disruption of court proceedings by DSS operatives during the commencement of trial in a case brought against the activists by the Nigerian Government on Friday morning at the Federal High Court.

The secret police had made fruitless attempts to rearrest Sowore and Bakare inside the courtroom having only released them on bail …

RUSAF

Russian Officials Suspended For Obstructing Doping Test

November 21, 2019 2:55 pm

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Thursday charged the Russian athletics federation (RUSAF) with “serious breaches” of anti-doping rules, including obstructing an investigation.

The charges relate to the conduct of senior RUSAF officials during an investigation into “whereabouts” violations committed by Russian high-jumper Danil Lysenko.

RUSAF president Dmitry Shlyakhtin and executive director Alexander Parkin, the athlete and his coach have been provisionally suspended.

British newspaper The Sunday Times ran a story in September alleging that RUSAF officials had fabricated documents to show that Lysenko, the 2017 world silver medallist, was too ill to provide his whereabouts after failing to make …

2019/2020 NPFL: NFF Reads Riot Act To Club, Match Officials

2019/2020 NPFL: NFF Reads Riot Act To Club, Match Officials

November 1, 2019 5:08 am

The Nigeria Football Federation has issued a stern warning to its members, and particularly match officials, to guard against acts and practices that could be seen to encourage match fixing and match manipulation in any way or form in the coming football season.

With the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League season due to kick off on Sunday, 3rd November, the NFF said it encourages match officials and other workers in football to recognize, resist and report any act, practice or tendency that may appear, remotely or directly, to seek to compromise the integrity of any given football match at any …

Public Officials Must Patronise Nigerian Hospitals – Obi

Public Officials Must Patronise Nigerian Hospitals – Obi

October 23, 2019 4:49 pm

Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2019 presidential general election and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has said political office holders in Nigeria should visit hospitals in the country for their personal health needs instead of going abroad for medical tourism and encouraging capital flight.

Obi made the call while speaking during the installation of the 13th President of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, (ONICCIMA) at Patterson Hall, All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha.

Using himself as an example, he said he visits local hospitals like Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha for …

Another 26 FRSC Officials Arrested For Extortion – ICPC

Another 26 FRSC Officials Arrested For Extortion – ICPC

October 23, 2019 4:19 pm

Another set of 26 officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has been arrested for alleged extortion of motorists in different parts of the country.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) disclosed this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, in Abuja on Wednesday.

Okoduwa said the culprits were nabbed in a joint operation codenamed “Operation Tranquility”, involving operatives of the ICPC, FRSC and the Department of State Services (DSS).

According to her, a man alleged to be the custodian of the proceeds of extortion was also arrested in Owerri, Imo, during …

NFVCB officials now SPY Policemen to fight piracy

NFVCB officials now SPY Policemen to fight piracy

August 4, 2019 12:08 am

Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has trained officers of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) as Supernumerary (SPY) Police to enhance its fight against unclassified, pirated films and video works.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 14 of the trained officers were decorated, after completion of the course with different ranks by CP Ajani Olasupo, Commandant of the Police College Ikeja (PCI) Lagos State.

SPY Police are engaged for specific security functions within a restricted jurisdiction or operational space.

The Nigeria Police Act provides guidelines for their establishment and grants them the powers, privileges and immunities enjoy by …

How NDDC officials allegedly laundered ₦3.6b, by witness

March 28, 2019 10:34 pm

A prosecution witness from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Eyo Bassey Francis, a subway developer and contractor, yesterday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, how two officials working for Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tuoyo Omotsuli and Francis Momoh, used their companies to transfer hundreds of millions of naira to his companies’ accounts for onward transmission to some beneficiaries and for conversion into dollars.

The witness, led in evidence in chief by the prosecution counsel, Ekene Iheanacho, said he embarked on an online platform for users of Internet for NDDC and also did general supply of goods …

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