From the Washington Post comes the report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that all travelers — even those who are vaccinated — should avoid cruises.
In a statement, the agency said cruise lines reported 5,013 covid-19 cases on ships operating in U.S. waters between Dec. 15 and 29, a massive increase from the 162 cases reported over the prior two weeks.
From Punch Newspapers comes a report that a Nigerian health worker, Godbless Uwadiegwu, who pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving memory care patients in the United States has been sentenced to three years in prison.
According to the report, Uwadiegwu, 59, of Middletown, pleaded guilty to two counts of gross sexual imposition last month. He sexually assaulted two women at two different facilities in Warren County.
On Tuesday, Judge Don Oda sentenced Uwadiegwu to the maximum prison sentence, 18 months on each conviction for a total of three years, wlwt reports.
FROM THE IG DESK OF RENO OMOKRI
Hanging around the right people in 2022 will have a huge impact on your bank account. By hanging with them, you will overhear information that enables you make the right investment. You see them buying a stock and buy that stock. You notice them buying a cryptocurrency, and buy it too. You observe them taking their money out of a bank or business, and you quickly remove yours before it collapses. But all you will hear if you hang around the wrong people in 2022 is gossip and backbiting. They will tell you who is doing what with who, when what you really need to know is who is making money with who!
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Musa Bello, has pledged to provide the necessary assistance to the “NEXT Cash ‘N’ Carry” shopping center in order to assure its recovery from the Boxing Day fire.
Stating this while conducting an on-the-spot examination of the mall, the minister said the fire at the location rocked the city because it was a major investment that created many jobs.
The departmental stores according to Bello, was one of the companies that showed amazing support to the FCTA during the lockdown by distributing palliative products to vulnerable people of the community.
A recent report by NPR submits that an 88-year-old grandfather in San Antonio, Texas, ends the year as a new college graduate – alongside his 23-year-old granddaughter.
Rene Neira graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) on Dec. 11, receiving a degree of recognition in Economics, while his granddaughter Melanie Salazar received a bachelor’s degree in Communications, the report stated further.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s response to Edwin Clark, Ijaw leader representing the Niger Delta region, who had reportedly said Obasanjo’s hatred against the Niger Delta people was disappointing, has made headlines, Arise News reports.
In a letter on Tuesday addressed to Edwin Clark, according to the report, Obasanjo said that he had always stood for equity and justice in the federation but that tribal allegiance had to be suppressed for the state to emerge.
See the video below curtsey, Arise News:
In this video, an interview on Gud Mornin Salone, a breakfast radio programme on SN Radio, Commissioner Francis Ben Kaifala Outlines ACC's Accomplishment For 2021. Meanwhile, Francis Ben Kaifala, is the Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone. Before now, he was Senior/Managing Partner in the Firm Kaifala, Kanneh & Co., a private law firm in Freetown.
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Adeyemi lll engages in a light exercise on a shadow boxing day on Sunday at the Dubar Stadium in Oyo metropolis. The message came in a post featured on his IG. See more photos below:
The Anglican Province of Owerri, Imo State, has said that it would engage the police to find out why it desecrated the church while enforcing the arrest of Uche Nwosu at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama Obieri in the Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state on Monday during a thanksgiving service, Punch Newspapers reports.
The church said that while it supports the arrest of individuals who committed crimes no matter how highly placed they are, the invasion of a church of worship by security operatives while a service was on going was unacceptable.
The Archbishop of the province, Most Rev Dr David O. C Onuoha, in a statement on Monday, said that the shooting of bullets and dispersing of worshippers had never been witnessed in the over 160 years of the existence of the church in the state.
Prof. Banji Akintoye of the Yoruba Nation agitation has unveiled a mobile application, Pajawiri, designed to track kidnappers and kidnap victims in the South-West zone of Nigeria, Guardian Nigeria reports.
The application according to Banji will expose criminal elements wherever they are with their victims, once the victims have the application installed in their phones, either on or off.
He said the security system, which can be downloaded on Play Store, also has another system called ‘Afinihan’ that can be used by those without android phones to link up with those with the full
Cameroon football legend Samuel Eto'o owes about one million euros in taxes from his time in Spain, Spanish Tax Office said Monday.
Eto'o, who was earlier this month elected president of the Cameroon Football Federation, appeared on a list published by the Spanish tax office of people and companies that owe over 600,000 euros ($678,000), Punch Newspapers report.
The board of UBN had received a notification from Union Global Partners Ltd. (UGPL), the holder of majority shareholding in Union Bank of the execution of a Share Sale and Purchase agreement, NAN reports.
Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Plc on Thursday announced a proposed divestment of majority shareholding interest in the bank to Titan Trust Bank Ltd.
The UBN Company Secretary, Somuyiwa Sonubi, said this in a statement posted on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX) website tilted: “Proposed Divestment of Majority Shareholding Interest in Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in
the newly appointed Minister, representing Taraba, Malam Muazu Sambo.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was held shortly before the opening of the meeting of the National Security Council in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday.
NAN reports that Sambo, who replaced former Minister of Power, Mamman Sale, from Taraba, was posted to Ministry of Works and Housing as Minister of State, Works and Housing.
CHRISTMAS 2021
A NATION STILL IN SEARCH OF TRUTH &
VINDICATION
Christmas Message by Bishop Matthew Hassan
KUKAH, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto
1: Good news to the World:
Hello everyone, men and women of goodwill
all over the world, we to whom the news
of the birth of Jesus was first announced on that cold winter night where the
shepherds kept watch, that night when the first Noel was pronounced. The choice
of poor shepherds living in such open, dangerous and harsh conditions as the
first hearers of this good news must be seen as evidence that the birth of
Jesus is a guarantee for the healing of our broken world. His choice of time,
place and circumstances of entry into the world remain in sharp contrast to His
Kingship, its glory and power. Let us open our doors to receive Him.
2: Jesus is the King and the Truth:
Questioned by Pilate about His claims of Kingship, Jesus said: Yes, I am a king. I was born for this, I came into the world for this: to bear witness to the truth; and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice. (Jn. 18: 37). These words of Jesus have a deep sense of finality that force a life changing decision upon us depending on the choice we make. When we are confronted with the message of Jesus, we can either abandon everything and follow him as Peter and his brothers did (Mt. 5:1ff), come down from our tall trees of pride as Zacchaeus did (Lk. 19:5), leave our Accounting Desks as Matthew did (Mt. 9:9), or jump into the water even though we cannot swim as Peter did (Jn. 21:7). We can even get up from a sick bed and attend to Him as Peter’s mother-in-law did (Lk. 4:38ff), or, feel so upset by it all that we call the message intolerable language and simply abandon Him (Jn. 6:60). We can, faced with the Truth, go into murderous rage like Herod and order the killing of all children for fear that your kingdom is under threat (Mt. 2:16ff), or like Herodias, ask for the head of a carrier of Truth like John the Baptist on a plate (Mk. 6:25). The authorities would take the extreme option of ordering His crucifixion.
I rejoice with Christians in Nigeria as they join fellow believers all over the world to celebrate this season.
It is a special period that brings peoples of the world together with one purpose; to celebrate togetherness, joy, peace, and above all, to share love with one another through exchange of goodwill and gifts.
For the second Christmas running, the world
will not be able to celebrate as we used to in years past.
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its attendant debilitating impact, has remained with mankind, mutating and leaving in its wake devastating consequences on the economy, social interaction, and curtailing certain freedoms.
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Tuesday said it was investigating the death of a man identified as Adegbite, who allegedly committed suicide after losing N150,000 to sport betting, Punch reports.
The incident which happened in Pegi in the Kuje area council of Abuja in November according to the report has it that Adegbite was said to have placed a bet with the money which his boss gave him to pay his colleagues, hoping to replace it after winning.
One of his colleagues at work, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Adegbite committed suicide after he lost the money.
BISHOP MATHEW DELIVERED A LECTURE TITLED - NATIONAL COHESSION FOR GROWTH AND PROGRESS: THE NIGERIA DILEMA.
Nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived in Barbados, the sun has set on the British monarchy’s long reign over the Caribbean island, Guardian reports.
According to the report, as the clock struck midnight on Tuesday, the Royal Standard flag representing the Queen was lowered over a crowded Heroes Square in Bridgetown - marking the birth of the world’s newest republic.
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The South-East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA), said it has rejected the recent increment in the import duty on cargoes charged by the Nigerian Customs Service, Premium Times reports, adding that the group described the increment as “astronomical and indiscriminate”.
SEAMATA is the umbrella union of traders in all the markets in Nigeria’s South-east and traders of South-east extraction doing business across the states in the country and in Diaspora.
According to the report, the group expressed their stance against the increment in a statement jointly signed by its President-General, Gozie Akudolu, and Secretary-General, Alex Okwudiri, in Enugu on Monday with the following pointers:
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that Sanusi, who was dethroned on March 9, 2020, had on March 12, 2020, sued
the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police and Director-General, Department of State
Services (DSS) over what he called “unlawful detention/confinement.”A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday,
declared that the banishment of deposed Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II from Kano
State was unlawful and unconstitutional.
Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, held
that the Emirate Council Law, 2019, used by the state government in banishing
Sanusi was in conflict with the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, as amended.
According to Chikere, the constitution of this country is supreme and any law that is inconsistent with it shall be null and void.
The video below shows the moment a five-storey building collapses in Cairo, Egypt’s capital. The building was sited in a busy neighborhood of the city.
Why do people flirt? Did I hear you say “if we didn’t have women in the world there would not be s*x in the first place and the issue of “flirtation” would not arise?
So, blame the “female gender”? No! Blame the “man”? Don’t even think about it!
Sincerely, no one is in this world to live up to anyone’s expectations. But one thing lovers should understand is that “timing” is very important in s*x and so is “two-timing”. If you ain’t got the former you had better not mess with the latter.
Rebecca Solnit, @guardianus columnist says there's still time to fix the climate crises “The Covid-19 pandemic is proof that if we take a crisis seriously, we can change how we live, almost overnight, dramatically, globally, digging up great piles of money from nowhere, like the $3tn the US initially threw at the pandemic. We must remake the world, and we can remake it better"
Get to know more about the eight ways to confront the climate crises without losing hope in this publication curtsey, the Guardian:
The Speaker of Oyo State House Of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin has wedded his lover, Olamidun Majekodunmi at the All Souls Anglican Church, Bodija on Saturday.
Some of the dignitaries at the church wedding were the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, governors of Ogun and Ondo States, Dapo Abiodun and Rotimi Akeredolu. The former Ogun governor, Gbenga Daniel was also present.
CYMI Dancers in Spain celebrated International Flamenco day on November 16, with both fine art institutions and local clubs joining in, NPR reports.
The art form, created in Spain was
celebrated November 16 in both the Prado Museum and in flamenco clubs like the
"Corral de la Moreira" in Madrid.
According to the report, at the "Corral," flamenco dancer Belen Lopez was centre of
attention during a specially prepared performance.
"It is a feeling, an international language: pain, happiness. It is something that hasn't words but anyone in the world can understand if they let themselves be enveloped in the moment," she told The Associated Press in an attempt to describe the dance.
A huge cloud of hundreds of thousands of birds, was spotted over farmland in Cumbria, UK, composed of a beautiful murmuration of starlings flies over a field at dusk before landing to roost. Ornithologists believe that murmurations offer safety in numbers from predators trying to target individuals.
Photos: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
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| Bianca Ojukwu, former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain |
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Bianca Ojukwu, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Mrs Ojukwu made the plea while speaking at
the 10th memorial anniversary of late Igbo leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,
organised in Owerri on Friday.
She urged the President to consider the plea made by some Igbo leaders during their recent visit to the State House, Abuja, asking for Mr Kanu’s release.
Linda Ifeoma Ikeji, a Nigerian blogger, writer, entrepreneur and former model takes us fifteen years back when she made her first post on the “Linda Ikeji’s Blog”.
She dropped the message via her IG stating
that “Exactly 15 years ago today, 26th
of November 2006, I created a blog and wrote my first blog post … the best
decision of my life!
I started with introducing myself, then subsequent blog posts was me sharing personal stuff which was the order of the day back then but sometime in early 2007, I decided I wanted to stop talking about myself and start talking about other people...lol. And so, it became a gossip/news blog .. which was extremely rare in those days, making The Linda Ikeji Blog one of the pioneers of entertainment news online in Nigeria. A standing ovation please. 🙌😆
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday commissioned a 40 metric tons Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Refill Plant in Ikorodu division.
The gas plant according to the governor can
cater for 20,000 homes was built by IBILE Oil and Gas Corporation (IOGC), the
State-owned energy firm, in Igbogbo-Baiyeku Local Council Development Area
(LCDA) to ramp up supply of LPG for domestic use and to cut down on the use of
dirty fuel, responsible for carbon emission and air pollution.
Mr Sanwo-Olu, in company of his Deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, opened the gas plant built by IBILE Oil and Gas Corporation (IOGC), the State-owned energy firm, in Igbogbo-Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) to ramp up supply of LPG for domestic use.
Nigeria's super star singer, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido speaks with Zain Asher on CNN in view of his recent financial donations to orphanages in Nigeria. See the video below, curtsey of CNN:
Nigerian Actress Doris Ogala puts the record straight on N500 gift to pregnant women who deliver at primary health care facilities in Abia state.
In her message captioned “To put the
records straight !”, posted on her IG she states that “At inception in 2015, the Governor set
out to intervene at the 2 extremes of the healthcare loop. The aged to improve
our average life expectancy statitics and child birth to reduce infant
mortality. In 2016, Abia State Government introduced under the leadership of a
US based geriatric expert a state wide geriatric care unit to visit the homes
of the elderly to provide personalised health care services through that way,
save the lives of many aged and sometimes abandoned old people in mostly rural
communities.
“On the other extreme, since 2015, Abia has invested heavily to improve primary health care centres across the state with a view to providing basic health care services to citizens especially those in rural communities. One of the strategies adopted was to provide incentives that will encourage pregnant women to deliver at these improved primary health care centres and by so doing reduce patronage of traditional birth attendants, hence reduce infant mortality
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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said the state gives N500 to pregnant women who deliver at primary health care facilities in the state.
The governor spoke during Channels TV’s
Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.
According to him, the move became important since access to quality healthcare is not cheap.
Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia in 2020, has been found guilty on all charges. His father Gregory McMichael and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan were convicted of felony murder and other charges, CBS News reports.
The jury returned guilty verdicts against all three defendants in the murder of the 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot while jogging in the neighborhood in February 2020.
Sweden's first female Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday tendered her resignation just hours after her appointment by parliament after her budget failed to pass and the junior Greens Party left the coalition government, AFP reports.
"There is a constitutional practice that a coalition government should resign when one party quits," Andersson, a Social Democrat, told reporters.
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the crushing of 482 motorcycles impounded for various traffic offences at different areas in the state, Punch reports.
According to the report, the state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said in a statement on Saturday that the crushing of the impounded motorcycles was an ongoing exercise, adding that the decision to publicly crush them was to dispel insinuations that they were sold and recycled into the society.
Only about a day ago Nigeria’s super star Musician, Davido donated M250 naira to orphanages across Nigeria, a kind gesture from the guy who only turned 29 years yesterday, some persons are already discrediting his actions and among these ones is Babafryo, a fellow Nigerian brother and musician.
Sending his video message via Instagram, Baba Babafryo lamented on how he had been neglected by his colleagues in the entertainment industry when he needed their financial support.
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In his remark at the 2021 edition of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation's Democracy Dialogue, former Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan says there is an urgent need for leadership mentoring in Africa for the continent to sustain and develop its democracy. See the video below to find out more curtesy, Arise News:
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has stated that Nigerian singer, Davido, is wiser than those who gave him money.
Omokri said this in his social media post as his reaction to the singer’s donation of N250m to orphanages across Nigeria, after fans and colleagues gifted him over N200m for his birthday.
Recall Wednesday, David asked his friends
and fans to donate N1m each to him for his birthday.
Though he added that the goal was to get N100m, the singer received over N53m in cash transfers in less than fifty five minutes.
The National Youth Service Corps says it would continue to harness the potentials of Corps Members to enhance their empowerment and also contribute to national development.
NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General
Shuaibu Ibrahim stated this today in Abuja while addressing the media on the
preparations for the forthcoming 2021 Batch ‘C’ Stream Two Orientation Course
slated to commence on Wednesday 24th November 2021.
He disclosed that the Scheme has rejiged its garment factories in Niger and Anambra States for maximum productivity while the bread and water factories in Abuja have also been overhauled.
Nigeria’s Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Monday reminded his country’s leaders to think of their deeds and consequences for the future of the country.
Tambuwal gave the task at the 8th Sheikh
Usmanu Bn Fodiyo Week and unveiling of the Sokoto Caliphate Special Edition in
commemoration of 15th year on throne of Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III.
The occasion has as its theme: “Promoting unity, development and peaceful coexistence in Nigeria and West Africa: Lessons from the life of Sheikh Usmanu Bn Fodiyo.”
American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country, NAN reports.
A statement released by the President’s
spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Monday in Abuja, quoted Bezos as describing
the commitment of the Nigerian leader to restore 4 million hectares as
exemplary.
Bezos joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles and the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, at a COP26 side event entitled, “Accelerating land restoration in Africa, the case of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative.”
Blessing Okoro Nkiruka, otherwise known as Blessing CEO seems to have the solution the hate-game as she drops a message via her IG to her fans and the public:
Do you ever wonder why it’s so easy to love comedians? Because it’s easy to laugh 😂.
But people hate people like us, teachers, lecturers, intellectual people even doctors because they have to think and reason and that is hard 😂😂😂.
Japan’s Princess Mako, the emperor’s niece, has married her commoner college sweetheart on Tuesday and left the royal family after a years-long engagement beset by scrutiny that has left the princess with post-traumatic stress disorder. This has generated a lot of comments from social media users.
