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.
