Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human body parts which they said could be the ones of the missing call centre staff. The bags were discovered in a ravine in a suburb of Guadalajara on Wednesday night, according to the state prosecutor’s office in Jalisco. CNN said the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office investigating the deaths said it has initial information that the body parts “match the physical characteristics of some of the young people missing employees of the call centre.” Seven call centre employees were reported missing between May 20 and 22 in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, in…
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Chinese football fans will need to shell out up to $680 to see Lionel Messi lead Argentina against Australia in a Beijing friendly, organisers said Friday. The game on June 15 at the 68,000-capacity Workers’ Stadium is a rematch of Argentina and Australia’s meeting in the last 16 of the Qatar World Cup. Messi, who is set to leave Paris Saint-Germain this summer, scored in a 2-1 win for Argentina and they went on to lift the World Cup. Tickets ranging from 580 yuan ($82) to 4,800 yuan will go on sale in two batches, on June 5 and 8,…
The Enugu State Government has banned all illegal mining activities in the state. The ban was contained in a statement released on Thursday night by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia. Warning against flouting the directive, the government said that there would be dire consequences for any illegal miner forthwith in the state. The government observed that it was in the overriding interest of the public to protect the people from any hazard or pollution, and also maintain equal rights of benefits accruable from any mineral resources to the people of the state. The statement partly read:…
The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that household final consumption grew by -12.47 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the 7.30 per cent growth rate of Q4 2021. This disclosure was contained in the new Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report (Expenditure and Income Approach) for Q3 and Q4 2022. The report partly read, “Household final consumption, in real terms, grew by -5.83 per cent and -12.47 per cent in Q3 and Q4 of 2022, respectively, on a year-on-year basis. However, these growth rates were lower compared to the growth rates of their corresponding quarters of…
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has unveiled a radio tracing programme in Borno to reunite 3,000 missing persons with loved ones. Sidika Nasiru, ICRC protection data officer, disclosed this in an interview in Maiduguri. Ms Nasiru said no fewer than 24,000 people, including children, were separated from their families nationwide due to conflicts, with about 16,000 from Borno alone due to insurgency. The ICRC official explained that the tracing programme run on FRCN (Peace FM Maiduguri) involves repeated announcements of missing persons’ names with few details for possible identification. “With the radio, we hope to get wider…
The United Nations says Nigeria now has a funding gap of $10bn per annum to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. SDGs are global targets that aim to transform the world. They are a call to action to end poverty and inequality, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy health, justice and prosperity. Speaking on the amount of funds required to bridge the SDG gap in Nigeria, the Resident Representative to Nigeria, United Nations Development Programme, Mohamed Yahya, stated that about 410bn would be needed for this annually. He disclosed this at the high-level steering committee meeting of the…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, as his Chief of Staff. He was introduced as the brand new chief of staff at the ongoing meeting between the President and the nation’s security chiefs currently holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday morning. Details Later…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba has urged President Bola Tinubu to appoint his cabinet without wasting time. Agbakoba said Tinubu should appoint good people into his cabinet. He suggested the replacement of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, with either Mustafa Chike-Obi, the Chairman of Fidelity Bank Nigeria or Yemi Cardoso who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citibank Nigeria. He spoke during an interview with Arise Television. Agbakoba said: “We need to talk about a limited government. The government is too big, he needs to have good people. “The timeline for…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied the report of the devaluation of the Naira to 630 Naira to a Dollar. The CBN in a statement signed by its acting spokesman, Isa AbdulMumin, on Thursday said the details of the report do not conform with the realities of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. “For the avoidance of doubt, the exchange rate at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window traded this morning (June 1, 2023) at N465/US$1 and has been stable around this rate for a while,” the statement read in part. The CBN urged the public to disregard the…
The National Assembly management has commenced clearance of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives for payment and collection of severance packages, as the 9th Assembly winds down. The Clerk of the House, Yahaya Danzaria, made this known in a notice to members at the plenary on Wednesday. The 9th Assembly, which was inaugurated on June 11, 2019, is expected to wind down by the first week of June, while the 10th Assembly is billed for inauguration on June 13, 2023. The Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, read out the Clerk’s notice to members on the floor.…
Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former president, Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and 10 months in prison for corruption on Wednesday, part of the fallout from the country’s sweeping Car Wash graft investigation. The high court had convicted Collor of taking 20 million reais ($4 million) in bribes as a senator from 2010 to 2014 in exchange for arranging contracts for a construction company with a subsidiary of state-run oil company Petrobras. Collor, 73, who led Brazil from 1990 to 1992, was already a tarnished figure in Brazilian politics: the country’s first democratically elected president after the 1964-1985…
Governor Dauda Lawal Dare of Zamfara State has accused his predecessor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, of going away with 17 government vehicles and looting property including television and cookers from the state government house. Dare of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who sought a second term, in the March governorship election. Speaking during a phone in programme on in Gusau, the state capital, Vision FMthe governor said his predecessor also left behind an empty treasury and huge debt. APC women leaders kidnapped after attending Kaduna gov’s inauguration He said, “Former governor Bello Matawalle had…