A Moroccan court has sharply increased the jail sentences handed down against three men convicted of “indecent assault” for the repeated rape of an 11-year-old girl in a case that sparked public outrage. The appeals court in Rabat sentenced one man to 20 years in prison early Friday and the other two to 10. Lawyers for the girl, who is now 12, had appealed after a lower court sentenced one of her three alleged attackers to two years in prison, and the others to 18 months each. All three could have faced up to 30 years behind bars. Also Read:…
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The Director, New Media sub-committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Councilc, Femi Fani-Kayode, has mocked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi over encounter with Immigration officers at the Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom. Fani-Kayode, in a statement via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday, said Obi was accosted, detained and deported back to Nigeria like a commoner by the British authorities. Also Read: Visa Ban Threat: Fani-Kayode wants Recall of Llewellyn-Jones for interfering in Nigerian politics His tweet reads, “!Accosted, detained & deported back to Nigeria like a common … by the British authorities?…
NASS forwards Peace Corps Bill to Buhari for assen The National Assembly has forwarded the harmonised version of the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill after passage by both chambers -the Senate and the House of Representatives to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. It was gathered on Thursday that the transmission of the bill for Presidential assent was done by the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Magaji Tambuwal on Wednesday this week via a letter written to that effect. The letter, according to a highly placed source in the National Assembly, written on letterhead of the CNA, was dated…
A teenager, Mashood AbdulRaheem, said to be about 12 years old, has died during a swimming expedition in Kwara State. The deceased, a resident of Babadudu compound, Ita Merin, Ilorin West LGA of the state, left the house with two of his friends early on Sunday morning to fish at a stream in Oloje, it was learnt. City & Crime gathered that during the fishing exercise, Moshood mistakenly slipped into the river and drowned. “It was the shout for help from his colleagues that alerted residents, who rushed to rescue him. Also Read: 80-year-old Woman Dies in Kwara Fire incident…
The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Sunday Echono, has revealed plans to disburse N18bn to six public universities under its Special High Impact Intervention. Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, Echono disclosed that N3bn would be given to six selected varsities, N1bn each to six polytechnics and six colleges of education across the country. He added that over 95 per cent of the N320bn Intervention Budget for 2023 would go directly to beneficiary tertiary institutions. Echono said the remaining five per cent of the allocation would be used for staff salaries and allowances, project monitoring and…
A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, Jack Teixeira, was on Thursday apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States of America. His arrest was in connection with their investigation into classified documents that were leaked on the internet. The classified documents from the Defence Department were found online last month — how long they had been on the Internet and the total number that had been posted remain unclear. They revealed details about the US spying on Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine and secret assessments of Ukraine’s combat power, as well as intelligence-gathering on America’s…
Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has been included in TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2023. He was named alongside Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Lionel Messi, and US Senator Mitch McConnell. Another Nigerian on the list is Dr Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseases physician at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, Bayelsa State. Ogoina was recognised for raising the alarm on a new presentation of Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, and persisting with his documentation when the world was not listening. So This…
Two persons were confirmed dead and 14 others injured in an auto crash along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Babatunde Farinloye, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta, said a commercial bus and a trailer were involved in the crash. “Two people died and 14 persons were injured,” Farinloye said. He added that the accident occurred at about 7:00 p.m. when the fully loaded 18-seater bus with a plate number AKD-11-XA tried to avoid the traffic at Berger inward Ogun, and diverted to a one-way…
Obasanjo leads West African elders’ pre-election mission to Sierra Leone The West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has deployed a pre-election fact-finding mission to Sierra Leone, ahead of the country’s general elections slated for June. The Communications Officer, Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, Wealth Ominabo, who confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the team was led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Also on the team were former President Goodluck Jonathan and Gambia’s former Vice President, Fatoumata Tambajang. He said that the team would interface with major political leaders and other key stakeholders in Sierra Leone to deepen the…
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Ghana on Thursday said it is the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, with children under the age of three years old in line to benefit. The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people each year, most of them children in Africa, and scientists have been trying for years to develop vaccines. It is unclear when the Oxford vaccine will be rolled out in Ghana. Childhood vaccines in Africa are typically paid for by international organisations such as Gavi and UNICEF after they have been backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO),…
Western Marine Command, WMC, of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has said that it impounded contraband goods with Duty Paid Value, DPV worth N110.2 million in the first quarter of the year Q1’23. The Command also disclosed that five suspects have been arrested in connection with the seized contraband goods. Speaking with journalists in Lagos, Customs Area Controller, CAC of the Command, Odaudo Salefu, said that the seized items include 1,519 bags of 50 kilograms sized parboiled rice worth N85.1 million, 468 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS in 25 litres worth N2.2 million, 700 pairs of foreign used shoes worth…