US authorities have filed charges against 18 Nigerian nurses for allegedly obtaining fraudulent education credentials. The Texas Board of Nursing charged the health workers at the District Court for the Southern District of Florida saying the nurses allegedly participated in a wire fraud scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses. Also Read: Mpox Remains Public health Emergency -WHO https://meridianspy.com/2023/02/16/mpox-remains-public-health-emergency-who According to the charge documents, the scheme fraudulently sells nursing degree diplomas and transcripts obtained from accredited Florida-based nursing schools to individuals seeking licenses and jobs as registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/VNs). The…
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Members of Nuhu Ribadu Support Group and Tinubu Foundation in Adamawa State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Also Read: PDP Cancelled Rally in Rivers, Citing Insecurity This is coming barely five days before the general elections. The State Coordinator of Tinubu Foundation, Suleiman Yarima, announced the defection on Monday in the Government House, Yola, when he led hundreds of members to Governor Umaru Fintiri with their letters of defection. Suleiman stated that the move was necessary owing to the giant strides of the Fintiri administration in every nook and cranny of the state. He said some of…
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disagreed with his counterpart, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, over his recent comment for faulting President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the old N200 be recirculated until April 10, 2023, while the old N500 and N1,000 cease to be legal tender. Fashola, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), at the weekend, argued that the directive of the president was not a direct affront to Supreme Court that had momentarily stopped the move to ban the old currencies by February 10, 2023. Also Read: ‘Their Plan Backfired’ –…
Violent protest rocked Sagamu, Ogun State, on Monday morning as angry youths burnt down branches of Union and Keystone banks in the town. The protest attributed to the naira scarcity had begun in front of the palace of the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, with some youths barricading roads and setting bonfire. However, a youth leader in the town, Kayode Segun-Okeowo, described the act as a “motivated destruction and not a protest.” “This is not a protest. I’m a comrade and understand the ABC of protest. It is motivated to cause destruction. Those behind this must stop,” he told…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from engaging the services of Chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garages, Musliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in Lagos. Aneke made the order following a suit instituted by the Labour Party against INEC, citing possible compromise if Oluomo’s organisation is made to distribute election materials. Applicants in the suit were Labour Party, its Lagos State governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-vivour, African Democratic Congress, its Lagos State governorship candidate, Funsho Doherty, and Boot Party and its governorship candidate Wale…
The All Progressives Congress has rejected the appointment of a former Director of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Naja’atu Muhammad, as the North-West coordinator of the Police Service Commission in the forthcoming general elections. The ruling party made this known in a statement by its Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima PCC, Festus Keyamo, on Monday. The party said it was “deeply shocked” by Muhammad’s appointment, adding that her selection is “callous and insensitive” considering her strained relationship with the APC The statement read partly, “We are deeply shocked and appalled to read a release by the Police…
The Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for changing his stance on the Naira redesign policy. Reported that Atiku appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow commercial banks to accept deposits of the old Naira notes. Also Read: Naira Swap: Wike Lashes Atiku, backs Supreme Court’s Judgment Recall that since the February 10 deadline for the Naira swap policy elapsed, Atiku, who backed the currency redesign policy, advised the apex bank not to extend the deadline. According to the former…
In a Video To Sway Votes for Tinubu, President Buhari Vows to End Hardship President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday sent a message home from Addis Ababa, saying he is fully aware of hardship some policies of government, “which are meant to bring overall improvement to the country” had caused and appealed for further patience as the government takes appropriate measures to ease them. In a video recording to shore up support for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the upcoming elections a few days ahead, the President thanked Nigerians for electing him to…
The body of an 80-year-old woman affected in a building gutted by fire in Ilorin, Kwara State, has been recovered. The Kwara State Fire Service disclosed the fire incident occurred at number 43 Adegboye Street behind the Federal Secretariat, Fate area, Ilorin, Ilorin East Local Government. The state fire service confirmed the incident in a statement signed by the Head, Media and Publicity of the service, Hassan Adekunle. The statement disclosed the fire was reported by one Mr Oni at about 3pm on Sunday. According to the statement, “The cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained. out…
The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions has announced that banks should begin operations from Monday, February 20, 2023. The association disclosed this while suspending its plans to commence strike action on Monday. It will be recalled there had been several cases of protests and destruction of bank facilities across the country over the naira scarcity. The President of the association, Olusoji Oluwole, disclosed this on Sunday. He said: “Following the recent unwarranted attacks on members of ASSBIFI, other bank workers, and the destruction of several branches across various states, we were forced to issue a…
Biggie, the instructive voice in the ongoing Big Brother Titans (BBTitans) reality show, has separated the male housemates from the females in a new twist. Thabang, the head of house (HoH), announced the new twist on Thursday after the housemates’ wager win. Until Biggie says otherwise, the #BBTitans housemates of the opposite sex are not allowed to interact with each other. Biggie referred to the latest twist as a “task of the divide” where housemates are not allowed to interact with the opposite gender. He instructed the housemates to change their sleeping arrangements. The females are expected to be in…
At times like this, two works of literature are my abiding refuge. One, written over a century ago, speaks to the melee both in the APC and Nigeria as a whole. It is a poem entitled ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats. It was written at a time similar to that of present Nigeria. It was a time when it looked like the world was coming to an end. The casualties of the First World War were benumbing and overwhelmingly high. The deaths of millions from the pangs of the flu pandemic that also occurred at this time were…