The police in Malaysia have arrested a Nigerian man in Danau Kota, Setapak, Malaysia, after he allegedly threw his step-grandson, aged four, out of an apartment window, Malay Mail reports. The Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department Chief, Nik Ros Azhan, preliminary investigations showed that the 42-year-old tried to rape his 24-year-old stepdaughter, who was the victim’s mother. He was, however, stopped by his wife and other stepchildren, which made him “furious”. According to Azhan, the suspect also acted “out of control” when he saw his stepchildren screaming for help. He allegedly hit and stomped on his wife and four stepchildren…
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Publisher of Meridian Spy, an emerging Nigerian digital newspaper, Sunny Ibeh Jnr, has launched his debut book. The book was launched on Saturday in a webinar hosted from Abuja Nigeria. The book entitled ‘The Master Plan’ was launched amidst commendations and reviews by distinguished personalities. The event was greeted with the hallowed presence of distinguished personalities that cut across different spheres of endeavours, both from the academia; politics and the business world. In his address, Mr Ibeh Jnr, thanked God Almighty for the wisdom that saw the actualization of the book. He said his life was a repository of people’s…
The hypocrite minimises his own flaws and makes allowances for imperfections while homing in on and exaggerating the problems of another. We have an even distribution of hypocrites among all sections of the country. But I think there is a more bubbling joint of whited sepulchres in the south-east. Yes, a host of people lost in gyrations of affected piety and plaster saints who capitalise and summarise their troubles with third-party headlines. They are never responsible for own their problems; there is always someone or some people in the north, south-west or south-south to blame. Even the gully erosion ravaging…
Afenifere, Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, has insisted that the nation must be restructured and the practice of true federalism be restored, saying that Nigeria is already on the brink of collapse. This was contained in a communiqué signed and issued by Yinka Odumakin, the National Publicity Secretary, at the end of the group’s national leadership caucus meeting in Akure, on Thursday. Odumakin noted that the last five years of President Muhammadu Buhari administration has “besieged by attendant poverty, as insecurity worsens across the land with kidnappers, armed robbers and bandits on the prowl and government helpless and unable to govern effectively”.…
Napoli are considering renaming its San Paolo stadium after late Diego Maradona who died at the age of 60 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The late Argentine football legend, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, forged a strong bond with the Italian club and its supporters during his seven-year spell between 1984 and 1991. The forward, who inspired Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986, joined Napoli from Barcelona and won their only two Serie A titles – in 1987 and 1990 – along with the Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup. Napoli President, Aurelio de Laurentiis…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the recent defection of some members of the opposition party to the ruling party. MERIDIAN SPY reported Wednesday, Elisha Abbo, Senator representing Adamawa North in the National Assembly, quit his membership of the PDP and joined the ruling APC. This came weeks after Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State similarly defected to the ruling party. Reacting to the recent defections, the ruling party, in a statement issued on Thursday, said it was not surprised that “progressive-minded members of the PDP have been defecting enmasse from the opposition…
Nigeria has been ranked as the third most terrorised country in the world for the sixth consecutive time in recent Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report. According to recent GTI report, the number of deaths attributed to Boko Haram in Nigeria increased by 25 percent from 2018 to 2019. It said despite the rise in the number of casualties from Boko Haram attacks in the north-east, Nigeria is the second to record a fall in violent deaths after Afghanistan in 2019. GTI said 2,043 people died from “terrorism-related acts” in Nigeria in 2018 but only 1,245 deaths were recorded in 2019.…
The Kano State Government says it spent the sum of N1.8 billion to sponsor students to private universities. MERIDIAN SPY learnt the programme started during the administration of ex-governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and was inherited by the current administration of Abdullahi Ganduje. This was made known in a statement by Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, on Wednesday, noting that over 1,150 students were inherited from the Kwankwaso administration. “They were the set of students who were taken to the university during the administration of Kwankwaso, with the payment of their tuition and other fees at less than 10 per…
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to honour his oath of office on combating the insecurity ravaging the Northern part of the country. Emmanuel Yawe, ACF National Publicity Secretary, made the call in a statement on Tuesday, lamenting the worsening state of insecurity in the country. Yawe urged the President to do the needful in arresting the rising insecurity before it is too late. “Even as the Minister was claiming falsely, whether in ignorance or deliberate, victory over bandits, 12 Police Superintendents on official duty from Zamfara to Kano were overpowered by superior tactics and force while…
“My brother, how you dey?” “What can we do?” “E ku recession” “Excuse me?” “I said er ku recession…” “Are you Yoruba people alright at all? You people always make a joke out of everything. Does recession look like a joke to you? Second recession in the last five years, the worst in Nigerian history in 33 years, and all you can think of is some meaningless local greeting. Someone at your level should be above such provincial fixation that instinctively compels a Yoruba man to create one form of greeting or another out of every situation. That was how…
Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has predicted that the current economic recession being faced in the country will end soon. Ahmed gave the prediction while speaking at the 26th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) on Monday, explaining that the pandemic was responsible for the recent entry into recession. She said the current economic growth trend and the many complementary fiscal, real sector and monetary interventions proactively introduced by the government to forestall a far worse decline, suggest the nation will exit the recession before the end of the first quarter of 2021. “Let…
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) urged the Federal Government to stop the victimisation of individuals who sponsored the #EndSARS protests in the country. Rev. Felix Omobude, PFN President, made the call in a statement on Saturday, while appealing to the government to deal with the crisis in a more conciliatory style rather than confrontation. Omobude also condemned the freezing of bank accounts of people linked with the protests, adding that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should not give the impression that they are acting in furtherance of a different agenda. “PFN recognises the right of the Central Bank of Nigeria…