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President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration is committed to improving tax revenue in the country. The president spoke on Tuesday at the second National Tax Dialogue Week in Abuja. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, quoted Buhari as expressing concern about the current tax system, which he said is characterised by fragmented administration, multiple and sometimes, overlapping taxes. “In most tax-efficient nations, tax administrative processes and practices are harmonised within a single system,” he said.

Members of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) were among those killed in Monday’s attack on a Kaduna bound train. Secretary-General of the union, Barr. Musa-Lawal Ozigi, and TUC Chairman in Kwara, Comrade Akinsola Akinwunmi, were killed during the attack. Reacting to the incident, some members of the union expressed over the development. “We lost our Sec. Gen. (Secretary-General) and the Kwara State Chairman,” a source in the TUC confided in Daily Trust on telephone. Terrorists bombed a section of the Kaduna-Abuja rail track, forcing the train, which departed Abuja at 6pm on Monday to derail. After that, they opened fire on passengers, abducting some and killing others.

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission says it has frozen no fewer than 30 bank accounts operated by illegal loan organisations. The Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Mr Babatunde Irukera, made this disclosure at a media briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. Irukera also said that the commission had engaged Google and Apple Stores to take down some loan applications from their stores, noting that there were certain processes required for that to happen. He said that the commission was currently engaging three major loan companies whose businesses had been affected by its raid.

The Managing Director of the Bank of the Agriculture, Alwan Ali Hassan, is reportedly missing after terrorists attack the Abuja-Kaduna train. The bank boss was among the passengers on the train going to Kaduna. “We cannot tell if he has been kidnapped or not but we are worried because we have been unable to reach him since yesterday. “His phone lines have been switched off and no one has contacted the bank or any of his family members,” a source close to his family told The Nation on Tuesday. It was gathered that around 970 passengers were on board the Kaduna train when the terrorists attacked, blew up the tracks, killed and injured several travellers.

Residents of Ibadan are confused over the promotion of two Mogajis as Jagun Balogun of Ibadan land. The title of Mogaji is synonymous with a family head. Each Mogaji who wished to become the Olubadan is promoted to either Jagun Balogun or Jagun Olubadan and from there, move from one step to the other to become Olubadan. On Tuesday, two separate letters has been issued to two Mogajis from two different families to become Jagun Balogun. The title of Jagun Balogun is meant for one person, but two people have been issued letters of appointment, the development which is causing serious confusion in the ancient city. Chief Remi Ibrahim Babalola and Dotun Sanusi have been issued letters of appointment as Jagun Balogun of Ibadanland. The letter issued to Dotun Sanusi was signed by the Secretary of the Olubadan Advisory Council. Sanusi is currently the Mojaji of the Olugbade family in Oja’ba area of Ibadan. While the letter issued to Remi Ibrahim Babalola was personally signed by Olubadan...

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has appointed 20 commissioners to work with him. Soludo made the appointments on Tuesday, barely twelve days after his inauguration. The former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor took over from his predecessor, Willie Obiano. Upon resumption of office, the newly inaugurated governor had made three appointments.

Barely 24-hours, after suspected terrorists attacked a Kaduna-bound train, a few kilometres to the Kaduna metropolis, bandits, have attacked Gidan train Station along the Abuja-Kaduna rail track. Recall that on Monday night the train was attacked at about 7.45pm, leading to the death of no fewer than seven persons. Many also sustain injuries and some were kidnapped during the attack. However, Channels reports that the terrorists may have planted IEDs on the tracks forcing the train heading to Abuja from Kaduna to a stop. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is deeply pained by the sad development. According to him, he has issued a directive to security chiefs to hunt down the terrorists and rescue those abducted.

A Nigerian man, Deacon Michael Nwankwo and his wife, Victoria, who welcomed a set of triplets after 25 years of marriage, have opened up about their struggles and triumph, Newspremises reports. Reports had previously emerged about the Lagos-based businessman and his wife after the dedication of the children at the Assemblies of God Church in Ojodu, on Sunday, February 20, 2022 after welcoming their children in September 2021. Speaking to Punch ,the couple revealed that they both got married as virgins, at age 26 and 24. The couple also recalled how people mocked them over their situation, adding that Mrs Nwankwo had suffered several miscarriages before the birth of their daughters and son. According to Nwankwo, his purpose of getting married at a young age was to have children and when that didn’t happen sooner than expected, it became tough for them. “I got married at 26. My wife was 24, and we married as virgins. he said

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the rising prices of petroleum products including petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and cooking gas in Nigeria are not limited to the country but a global problem also experienced in the United Kingdom and the United States. He stated this at a press conference in Abuja while reacting to sundry issues confronting the nation in recent times. Mohammed said, “The last issue I want to address is the figures being bandied around by the folks on the other side and a section of the press, comparing the prices of some foodstuffs, petrol, diesel, etc pre-2015 and now. This misuse of statistics is clear mischief. Those who bandy around these figures without putting them in context are being clever by half. “Let’s take the price of foodstuffs and petrol. Google the price of foodstuffs in other countries, especially the UK and the US, and you will discover a steep rise. Ditto for the price of gas or petrol. What we are saying is that this i...

In another chilling episode of imposed atavistic policies, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has directed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired. This was the latest of several new restrictions imposed by the hard-line Islamist administration. Local media sources reported that representatives from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were patrolling the entrances to government offices on Monday to check that employees were in compliance with the new rules. Following this new fiat, it would become illegal for employees to shave their beards, or wear local clothing consisting of a long, loose top and trousers, and a hat or turban. The sources, moreover, claimed workers were told to ensure they prayed at the correct times, in strict observance of the Islamic tenets. They were also told they would from now on be unable to enter offices and would eventually be fired if they did not comply with the mandatory dress ...

American comedian, Chris Rock, has declined to press charges against actor, Will Smith, who hit him on the stage of the Oscars on Sunday night. Rock had been smacked after he made a joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith being in “G.I. Jane” because of her shaved head. The statement from the Los Angeles Police Department said, “LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report. If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”

A Nigerian man, Kenneth Ajilore, has been sentenced to six and half years for rape by the Nightingale court based at Hendon Magistrate Court. Ajilore, who is of Prince George Road, Stoke Newington, was accused of raping a woman inside a car. According to Hackney Gazette, detectives began an investigation after a woman, aged in her 20s, reported being raped in a car after a night out in Stoke Newington. The attack took place in the early hours of September 17, 2021. The woman told officers that Ajilore invited her into a vehicle and drove her to different locations across the city. The accuser took photos of the vehicle which detectives used to trace it back to Ajilore. They discovered he had hired it on the morning of September 16. To further prove Ajilore was responsible for the attack, officers talked to several witnesses and examined mobile phone data. They also recovered CCTV footage and carried out DNA analysis which linked Ajilore to the victim. Ajilore was arrested ...

According to the UN, the middle class is made up of people who spend between $10 (N5,780) to $100 (N57,800) per day. For AfDB, the middle class in Africa is made up of people who spend between $2 (N1,156) and $20 (N11,560) per day. Since the pandemic broke out in 2020, Nigerians have been reeling from one hardship to the other: from lockdown and its economic effects to the EndSARS protest to a full-blown recession — and now to war in Ukraine affecting a nation like Nigeria, 8,000 kilometres away. As of 2020, a good number of people across the world, including Bretton Woods institutions, projected that the world would be a better place by 2022. Little did they know that most of the world, including Nigeria, would still be grappling with the more and more increase in prices, beyond the control of any organisation, government, or private individual. Back in 2020, when the bag of 50kg of rice, arguably the most popular staple in Nigeria, hit N26,000, Nigerians complained, blamed it on g...

Here is the full list of the 77 newly elected National officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC). They emerged Saturday night via a consensus list adopted by the governors of the party. 1. National Chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu: (Nasarawa State) 2. Deputy National Chairman (North): Sen. Abubakar Kyari (Boro State) 3. Deputy National Chairman (South): Chief Emma Eneukwu (Enugu State) 4. National Secretary: Otunba lyiola Omisore (Osun State) 5. Deputy National Secretary: Barr. Fetus Fuanter (Plateau State) 6. National Vice Chairman: (North Central): Muhazu Bawa Rijau (Niger State) 7. National Vice Chairman (North East): Mustapha Salihu (Adamawa State) 8. National Vice Chairman (North West): Salihu Lukman (Kaduna State) 9. National Vice Chairman (South East): Dr. Ijeomah Arodiogbu (Imo State) 10. National Vice Chairman (South South): Chief Hon. Victor Ton Giadom (Rivers State) 11. National Vice Chairman (South West): Dr Isaac Kekemeke (Ondo state) 12. National Legal ...

As the preparations for the 2023 Presidential Elections hot up, a renowned Cleric and founder of the New Heaven Evangelical Ministries, Akwanga, Nasarawa State, Bishop Lawrence Marke, on Saturday said that God had revealed to him that former Lagos Governor and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential aspirant, would become the nation’s President come 2023. Bishop Marke, who stated this at a special prayer session organised for Tinubu in Abuja to commemorate the Party National Convention held in the nation’s Federal Capital Terribly, FCT, said that the former Lagos Governor was the chosen one to sail the nation to the promised land According to the cleric, “among all the presidential aspirants in contention for the noble seat of presidency, God is at peace with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He is the chosen one to sail the Nation to the promised land. For the people rejoice when the righteous is in power. “God chooses a man for his people in ways that we cannot begin to understand. Alha...

Police are investigating after the decomposing bodies of a Florida woman and her 3-year-old twins were discovered inside a car with a "really bad stench" coming from it. Andrea Langhorst, 35, and her two kids, Olivia and Adam Dryer, were found dead late Sunday, March 20, after police received reports of a suspicious vehicle parked outside a Melbourne apartment complex with the windows all fogged. It isn’t yet clear how long the family were inside the car, or when they died. Investigators are awaiting autopsy and toxicology reports. They are also trying to track down surveillance footage from the area to determine when Langhorst parked the car and if she had any interactions with anyone after. Her father, Randy Langhorst, suspects drugs may have played a role in her death. She had several past drug arrests to her name, records show.

Furious mother is reported to have dips the hands of her daughter in hot water for consuming 95% of the fish she bought to sell for profit. The single mother narrated that she had borrowed the sum of N10K to startup a fish business so as to raise funds for the school fees of her two kids. According to a Twitter user working with the Rights organization, the condition of the young girl is fatal. In a tweet, the narrator wrote; “I personally took these pictures holding back tears.. Mother dips five-year-old daughter’s hands in hot water for stealing fish in Calabar Cross River State. Her Mother, a food vendor prepared 19 pieces of fish for her business and went out; on getting back, she met only one She then boiled hot water and dipped her hands. Our organization Basic Rights Counsel Initiative has been taking care of the medical bills for weeks now. See how lovely she is, even in pains, she wanted to play with my phone and she can’t stop swinging the hands🤦‍♀️ Her mother stat...

A policeman has arrested a man for not having tinted glass permit. In the viral video, the policeman, who refused to use his seat belt said, “You are a suspect for not having your tinted glass permit. We have our modus operandi for arresting you." This incident comes days after the acting Police spokesman, Prince Olumuyiwa Adejobi, told members of the public that police have been barrel from asking for tinted glass permits. The man accused the police officer of asking for a bribe of N20k. Police said they have identified the inspector and investigation will continue.

He was arrested for raping his faithful, after convincing them that his reproductive organs contained “holy milk” which they need for holy healing. Sobrino Valdeci Picanto, an evangelical pastor from Brazil, persuaded his followers that he practiced his strange beliefs because it was the way he preached the word, saying that his ‘milk’ was sacred. And this pastor said his reproductives was blessed and that “the Lord had consecrated with divine milk of the Holy Spirit” and of course, had to go around evangelizing. “He convinced us that only God could come into our lives through the mouth”, a follower said, “Often, after worship, Pastor Valdeci asked us to do perform oral acts on him until the Holy Spirit came through seed and delivered funds to the church.” Sobrino Valdeci Picanto, 59, was arrested in Apore, Goiás, Brazil, for raping several women attending his church. He gave as an excuse that his reproductive organs had been consecrated with “divine seminal fluid of the Holy...

Brian Houston, the founder of Hillsong Church, the world-renowned worship centre based in Australia, has resigned over claims that he behaved inappropriately with two women. The church’s board announced Houston’s resignation in a statement released via its website on Wednesday. In the statement, the board said it has accepted the resignation of the embattled clergyman as the global senior pastor of the church. It also said regardless of the circumstances surrounding his resignation, he and Bobbie, his wife, “served God faithfully over many decades” and impacted millions of people globally. The board said a change in the church’s leadership has become imperative. It added that the church is “committed to an independent review of our governance structure and processes.” “We would like to advise you that Pastor Brian Houston has resigned as Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church and the board has accepted his resignation,” the statement read. “As you can appreciate, there is still ...

The Federal government has promised to provide efficient and affordable power to Nigerians in line with its agenda to power the country. It said notwithstanding the current power hitch, it’s working round the clock to fix same in order to serve Nigerians with efficient power in the country. Sanusi Garba, chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), who gave the hint at a press briefing at the first Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry meeting in Lagos, said part of the energy recovery plan of the government was the energization of the 450MW Calabar plant and 600MW from 6 plants from South West . He said his commission also expects incremental power when Total lifts the force majeure on some of its operations He spoke on the commission’s readiness for the Phase 1 of the National Mass Metering Programme, saying local distributors have submitted their bids for the supply of the meters. The commission, he said, has reviewed performance investment plans of power ...

A 20-year-old youth has confessed to killing her 3-day-old baby with rat poison. Amina Umar, a divorcee, had the said baby for a 22-year-old man who she claimed could not support her with the baby. She's divorced by her husband but got involved with the new man identified as Buba Musa, with whom she had the baby. She was said to have delivered the baby on the 14th of March, 2022 and administered the deadly rat poison on the baby on the 17th March. The divorcee who hailed from Madagali Local Government Area, told newsmen at the Adamawa Police Command headquarters where she is being held with the said father of the dead child, that she killed the child because of lack of means to cater for the child and herself. She has expressed regret for her action, and was said to have planned her child’s death by sending for the purchase of the rat poison which she fed the baby. After which she told her neighbours that her baby had become sick, but her neighbours became suspicious of her bec...

The Ekiti State High Court has sentenced one Tunmise Abraham to death by hanging for the murder of his landlady, one Bukola Olanrewaju. Abraham was found guilty of raping the landlady before eventually killing her at Olorunda Zone 7 Adebayo area of Ado-Ekiti in 2019. It was gathered that the late Olanrewaju had demanded rent arrears and electricity bills from the convict before the ugly incident. The mother of three was at home alone after her husband had gone to work while the children were said to have gone for holiday coaching when the incident happened. Abraham was alleged to have broken into the woman’s room, threatened her with a cutlass and tied her up before performing the dastardly act. It was also gathered that after the act, the tenant fled the house but some of his belongings were found in the room which suggested that he was responsible for the act. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Julius Ajibare who prosecuted the case for the state government called four witness...

The embattled governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, has accused his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike of stealing public funds belonging to his state (Rivers). This is the latest attack in the war of words between Umahi and Wike since the sacking of the former by a court. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had ordered Umahi and his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, to vacate their offices for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike had followed that up by saying Umahi should return the mandate he got on the platform of the PDP, later adding that he was behind his colleague’s travails. Umahi had replied, saying he could not be sued as a governor and that the judgment poses no threat to his presidential ambition. Umahi had replied, saying he could not be sued as a governor and that the judgment poses no threat to his presidential ambition. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Umahi attacked Wike, calling him a thi...

Hanan, the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, and her husband, Mohammed Turad Sha’aban, have welcomed their first child. Hanan delivered a baby boy in Turkey on Sunday, March 20. Mohammed Turad confirmed the good news in a statement on Instagram. "My wife and I have been blessed with a baby boy! Alhamdulillah. We have named him Muhammad Zayd. (Hibbu Raulallah)" the statement reads. The couple got married in September, 2020.

With effect from April 1st, MultiChoice Nigeria has released new adjusted prices for both Dstv and Gotv packages, with concessions to cushion the price adjustments. DSTV Premium, N21,000, Compact + N14,250, Compact, N9,000, Confam, N5,300, Yanga N2,950 Padi N2,150 Business N2,669, Xtraview + PVR access fee N2,900 GOTV GOtv Max, N4,150, GOtv Jolli N2,800, GOtv Jinja, N1,900. GOtv Lite N900

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, hailed Africa’s richest man and Nigeria’s pride, Aliko Dangote, describing him as the biggest employer of labour after the Federal Government. Buhari stated this during his speech when he inaugurated the multi-billion dollar Dangote Fertiliser Plant, located at the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State. He also said the government would gain excessively in foreign earnings from the new plant. The world-class fertilizer plant was built at a cost of $2.5 billion, with the capacity to produce three million metric tonnes (mt) of urea per annum. Buhari said the new fertiliser plant would reduce Nigeria’s importation of urea, adding that he hopes to inaugurate the Dangote Refinery later this year. The President said, “Along with the several other subsidiaries, Dangote Industries Limited has created millions of jobs across Nigeria. It is the second biggest employer of labour in this country after the Federal Government. Buhari...

Sri Lanka ordered troops to petrol stations Tuesday as sporadic protests erupted among the thousands of motorists queueing up daily for scarce fuel. The South Asian island nation is grappling with its worst economic meltdown since independence in 1948, with rolling electricity blackouts and essential goods such as food and cooking gas also in short supply. Authorities said soldiers were deployed after angry crowds blocked a busy street in Colombo and held up traffic for hours because they were unable to buy kerosene oil on Monday. “Tempers are getting frayed as queues get longer,” a top defence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “A decision was made last night to call out soldiers to reinforce the police. This is to discourage any unrest.” Footage of Monday’s incident shared on social media showed a group of angry women blockading a coach carrying tourists to protest shortages of kerosene needed for cooking stoves. The troop call also follows the stabbing murder of a mo...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sacked 20 members of the Cross River State House of Assembly who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress. In a judgement delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, on Monday, the court held that the lawmakers needed to vacate their seats since they had abandoned the party which brought them to power. The judgement followed a suit filed by the PDP marked FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021.

A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China and caused a mountain fire with casualties unknown, state broadcaster CCTV reported Monday. The Boeing 737 plane crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region, and “caused a mountain fire”, CCTV said, citing the provincial emergency management bureau. The report added that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. CCTV said a “China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 133 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi, and caused a mountain fire.” Local media reported that China Eastern flight MU5735 had not arrived at its scheduled destination in Guangzhou after it took off from the city of Kunming shortly after 1:00 pm (0500 GMT) Monday, citing airport staff. There was no immediate response from China Eastern when contacted by AFP.

33-year-old, Gerald Oglesby, has allegedly whipped his 5-year-old son, General Sema’j Oglesby to death because he didn’t approve of the TV show the boy was watching in the United States. The child was found dead at approximately 1:30am on March 16, according to reports. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Gerald admitted to the police that he whipped the five-year-old repeatedly with an electrical cord.

APC stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has promised to end the epileptic power supply in Nigeria if elected as president. Proposing a seven-point agenda, Tinubu said Nigeria must reduce its over-dependence on petro-dollar. The APC national leader assured that all Nigerians including the unborn generations will benefit from his proposed agenda once he assumes office as president in 2023. According to Tinubu, his proposal would also help create jobs and reduce the bureaucratic bottlenecks preventing Nigeria from having steady power supply. As he described epileptic power supply as the single greatest impediment to Nigeria's economic development.

Sunshine Queens goalkeeper, Elizabeth Johnson, has died, hours after she trained with the Akure-based side. The team confirmed the development in a brief statement issued on Sunday. “Very heartbreaking! Sunshine Queens lost one of its goalkeepers, Elizabeth Johnson (Janded) to the cold hands of death moments ago,” a statement from the club’s media officer, Femi Atolagbe, read. “Johnson who was hale and healthy trained with the team yesterday at the Ondo State Sports Complex, Akure. “She earlier in the day complained of feeling feverish and dizzy. She was being taken to the hospital when she gave up the ghost on the way. Players, officials, and management are still in shock.” ChannelsTV

Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will relocate to Ghana if Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, becomes Nigeria’s president in 2023. On January 10, Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced his intention to contest the presidency in the 2023 general election. Since then, the former Lagos governor and his supporters have travelled to many parts of the country to consult with traditional rulers and political stakeholders. In a press briefing in Lagos on Saturday, George said Tinubu would ensure that his family members occupy sensitive positions if he becomes president, adding that the ex-governor has done nothing to deserve the seat. "I am happy the president has signed the new electoral bill. If by whatever chance he (referring to Tinubu) gets to the villa, I won’t be part of this country,” he said. “And I am not joking. I can go to Ghana, live in Ghana and be watching with binoculars from afar. You will se...

A Member representing Oluyole Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe has proposed that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) should increase the validity of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to three years. She revealed this in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Friday, adding that the bill was sponsored on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, 16th March 2022. The bill tagged, A Bill for an Act To Amend The Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (Establishment, Etc) Act, 2021 and other Related Matters, urged the House to look into increasing the number of years JAMB results will be valid for, Olamilekan Olusada, the lawmaker's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said in a statement on Friday. Akande-Sadipe, who chairs the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, hinted that the proposed amendment for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, the body conducting the examination, will mak...

On Saturday, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, hosted ex-Super Eagles’ players at his Bourdillon, Ikoyi residence in Lagos. The visit was ahead of a novelty match to be played in commemoration of Tinubu’s 70th birthday. However, one of the things that stood out during that visit was the prayer by Taribo West, ex-defender, who is now a pastor. But months before the visit to Tinubu, some of the ex-players met with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, who like Tinubu, has also been pushing for APC presidential ticket.

An 85-year-old man, Jimoh Oladiran, has been reportedly found dead in Asipa village in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that Oladiran’s body was found near a river on March 13, after his children began a search for him when he did not return from a trip he embarked on with one Alfa Mufa. His eldest son, Sulaiman, said he was shocked when he saw his father’s corpse covered with a rusty roofing sheet. He said he suspected that his father, a resident of Somorin Alagbonmeta in Obantoko area of Abeokuta, must have been hit with a stick in the head and bled to death. According to him: “My father told me at about 10am on Saturday (March 12) that he was going to Asipa with a man we have known as his relative, Alfa Mufa. He said they had a programme there. On Saturday night, we did not see him. I called our brother, who is the Baale of Asipa, Chief Kehinde Omirinde, and told him about it. He told me to wait until the next day before taking any steps to locate him...

The Enugu State Police Command of the Nigeria Police has vowed to arrest the policemen who were accused of manhandling a masquerade and its followers at Agbani, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the State. The Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Lawal, gave the order in a statement on Saturday morning, titled, ‘Alleged viral video clip of police operatives physically assaulting citizens at Agbani area of Nkanu West LGA Enugu: CP condemns act, orders thorough investigation and sanction of erring operatives’. Lawal described the action of the policemen as unprofessional and against extant operational codes of the Nigeria Police Force and the fundamental human rights of citizens. He, therefore, urged residents who witnessed the incident to provide the police with useful information on the v ideo of the assualtthat went viral on InstablogN9ja, he said such information will aid the investigation. aid the investigation.

Roman Abramovich can still scupper the Chelsea sale with sources insisting that he does not want to accept a bid from a country that has sanctioned Russian oligarchs. Abramovich, the Chelsea owner, will be able to influence the club's sale despite having had his assets seized by the Government. He has hired The Raine Group to sell the club and could veto bids from the United States and Britain because both countries have sanctioned oligarchs from his homeland in response to the war on Ukraine. He is prepared to scupper sale to British or US buyers because the countries have sanctioned Russian oligarchs - and the UK Government is opposed to £2.6bn Saudi bid.

Rishi Sunak is a British politician and former hedge fund manager who has been Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020. A member of the Conservative Party. The Chancellor said with prices at the pumps soaring, he understood the pressure facing families already been whacked by high gas prices and inflation. He defended his decision to increase National Insurance contributions (Nics) from April despite please from his own backbenchers and the opposition to reverse the rise in the tax on working. He said the NHS - which the increase will help fund - 'deserve and need our funding' and the war-exacerbated energy crisis 'hasn't changed the underlying situation'. He also appeared to rule out an increase in defence spending, despite calls for it to go up in the face of the Russian invasions of Ukraine. But pressed on whether he would take action on Wednesday to ease pressure at the pumps - caused by sanctions on Russia over the war of aggression, he said: ...