luchiinter blog

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2022

Two brothers arrested in Ogun for allegedly kidnapping woman and her 9-year-old son for ritual

- December 31, 2022

Kidnapping for ritual involves killing or severing the body part of abducted persons for the purpose of using it as an object of ritual sacrifice aimed to acquire ritual money, favour, fame, success, power and protection. It is one of the challenges facing Nigeria which has pervaded almost all parts of the country. Kidnapping has become a regular event when hundreds of Nigerians lost their lives to ritual killers. Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two brothers for allegedly kidnapping a woman and her 9-year-old son for ritual purposes. The suspects, Ayomide Babatunde and Gbenga Babatunde were arrested on Friday, December 30, following information received by policemen at Oja Odan Divisional Headquarters that the brothers were negotiating with a supposed buyer to sell two human beings either in parts or alive for money making ritual. Spokesperson of the command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement, said the supposed buyer informed the Baale

President Buhari delivers last New Year message to Nigerians – [Full text]

- December 31, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a New Year message to Nigerians as the people await 2023. The President’s message captured some pressing national issues. Prominent among them is the 2023 general elections. President Buhari, noted that this would be his last New Year message as the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Here is the full speech of the President: My Fellow Countrymen and Women. A very happy and prosperous New Year to you. First, I would like to thank and honour the Almighty who saw us through the year 2022 and has given us the opportunity to see another year. Each New Year is an opportunity to reflect on the past year, reposition, and move forward with the New. As we celebrate the opportunity to be alive in the year 2023, we must also acknowledge the passing away of our brothers and sisters who didn’t make it into this new year. May their souls rest in perfect peace. This year is particularly important to me because this message is in essence

Chimamanda Adichie Receives Chieftaincy Title In Hometown

- December 30, 2022

The chieftaincy as a whole is one of the oldest continuously existing institutions in Nigeria and is legally recognized by its government. Chieftaincy title is described as a status of symbol which elevates the bearer above his untitled age mates in traditional and community affairs. These are titles conferred only on illustrious men and women who have distinguished themselves in one thing or the other. These people through their philantropic disposition built roads, schools, church, market and other commendable developmental activities. Holding a chieftancy title in Igboland is a testimony of one's reputation in such community. Some prominent members of society spend personal funds for rural development. The traditional ruler in such a domain and people in appreciation for the effort of the indigene might bestow on the son a chieftaincy title. In some parts of Igbo land, women who have gone far in different aspect of life also get chieftancy title from either their community of bi

Kerosene Explosion Leaves Many Houses Destroyed In Rivers State (photos)

- December 30, 2022

Kerosene also known as paraffin kero is a flammable liquid mixture of chemicals that are produced in the distillation of crude oil, to produce kerosene,crude oil is distilled in a distillation tower in a process similar to that used to produce disel and gasoline. Invented in 1840 by a Canadian physician, Abraham Gasner, it is highly combustile, making it an efficient fuel and incredibly easy to light. Being extensively used in developing world like Nigeria and others for cooking, heating, and lighting, it is a major component of aviation fuel and also used as a cleaning agent. Few months after experiencing rampaging flood, another tragedy struck the people of Elekahia, a densely populated area in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday morning,December 30th, 2022. According to reports, the fire outbreak started at about 8am. Men of the Federal Fire service were immediately alerted to the scene to help put out the fire. It was gathered that the fire, which was caused by a kerosene expl

Football legend, Pele dies aged 82 after long battle with cancer

- December 29, 2022

Football legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly known as Pele, regarded by many as one of the greatest footballer of all time, has passed on at the age of 82. Pele who has been receiving chemotherapy for bowel cancer, was admitted to hospital in Sao Paulo earlier this month having contracted a respiratory infection after a bout of Covid-19. The Brazilian soccer star who rivaled Muhammad Ali as the world’s most popular and recognizable athlete, died on Thursday, December 29, at a Sao Paulo hospital. His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death on Thursday evening. Family members had gathered at the Albert Einstein Israelita Hospital in Sao Paulo shortly before Christmas after news that his colon cancer had worsened and posted a series of pictures of their bedside vigil over recent days. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele is the only player in football history to have won the World Cup three times - in 1958, 1962 and 1970; and a committee of experts voted him as the Fifa ‘Player o

Abducted man found dead on Christmas Day in Anambra

- December 27, 2022

A young man identified simply as Ifeanyi, who was allegedly abducted in Okpuno, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra, has been found dead. The victim, an indigene of Awgu community in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, was said to be abducted two days to Christmas by some suspected kidnappers. According to a source, the body of the abducted man was found dumped by the roadside on Christmas Day in Awka, the state capital. "He was kidnapped on Friday on Geneva Hotel road. I don’t know the exact point where his lifeless body was found, but it was found by the roadside," the source said. “If such a barbaric outing can take place in the capital city of the state, without any intelligence as regards hunting the perpetrators of this crime down, then I can confidently tell you that no person is safe down there,” the source added. Confirming the incident, spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said that it was not a kidnap case. &q

NDLEA Intercepts 61kg Of Cannabis Concealed In Vehicles At Lagos Seaport

- December 26, 2022

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted consignments of Cannabis Indica, popularly called Colorado, concealed in vehicles imported from Montreal, Canada at the Tincan seaport, Apapa, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. According to a statement release on Sunday, 25 December 2022, by the Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, '' Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized the drugs at the Tincan seaport, Apapa, and Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State''. Mr Babafemi said the drugs, which were concealed in packs of cannabis juice flown in from South Africa, were meant for distribution ahead of the Christmas festive season. He said a consignment of 185 parcels of Cannabis Indica weighing 61.3kgs, was also seized during a joint examination of a container at the Tincan seaport, Lagos. He also said the container marked MSCU5206726 from Montreal, Canada, was declared a

Step Down For Tinubu, Adamu Garba Advises Peter Obi

- December 25, 2022

Ex-presidential aspirant of the Young Progressives Party, Adamu Garba , has told the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to step down for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. Garba said this in a tweet on Thursday night, following pictures that circulated on social media of Obi’s Port Harcourt rally with the location half full. The APC chieftain further accused Obi of isolating the South-East at the centre, describing Obi’s Port Harcourt rally as disappointing. Garba tweeted, “Peter Obi’s disappointing rally in Port Harcourt today should serve as a perfect breakfast from his aspiration. “He should immediately step down and endorse the real and truly prepared Presidential Candidate; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu & stop isolating Southeast from the center,” Garba said. However, when asked the position he (Peter Obi) would be given if he accepts to step down for Tinubu, Garba opined: “He’ll be assigned to

People referring to me as Jibril from Sudan was not so funny – Buhari

- December 24, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the claim that he was dead and reportedly a body double, called ‘Jibril Aminu from Sudan’, occupying the presidential villa in Abuja as a humour taken too far and not funny. President Buhari made this known in a documentary shown on Friday night at a private dinner organised by his family and very close associates, marking his 80th birthday tagged “Celebrating a Patriot, a Leader, an elder statesman”. According to him, some Nigerians are skilled in creating humour to feast on something they do not understand or comprehend. He described the rumour as the work of some mischief makers to demonstrate their cheekiness. Asked by the interviewer if he heard about the crazy rumour a while back that he was not Buhari, he replied smiling, “Yes! People said I am somebody from Sudan. I didn’t bother with the name. Nigerians have mischievous ways of explaining themselves.” Asked how he finds such things funny, the President said: “No. it’s not funny becaus

Shell agrees to pay €15m to Ogoni farmers and Niger Delta communities over pollution

- December 23, 2022

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the Nigerian subsidiary of global oil giant, Shell Plc, has reached an agreement to pay €15 million to communities in the Niger Delta region of the country affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks. The compensation is the result of Dutch court case brought by Friends of the Earth in 2008, in which Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, SPDC, last year was found to be responsible for the oil spills and was ordered to pay for the damages to farmers. The affected communities are Goi, Oruma and Ikot Ada Udo. The communities were impacted by four oil spills that occurred between 2004 and 2007. The plaintiffs were aided by Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth. A Dutch appeals court in a judgment given in 2021 after 13 years of legal battle, had ruled that Shell must pay for the series of leaks and that the parent company must install new pipeline equipment to prevent further devastating spills. In a statement released on Friday, Decem

United Nations Security Council Demands Release Of Imprisoned Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi In Historic Resolution

- December 22, 2022

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Myanmar’s ruling military junta to release all political prisoners, including deposed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Win Myint, in its first resolution passed on the Southeast Asian country since its independence. The act by the UN comes nearly two years after the military staged a violent coup, overthrowing the democratically elected government and arresting civilian leaders including Suu Kyi. Freedoms and rights in Myanmar under the military junta have deteriorated. State executions have returned, thousands of people have been arrested for protesting against military rule, and the number of documented violent attacks by the army on civilian areas, including schools, has surged, according to non-governmental organizations. UNSC Resolution 2669 on Myanmar expressed “deep concern at the ongoing state of emergency imposed by the military,” and emphasized the need to tackle several long-standing issues. It al

Second Niger Bridge Users Will Pay Toll - FG

- December 21, 2022

The federal government on Wednesday, December 21, announced that pedestrians plying the recently opened Second Niger Bridge will pay toll. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) said the road will remain open till January 1 for inward travelers, and for those on outward journey from January 2 to 15. The bridge will be shut after January 15. Fashola said in an interview on Channels Television; “Infrastructure is one of the instruments for economic growth and tackling multidimensional poverty. “The purpose of the second Niger Bridge is to bring relief to Nigerians who traverse from east to west or west to east. “Especially during the end of the year, we know that it is a logistics nightmare moving goods and services and people. “The bridge itself is finished. The road linking it to the Obusi end on the Anambra side is finished, except for the interchange which is at different levels of completion. The road linking it to the Asaba side is the one that we could not fi

CBN Releases Security Features Of New Naira Notes As Fake Circulates

- December 21, 2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria has released the security features of the newly released N1,000 noted, N500 note and N200 note. The N1,000 note has 23 security features, the N500 note has 15 security features, while the N200 note has 10 security features. Some of the security features the CBN hopes will aid in easy identification of fake notes include touch, visibility, the security thread and the watermark. Other areas such as the portrait, lettering and the denominational numerals on the obverse and reverse of the notes are embossed. A soft texture and dull image are indicators of a fake naira. That means one should be sensitive to the touch of the banknote when carrying out a transaction. There is also need to observe the gold foil on the right side, close to the CBN governor’s signature. One can also differentiate the genuine naira note from counterfeit by applying liquid to the note, and a fake currency can easily change colour. Also, the ribbon-like thread on all Naira notes can a

Search This Blog