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The Delta State Government on Monday suspended the State Commissioner for Works (Highway and Urban Roads) Reuben Izeze, for allegedly assaulting his aide, Simon Mudi. The suspension notice is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Kingsley Emu in Asaba. The suspension is linked to a viral video of a fracas at the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, in July during a Delta Central Stakeholders meeting of the All Progressives Congress. Although the fracas did not take place in the APC meeting hall, the governor’s aide was assaulted on the premises after the meeting,…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Maiduguri Zonal Directorate, have arrested a man identified as Nuhu Dahiru for allegedly impersonating an officer of the commission and obtaining N3m by false pretence. PUNCH Metro learnt this from an official statement issued by the EFCC and uploaded on its X account on Monday. According to the anti-graft agency, Dahiru was arrested at Tashan Bama, along Bama Road, Maiduguri, Borno State, following credible intelligence received by its operatives. The commission said the suspect had allegedly been “parading himself as an officer of the EFCC” and using the false identity to defraud…

OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney will spend just two more years behind bars after she accepted a plea deal and was sentenced in the 2022 murder of her boyfriend, Christian “Toby” Obumseli. During a court hearing on Monday, August 10, prosecutors and her attorneys revealed that Clenney, 30, was ultimately charged with manslaughter with a deadly weapon as part of a plea deal. Prior to accepting the deal, Clenney had been facing second-degree murder charges after she fatally stabbed Obumseli, 27, in their Miami high-rise apartment. Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson ultimately sentenced Clenney to six years behind bars with time served.…

Lere Olayinka, Wike’s aide, downplays cleric’s religious label, stating everyone is an “infidel” depending on perspective. Read more on Punch. Read More: https://punchng.com/we-are-all-infidels-lere-olayinka-downplays-clerics-religious-label/ Read the full article here

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What reaction was this man looking for? He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would say it was cool or inspiring. It seemed I was not the first person he’d told about this poster. “You know, it’s funny,” he said to me. “No one ever says anything…

A mother in Rhode Island was arrested after she allegedly killed her 21-year-old autistic daughter in a suspected murder-suicide attempt. Anna Maria Angelosanto has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Alexandra Straccia, according to WPRI. The Cranston Police Department learned of the crime when officers reported to a first-floor apartment in Cranston, Rhode Island, on the morning of July 27. Upon their arrival, officers allegedly found Angelosanto, 62, with seemingly self-inflicted wounds. Meanwhile, Straccia was found dead in a separate bedroom. Angelosanto was transported to a nearby hospital to be treated, and an investigation was…

Former Vice-President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, on Monday appealed to the electorate in Osun State to support the party in the 15 August governorship election. Atiku made the appeal while speaking at the ADC campaign grand rally in Osogbo, the state capital. He said the ADC represented the interests of Nigerians, recalling his long-standing political relationship with the people of the state. Atiku said he had previously campaigned in Osun for Governor Ademola Adeleke and for his presidential bid, adding that the people had supported him on both occasions. “This is the fourth…

Nigeria’s healthcare sector needs more than additional funding to expand. It needs businesses capable of attracting capital, deploying it effectively and building institutions that can grow sustainably, healthcare stakeholders have said. That challenge was at the centre of the inaugural First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Healthcare Summit in Lagos, where the bank unveiled a N20 billion Healthcare Fund to support private healthcare businesses. The fund will provide financing to hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, maternity homes and other businesses across the healthcare value chain. The summit, themed “Financing Growth: Unlocking Opportunity, Building the Future of Healthcare,” brought together…

The Presidency on Sunday said President Bola Tinubu deserved re-election in 2027 based on the economic reforms and infrastructure development the administration has championed nationwide. It dismissed claims by the opposition that the President had achieved nothing in office. “Anybody that has done well deserves to come back again,” said Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Special Duties, Tunde Rahman, during a nationwide inspection of federal and state infrastructure projects in Nasarawa State led by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. The Renewed Hope Ambassadors National Media Tour in Nasarawa was the second leg…

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