Japan’s Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the upcoming French Open with a hamstring injury. The 22-year-old had her left hamstring taped when she battled back against Victoria Azarenka in the U.S. Open final in New York on Saturday to win her third Grand Slam title. “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to play the French Open this year,” the world number three wrote on social media in a message she also posted in Japanese. “My hamstring is still sore so I won’t have time to prepare for the clay – these two tournaments came too close to each other for me…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 131 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 56,735. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. It said the new cases were confirmed in 18 states. The health agency said Lagos state recorded the highest number of infections with 45 cases, Kaduna and plateau followed with 17 each, 16 in FCT, and 6 cases each in Delta and Niger. Kwara recorded 5 cases, Oyo 3, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ekiti, Enugu, and Osun 2 each. Others were, Sokoto 2, Bauchi,…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, in Kano state, has arrested a 29-year-old housewife, Jamila Abubakar, over alleged murder of her stepson, Muhammad Bashir. Confirming the arrest on Thursday, Mr Shehu Umar, NAPTIP Zonal Commander in charge of Kano, disclosed that the suspect was apprehended on Thursday after she beat her seven-year-old stepson to death at Tarauni Kasuwa area of Kano metropolis. He recalled that the Agency had invited the suspect over alleged child abuse after the deceased was rescued from the suspect in the past few months. “We received information that the deceased rescued few…
A serving soldier in the Nigerian Army, a Lance Corporal, has committed suicide at his duty post in Buni Gari, Gujba local government area of Yobe state in North-East Nigeria. PRNigeria reports that the soldier, who left a suicide note behind for his wife, was alleged to have shot himself on the head and bled to death. While his body had been evacuated, the Nigerian Army has commenced an investigation into circumstances leading to the incident. By PRNigeria
Nigeria is in a dangerous position where too many of its citizens and collectives have concluded that things cannot continue the way they are without the country tipping over but the Buhari Administration is in denial. The Government must start with admitting where we are as a first step. There is increasing insecurity across the country and clearly the security agencies cannot, and more people are beginning to think, do not want to arrest it. Kidnapping for ransom is an acute concern across Nigeria. The northeast is witnessing a resurgence in Boko Haram activity, and thousands of people are internally…
The North Central Governors Forum has disowned the North Central Peoples Forum, NCPF, recently formed by some elders in the region. The Governors Forum, which held a virtual meeting on Monday to deliberate on the emergence of the NCPF, was presided by the Chairman of the Foum, and governor of Niger state, Abubakar Sani Bello. According to a statement personally signed by Sani-Bello, a copy of which was made available to Ashenewsonline on Thursday, the Forum exhaustively deliberated and arrived at the following decisions: ‘That members of the Governor’s Forum were never consulted collectively or individually by those behind the…
The Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned one Adereti Taofeek before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N3, 948, 739.66. One of the counts read: “That you, Adereti Taofeek and Adereti Monsurat (still at large), on or about the 23rd day of August, 2017, at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly stole and converted to your own use, the sum of N2, 854, 494.52, property of Mrs. Modinat Agbeniga.” The…
The Corps Marshall and Chief Executive Officer, Kaduna State Traffic Law Enforcement Authority, KASTLEA, Major Garba Yahaya (rtd), has called for the inclusion of anti- corruption studies, in schools’ curricula, from primary level to university level, as a veritable means of minimising the effects of corruption in Nigeria. He made this appeal on Thursday, September 17, 2020 in Kaduna while receiving the Kaduna zonal head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sanusi Abdullahi, who paid him a Courtesy Visit. According to Yahaya, the inclusion of anti- graft studies in schools’ curricula, would broaden the knowledge base of students…
Justice Muhammad Muhammad of the Sokoto State High Court on Thursday, convicted one Bello Matsala Umar to prison for obtaining the sum of N225,000.00 by false pretense. He was prosecuted by the Sokoto zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on one-count amended charge of cheating to that tune. The charge read, “That you Bello Matsala Umar, sometime in June, 2019 at Sokoto within the judicial division of the High Court of Justice of Sokoto, dishonestly induced one Abdulrahman Abdullahi to pay the total sum of N450,000.00 out of which you were given N225,000.00, as your share,…
The Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has said that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka was wrong in his assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s policies and conduct. In a statement by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, made available to Ashenewsonline on Thursday, the Organisation said the seed of division was planted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the run-up to the 2015 and 2019 elections. “The highly respected Laureate’s piece is, therefore, a magnificent piece of fiction, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing but malicious discontent and discord. “It is a bit surprising that the revered Nobel Laureate…