Reporters Without Borders added Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to its “enemies of press freedom” list on Monday. It is the first time a European head of state has appeared on the list. “Since Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party came to power in 2010, they had brought Hungary’s media landscape under their control step by step,’’ the journalists’ association said in Berlin on Monday. “The public broadcasters have been centralised in the state media holding MTVA, which also includes Hungary’s only news agency MTI,’’ RSF wrote in a statement. “The regional press has been fully owned by entrepreneurs friendly…
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The Police Command in Kaduna State on Sunday confirmed the kidnap of eight persons at the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Quarters, in Zaria town of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, ASP Muhammed Jalige confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna. Jalige said, in the early hours of Sunday at about 1.30 am, suspected bandits in large number attacked a Divisional Police Headquarters, in Saye area of Zaria. “In an attempt to overrun the officers on duty, they met a stiff resistance as there was heavy exchange of fire between the bandits and the police personnel on duty.…
In Nigeria, survival as a successful personality requires the ingenuity to be a shrewd multitasks expert. Yes, you need to have a special capacity to sagaciously accomplish two or more tasks at the same time with good to excellent results. Multitasking is the ability to manage multiple responsibilities at once by focusing on one task while keeping track of others as well as switching back and forth in-between tasks and effectively performing them rapidly one after the other. Multitasking moves from the simple like combination of eating and reading, phoning and typing, driving and talking to more complex and risky…
…Intercepts drugs going to US, Australia; seizes 410kg opioids in Plateau, Kwara Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Nigerian woman based in Brazil, Mrs. Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private part and handbag. The mother of three was arrested on Friday night on arrival in Abuja via Qatar Air from Sao Paulo, Brazil through Doha. Upon a proper search, 12 wraps of cocaine inserted in her private part were extracted while another 88 pellets stuffed in socks were discovered hidden…
Sokoto state government has denied media reports that certain individuals from other parts of the country were recruited as indigenes into some paramilitary organisations. ASHENEWS reported Muslim Rights Concern on Friday last week that names of citizens other than those of Sokoto state origin were published on the column of Sokoto state as those recruited to represent it. However, a statement by the spokesperson to governor Aminu Tambuwal made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday, said investigations by the Sokoto state government revealed that the claims were false. According to the statement, “the Commissioner for Careers and Security Matters, Garba Isa…
…As stakeholders intensify call for increase domestic rice production The African Agricultural Technology Foundation, AATF, Rice Project Manager, Dr Kayode Sanni has said that the current rice consumption in Africa stands at 33.2 million MT of milled rice, 12 million of which is imported and with importation expected to reach over 20 million MT by 2026. Speaking at the stakeholders annual review meeting of the NEWEST Rice project of the AATF, which held between June 30 and July 2 2021 in Abuja, Dr Sanni stressed the urgent need to increase domestic production in Sub-Saharan Africa to meet demand of rapidly…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), have resolved to enhance partnerships and cooperation on border security and migration management efforts. This is contained in a communique released at the end of a three-day workshop of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and NIS Senior Management in Lagos on Sunday. The communique was signed by Mr Mohammed Babandede, the Controller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (CGIS) and IOM Chief of Mission, Mr Franz Celestin. In the communique, NIS resolved to commit to delivering a safe, humane and orderly border control systems across service windows to improve passengers’…
Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal, has described the state’s working relationship with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as impactful, saying the Fund’s handwriting in the state, is written in gold. Tambuwal, represented by the deputy governor, Manir Dan’Iya stated this when he received the retiring UNICEF Chief of Field Office, Mohammedeen Fall at Government House, Sokoto on Saturday. According to the governor, UNICEF is still serving its purpose in the state as an agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children. “Having Mr. Fall as Chief of Field Office, has exposed Sokoto to so much of UNICEF…
Mother of a 15-year old housewife, who is married to a 25-year-old man in Goronyo local government area of Sokoto state, has alleged that her in-law forcefully had annal sex with her daughter and broke her spinal cord in the process. Speaking with journalists, the mother also said that her daughter, who is critically in pains at the Sokoto Specialist Hospital, could not still move for the past 10 days when the incident happened. “My daughter told me that the husband wanted to have sex with her through the anus but she refused. He folded her arms and legs and…
Sunday Igboho, whose house was invaded by Nigeria’s security operatives led by the State Security Services, in Ibadan last week, has demanded N500 million and apology from the federal government. Igboho, through his lawyer, Yomi Aliyu, SAN, made the demand in a letter titled: “Illegal, gross, unconstitutional invasion of Sunday Igboho’s residence” on Saturday. The demand of N500 million, according to the letter, is for reparation for damage done by the security operatives. Alliyu explained that the money would be used to replace his client’s exotic cars which included Mercedes Benz G-Class and 2019 Lexus car. “We hereby demand that…