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FIRST BANK ROBBERY OF THE YEAR 2020 IN ABUJA Larry Ehizo, A Staff Of First Bank at Mpape, Abuja Narrates How He Coordinated Foiled Robbery In His Bank A Customer Service Officer with First Bank at Mpape, Abuja, Larry Ehizo, has narrated how he helped robbers gained access. He and others were paraded by the FCT Police command for the operation foiled by a combined team of police and soldiers. In his confession, Ehizo claimed that one Ernest (still at large), threatened to kill him, his girlfriend and his family if he did ensure the robbery took place. The 30-year-old graduate of Political Science from the University of Abuja had worked with First Bank. He said: “I met a friend (Ernest) in November and we had a discussion where we used to hang out and I said something after he complained about our services in the bank and we almost got into a serious argument and I told him that the only thing he would do is get angry and maybe not bank again with us. He (Ernest) said...

Nigerian government is working on how to “disengage” over 200,000 beneficiaries of the government social intervention programme dubbed N-Power, an official has said. Maryam Uwais, senior special assistant to the President on social investment, in an interview with Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) said she in talks with the finance ministry on the next plan. available to them, it has not be finalized yet with the finance ministry,” she added. In 2017, former senior special assistant to the President on N-Power Scheme, Afolabi Imoukhuede, said no fewer than 200,000 out of 500,000 youth-targeted had been empowered for the first batch of the scheme in 2016. into an enhancement programme as you continue to give your service and earn your monthly stipend,” the government said in a statement in October 2018. The federal government noted that “the details of the N-Power Enhance will gladden” and hinted that the enhancement plan is a “multi-sector, multilayered and multi-pronged”...

South African convicted rapist Nicholas Ninow has been sentenced to life behind bars for raping a seven-year-old girl. The 21-year-old was caught naked and with the child in the female toilets of a popular Pretoria restaurant in September 2018. Thunderous applause erupted at the Pretoria High Court as Nicholas Ninow was sentenced to life behind bars – he also received a further 10 years for defeating the ends of justice and drug abuse. Judge Mosopa said the rapist had showed no remorse for his actions. His name will also be entered into the register of sexual offenders which means he cannot be allowed to work in any environment that involves children in the future. In a bid to get a lenient sentence, Ninow detailed his history of drug use and apologised to his victim and her family. On Wednesday, he read out a poem he wrote for his seven-year-old victim. Ninow also admitted he had been on a three-day drug binge and that he didn’t care about the consequences of his actions...

A university student has been ordered to write an essay on the dangers of drugs after being convicted of planning to sell cannabis cakes. Police arrested Chikwanda Chisendele, a first-year civil engineering student at the Copperbelt University, on Monday. The 21-year-old was caught with cannabis-laced cakes weighing more than 1kg (2.2lb), police said. As part of his punishment, a judge sentenced him to write a 50-page essay on drug use. In court, he was told to write letters of apology to his university, parents and to Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission (DEF) before 15 November. The judge also gave Chisembele a two-year suspended jail term, meaning that he will not spend any time in jail unless he commits another offence. The DEF said it has "intensified efforts to nab individuals" baking cakes containing cannabis. In a warning to universities, the agency urged them to "be alert in view of the trend of cakes and scones laced with cannabis being tra...

California becomes first state in US requiring public universities to offer abortion pill on campus!!!! Gov.  Gavin Newsom  (D) signed a bill into law on Friday that makes California the first state in the U.S. to require public universities to offer medication abortion at on-campus student health centers. The state assembly  voted in September to pass  Senate Bill 24  in a 55-19 vote, several months after the state Senate first voted to approve the measure in May. The new law requires that “each student health care services clinic on a California State University or University of California campus to offer abortion by medication techniques.” The 34 University of California and California State University schools have until January 2023 to comply. In a medical abortion, which is nonsurgical and noninvasive, women within the first 10 weeks of their pregnancy can take two prescription pills to induce a miscarriage. It is diff...

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, on Tuesday reminded Nigerians that it was no longer in the business of issuing them visas. The Embassy’s Charge d’ Affaires, Mr Michel Deleen, told newsmen in Lagos that the Embassy had since 2013 swapped its visa issuance processes in Nigeria. Deleen said that the Embassy had since 2013 swapped its visas issuance to Nigerians with the French Consulate General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. “Let me remind Nigerians that since 2013, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria had signed agreements with the French Consulate-General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. “What this means is that we have swapped our visa application processes in Nigeria with the French Consulate-General in Lagos and the Embassy of Belgium in Abuja. “Let me remind Nigerians that under these agreements, any Nigerian that wants to visit the Netherlands for business, study or tourism ...

INEC says it will enter into strategic partnership with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to ensure an effective distribution of materials and personnel ahead of the 2019 elections. Prof Godswill Obioma, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ebonyi, said this at a meeting attended by representatives of the 29 branches of the NURTW and INEC officials on Saturday in Abakaliki. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Obioma commended the union for the previous partnership with the commission in the area of transport arrangements. The REC said that transportation was a critical component of election involving timely movement of INEC personnel and electoral materials. According to him, elections are held between 8a.m. and 4p. m. “It becomes pertinent that adequate transportation arrangements are made to ensure that INEC officials and materials are moved to designated election centres on time.” He sai...