SEVEN persons have been confirmed dead and 29 others sustained various degrees of injuries in an incident that occurred during the annual Calabar Carnival on Tuesday. News Point Nigeria gathered that the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Cross River State has confirmed the ‘bloody’ incident. The Sector Commander of the Corps, Maikano Hassan confirmed the number of casualties. Hassan said that the incident occurred in front of the Jumat Mosque in Bogobiri in the capital city of Cross River during the Bikers Carnival activity of the carnival. He listed the number of injured to include 21 male adults, three…
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GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State has ordered the arrest of the State All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha and a party Chieftain, Chief Eni Chima over communal unrest. This is following a supremacy battle between supporters of Okoro-Emegha and Chima, the House of Representatives candidate for Afikpo North/South federal constituency at Ekoli-Edda, Afikpo South LGA, on December 26. News Point Nigeria gathered that the supremacy battle led to the death of three persons and the destruction of property worth millions of naira including Okoro-Emegha’s house. The order of arrest was contained in a statement signed by Umahi”s…
INATIMI Spiff, a former senator who represented Bayelsa East in the National Assembly, is dead, according to a statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The influential politician who hailed from Twon-Brass in Brass local government of Bayelsa state died on Saturday, December 24, in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness, PM News reported. News Point Nigeria gathers that the PDP spokesman in Bayelsa state, Ebiye Egoli, announced the death of the former Secretary to State Government SSG) in the Old Rivers state on Monday, December 26. “It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that we received…
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu has called for an end to violence in the Southeast. Kanu, who is in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), conveyed the message through his lawyers during a visit to him. He said the enemies were relentlessly exploiting the people and recruiting criminals to destroy Igboland and blame it on IPOB. IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful, in a statement, said Kanu also warned those who claim to be IPOB members and his disciples to desist from being agents of destabilisation. He said: “Our enemies plan to destabilise Igboland using IPOB…
THE United States government has announced a project that will strengthen the forensic and chemical analysis capacity of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, as well as its intelligence gathering and prosecution capabilities. This is according to a statement on Monday by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi. According to him, the latest support from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) comes on the heels of an award of N500 million grant to fund selected projects in the Agency by the Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative (ASR Africa). The…
NATIONAL Bureau of Statistics’ foreign trade reports has indicated that Nigeria had spent N205.38bn in the importation of medications within nine months. The analysis of the first quarter to the third quarter of the reports indicated that the medications were imported between January and September 2022. According to the reports, the majority of the drugs were bought from the Netherlands, Malaysia, China, and India. The majority of the drugs were imported during the second quarter, followed by the first and third quarters. National Bureau of Statistics’ foreign trade reports has indicated that Nigeria had spent N205.38bn in the importation of…
A PUBLIC Health Scientist and an epidemiologist of the COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute, Eric Liang Feigl-Ding has reported that China is facing a worse Corona Virus wave than that of the past, which has left many people dead and hospitals running out of medications. Ding took to Twitter to say: “I want to remind folks that Beijing has some of the best hospitals in China. And yet, at this top tier level A hospital, they still ran out of beds and oxygen tanks. This story is harrowing, thousands of patients die in 15 minutes…
A publication by the International financial institution, World Bank, has revealed that it would cost Nigeria N3.7tn to tackle the issue of poverty. News Point Nigeria reports that the poverty rate in Nigeria has been on the rise yearly. The financial institution, however, noted in its synthesis report for the Nigeria Country Economic Memorandum: Charting a New Course, which was released this month. According to the World Bank, the N3.7tn stated in its report is lower than what the country splashed annually on petrol subsidies. A publication by the International financial institution, World Bank, has revealed that it would cost Nigeria…