Fire guts EFCC office in Abuja (Guardian) * Nine farmers killed in Boko Haram attack in Borno (Guardian)

Fire guts EFCC office in Abuja (Guardian)

A fire incident yesterday night gutted the Wuse 2 office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was confirmed in a statement by the EFCC Acting Head, Media andPublicity, Tony Orilade. According to Orilade, men of the Federal Fire Service, FFS, Wuse Zonal office successfully subdued the inferno that almost razed down the Wuse 2 Zonal office of the EFCC. Read more

 

 

Nine farmers killed in Boko Haram attack in Borno (Guardian)

Boko Haram members have killed nine farmers and abducted 12 others in a village in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, the cradle of the jihadist movement, locals told AFP Tuesday. On Monday, they stormed into fields outside Mammanti village, opening fire on farmers as they worked, killing nine and injuring three others. “We recovered nine dead bodies after the attack,” the village chief Muhammad Mammanti said. Read more

 

 

Three arraigned, remanded for impersonating Aisha Buhari (Guardian)

Justice Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday remanded in prison custody alleged impostor of President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha Buhari. The alleged impostor, Uche Julius, also known as Musa Mohammed, was remanded following his arraignment by the police.  Read more

 

LASU: Rule of law responsible for dismissal of 20 staff (Nation)

Prof. Adebayo Ninalowo, Chairman, Governing Council, Lagos State University (LASU) has said that the recent dismissal of 20 staff of the university is in accordance with rule of law. Ninalowo made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the university’s maiden long service award held in Lagos on Tuesday. He was reacting to the Sept. 8, 2017 ratification by the council dismissing 20 staff of the university over various alleged malpractices. Read more

 

NERC: Discos yet to provide meters for 57% of electricity users (ThisDay)

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) yesterday disclosed that in every 10 users of grid generated electricity supplied by the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria, nearly six of them, representing 57 per cent, have remained unmetered, indicating that estimated billings by the Discos are still prevalent. NERC also indicated it was about to introduce a regulation to cap monthly estimated bills issued to consumers by the Discos. Read more

 

NDLEA arrests 6, seizes 104 kg of indian hemp in Kogi (Leadership)

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kogi State says it has arrested six persons and seized 104.150 kg of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp between Oct.  25 and Saturday. Alhaji Idris Bello, the Commander of NDLEA in Kogi, said this while parading the suspects and the illicit substances on Tuesday in Lokoja. Read more

 

Muslims mark Eid el Maulud with sufi rituals and gifts (Punch)

From sufis in Iraqi Kurdistan shaking their hair to rhythmic drumbeats, to Libyan children receiving toys and Egyptians swapping sweets — Muslims across the world celebrated Prophet Mohammed’s birthday on Tuesday. Nearly 1,450 years after Mohammed was born at Mecca in modern-day Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslims marked the anniversary with ancestral customs and new traditions on Tuesday, a few days ahead of the date recognised by Shiites. Read more

 

 

Barnes & Noble says Michelle Obama’s new book has biggest first-week sales of 2018 (CNN)

Michelle Obama’s nationwide tour for her new book “Becoming” has already helped the book achieve a publishing milestone. Barnes & Noble said Monday that Obama had “the biggest first-week sales of any book this year. Until November, that title belonged to Bob Woodward’s Trump administration dissection, “Fear,” which came out in September. But “Becoming” had even stronger sales in its first week, the bookseller said. Read more

 

 

 

Protest against sexual abuse in Catholic church grows in India (Aljazeera)

The Catholic Church in India is facing a trying time, with a growing protest movement in response to allegations of sexual assault by clergymen. In June, police in the southern Indian state of Kerala registered a case against the bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar, in the northern state of Punjab.  A nun had alleged that the bishop, Franko Mulakkal, had raped her repeatedly between 2014 and 2016 at a convent in Kerala. Read more

 

Kabul wedding hall blast kills 40, Afghan officials say (CNN)

A suspected suicide bombing at a wedding hall in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed 40 people and injured dozens more, officials say. The blast ripped through a venue near the city’s international airport, where a gathering of religious scholars was taking place, the Afghan interior ministry said. The blast occurred around 6:15 p.m. local time, police said. Read more

 

Why AC Milan didn’t buy Ronaldo (Punch)

AC Milan’s former owner Li Yonghong wanted to sign Cristiano Ronaldo a year before the five-time Ballon d’Or winner joined Juventus, but was persuaded they could not afford him, ex-club chief executive Marco Fassone said on Tuesday. Fassone — ousted along with Li from the debt-ridden Italian club last summer — was speaking as Milan’s representatives met with UEFA officials in Nyon, Switzerland on Tuesday amid impending sanctions for breaching Financial Fair Play regulations. Read more

 

There will be no Super League, UEFA chief says  (Vanguard)

There will be no breakaway European Super League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin and Andrea Agnelli, the chairman of the influential European Club Association has told the BBC. Instead their joint plans for the future of European football from 2024 onwards will see a revised football schedule which will possibly involve less domestic football and more European competition. Read more

 

Twitter CEO trolled for ‘smash Brahminical patriarchy’ placard (Aljazeera)

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has kicked up a social media storm in India after a picture of him with a placard saying “smash Brahminical patriarchy” went viral in one of the company’s fastest-growing markets. The reference to Brahmins, the traditional priestly class who sit atop the rigid caste hierarchy, outraged some Hindus when the photograph was posted online on Sunday evening. Read more

 

Instagram cracks down on fake likes, follows and comments (CNN)

Instagram is the latest social media platform to crack down on fake likes and comments. On Monday, the company began removing “inauthentic” likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps that falsely inflate popularity. In a blog post, Instagram said this is part of a greater effort to maintain an “authentic” platform. Read more

 

 

Tumblr removed from Apple app store over abuse images (BBC)

Tumblr has been removed from Apple’s app store because it let some users post images of child sexual abuse. The social network’s app was removed on 16 November but the reason for it being unavailable has only just come to light. In a statement it said the illegal images got through because its filters failed to spot them. Read more

 

Father ‘defiles’ two-year-daughter (Nation)

The police Lagos have arrested a man Peter Adida for alleged defilement of his two-year-old daughter. Adida, a resident of 9, Oyetayo Olafisoye Street, Westwood Estate in Badore, Ajah, was arrested on November 17 by Langbasa Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Ada Okafor, a Superintendent (SP). Read more

 

Woman raped by man who crept into her tent as she slept at role play festival (Metro)

A sleeping woman was raped by a 27-year-old man who crept into her tent during a fantasy role play festival. Aaron Smith has been jailed for six years after attacking the festival-goer at the campsite of the South Wales fancy dress bash Herofest. The woman has been left ‘afraid to fall asleep’ and says her quality of life has been ‘greatly decreased’ following the attack, a court heard. Read more