Author: TheScrutinyNG

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Nigeria $600,000 relief fund for efforts and reforms in support of the health and agricultural sectors. Specifically, the Foundation pledged the $600,000 for flood relief in Borno State and other health sector initiatives with an additional $5 million grant approved for Lagos Business School and partners to develop the agricultural economics of industrial cassava.  The donation was announced when Vice President Kashim Shettima held  a meeting with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation led by its head of Global Development Programme, Dr Christopher Elias, on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General…

Nigerian First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, joined other First Ladies to bid farewell to the United States First Lady, Jill Biden. This happened when Jill Biden hosted a farewell luncheon for First Ladies from around the world on the sideline of the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York. Reflecting on the relationships built during her tenure, Jill noted on Wednesday that this would be her final such gathering as First Lady of the United States. She expressed her gratitude for their continued partnership in promoting peace and development worldwide, assuring them that their relationship would continue…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 98 individuals involved in various crimes ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism to drug trafficking.  The state Commissioner of Police, Ishola Olanrewaju, announced this on Wednesday at news conference at the Command headquarters in Ikeja. The arrests were made between September 17 and 24. “We have successfully cracked several cases and brought to book suspects involved in crimes such as robbery, cultism, and kidnapping,” Olanrewaju said. He noted that during the operations, a range of items were recovered, including 10 firearms, 41 rounds of live ammunition, 12 phones, 39 bags of cement, a…

The Ebonyi State Government has confirmed the death of ten persons from a fresh cholera outbreak in the state. The deaths, according to the state Commissioner for Health, Moses Ekuma, were recorded in Ndibokote Village in Ezza-Inyimagu, Agbaja Autonomous Community,  Izzi Local Government Area.  Ekuma, speaking to The Nation on Thursday, revealed that over 20 other persons from the area have been hospitalised for suspected cholera infection. He said infected persons were rushed to three hospitals in the area by the State Government in collaboration with the Local Government and health partners. The hospitals include: Sudan United Mission Hospital, Onuenyim Agbaja;…

Three hundred out-of-school children in the North West will be back to school, courtesy of an European Union (EU)-funded consortium, led by Plan International Nigeria, PI; Save the Children International, SCI, and Dispute Resolution and Development Initiative, DRDI. The three states to benefit form this plan include lKano, Jigawa and Sokoto. The consortium wants to achieve this through the implementation of an Accelerated Basic Education Program, ABEP, a non formal form of education. The EU Consortium Lead and Education Advisor of Plan International Nigeria, Tobi Ransomed disclosed this during the project startup workshop in Kano. According to her, “Plan International…

Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has denied the claim that he ever spoke to cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, about any alleged pardon or other matters.  In a letter dated September 25, 2024, from his legal team at Falana & Falana’s Chambers and signed by Taiwo E. Olawanle, Esq., the senior lawyer addressed a recent Instagram post made by self-proclaimed activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, claiming that Falana “spoke to Bobrisky in order to divert justice.”  VeryDarkMan also alleged that Falana sought a presidential pardon for Bobrisky in exchange for N10 million. The…

The presidency has confirmed that a cabinet reshufflement is to be undertaken anytime soon by President Bola Tinubu. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced this to State House correspondents on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Onanuga, however, stated that he was uncertain whether the cabinet reshufflement would occur before October 1 or not. He restated that it was expected to happen anytime soon. It will be recalled that President Tinubu appointed his ministers in August of last year, and there have been clamour for changes in cabinet by some members of the…

Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder 21 years ago, has been executed in the Midwestern state of Missouri despite concerns raised over the integrity of the case. The United States Supreme Court, the last body that could have overturned Williams’s death sentence, declined to intervene in the case on Tuesday. The 55-year-old was executed by lethal injection shortly after 6pm (23:00 GMT) at a prison in Bonne Terre, according to The Innocence Project, whose lawyer worked with Williams. His death came a day after both Missouri Governor Mike Parson and the state’s highest court also rejected his last-ditch appeals…

Yahaya Bello, the former Kogi State governor, has headed to the Supreme Court to seek the setting aside of the warrant of arrest issued against him by the trial court on April 17. This is as Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned the case filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the former governor to October 30, 2024. At a resumed sitting, the defence counsel, A. M. Adoyi, drew the court’s attention to the fact that the issue of arraignment of the defendant was the subject matter of an…

The Federal Government has approved N10 billion take-off grant for the newly upgraded Federal University of Education Pankshin (FUEP), which was formerly Federal College of Education Pankshin, Plateau State. Thus was disclosed by the member representing Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, during the official unveiling of the university by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Pankshin LGA of Plateau state. The member, who was the sole sponsor of the bill for upgrade from FCE Pankshin to the university status, noted that he was a fulfilled man because the bill was assented to by former…