Author: Npo_report
—Marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that experts have said could lead to excessive pain or even torture. Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire, had survived the state’s initial attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2022. Earlier Thursday, the US Supreme Court denied his last-minute appeal to halt the execution, after declining…
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is growing more defiant in the face of Donald Trump’s efforts to push her out of the 2024 Republican primary race, poking and prodding at the former president and encouraging supporters to wear Trump’s attacks as a badge of honor. Returning to her home state Wednesday, Haley mocked Trump’s victory speech in New Hampshire the night earlier — one in which the former president raged about the concession speech Haley had just delivered. She said Trump “pitched a fit,” called him “insecure” and declared he “should feel threatened, without a doubt.” She cast doubt on his mental…
By Halimah Olamide The mother of a late student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Ikeja, Whitney Adeniran, Blessing, continued her evidence on Thursday with denial of knowledge of any chats in which her late daughter said she fainted few days to her death. Mrs Blessing Adeniran was cross-examined by defence counsel at the resumed trial of the school and four others for involuntary manslaughter. The Lagos State Government, on March 31, 2023, charged Chrisland Schools, its principal and vice principal and two others with the killing of the student. The 12-year-old student was allegedly electrocuted on Feb. 9, 2023, during the…
The troops of 6 Brigade, Nigerian Army, deployed to Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba have neutralised three notorious bandits. This is contained in a statement signed by Lt. Olabodunde Oni, Public Relations Officer of the brigade, in Jalingo on Thursday. He said that the successful mission also resulted in the recovery of two AK-47 rifles, a motorcycle used by the criminals, and a cache of 40 rounds of 7.62 MM Special ammunition. The public relations officer explained that the operation took place in Chibi, where the troops acting on actionable intelligence, conducted a precision strike against the criminals.…
By Halimah Olamide Edo Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has said no one can force him out of the race for the governorship seat in the state. Shaibu said he has all its takes to win the election. The governorship aspirant stated this when he returned his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form for the election, at the party national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday. The deputy governor, who alleged that some elders of the party had been bought over, however, expressed delight that youths and some elders were strongly behind him. “By the grace of God, our support is organic,…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Benue State Education Quality Assurance Agency (BSEQAA) has directed school principals in the state to immediately refund the excess WAEC/NECO handling charges paid by SS3 students. The Director-General of the agency, Dr Francis Terna, gave the directive on Thursday, when he visited some schools in Makurdi, the state capital. It was learnt that Terna had engaged some students in SS3 in the schools visited to ascertain what they paid as WAEC and NECO examination fees. Having ascertained the facts, he instructed the principals to refund the excess charges to the students without delay. He further directed…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the recent publication claiming that paracetamol drugs in Nigeria are under-dosed is fake. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of NAFDAC, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. Adeyeye said that the publication was a disservice to Nigeria, adding that academic publications need to be more rsponsive to issues of public health. A 2023 study with samples from five paracetamol brands claiming to contain 500mg paracetamol as its active ingredient, were said to have been tested and analysed using the spectrophotometric…
By Kamil Opeyemi National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has publicly urged Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano to abandon the ruling All Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and join the opposition APC. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Kano on Thursday, Ganduje, a former governor of the state, emphasized the strategic importance of Governor Yusuf’s potential switch to the APC, envisioning the transformation of Kano into a one-party state. “Our hands are wide open. We are appealing to those who like to join our party. In particular, we are inviting the governor of Kano state to dump…
Safiu Kehinde The Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development has vowed to tightly secure Nigeria’s Solid Minerals, Forest, and other natural resources across the nation. This made known in a statement by the ministry following meeting held earlier today between the presidential inter-ministerial committee and service chiefs. According to the statement, the committee, chaired by the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, met with the service chiefs in an effort to develop a workable strategy that will effectively secure Nigeria’s natural resources, in line with the Presidential mandate. The statement read in part; “The Federal Government has intensified efforts to…
Safiu Kehinde Former Vice President and 2023 PDP’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has questioned Tinubu over $3.3 Billion emergency loan received by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) last year. In a statement posted by the former VP on his X handle (Formerly Twitter) earlier today, Atiku revealed how the Federal had secured an emergency crude repayment loan which was said to help give support to the Naira and stabilize the Foreign Exchange market. He, however, decried the silence of the Federal Government as regards the development, questioning the integrity of what he described as “shady deal”. “In what appears…