The Federal Government has approved the increment of corps members’ monthly allowance from N33,000 to N77,000, effective from July 2024.
The increment was announced on Wednesday evening, September 25, in a statement posted by the National Youth Service Corps on its official Facebook page.
The statement reads;
“The Federal Government has approved the increment of Corps Members’ monthly allowance to Seventy-Seven Thousand Naira (N77,000) with effect from July 2024.
This is in line with the enactment of the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Act 2024. This was contained in a letter from the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, dated 25th September 2024 and signed by the Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta.
Prior to this, the Director General, NYSC Brigadier General YD Ahmed, had paid an advocacy visit to the Chairman in which he solicited for a robust welfare package for Corps Members.
The NYSC Boss is thankful to the Federal Government for the timely gesture and is optimistic that it will not only bring much needed succor to the Corps Members, but also boost their morale and motivate them to do even more, in their service to the nation.”
Rapper, Folarin Falana aka Falz has given VeryDarkMan 24 hours to apologize and retract his comment about him.
Recall that on Tuesday September 24th, social activist VeryDarkMan released a purported audio conversation between Bobrisky and a male friend in which Bob claimed he spoke with Falz in prison and that Falz and his dad, Femi Falana, SAN, tried to get him a presidential pardon.
VDM, in his reaction, expressed disgust at Falz and his father for associating with Bobrisky and even asked if Falz ‘dey do.’
Falz in a statement from his father’s chambers which was released this evening, confirmed that Bobrisky reached out to him on May 4 to ask for N3 million to secure a VIP section in the prison. He, however said he refused to give Bobrisky any money. He said VDM’s comment portrayed him to be a homos£xual, one to pervert the cause of justice and a complicit in the upturning of justice for financial gains.
Falz said VDM also portrayed him as a fake human rights activist without contacting him to hear his side of the story.
The rapper, through his lawyers, has demanded an ‘immediate retraction of the offensive and derogatory publication' as well as an apology prominently published on all the platforms to which he has disseminated it without any justification whatsoever.
The lawyers say that if VDM fails to do this within 24 (twenty-four) hours, they would seek appropriate legal remedies, including monetary damages against VDM.
Sean "Diddy" Combs joked about inviting Prince William and Prince Harry to one of his parties years before the recent allegations about him and his freak-off parties came to light.
The record label boss was arrested by federal agents this week after a number of civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse and rape.
It is alleged victims at Diddy's Freak Off parties were drugged and forced to have s3x. In some cases, attendees claim they were left with such severe injuries that they needed weeks to recover.
Amid the case, a 2011 interview on the Graham Norton Show has resurfaced. In it, Diddy suggested he had invited Prince Harry and Prince William to one of his parties in their younger days.
Graham asked: "I read that you want to get Prince William and Prince Harry to the Diddy party."
Diddy replied: "Not anymore, they're off the list. But before, when they were young bucks they were getting up to trouble themselves. So I was like, 'Hey, why don't you come out and hang with me'."
There is no evidence the royal brothers ever attended.
Harry was named in one of the lawsuits against Diddy but is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Producer Mr Jones states in the document, which was first filed in February, that people were drawn to the rapper because of his access to high-profile figures such as Harry.
According to Page Six, the Duke of Sussex and his brother William both met Diddy in 2007.
They hosted a party to thank everyone who took part in the “Concert for Diana” benefit at Wembley Stadium. At the concert, Diddy performed his 1997 hit "I’ll Be Missing You" which had originally been intended as a eulogy to the Notorious B.I.G.
At the backstage party after the show, Prince William was pictured shaking hands with the rapper, and Prince Harry was snapped embracing Diddy and rival rapper Kanye West.
An Osun State Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo on Monday, September 23, sentenced an aluminium worker, Sunday Ejoh, to six months imprisonment for stealing three tubers of yam.
Ejoh who appeared before Magistrate Mr M. Olatunji, had been arraigned on one count of theft of the yam, valued at N3,000.
Giving the facts of the case, the prosecutor in charge, Mr Jacob Akintunde, said, “Ejoh, on September 22nd, 2024, did steal three tubers of yam valued at N3,000 belonging to one Oluwole Durojaye.”
The prosecutor stated that the stolen tubers, a cutlass, and a pair of slippers were recovered from the defendant.
He added that the offence committed was contrary to and punishable under “Section 390(9) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. II Law of Osun State, Nigeria 2002.”
The artisan, who had no legal representation, pleaded guilty, stating that hunger had compelled him to commit the crime.
"I was hungry, and I have a family," he told the court.
Delivering judgment on the matter, Magistrate Olatunji found the defendant guilty and subsequently sentenced him to “six months’ imprisonment with an option of a N25,000 fine.”
Olatunji also directed that the stolen yam should be returned to the owner.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected drug dealers for possession of 120 pellets of a substance suspected to be cocaine.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, September 20, 2024, said the suspects were arrested in the Ojo area of the state following a tip-off.
“The duo of Sunday Nwabufor ‘m’ aged 47 of Festac and Obinna Nweke ‘m’ aged 45 of Ketu Mile 12 were arrested by officers of Ojo Division on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at about 1400hrs in the Ojo area of Lagos State following a tip-off. They were found with 120 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine,” he stated.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the imprisonment of corrupt politicians, stating that “thieves cannot provide just governance.”
The 87-year-old statesman made this demand while speaking virtually at the memorial lecture for Denis Joseph Slattery, a late cleric, in Lagos.
In his speech, titled The Imperative for Moral Rectitude in Governance, Obasanjo emphasized that the key requirement for anyone involved in governance is “accountability.” He argued that officials with “questionable” integrity are incapable of making decisions that benefit the greater good.
“If you look clinically at the people in government today at both executive and legislative levels, some of them should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanor and criminal misconduct,” said Obasanjo, who served as Nigeria’s head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as president from 1999 to 2007. “You cannot expect thieves to give good judgement in favor of the owner of the property.”
Obasanjo also reflected on his shocking experiences with corruption, recalling how dishonesty was normalized in politics. “The first thing that shocked me when I went into politics was the level of corruption of election officials which was taken as normal,” he said. “The second was the level of general and criminal misbehavior which was taken with levity and impunity. We were at a meeting and a man lied and I confronted him, and the next thing he said is ‘It is all politics, Sir’."
Obasanjo lamented how politics has been used to justify unethical behavior, adding, “Every bad thing they do is passed on as politics which means politics has no room for morality, principles, rectitude, ethics, good character and attributes.”
He concluded by urging Nigeria to seek “transformational leaders rather than transactional leaders, truth instead of lies, honesty instead of dishonesty, integrity instead of disintegrate, hope instead of despair, production instead of deduction, inclusion instead of exclusion and marginalization.”
The Federal Capital Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspected fraudster and ritualist who confined a lady in a hotel in Wuse Zone 5, Abuja.
LIB reported that the suspect's plot to use the victim for an alleged money ritual was foiled when the hotel staff heard her screams and rushed into the room only to find her naked and bound with a cellotape.
The Federal Capital Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspected fraudster and ritualist who confined a lady in a hotel in Wuse Zone 5, Abuja.
It was reported that the suspect's plot to use the victim for an alleged money ritual was foiled when the hotel staff heard her screams and rushed into the room only to find her naked and bound with a cellotape.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, who disclosed news of the arrest in a statement on Thursday, September 19, 2024, said the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) took the suspect into custody and is yet to hand him over to the police for diligent investigation.
“The FCT police command is aware of the video footage making the rounds about a lady who was criminally confined in Top view hotel, Wuse, Abuja on 17th September, 2024 by an alleged Internet fraudster allegedly for money ritual,” the statement read.
"Findings revealed that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has taken the suspect into custody and are yet to hand over to the police for diligent investigation.
"The FCT police command for all intent and purposes awaits the NSCDC to hand over all parties for commencement of diligent and discreet investigation.
“Further development will be communicated in due course.”
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) says water from the Lagdo Dam in neighboring francophone country, Cameroon, has been released into River Niger and River Benue in Nigeria’s North Central.
While speaking on Channels TV this morning September 19, the NIHSA Director General, Umar Mohammed, warned Nigerians residing in floodplains to relocate immediately to safe spaces in anticipation of attendant floods that annually come with the release of water from the Lagdo Dam
Mohammed said his Agency met with the authorities in Cameroon and agreed that water from the Lagdo Dam be released “intermittently” for the River Benue and River Niger in Nigeria to be able to contain the volume of water to avoid flooding in 11 states at risk.
“The situation is that water from Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam has been released already since yesterday (Wednesday) and there is an agreement that the water should be released in phases,” said Mohammed, who was represented on the programme by the Agency’s Director of Operations and Hydrology, Femi Bejide.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government alerted Nigerians to the plan by the Cameroonian authorities to release water from the Lagdo Dam. NIHSA listed flood-prone states to include Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Edo, Delta, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, and Rivers.
The NIHSA boss said for now, there is calm and normalcy and the water is being regularised from the Lagdo dam, though the currents are rising. He mentioned that all Nigerians have a role to play in preventing flooding as the previous release of water from the Lagdo Dam has caused constant flooding in Nigeria.
“Everybody has their part to play; as the Federal Government is doing its part, our agency is doing its part, NEMA is prepared, individuals should also have to do their part. They have to move from the floodplain. Houses also, their drainages, they have to clean and clear their drainages. Water will find its way so the waterways should be cleared, and the drainages should be cleared to allow water to move. That is the responsibility of everybody.
Look at your house, if your house is at the flood plane, please move please move from the flood plane, it is an appeal,” the NIHSA boss stated
The release of water from the Lagdo Dam comes days after water from overflowing Alau Dam killed over 30 persons and swept away thousands of homes in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno State.
