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Over 50m Nigerians are mentally ill -psychiatrists

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Psychiatrists have raised the alarm that one in four Nigerians, that is over 50 million Nigerians, are suffering from one mental disorder or the other. Also, they said about 75 per cent of those who need mental health care do not have access to it, as Nigeria has only 300 psychiatrists to treat about 200 million people, adding that Africa has one psychiatrist for every 500,000 inhabitants, which is 100 times less than the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommendation. Every year since 2013, WHO has organised a global campaign for…

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Dangote trucks, 21 others impounded for smuggling foreign rice

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23 trailers including Dangote trucks were impounded by the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, for being loaded with foreign rice, hidden within bags of cement. The Area Controller, Bamidele Makinde, disclosed this in idi-Iroko, Ipokia Local Government, Ogun State, on the achievements of the command in the third quarter of the year. While speaking on the Dangote trucks seized, Makinde said preliminary findings have shown that the trucks were not owned by the company, but were being operated by individuals who transport cement on franchise agreement with the…

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Scammers allegedly stole $100 million cryptocurrency from Binance

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Cryptocurrency worth about $100 million was stolen by scammers from Binance, the world’s biggest exchange for crypto assets, the firm said on Friday. The total stolen was $580 million, but company chief Changpeng Zhao said roughly 80 percent had been frozen immediately, and the damage had been limited to less than $100 million. He tweeted that “an exploit” in the system led to extra production of the exchange’s dedicated currency, BNB, but insisted the issue had been “contained” and told his seven million followers: “Your funds are safe.” It is…

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Teenager arrested for strangling own Mum to death

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Tope Momoh, an 18-year-old boy has been remanded on the order of an Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly strangling his 52-year-old mother, Stella Momoh to death. Police Prosecutor, Nelson Akintimehin, said that the defendant was arraigned for murder. According to Akintimehin, the defendant committed the offence at midnight on September 6, 2022, at Ikakumi Akoko, in Ondo state. He informed the court that Tope strangled his mother to death in the middle of the night for calling him a bastard. He said the defendant confessed he was responsible for…

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Professor Ogunsola becomes Unilag’s 13th vice chancellor

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Prof. Folasade Ogunsola has been appointed by the Governing Council of the University of Lagos as the 13th Vice Chancellor of the institution. This is contained in a statement by Mrs Adejoke Alaga, Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit of the university, and issued on Friday night in Lagos. She said that the appointment is for a five-year tenure with effect from Saturday, Nov. 12, to Thursday, Nov. 11, 2027. Ogunsola will succeed Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, whose five years tenure comes to an end on Friday, Nov. 11. He was appointed…

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Wike approves instrument de-recognising Omehia as Rivers’ ex-governor

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Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, has signed a legislative instrument into law to de-recognise Sir Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state following the resolution of the State House of Assembly. With his assent, the recognition that accorded Omehia the status of a former governor of the state with accruable rights and benefits has been cancelled. However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has asked the state governor and leadership of the State Assembly to tender unreserved apologies to Rivers people for disregarding the Supreme Court…

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Pastor arrested for alleged homicide

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Peter Michonza, a pastor of a church in Ageva area of Okene Local Council of Kogi State, has been remanded at Correctional Centre Kabba. Chief Magistrate Abdul Umar remanded the suspect, following an ex-parte application made by the Department of State Security (DSS) to enable them to continue further investigations. In the ex-parte application, the DSS alleged that the suspect committed culpable homicide by causing miscarriage and impersonation, which are punishable under sections 224,232,433 and 325 of the Kogi State Penal Code. Police said the suspect would be charged after…

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Grandma arrested for flogging three-year-old grand daughter to death

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A 37-year-old grandmother, Udeogu Chinelo, has been arrested by the Anambra State Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), for allegedly flogging her three-year-old granddaughter to death. NAPTIP’s Public Relations Officer, Okafor Anthony, in a statement, yesterday, said the suspect hails from Enugwu-Ukwu but married in Nibo, Awka South Local Council of the state.   He said Chinelo was arrested in a Primary School in Awka, where she had earlier enrolled the deceased, Ifechukwu and had gone to ask for a refund of the…

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Wema Bank Emerges Best Performing Bank in Half year 2022

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Nigeria’s most innovative bank, Wema Bank Plc, has emerged the best performing bank in the first half of year 2022 financial year with a weighted average score of of 2.83 points, beating 12 other banks. According to a special report on the Nigerian banking performance in the first half of 2022 prepared by Nairametrics, Wema Bank ranked first in one category, second in three categories and third in one category. Stanbic IBTC and First Bank came second and third respectively.. The key metrics considered in the report are total asset…

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Pump action rifle, local guns, cartridges, others seized by Customs

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The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone A, said yesterday it recovered one pump action rifle, two locally made guns, 35 live cartridges from smugglers after a gun battle around Idiroko, Ogun State. The unit also disclosed that it recovered N107.8 million as duty underpayment from goods cleared from the seaports and border post. Disclosing this at a briefing in Lagos yesterday, Customs Area Controller, CAC, of the Unit, Hussein Ejibunu, said goods with Duty Paid Value, DPV, worth N633.4 million were also seized last month. Ejibunu…

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