Malaysia Raise Travel Ban On African Countries
Malaysia has raised the travel ban on the eight southern African countries that first reported the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who disclosed the development on Tuesday, said given the rapid spread of the variant globally, there is no reason to continue with a travel ban against those in Africa.
The eight countries, which include South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, will remain on a list of nations deemed as high-risk, with travellers from these states subject to additional restrictions upon arrival, he said.
On Tuesday, Khairy said authorities will now allow the interval between primary and booster doses for all vaccines to be reduced to three months, joining a growing number of countries that have cut waiting times in a bid to ward off a new surge of infections.
Widow Of Ex-Senate President Joseph Wayas Is Dead
Wife of Ex-Senate President, Late Joseph Wayas, Mrs Mary Abiola Wayas has passed on barely 12 days after her husband died in a London hospital.
Late Mrs Wayas died 12 days after her husband who died in the United Kingdom on November 30th, 2021.
She died in a London Hospital on 12th December 2021 after a brief illness, Joseph Wayas Jnr disclosed. She is survived by 5 children, grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Onagoruwa becomes Transcorp’s Independent Non-Executive Director
The Board of Transcorp Hotels Plc, Nigeria’s leading hospitality brand, has announced the appointment of Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa to its Board of Directors as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
Ms. Onagoruwa brings to the Transcorp Hotels Plc board, a wealth of experience spanning more than three decades across both the private and public sectors in different aspects of law, as well as public sector reform.
Ms. Onagoruwa becomes the fourth female on the Board of Transcorp Hotels Plc., the company that recently emerged the best in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the boards and management team of corporate organisations in Nigeria.
Transcorp Hotels Plc. is one of Africa’s leading hospitality companies, committed to redefining service standards across the continent while remaining truly and authentically African. The Company’s hotels include Transcorp Hilton Abuja and Transcorp Hotels Calabar.
Youth Are Going to be in charge – Obaseki
Edo state Governor Godwin Obaseki has faulted old political actors and the relevance of their style of politics to resolving current national challenges.
Obaseki, who believes that Nigeria’s political system has failed the nation, said the kind of politics played in 1999 has outlived its usefulness as young people are set to take over.
The governor made the comments during a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders meeting in Benin on Sunday.
He said, “Nigeria is going to a new stage; there is a new paradigm. The politics we started in 1999 has now expired or is expiring.
“So anybody who is playing politics the way it was played in 1999 cannot succeed because the children who were five, six years old in 1999, today are now getting married. They are now the ones that are going to be in charge.
‘Yahoo Boy’ Allegedly Murders Girlfriend On Christmas Eve
A suspected Internet scammer has allegedly murdered his girlfriend, Elohor Oniorosa, for money ritual purposes.
The suspect, identified as Osas, reportedly took to flight after committing the crime on Christmas eve.
Edo state Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kontongs Bello, while confirming the incident, disclosed that the father of the deceased, William Oniorosa, reported the case to the police, adding that an investigation is ongoing.
FirstNigeriaTv gathered that the suspected ‘Yahoo boy,’ a sobriquet for internet fraudsters, returned from Ghana a week before allegedly carrying out the heinous crime. He is said to have slaughtered his girlfriend in the Egor area of the Benin metropolis.
Ilana Omo Oodua Launches Anti-kidnapping App, Pajawiri
The Ilana Omo Oodua, the ummbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, has launched a mobile application designed to track kidnapped victims and expose danger anywhere in Yorubaland.
The mobile application and alert system, codenamed Pajawiri (emergency), is said to have the capacity to expose criminals wherever they are with their victims once the victims have the application installed in their phones either on or off.
Speaking at the unveiling ceremony held in Ibadan, Oyo-state, foremost Historian Prof. Banji Akintoye, who is also the leader of the group, said the emergence of Pajawiri is an evidence that the Yoruba people are too intellectually sophisticated to be subdued.
Akintoye, who joined the event virtually, said, “We have now proven to the world that we cannot be captured nor be subdued. We are too intellectually sophisticated to be subdued.”
Gunmen Abducts Policeman In Adamawa
An operative of the Anti-Kidnap Unit of the Nigeria Police Force has been abducted by gunmen in the Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa state.
The victim, a mobile policeman attached to Operation Farauta, was kidnapped on Christmas day.
Sources from the community claimed the mobile policeman attached to the anti-kidnap unit may have been kidnapped in error, after the gunmen mistook him for their target, a rich man in the Tike area of the council.
Spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, who confirmed the incident, said the force is doing everything possible to rescue him and arrest the suspects.
Passenger Bus Crashes inside Canal In Lagos
A bus loaded with passengers has reportedly crashed into a canal at the Oworonshoki area of Lagos State.
The bus, according to eyewitnesses, lost control near an open field in the area in still unclear circumstances, before plunging into the canal with a yet-to-be-ascertained number of passengers.
Details of the incident were sketchy as of the time of filing this report.
However, efforts are on to rescue the trapped passengers.
Oudu Otu Emerges As Winner of 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search
Odudu Otu has emerged as the winner of the 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search (GUS).
Odudu, who is a sports enthusiast defeated three finalists to earn for himself the grand prize of N50 million.
He became the winner after he discovered the chest which contained the secret of the proverbial Akolo’s secret brew.
Odudu was a member of the Iroko clan that has Damola, Yankari, Esitima, Tobechukwu, and Gerald. As the winner of the GUS 2021 season, Odudu will also get an SUV and a return ticket to Dubai.
Pastor Tunde Bakare In N9bn WEMA Bank Debt
The General Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly is in a debt of 9 billion naira which he is allegedly owing Wema bank.
The lawyer turned clergy collected a loan to build his state of art church auditorium in Oregun, Ikeja and he has not been able to repay the loan. He collected uncollateralized loan of 4.5 billion naira but his inability to service it ballooned the figure to 9 billion naira.
Pastor Bakare had planned to repay his loan once his church is bigger and more populous with robust offering from its members. But the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted his plan as most churches were under lock and key observating COVID-19 protocols. His projection did not materialize and the loan rose to 9 billion naira.
Wema bank has made overtures to the pastor so as to recover the loan but they have not yet made any headway.
