The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said funds recovered by his ministry stood at N270 billion from N19.5 billion in 2015.

Mr Malami said this during a valedictory session to mark the end of his tenure as the ministry’s helmsman in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to a report by the Vanguard newspaper, Mr Malami also said the government was already trying to ensure the return of asset worth $500million from France, the United States and the Island of Jersey.

He recounted the efforts which resulted in the refund of the Abacha loot from Switzerland, adding that the sum recovered was N322.5 million.

“The fund has since been repatriated back to Nigeria and is now being managed by the National Social Investment Office under the supervision of the World Bank. It is aimed to support households who are living below the poverty line across the country,” the paper quoted Mr Malami.

Mr Malami explained that N19.5 billion had previously been recovered by the ministry before the commencement of the outgoing administration.

“It may interest you to know that as at 29th May 2015, the balance in the recovery account of the Federal Government of Nigeria stood at N19. 5billion. The balance has geometrically increased to N279 billion as at 22nd November 2017 and counting.

Mr Malami also recounted the drafting of the presidential executive order six and eight as efforts initiated by the justice ministry. He said they were both created to safeguard public wealth.

“These instruments have uniquely revolutionised the War against corruption in Nigeria.”

Mr Malami listed the achievements of the justice ministry in its implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

Mr Malami became Nigeria’s justice minister in November 2015, succeeding Mohammed Adoke.

The justice ministry under his tenure had worked with other sectors in the war against corruption to ensure the prosecution of politically exposed persons, most prominent of whom is the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

Mr Malami’s administration was involved in a number of controversies, especially his obvious support for the continued detention of Dasuki, despite several court orders for his release.

With his recent decision, the ministry’s permanent secretary and Solicitor General of the Federation, Dayo Apata, will lead the ministry till a new minister is appointed in the second tenure of the current administration.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/332270-malami-steps-down-as-nigerias-justice-minister.html

Actress Chinedu Bernard has slumped in a church and confirmed dead in a hospital.

The ‘Big Mama’s Stick’ actress was reportedly confirmed dead by doctors at the East Side hospital in Enugu State.

She was said to have slumped while cleaning the Chapel of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church inside Federal Housing area in Enugu State.

It was learnt one of the Reverend Fathers rushed her to the hospital with some members of the church.

Reports identified the Reverend Father, who assisted in taking the late actress to the hospital as Rev Fr Uchendu Chukwuma.

But the ‘Last Manhood’ actress was declared dead by the doctors.

The cause of the late Bernard’s death remains unknown.

The late Bernard’s remains have been deposited in the morgue.

Fondly referred to as ‘Choco,’ the late Bernard featured in movies such as The Big Mama’s Stick, Money fever, The Mad, The Last Manhood, Mad Love etc.

https://thenationonlineng.net/actress-chinedu-bernard-slumps-in-church-dies/

Kitten Kay Sera, a California woman, has made history as the first person to marry a colour after she married the colour pink in a Las Vegas wedding.

Sera had held a wedding ceremony to tie the knot with the colour in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2022.

She revealed that she decided to make things serious after being in a “relationship” with the colour pink for more than 40 years.

“I actually have a giant pink swatch, like a pink paint swatch, so the colours are like my favourite,” Sera said. “They’re all listed, and I’ll be holding my pink swatch.”

Sera noted that she’s been wearing pink since 1980.

“I’ve had my relationship with the colour pink for 40 years.”

The idea to marry the colour had come two years ago when a kid skateboarding joked at her for wearing the bright shade.

She said: “A kid said to me on a skateboard, Wow, you love pink, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I love it so much,’ and he goes, ‘You love it so much, why don’t you marry it?’ I thought, ‘This kid’s on to something”.”

While the idea of marrying a color sounds crazy, Sera noted that she encourages everyone to do what they love while they still can.

“Have fun with it. Have a ball. You’re only here for a little bit of time. Have a blast,” Sera said.

The pink wedding happened at A Little White Wedding Chapel. Sera wore a big pink gown, fluffy pink coat, pink hair and a dazzling pink tiara. Her jewellery and even her lipstick were also pink, while guests were asked to wear pink.

She walked down the aisle with a giant swatch of pink. The swatch featured five different shades of the colour, which she says are her favourite.

Pink flowers were laid on the floor as she walked down the aisle; she said, “I think people have companions, but I have a colour!”

Reading out her vows, Sera sat in the back of an open-top pink convertible, holding a large bouquet of flowers.

So dat we no go get light. Thunder visit u...

WASHINGTON– To try and thwart the very dangerous ghost gun business, the highly qualified agents at the FBI have gone undercover as ghosts and have infiltrated the spirit realm after President Joe Biden issued a ban early this week.

The Biden Administration allocated $420 billion to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to create the much-needed Ghost Division, with offices in every major city in the country and will be hiring millions of illegal immigrants to fill the federal jobs to pose as ghosts.

“Our FBI agents are extremely skilled, highly intelligent, and are now fully trained to act as ghosts,” said Special Agent Ima Shittburd while using his old KKK hood as a ghost disguise. “According to our investigations, most ghost gun dealers are white, anti-vaxxer Trump supporters who refuse to bow down and worship Ukraine President Zelensky.”

FBI agents must go through a vigorous ten week training course to be able to fool other ghosts into thinking they’re one of them, with exercises such as saying the word “boo” while waving their arms around, jumping off of desks to practice levitating, and running into walls until they’re able to go right through them.

“No, we haven’t actually nabbed any real ghosts yet,” said Agent Shittburd when asked if the FBI caught any ghosts using or selling guns. “You’d think we’d do a better job at capturing criminals after all the false flags we’ve set up over the years.”

The FBI said they have plans on staging a January 6 type Insurrection inside a local graveyard in the hopes of arresting a few ghosts who are only in there to rest in peace.

https://dailysoak.com/index.php/2022/04/20/fbi-poses-as-ghosts-to-try-and-stop-illegal-ghost-gun-operation/

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior on Friday, denied reports of swap of inmates in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service with free citizens.

Aregbesola gave the denial while speaking at the third and fourth quarter 2021 performance review meeting of the ministry on Friday.

He described the allegations as worrisome and said it was false.

“There is a minimum setback between our facilities and human development areas, but if it’s not being enforced at some correctional services, we will ensure the enforcement,’’ he said.

He, therefore, assured Nigerians that no swapping would be tolerated under his watch.

He stressed that the government would further secure already properly-secured facilities of the Nigeria Correctional Services.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/04/22/fg-speaks-on-inmates-swapping-in-prison/

Hope Yoruba people have not mine his skull, this one way election don dey reach, the candidate from Yoruba land, that mine the highest number of skull, Brest, Toto and pennise, will be APC flag bearer. Na Tinubu or Osinbajo's work na be this.

•Africa reported 549,000 deaths, 2.5 million cases of disease in 2020
•Infection with ‘wasting disease’ protects mice from developing COVID-19
•Discovery may explain why TB, COVID-19 double infections are rare in humans

Recent estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed tuberculosis (TB) killed 156,000 Nigerians and afflicted 452,000 in 2020.

An assessment by WHO, released yesterday, found inadequate investment and funding for TB control in Africa is jeopardising the efforts to meet the global target of ending the disease by 2030, while the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to roll back progress made so far in the continent.

Reacting to questions from The Guardian after a teleconference ahead of World TB Day, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, Dr. Lucica Ditiu, said: “Over 450 thousand people develop TB each year in Nigeria. In 2020, WHO estimates that 452,000 people in Nigeria developed TB.

“The number of people dying in 2020 due to TB in Nigeria was 156,000. This includes 28,000 among people living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) who died due to TB.”

Ditiu said the estimates for number of people developing TB in Nigeria is increasing over the last several years. This, Ditiu said is because in the past, a small proportion of TB in Nigeria was diagnosed and treated. “We know that TB is an airborne disease and it can spread from untreated people to others. The proportion of people getting diagnosed and treated has increased in recent years, including last year (2021) and if this trend continues, then the yearly TB incidence in Nigeria will start decreasing soon,” Ditiu said.

The Stop TB Partnership boss further explained: “On people dying due to TB in Nigeria each year, the numbers have been high for the last five years, over 150,000. While people dying due to TB among people living with HIV (PLHIV) have decreased mainly due to scale up of antiretroviral treatment, the TB deaths amongst HIV-negative individuals have increased due to a large proportion remaining undetected. We know that undetected and untreated TB has high mortality.”

Also, the WHO African Region, in a virtual press conference yesterday said every year the African region requires at least US$ 1.3 billion for TB prevention and treatment. However, countries contribute 22 per cent of the needed budget, while external funding accounts for 34 per cent. The rest of the budget remains unfunded, seriously undermining the efforts to eliminate the disease. This year, World TB Day is being marked under the theme “Invest to end TB. Save Lives.”

Underfunding for TB programmes has a significant impact on disease detection, for example. Out of an estimated 2.5 million TB cases in 2020 in Africa, only 1.4 million were detected and put on treatment. On average, 56 per cent of cases were detected and enrolled on treatment between 2015 and 2020.

According to the WHO, the COVID-19 pandemic has also slowed progress against TB. Globally, deaths from TB rose for the first time in a decade. Africa reported 549,000 deaths in 2020, an increase of around 2000 over 2019. The number of newly detected TB cases also fell in high burden African countries due to disruptions by the COVID-19 pandemic on health services.

Gabon reported the steepest decline, with the number of newly detected cases falling by 80 per cent in 2020 from the year before. Botswana reported a 20 per cent decline and Lesotho 35 per cent.

Additionally, 28 per cent fewer patients with drug-resistant TB were detected in Africa in 2020 compared with the previous year. In South Africa, which detects the largest number of drug-resistant TB cases in the continent, 48 per cent fewer people with the drug-resistant strain were detected in 2020 compared with 2019.

WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said: “Tuberculosis is preventable and treatable, and millions of lives have been saved. We must end the chronic underinvestment that keeps the tuberculosis burden high, leaves a huge number of cases undetected and undermines prevention and treatment. Africa has so far made good progress against tuberculosis and we cannot afford to lose focus on what is needed to ease the burden and save lives.”

The African region is home to 17 of the 30 high-burden TB countries globally. The estimated 2.5 million cases in the region in 2020 accounted for a quarter of the global burden, with more than half a million African lives sadly lost to this curable and preventable disease.

However, African countries have made progress against TB. South Africa, for example, has steadily increased domestic funding to fight tuberculosis, allocating 81 per cent of the financial resources, while Zambia has increased its domestic funding seven-fold since 2015.

Under the WHO End TB Strategy, countries should aim to reduce TB cases by 80 per cent and cut deaths by 90 per cent by 2030 compared with 2015. The strategy also sets key milestones that countries should cross by 2020 and 2025 if they are to end the disease.

The 2025 milestone seeks a 50 per cent reduction in cases and a 75 per cent decline in deaths. TB cases should drop by 10 per cent every year to meet the 2025 target, yet the current rate of decline in cases stands at two per cent. From 2025 to 2030 countries should reduce cases by 17 per cent every year.

The End TB Strategy also includes a key target that seeks to reduce the catastrophic cost of tuberculosis treatment can have on families. However, a WHO survey on the cost of tuberculosis treatment in 10 Africa countries showed that 49 per cent of TB-affected households experienced catastrophic costs. No country in Africa has yet demonstrated that it has met the target that no TB-affected households face catastrophic costs.

“The road to ending tuberculosis is likely to get long and hard as key milestones risk being missed. Countries must scale up and speed up the response and stay committed to alleviating the suffering and death caused to millions of people due to tuberculosis,” Moeti said.

Meanwhile, according to a new study by Richard Robinson at The Ohio State University, United States (U.S.) and colleagues publishing March 24th in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens, in mice, the immune response mounted against tuberculosis prevents them from developing COVID-19.

Currently, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, are the leading causes of death from infectious disease worldwide. Tuberculosis is widespread, and scientists have questioned whether the immune response triggered by this serious respiratory infection might protect people from developing COVID-19. To find out more, researchers worked with two different strains of mice and infected them with M. tuberculosis. Then they exposed the mice to the COVID-19 virus and monitored them for signs of infection. They discovered that mice with tuberculosis showed no signs of COVID-19, likely because the pre-existing immune response to tuberculosis prevented the virus from proliferating in the lungs.

Altogether, the findings demonstrate that tuberculosis infection makes the lungs inhospitable to the COVID-19 virus in mice. If the same is true for humans, then this discovery may be one reason there have been few reports of individuals with both tuberculosis and COVID-19 in the absence of other complications. The findings may also explain why countries tend to have high rates of infection of COVID-19 or tuberculosis, but not both. The researchers propose that future research should focus on the interaction between COVID-19 and tuberculosis infections in humans.

TB and COVID are pandemics that affect every part of the world,” Robinson adds. “Our study reflects the work of a diverse and talented group of OSU scientists to better understand how these two diseases influence one another, a surprising observation being that mice with TB are resistant to COVID in a lab setting.”

https://guardian.ng/features/science/tb-killed-156000-infected-452000-nigerians-in-2020/

Recovers N19.8m cash from ring leader

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a professional methamphetamine cook (meth), Reuben Bekweri, in Owerri, Imo State capital.

Bekweri, 34, was arrested while trying to distribute a kilogramme of the illicit drug, he cooked and packaged in seven nylon sachets in the Irete area of Imo State capital on Saturday, March 26.

Also, the agency arrested a fleeing drug kingpin heading a syndicate operating at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos and six other members of his gang.

Spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said the arrest followed a string of fresh offensives against drug cartels across Nigeria.

He noted that the Lagos airport drug syndicate was behind the smuggling of 1, 584,000 tablets of tramadol seized on Tuesday, March 15 by NDLEA operatives in collaboration with Aviation Security (AVSEC) and Customs service personnel at the airport.

The seizure includes, 17 cartons of 250mg tramadol branded as “Tamra” weighing 669.70kg and five cartons of 225mg tramadol under the brand name “Royal” with a gross weight of 217.15kg.

Babafemi stressed that the psychotropic substance, which was imported into the country from Pakistan was smuggled through the airport tarmac using one of the vehicles of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) and was intercepted at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Personnel Yard.

According to him, two suspects: Ofijeh John Mowa, a SAHCO driver and Nyam Gazu Alex, who is a security guard with the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) were initially arrested in connection with the seizure.

Further investigations by NDLEA operatives, he said, however led to the arrest of five other persons involved in the crime including the ringleader, Yunana Fidelis , who fled Lagos to Kaduna the moment their lid was blown open.

Others are Adesanwo Temitope; Owoseni Taiwo Temidayo; Fasoranti Shola and Bamigbade Jonathan. Fidelis who is also a staff of NACHO had escaped and fled to Kaduna after depositing N19.8 million cash with a Bureau De Change (BDC) operator to be paid later into his bank account.

After tracking him for days in Kaduna, on Friday, March 25, Fidelis relocated to Abuja, where he was eventually arrested by NDLEA operatives at about 7:00p.m. on Sunday, March 27, while he was trying to collect N1 million cash from an undercover agent, who posed as a BDC operator.

In addition to recovering the cash Fidelis deposited with the BDC operator in Lagos, the agency had also placed a post no debit order on his identified bank accounts.

In Ado Ekiti, narcotic officers on Monday, March 28, also arrested a 42-year-old lawyer, Mr. Mayowa Oluwanisomo, in Zone 4, Embassy Island, Moferere area of the Ekiti State capital following credible intelligence that he deals in psychotropic substances.

A total of 11, 570 tablets of tramadol weighing 7.3 kilogrammes were recovered from him when his residence was searched.

The NDLEA spokesperson, said the lawyer admitted ownership of the drug exhibits, adding that he graduated from Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti and Abuja campus of the Nigerian Law School in 2016.
MEANWHILE, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has commended officers and men of MMIA, Imo and Ekiti states Commands for sustaining the offensive action against drug cartels in their respective areas of responsibility.

https://guardian.ng/news/ndlea-nabs-mkpuru-mmiri-cook-in-imo-five-airport-drug-syndicate-others/

Thunder fire you there

The should just galther all Yoruba people including young and old, and burn them alive to end rape and CURRUPTION.

TINUBU IS A RAPETIST

TINUBU IS A THIEF

TINUBU IS A RITUALIST

SAY NO TO TINUBU AND YORUBA PEOPLE

If I no chuk steek for d guy yance, name know.


[/color][/b] SAY NO TO TINUBU

[b][color=#006600] SAY NO TO CURRUPTION

No RIP for them, they deserve death. Alongside with Tinubu

When a country have a lifeless man as leader, backwardness is certain

Party of confusion

Who dach monkey banana. Tinubu is a well known thief, All kings in Yoruba lands are thief , for supporting a thief (tinubu) as it is said, births of the same feather stay together and do things together. Every Yoruba man known that Tinubu is a thief and a terrorist, but because of their over foolishness, poverty mentality, fakelive and over obedience to thief, it can be assume that every Yoruba men is a thief and a slave.

I already know that all Yoruba and hausa people are thief, stealing is in their DNA, the truth is coming out.

How dare you use magic on my eye

Russia and Ukraine crisis suppress covid-19

The police should swings into investigation

Lagos is the center of HIV Ana AIDS

I smell setup

Grenade way Almighty buhari no fit buy give Nigeria military na ordnary person take dey play for USA.

EFCC NA STILL SCAMMER, THEM GO SCAM THOSE BOYS, AND STILL RELEASE THEM.

I hope Tinubu will not be the one that will collect tax from the company. We all know the thief is desperately looking for money to buy the sit of the president. SAY NO TO THIEF SAY NO TO TINUBU

Good

Area terrorist group, mumu must accept mumu. Las Las NIGERIA NA HELL FIRE

They will still bring another recycle old fools as candidate, and many young Ediot will leave their house on the election day stand in hot sun for hours, and still vote for them, return home and still continue in hardship. I am suspecting Nigeria is hell fire