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Unplug it.
Enough is enough

Hezzyluv:
Gwo gwo gwo ngwo dance is even more better, the country's economy, even Michael Jackson's backsliding dance is child's play.

Sapasenator:
She should appeal the sentence citing mitigating circumstances.

Afonjeezy:
She thinks it's Tinubu's regime where death is normal.

A nurse who left her 10-week-old baby home alone while she went to work has been jailed.

Ruth Auta, 28, left her son Joshua Akerele at her nurses' accommodation at the Royal Bolton Hospital shortly after 06:30 GMT on 20 December 2022, returning over eight hours later.

She called an ambulance at 15:24, reporting her son was not breathing. He was pronounced dead at 16:40, despite attempts to resuscitate him.

Auta, who tried to flee the country after pleading guilty to child cruelty at an earlier court hearing, was jailed for three years at Bolton Crown Court on Tuesday.

'Terrible decision'

No conclusive cause of death could be given for Joshua, with the court hearing that he was a healthy baby.

The court heard he may have overheated due to the layers of clothing and bedding he was wrapped in, but other potential causes of death could not be ruled out.

Auta, of no fixed abode, initially told officers from Greater Manchester Police she had collected Joshua from a childminder after she had finished work on 20 December, claiming she had fallen asleep next to him and that she had found him unresponsive when she woke up.

CCTV footage obtained by police, however, showed Auta leaving her flat without Joshua at 06:47 and returning home alone at 15:13.

Messages found on her phone showed she had asked the childminder to tell the police she had looked after Joshua that day but the childminder told officers she had not seen the baby for a few days.

Auta was charged with cruelty to a child and pleaded guilty at a hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court on 24 May.

The case was adjourned to 21 June for sentence but Auta was arrested at Gatwick Airport on 6 June after trying to board a flight to Nigeria on a one-way ticket.

Sara Davie, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Whilst she went to work to provide care for other people, Ruth Auta left the very person who needed her care the most home alone."

Ms Davie said that, as a nurse, Auta should have known the dangers of leaving her baby unattended and "must now live with the consequences of the terrible decision she made that day".

She said Auta had failed to show remorse throughout the case, as well as misleading police about her childcare arrangements and then trying to evade justice by attempting to flee the country.

"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all those who have been affected by Joshua's death," Ms Davie added.

President Bola Tinubu has directed his Vice, Kashim Shettima to, immediately, visit Maiduguri, Borno, over the devastating flood in the state capital.

Mr Shettima disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, at the 17th Annual Banking and Finance Conference (CIBN) with the theme,” Accelerated Economic Growth and Development: the state of play and the way forward,”

” After this meeting with the consent of the President, I will rush to Maiduguri. The whole city has been overtaken by flood.

“It is not peculiar to one part of the country. We are facing this challenges right from Bayelsa to Sokoto.

“Be rest assured that the President has the nation at heart and will do whatever it takes to salvage the state of affairs,” he said

Mr Shettima expressed the sympathy of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to all the victims of flood disasters nationwide.

“I want to use this forum to commiserate with the people of our great nation over the flood disasters we are recording all across the length and breath of this nation,” he said.

Many residents of Maiduguri have been displaced by flood, following the collapse of water channels at the Alau Dam.

The flood submerged residential quarters, roads and bridges, making many areas in the metropolis inaccessible.

A NAN correspondent, who went round the metropolis, reported that the flood submerged strategic areas including parts of the Shehu of Borno Palace, Maiduguri Central Market and University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

Other areas badly hit included the GRA, Maiduguri Zoo, College of Nursing, College of Agriculture and School of Health Technology, among others.

Many residents were seen evacuating basic items to areas considered relatively safer, with some youths erecting sandbags to prevent water from entering their quarters.

The state government is yet to issue official figures of casualties, but it has ordered the closure of public and private schools for two weeks.

The United Kingdom (UK) Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has charged Olumide Osunkoya, a 45-year-old London resident, for allegedly operating an unregistered network of cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs).

Similar to a bank ATM, crypto ATMs are machines that allow users to exchange standard money for cryptocurrency.

Crypto ATMs connect to a cryptocurrency exchange and convert deposited cash into crypto, with transactions processed on the blockchain, which is a digital ledger of financial transactions for cryptocurrency.

On Tuesday, FCA said Osunkoya was being charged with two offences under money laundering and terrorist financing regulations.

FCA said the charges against Osunkoya are the first criminal prosecution for such activity.

According to the authority, the offences, are related to fake documents “created and used” for his activities, and one offence of possession of criminal property “relating to the suspected proceeds of his crypto ATM business”.

The machines run by Osunkoya, the FCA said, processed £2.6 million worth of crypto transactions across multiple locations between December 2021 and September 2023.

FCA said Osunkoya had been the director of Gidiplus Ltd before acting independently, while the application to register the company was rejected in 2021.

Osunkoya is expected to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court at the end of the month.

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