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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. Point News247 reports that this was disclosed in a statement issued by the NCDC and signed by the Director-General, Dr, Ifedayo Adetifa. The NCDC said that the two cases of the variant were discovered through genomic sequencing. It also linked the cases to two passengers from South Africa. The statement reads in part, “In line with the routine travel tests required of all international travellers, genomic sequencing at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control through its National Reference Laboratory, Abuja, confirms…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, of Delta State, South-South Nigeria, Tuesday said the Asaba Leisure Park and Film Village being executed by his administration would be ready for inauguration in February 2022. Point News247 reports that the governor made this disclosure while speaking at his quarterly interaction with newsmen at Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba. The governor said that the delivery timeline for the project was shifted from December 2021 to February 2022 because of fluctuations in the exchange rate. According to him, many of the equipment required for the Leisure Park and Film Village are coming from overseas, and fluctuations in…
Sylvester Oromoni Junior, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College has been allegedly beaten to death. Reports reaching Point News247 indicates that Sylvester Oromoni Junior, was allegedly beaten to death for refusing to join a cult group in Dowen College, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. A relative of the deceased, identified as @Perrisonoromoni on Twitter made this allegation on Wednesday. According to @Perrisonoromoni, the 12-year-old was battered on Friday but died on Tuesday after a series of tests and X-rays indicated that he sustained internal injuries. He added that the school management had reached out to Sylvester Oromoni, the deceased’s…
The acting president of Young Yoruba For Freedom (YFF), Dimeji Akere, has revealed that the substantive president of the organisation, Adeyinka Grandson was convicted on a charge of racial hatred against the Igbo, Fulani and the English. Point News247 reports that Akere said this is in a broadcast on the YYF Facebook page on Wednesday. He said, “Our president defended himself to the extent that the prosecutor was devastated, depressed and wanted to bring on another lawyer but the judge said that he must complete the trial. “However the jury that they brought, a 12-man jury found him guilty of…
The Federal Government has threatened to sanction unvaccinated civil servants, who returned home after they were barred from entering their offices on Wednesday. Point News247 reports that the Technical lead of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Dr Mukhtar Muhammed, said the adamant civil servants would be sanctioned according to the civil service rules. The PSC on COVID-19, headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, had in October said that federal civil servants without proof of COVID-19 vaccination or test results done within 72 hours would be denied access to their offices starting from…
Forty people have lost their lives in a boat capsize in Kano. Point News247 reports that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Northern Nigeria, has expressed shock over the Bagwai boat mishap that led to the death of about 40 persons. Governor Ganduje mourned the forty passengers in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, on Wednesday in a State. He said, “We learned that the boat started from Hayin Badau to Bagwai on their way to attend Maulud celebration. “The boat was ferrying about 50 people with some loads; it capsized because of overloading. Most of…
A World War II bomb has exploded near a train station in Munich, Bavaria’s capital in Germany, leaving at least four people injured. Point News247 reports that a 550lb World War detonated, 76 years after the end of the conflict, sending debris hundreds of yards. The device exploded after workmen drilled through it at a construction site at Donnersbergerbruecke near the Bavarian city’s main train station. Rail operator Deutsche Bahn said rail travel to and from the main train station has been suspended, without stating when the rail traffic could resume. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said: “During drilling, an aerial…
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Thursday moved the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from January 19 to 18 next year. Point News247 reports that the shift in the trial date followed the abridgment of time granted by the judge following a passionate plea to that effect. Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, had approached the court with an application seeking an order of the court to accommodate the trial in November and December this year as against the earlier fixed January 19. Shuaib Labaran, who stood…
Report reaching Point News247 indicates that the headquarters of a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been set ablaze. The building located along Maiduguri road, in Kano metropolis, is less than three kilometres from a mobile police barrack at Hotoro area, Tarauni Local Government Area. It was gathered that the building was set ablaze by protesters suspected to be against the APC faction. The building housed the head office of the factional group of the APC led by former Kano governor, Ibrahim Shekarau. The faction is opposed by the second faction loyal to the incumbent governor, Abdullahi Ganduje.…
Point News247 reports that the Lagos State Government has released its White Paper on the report of the #EndSARS panel. The #EndSars panel was set up to probe the Lekki toll gate incident which occurred on October 20, 2020. However, in its white paper, the Lagos state government rejected the panel’s report that nine persons were killed at the toll gate when soldiers stormed the protest ground to disperse the protesters. The white paper described the claim of the panel that nine persons were shot dead as “assumptions and speculations”. Gboyega Akoshile, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sanwo-Olu, said…