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  EFCC arrest  three suspects for Alleged impersonation. Ghali Ahmad zonal head EFCC Lagos warned Nigerians to be vigilant and circumspect.  Ghali in his speech said  ''We need to be wary of the antics of this gun, the imposter's, and to report any suspicious operation to the nearest EFCC office. Above all, we can join members of the public confronted with possible possibility of arrest to demand for proper identification from arresting officers.'' They can also demand for arrest warrants as the commission does not embark on any operation without a warrant. The operation of the commission are usually in line with international best practices. 'Our wide network will always catch up with them if they refuse to desist' Ahmad said.

  The Israeli actress and former Miss Israel posted: "Israel deserves to stay as a free and secure nation," adding: "Our neighbours deserve the same." The remarks attracted hundreds of replies - now switched off - main to her identify trending on Twitter. In her youth, Gadot finished two years of obligatory army service. "My coronary heart breaks," the 36-year-old posted online. "My united states is at war. I fear for my family, my friends. I fear for my people. This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for some distance too long. "I pray for the victims and their families. I pray for this not possible hostility to end, I pray for our leaders to discover the answer so we should stay aspect by using facet in peace. I pray for higher days." While some high-profile people, inclusive of US flesh presser Ted Cruz praised Gadot for her remarks, many others reacted angrily.

  The Biden administration stated Monday it would grant protections towards discrimination in fitness care based totally on gender identification and sexual orientation, reversing a coverage of its predecessors that had been a precedence for social conservatives and had infuriated civil liberties advocates. The reversal is a victory for transgender human beings and undoes what had been a sizeable setback in the motion for LGBTQ rights. The shift pertains to health-care companies and different corporations that acquire funding from the Department of Health and Human Services. Civil rights organizations had stated the Trump coverage would permit health-care employees and institutions, as properly as insurers, to deny offerings to transgender individuals. The reversal is the modern step Biden officers are taking to reorient the federal government’s posture on fitness care, the surroundings and different coverage areas away from the conservative forged of the Trump era, changing it with a

      The Federal Government has declared Wednesday and Thursday as public vacations to mark the 2021 Eid-ul-Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the announcement on behalf of the Federal Government on Monday. A announcement by way of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, quoted Aregbesola as congratulating the Muslim devoted on the occasion. He additionally referred to as “all Nigerians, at domestic and overseas to use the length of this year’s Eidul-Fitr party to pray for peace, steadiness and economic transformation in the land”. Aregbesola, who believes that improvement can't thrive in a rancorous atmosphere, entreated all “Nigerians to be law-abiding and embody the spirit of love, self-discipline, kindness, and tolerance, as taught by means of the Holy Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him)”. The minister additionally known as on all protection groups in the united states of America to “be extra brave and pat

  Reno Omokri, former presidential aide has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of neglecting the Southern part of the country. Omokri berated Buhari for now not visiting the Southern part of Nigeria since he assumed power in 2015. In a tweet, the former presidential aide puzzled why Buhari has refused to go to the Southern part of the country. He lamented the president’s regular shuttles between Nigeria and London whilst ignoring the Southern part of the country. “Since he was sworn in for a 2nd term, had General @MBuhari visited Southern Nigeria? “Not to my knowledge. Correct me if I’m wrong. “He shuttles between London and Northern Nigeria. Why is Southern Nigeria a no go area for Buhari? Is this how to govern a nation?,” Omokri tweeted. People of the Southeast had been accusing the Buhari-led government of marginalizing the region. Nnamdi Kanu and his group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, had severally accused the current authorities of turning away from the region. The alle

  The Zamfara State Police Command arrested 5 infamous bandit leaders at more than a few areas in the nation this week. Among them is a Nigerien, who specializes in providing state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition to bandits. One of them, whilst being paraded, verified how he hides his gun in his bike to keep away from being arrested with the aid of safety operatives. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Mohammed Shehu, stated the police recovered 4 AK-47 rifles and 960 rounds of stay ammunition. He stated the suspects, who specialize in excessive profile crimes ranging from banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, armed theft and homicide, have confessed to their crimes. “The crew that kidnapped the youthful brother of Dr. Dauda Lawal confessed that they accumulated N20 million ransom whilst the abductors of Engineer Yahaya Maradun’s daughter stated they gathered N10 million. “One of them confessed that they used to share between two, three, 4 to six hundred thousand naira re

  The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has once more known as on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over insecurity, accusing him of failing to tightly closed the lives and property of the citizenry. The CNG, in a Sallah message through its North-west Zonal Coordinator, Jamailu Aliyu Charanchi, tittled: “Failed Presidency: Buhari Should Resign Now”, claimed that President Buhari additionally failed to “create jobs in addition to hovering debt tiers and mega corruption scandals which have persisted unabated”. Charanchi, in the message, brought that the president may also have intended properly for the u . s . and its residents earlier than he ascended to power,  however six years on, his administration has failed in the critical location of presenting safety for the nation. According to him, the chain of unchecked vicious assaults on communities and schools, mass abductions, incessant killings in the president’s very own Katsina State have uncovered the nation and the whole north to

  Nigeria’s presidential villa in the capital, Abuja, is supposed to be the most secure location in the united states - however the tried housebreaking of the dwelling of the president’s chief of personnel proper subsequent door has many humans worried. Prof Ibrahim Gambari’s residence is in the neighbourhood recognised as the “Three Arms Zone”, the place the Supreme Court and the National Assembly are additionally located. The presidency’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the strive to rob the residence on Monday used to be “foolish”. At face value, it does certainly appear so - given the vicinity is full of safety operatives and nearly enclosed by means of a army barracks. But that is why the incident has left many Nigerians drawing parallels with the protection issues the country faces. For them, it is convenient to conflate the brazen tried theft with the spike in illegal activity nationwide - from kidnapping in the north-west to assaults on public facilities, mainly on police officers

  When Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is unloaded in international locations round the world, lots of hundreds of thousands of doses will come with the label "Made in China." Chinese groups have made agreements over the previous month to manufacture extra than 260 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, which has been authorized for use in extra than 60 countries, which includes a massive variety of growing international locations such as Mexico, India and Argentina. The deals are symbolic of how China and Russia's global vaccine dreams are an increasing number of aligned, as they help growing international locations left out by means of their typical Western companions who have been accused of hoarding shots. Duke University lookup suggests that whilst some countries, such as Canada, the UK and New Zealand, have offered ample vaccines to cowl their populace extra than three instances over, the giant majority of international locations have barely received doses

  Colorado officers say the gunman who killed six people at a birthday celebration at the weekend used to be upset that he had now not been invited. Police say Teodoro Macias, 28, fatally shot his girlfriend, Sandra Ibarra-Perez, 28, and 5 spouse and children earlier than turning the gun on himself. The assault unfolded at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs early on Sunday. The birthday celebration used to be for three relatives, two of whom died. The assault got here much less than two months after a mass capturing that left eleven useless at a grocery keep in the north-central Colorado metropolis of Boulder. Police say the Colorado Springs gunman had a "conflict" with the focused household at a separate tournament about a week earlier, and was once a jealous boyfriend. At the nook of this horrendous act is home violence," the Colorado Springs Police Chief Vince Niski instructed a information convention on Tuesday. He added: "When he [Macias] wasn&