A 13-year-old girl (name withheld) who recently delivered a baby has been rescued by the Anambra State Ministry of Women and Children’s Welfare and kept in a safe place. The girl, who hails from Akwa Ibom, while her biological parents stay in Agulu, Anambra State, said she was not the only one involved in Mr Sunday’s knack for defiling children. “Mr Sunday’s wife is known as Madam Ghana. This started when Madam Ghana travelled to the village. She quoted the commissioner as saying that the Anambra State Government would not tolerate such indecent action and that the government would ensure that they do not go free.

The Anambra State Government has rescued a 13-year-old girl (name withheld), from her guardian who raped, impregnated and abandoned her in a hospital, where she recently gave birth. The Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare in the state, Ify Obinabo, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday. Although Anambra was among the first 14 states that domesticated the anti-rape law, many states are yet to do so. Anambra State, in August, set up a family court to check violence against women and the girl child. The court, in July, also convicted a Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

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The deputy managing director and co-founder of Vetiva Capital Management, Olaolu Mudasiru, has reportedly died after being hit by yet-to-be-identified driver. PUNCH Metro gathered Mudasiru was killed on Sunday morning in a hit-and-run accident while cycling with two other persons on the Bourdilion road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Related NewsMudasiru was an investment banker with extensive experience covering stockbroking, asset management and other aspects of investment banking activities. Degree from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria, and he was an alumunus of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Mudasiru was quite versatile and his 16 years of experience span the spectrum of investment banking covering wealth management, financial intermediation, trading & dealing and executing various transactions in the financial services industry.

A 75-year-old widow, Mrs Dorothy Onwudirimba, has alleged forceful ejection from her house after her stepson, Okonkwo, destroyed the property on December 6. PUNCH Metro gathered that the widow, alongside her children and grandchildren, was left homeless after Okonkwo and some other persons removed the roof of the house and threw the family’s property outside. Narrating her ordeal, the mother of five said she bought the land where the house was built after her husband died. “When the police left our compound, one of my stepson’s children, Chinonso, entered the house and started throwing my property away. How can you eject a widow from her husband’s house?” he added.

THE recent discovery of $205.01 million unremitted to the Federation Account by oil firms calls for serious scrutiny. With public revenues crashing and debts mounting, the government should adopt a zero-tolerance attitude towards unremitted funds. In this case, the RMAFC, having drawn attention to it, the relevant government agencies should have acted swiftly to recover the outstanding sums. The major defaulter, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, unabashedly announced that it made zero remittance to the Federation Account in the seven months to July, 2022. The NNPC’s failure to contribute to the Federation Account means that it has not funded the statutory joint account of the three tiers of government at all this year.

Read audioIn the just concluded week, CBN sold T-bills worth N104.36 billion, to mop up the matured N82.36 billion in bills (OMO and T-Bills). Notably, the stop rate for the 364-day bills fell to 13.05% (from 14.84%) given the almost 2x subscription level compared to a sale amount of N104.36 billion. Similarly, the stop rates for 91-day and 182-day bills moderated to 6.49% (from 6.50%) and 8.00% (from 8.05%), respectively. Meanwhile, in the OMO market, we saw N15 billionworth of OMO bills mature without refinancing. In the new week, T-bills worth N16.25 billion are expected to mature.

Nigeria has ranked sixth in the Africa Visa Openness Report released by the African Union (AU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Furthermore, 42 countries offer visa-free travel to the nationals of at least five other African countries and three countries offer visa-free travel to the citizens of other countries in the continent. Also, 24 countries offer a visa-on-arrival to the nationals of five or more countries and 14 countries offer a visa-on-arrival to 35 or more African countries. The report, also known as the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), measures the extent to which African countries are open to visitors from other African countries. For each country, the AVOI calculates the number of African countries whose citizens must obtain a visa before travelling there.

Three persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Enugu on Saturday by hoodlums enforcing Simon Ekpa’s five-day sit-at-home order in the South East. Sources said that a bullet hit the woman who came for early morning market where she hid in a store. A short video clip of the incident, which our correspondent obtained, shows a white police patrol vehicle on fire. They were reported to have engaged the policemen in a gun duel and eventually succeeded in setting ablaze the police patrol vehicle while the operatives fled. Why are you disobeying it?’“Shortly, I saw a police patrol vehicle coming and immediately, they engaged them in a shootout.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2Tamuno Igbikiberebima is an unlikely star in an action movie. Like their male counterparts in Rivers State, female lawyers have not been spared. This pattern of killing of lawyers in and around Port Harcourt is not history. Former First Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, John Aikpokpo Martins, says of these attacks on lawyers in Rivers State that “it is so normal to kill a lawyer for defending others.”Increasingly, many Nigerian lawyers now live on the horns of a choice between silver and lead. Today, the emergency affects lawyers all over the country and requires the Bar Association to re-imagine itself and its capabilities.

In a breakdown, the DMO said the total public debt stock consists of domestic debt of N26.92 trillion and external debt of N17.15 trillion. The total domestic stock as of September 30, 2022, was N26.92tn while the total external debt stock as of September 30, 2022, was N17.15 trillion. Most of the states still depend on federal allocations to fund their budgets, as their internally generated revenue remains perennially weak. This is surely not sustainable.”A breakdown of states’ debts shows that the Lagos State government is leading the pack with N797. When debt forecloses opportunities, the poor get poorer.”He said to deal with the problem of mounting debt, states need greater autonomy to create their wealth, stressing: “every state is endowed with natural resources.

Youssef En-Nesyri scored in the closing minute of the first half to give Morocco a 1-0 lead against Portugal in the quarter-finals at the FIFA World Cup on Saturday. At this World Cup, Nesyri also became the first Moroccan player to score in two different World Cups. He scored a goal against Canada in the group stage, and the goal against Portugal was his second in Qatar. His first World Cup goal was against Spain at the group stage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. With three goals at the World Cup, he is Morocco’s leading scorer at the quadrennial tournament.

Team Delta were on Saturday officially declared winners of the 21st National Sports Festival in Asaba, the state capital. Delta’s neighbours, Bayelsa, came second with 132 gold, 115 silver and 90 bronze medals, followed by another of their neighbours. Team Oyo emerged fourth with 50 gold, 51 silver and 62 bronze medals, while Lagos secured 41 gold, 57 silver and 74 bronze medals to come fifth. Rivers completed the circle of all-Southern states’ domination with 35 gold, 57 silver and 117 bronze medals to occupy the sixth position. Kano broke the Southern dominance with 19 gold, 27 silver and 30 bronze medals to emerge seventh on the medals table.

A jailed Senegalese journalist critical of President Macky Sall has been hospitalised on the ninth day of a hunger strike in protest at his treatment, a media union and a lawyer said Saturday. Pape Ale Niang, director of the Dakar Matin news site, has been held for more than a month following his arrest on November 6. “Overnight (Friday to Saturday) he was taken to a clinic to be hospitalised,” he said in a statement. Niang has accused the authorities of kidnapping him, psychological torture and “arbitrary and unfair imprisonment” in a jail near the capital Dakar. Senegal was ranked 73rd out of 180 in RSF’s 2022 press freedom ranking, falling 24 places from the previous year.

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