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  Kanywood actress Amal Umar has been arraigned before Magistrate Court No. 24 in Gyadi-Gyadi area of Kano metropolis over alleged attempt to bribe a law enforcement officer. The actress was accused of attempted bribery involving the sum of N250,000 offered to a Police officer identified as ASP Salisu Bujama of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Zone 1 headquarters in Kano State. According to the prosecutor, the alleged bribe was aimed at halting Police investigation into alleged financial misappropriation perpetrated by the actress’ boyfriend, identified as Ramadan Inuwa. The saga unfolded when a complaint was filed by one Alhaji Yusuf Adamu through his lawyer, H.I. Dederi, to the Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Umar Mohd Sanda, on August 18, 2022, detailing how Ramadan Inuwa allegedly misappropriated a substantial amount of money, totalling N40million, in his cell phone business. The petition led to a subsequent police investigation, which revealed that N13million was transferred...

  Doctors were in shock after having to remove a coconut from a man's bum in a sex experiment gone wrong. A 56-year-old man from Taiwan was rushed to hospital after the pain became too much. He started suffering from abdominal pain and severe constipation after failing to remove the coconut by himself. The coconut had been wedged inside him for the last two days after he used it for sexual stimulation while masturbating. Director of the general medical surgery at the E-Da Hospital, Dr Chen Zhiyi warned local residents of the dangers of such an act. He said: "This was a very rare case. The patient was lucky to still be alive. Fortunately, he did not suffer serious internal damage. He was told not to do it again. The patient admitted that he put the coconut into his rectum in search of stimulation." The doctor's tireless efforts and brain wrecking to figure out the best way for the large fruit to be removed eventually landed on the idea of an operation after the patient...

Dr Richard Somiari, Director of Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, said that the results of an autopsy conducted on deceased singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, a.k.a Mohbad, would be ready in the next three weeks or four weeks. Somiari disclosed this on Wednesday, March 20, while testifying during a coroner's inquest into the death of the singer. The witness was cross-examined by the defence counsel in the inquest. Recall that the musician died on September 12, 2023, at the age of 27 years. His dfath generated controversies, prompting Lagos State Government to direct a coroner's inquest into the dfath. The inquest began on October 13, 2023. During the last inquest hearing on March 20, Somiari told the Coroner, Magistrate Adedayo Shotobi: "We expected to get the first set of autopsy results in three to four weeks and re-confirm to authenticate the cause of the death. "We searched for multiple possibilities, to check if poison was involved in the death of Mohbad since no actual...

  The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed a bill that was sent to it by President Bola Tinubu for the upward review of salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits for judicial officers nationwide for the third reading. Based on the provisions of the bill, judges are to get over 800 per cent pay rise, as the Chief Justice of Nigeria is to earn N64.6m annual basic salary and allowances, far higher than what obtains currently. Other justices of the Supreme Court are to earn annual basic salaries and regular allowances of over N60m annually. The development received the backing of various Senior Advocates of Nigeria, as they insisted that well-remunerated judicial officers would be less susceptible to corruption. The bill seeks to amend Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc) Act, No. 6, 2002 (as amended) by deleting Section 2(b), Part II of the Schedule to the Act and any other provisions relating to judicial office holders. When ...

  Oluremi Tinubu, wife of President Bola Tinubu, has berated Nigerians abroad who have taken on jobs they couldn’t do in Nigeria. The First Lady stated this during an interview with Arise News on Thursday March 21. The former senator, while encouraging Nigerians to help each other amid the economic crisis, queried those who “japa” to take on work they couldn’t do in Nigeria. “Nigerians we can help each other. “It’s not that the government will begin to give food to everybody. “It is for people God has blessed to help the poor,” she said. She added, “Even those people saying they are going to Japa, they go there. What work are they going to do? “Work that you refused to do at home where you have loved ones, you end up going to do that. “Even with all their education, they are driving cabs but won’t drive cabs here.”

  Scientists say they have successfully eliminated HIV from infected cells, using Nobel Prize-winning Crispr gene-editing technology, the BBC reports. The technology works like scissors, but at the molecular level, to cut DNA so that "bad" bits can be removed or inactivated. The hope is to ultimately be able to rid the body entirely of the virus, although much more work is needed to check it would be safe and effective. Existing HIV medicines can stop the virus but not eliminate it. The University of Amsterdam team, presenting a synopsis of their early findings at a medical conference this week, stressed that their work remains merely "proof of concept" and will not become a cure for HIV any time soon. And Dr James Dixon, stem-cell and gene-therapy technologies associate professor at the University of Nottingham, agrees, saying the full findings still require scrutiny. "Much more work will be needed to demonstrate results in these cell assays can happen in an e...

  NLC members picket Labour Party LP secretariat, demand sack of party's national chairman, Julius Abure Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, this morning March 20, picketed the headquarters of the Labour party in the Utako area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The union members led by the acting Chairman of the Political Commission of the Congress, Theophilus Ndubuaku, demanded the immediate resignation of Julius Abure as the national chairman of the party on the ground that he was not properly elected as the national chairman of the party. Ndubuaku argued that the party convention Abure plans to host in Umuahia, the Abia state capital on March 27 is an illegal one. He said Abure plans to be re-elected as party chairman at the convention. Although no official of the party is at the headquarters, the labour leaders have occupied the premises of the party as officers and men of the Nigeria police force keep an eye on the secretariat to avoid vandalization. The u...