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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba on Friday decorated newly promoted Senior Officers with their new ranks. Among those decorated as Commissioners of Police (CPs) were husband and wife, Kehinde and Yetunde Longe. The couple were among those promoted by the Police Service Commission (PSC) recently along with 15 other commissioners of police. While reading their citations, the Force PRO, CP Frank Mba disclosed that the couple were course mates and joined the Nigeria Police Force on the same day. The IGP also doctorate 22 other senior police officers, among which were two deputy inspector-general of police.…

Air Peace, has announced the introduction of a Priority Boarding Policy for Nigeria’s military personnel- both serving and retired. According to the Executive Chairman of the airline, Barrister Allen Onyema, this is a way of honouring them for the huge sacrifices they make for the nation. Onyema said that the airline holds in high regard the indispensable contributions of the military in securing Nigeria and defending its territory from external aggression. He further said that the uniformed men and women put their lives on the line in the course of defending the state and its interests against external armed threats,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended two new drugs — baricitinib and sotrovimab — for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. In a statement on Thursday, the global health body said the recommendation is based on new evidence from seven trials involving over 4,000 patients with severe, non-severe, and critical COVID-19 infections. According to the WHO, baricitinib — also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis — is strongly recommended for patients with severe or critical COVID-19 in combination with corticosteroids. The global health body said the “strong recommendation” is based on moderate certainty evidence that it improves survival and reduces the…

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is threatening to boycott the debates unless the body that organizes them changes its rules. US presidential and vice presidential debates have been sponsored for the past three decades by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). In a letter to the CPD on Thursday, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel accused the commission of “stonewalling the meaningful reforms necessary to restore its credibility with the Republican Party as a fair and nonpartisan actor.” Absent the reforms, “the RNC will take every step to ensure that future Republican presidential nominees are given that opportunity (to debate) elsewhere,”…

The US Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S. The court’s orders Thursday came during a spike in coronavirus cases caused by the omicron variant. The court’s conservative majority concluded the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s…

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, visited the Lagos residence of the Head of the Interim National Government, the late Ernest Shonekan, to commiserate with the deceased family. Recall that Shonekan was at the helm of affairs in Nigeria between August 26 and November 17, 1993, after General Ibrahim Babangida stepped aside as military president. Buhari, who was on a one-day presidential visit to Ogun State to commission some projects, was accompanied to the Lugard Avenue, Ikoyi’s residence of the late Shonekan by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his Ogun and Yobe State counterparts, Prince Dapo Abiodun and Mai Mala Buni,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, for the inauguration of some projects executed by Dapo Abiodun, the governor. The president was received by Abiodun and other top government officials of the state around 10:40am at Mojoda area in Ijebu-Ode, where he cut the tape for the inauguration of the 14 kilometre Ijebu-Ode-Mojoda-Epe expressway. Buhari is also expected to inaugurate other projects including the Gateway City Gate Monument Park and Sagamu Interchange. Other projects to be inaugurated are two housing estates — 527-unit low-and-medium housing scheme at Kobape in Obafemi-Owode LGA and the 83-unit duplexes at Kings…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspected fake lawyer, Adekola Adekeye, in Lagos on charges of impersonation and forgery, a statement by the commission said on Thursday. The anti-graft agency’s statement signed by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said Mr Adekeye had visited the Lagos zonal of the commission on Tuesday posing as a lawyer to secure the release of a detained fraud suspect.’ The statement said he was, however, exposed when investigators dug in further to verify the documents he tendered to secure the bail of the detained suspect: Read EFCC’s full statement: EFCC Press Release…

A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has reserved ruling in a case of alleged obtaining by false pretence brought against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, NLNG, its former Managing Director, Mr. Tony Attah, and General Counsel, Akachukwu Nwokedi, to February 7, 2022. Arguments commenced Wednesday before the trial magistrate, Blessing Vick-Jumbo, in the preliminary objection by the NLNG, Attah, and Nwokedi, challenging the criminal summons, issued against them by one of its vendors, Macobarb International Ltd and its Managing Director, Mr. Ogboru Shedrak, as complainants. Arguing the objection, Dr. Bayo Adaralegbe contended that the complaint was based on…

The Department of State recognizes the positive impact of temporary work visa holders on the U.S. economy and is committed to facilitating nonimmigrant travel and reducing visa wait times. We are pleased to announce that consular officers are now temporarily authorized, through December 31, 2022, to waive in-person interviews for certain individual petition-based nonimmigrant work visas and their qualifying derivatives in the following categories: Persons in Specialty Occupations (H-1B visas), Trainee or Special Education Visitors (H-3 visas), Intracompany Transferees (L visas), Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement (O visas), Athletes, Artists, and Entertainers (P visas), and Participants in International Cultural…