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The suspected robber Kazeem Ugbodaga One of the two-man robbery gang arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) has confessed how they robbed a 76-year old woman of N5.32 million in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The robbery suspect, Segun Taiwo said his ringleader, an herbalist, now at large masterminded the crime. The suspect was apprehended after they had successfully dispossessed the 76-year old lady of her valuable at Oduduwa Street, Itire area of Lagos. The duo had collected $10,000, £5,000, and N100,000 and a box containing assorted jewelry from their victim at about 8:00 p.m at the weekend. Taiwo disclosed that he was only invited to the robbery by the herbalist, simply identified as Demola, who promised to give him 50 percent from the loot. While explaining how they got clue before carrying out the operation, he explained: “The mastermind is a herbalist. He was treating one of the woman’s daughter (name withheld) who had sore in her right foot. Whenever the la...

Dr Olufemi Onanuga Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut 37 illegal pharmacies and chemist shops in Ikorodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Special Adviser to the Governor on Primary Health, Dr. Olufemi Onanuga disclosed this at thee weekend, saying that the government was determined to rid the state off fake drugs, and stem the proliferation of illegal pharmaceutical outlets shops operating in the State in order to avert the danger posed by the activities of the illegal operators. Onanuga said the operation was carried out by the State Task force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods in conjunction with the representatives of National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Pharmacists’ Council of Nigeria (PCN), Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Federal Taskforce and Officers of the State Rapid Respond Squad (RRS). He stated that 37 outlets out of 49 visited in Ikorodu Central, Agric, Agbede, Ita-Oluwo, Eyita, Odongunyan, Ig...

Mr. Lawal Daura, DSS DG The Department of State Services ( DSS) said it had arrested Samuel Asuquo, the suspected kidnapper of three Australian nationals working with Lafarge cement company. This is contained in a statement by Mr Tony Opuiyo, an official of the service in Abuja on Sunday. Opuiyo said the suspect was arrested by operatives of the service in Nasarawa Bakoko village in Cross River on Aug. 22. He said that the suspected kidnap kingpin received a ransom of N150 million. In a related development, the service also arrested three suspected members of a notorious kidnap gang on Aug. 30 in Lafia. The suspects are Bamaiyi Mustapha, alias Dan Borno, Aminu Isa and Hassan Shehu. Opuiyo said that the suspects operated around the Abuja-Kaduna axis. He alleged that they had earlier kidnapped five women and collected N130 million as ransom. “They were subsequently arrested by the service while planning a high profile kidnap in Abuja, “he said. He said, in collaboration with t...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State Ekiti State Government on Sunday says it will soon abolish the centralised payment of workers’ salaries in the state. This is contained in a statement by Mr Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ayo Fayose, released in Ado Ekiti. According to the statement, the new order will eliminate fraud but accelerate disbursement of salaries to workers as and when approved. It stated that the local governments would now pay their staff when the new arrangement comes into effect. The statement directed the accounting officers in the various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to scrutinise financial documents thoroughly before passing them. It quoted the governor as saying that government would hold the relevant officers responsible for any anomalies detected in any signed document. The governor in the statement expressed his disappointment in some officers in charge of generating the nominal and pay rolls in the state in view of th...

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Chinese scientists convert sand into soil Chinese scientists announced they have converted sand into fertile soil using a new method they developed, which they hope to use to fight desertification. A team of researchers from Chongqing Jiaotong University has developed a paste made of plant cellulose that, when added to sand, helps it retains water, nutrients and air. A 1.6-hectare sandy plot in Ulan Buh Desert in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China, has been transformed into fertile land, yielding rice, corn, tomatoes, watermelon and sunflowers, after being treated by the new method. A forthcoming issue of the English-language journal “Engineering,” published by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), will publish the research by the Chongqing scientists Yi Zhijian and co-author Zhao Chaohua. The new method will hopefully help turn desert areas into an ideal habitat for plants, said Yi. The plants in the sandy test plot needed about the same amount of water as those ...

Mother Theresa of Calcutta Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the “saint of the gutters” during her life has been declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis. The declaration took place on Sunday, 19 years after her death. Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for a service to honour the tiny nun, who worked among the world’s neediest in the slums of the Indian city now called Kolkata. A Nobel peace laureate, her legacy complements Pope Francis’s vision of a humble church that strives to serve the poor. Standing under a canvas hung from St. Peter’s Basilica showing the late nun in her blue-hemmed white robes, Francis said Mother Teresa was a “dispenser of divine mercy”. Pope Francis however, held world powers to account “for the crimes of poverty they created”. “For Mother Teresa, mercy was the salt which gave flavour to her work, the light which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their pover...