Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines & Naija News Today, Saturday, January 4th, 2025, can be accessed below.
Oyo State Government, on Friday, said that the distribution of letters of appointment to 5,600 newly recruited basic school teachers in the state will begin on Monday, January 6, 2025.
The distribution exercise will take place at Universal Basic Education office in all local government areas across the state.
The Chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board, Nureni Adeniran, stated this during a meeting with Education Secretaries in Ibadan, the state capital.
He charged the new teachers to be innovative and embrace modern techniques and approaches in imparting knowledge.
Vice President Kashim Shettima has stated that meaningful development in the country is impossible without peace.
He also assured Nigerians of sustained economic growth through agriculture and other policies under the Renewed Hope Agenda introduced by the federal government.
Shettima made these remarks on Friday during a one-day working visit to Nasarawa State, where he flagged off the distribution of tractors and other farm implements to the 13 local government areas, as well as the distribution of relief materials to flood disaster victims in Lafia.
According to him, Nasarawa has the potential to feed the nation due to its arable land and abundant mineral resources.
Suspended chairmen of Owan West and Ovia South West Local Government Areas, Dickson Ahonsi and Edosa Enowoghomenma, on Friday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress in Edo State.
Ahonsi defected with five councillors while Enowoghomenma moved with eight of his councillors.
Ahonsi was received by members of the state executive of the party in Benin, the state capital.
He said his decision to join the APC was influenced by the steps taken so far by Governor Monday Okpebholo to develop the state.
The chairman and the five councilors were presented with brooms, the party’s symbol while saying he (Ahonsi) would ensure his other colleagues join the APC to give their support to the present administration.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun has expressed great displeasure on the number of police officers that have been killed by criminal elements in recent times.
Egbetokun who made his feelings known in Enugu on Friday, when he was on official visit to the police headquarters, said that they would not tolerate any form of assault or killing of police personnel any longer.
The IGP said that this year, they are determined to wipe out crimes and criminality, especially from the southeastern states and make sure that criminals that are dislodged from the zone do not return to carry out their dastard acts.
The police boss who was on his first official visit to Enugu since he became IGP as well as his first visit to the Command in 2025, said they would do everything humanly possible to see that criminals get it hot this year, pointing out that they are focused and determined to achieve their objective.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in partnership with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has apprehended Uadiale Christiana Jacob, also known as Christy Gold, a notorious human trafficker who has been on the agency’s wanted list for five years.
In a press release signed by NAPTIP’s press officer, Vincent Adekoye, on Friday, the agency confirmed that Christy Gold was arrested on December 31, 2024, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, upon her return from Dubai.
Christy Gold is the leader of an international trafficking syndicate that lured underage Nigerian girls with false promises of jobs abroad, only to force them into prostitution in Dubai.
She was convicted in absentia by the Federal High Court, Asaba, in March 2024, following years of investigation by NAPTIP.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the temporary freezing of 21 bank accounts domiciled in some commercial banks and directed the arrest of the account holders by the police.
Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order after counsel for the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed, moved a motion ex-parte to the effect.
Justice Nwite also granted the “order directing the banks to issue details of the account package(s) and to place a Post-No-Debit (PND) on the accounts, disable the ATMs while allowing inflow into the said accounts” pending the conclusion of the investigation.
“I have listened to the submission of the learner counsel for the applicant and gone through the affidavit evidence.
“I am of the view that the motion ex-parte is meritorious.
“The application is hereby granted except that the period of the investigation can only last for a period of 90 days,” Justice Nwite said.
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