(Getty Images) As the average mortgage rate for a five-year fixed deal rises to 6 per cent, Rishi Sunak can find little relief in his personal approval ratings. ConservativeHome has published its monthly cabinet league table in which the Prime Minister’s support among Tory members has hit its lowest level since he entered 10 Downing Street. Sunak at least has plenty of company in the red – he is one of a record nine cabinet ministers to find themselves with sub-zero approval ratings. These ministers include his deputy Oliver Dowden, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove and Therese Coffey. Sunak…
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Operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos State have arrested two suspected fraudsters after both have hacked into over 1,000 bank accounts. The Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, a Superintendent of Police, Hauwa Idris-Adamu, made this known. Idris-Adamu said the modus operandi of these fraudsters is to have a customer’s BVN-linked phone number and bank alert for easy transfer of the money. She said: “Over 1000 customers’ accounts have been hacked and defrauded across the country. “Further investigation into the incident revealed that members of the syndicates were drawn from different parts of the country.” The spokesperson explained…
Enugu State Governor, Barr Peter Mbah has appointed Mr. Ladi Akeredolu-Ale Managing Director of Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS. Until his recent appointment, Ladi was the Controller, Current Affairs at Channels Television in Lagos State. His appointment was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Chidiebere Onyia on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. He said “The veteran journalist is expected to bring to bear over 30 years of experience in journalism in the state broadcasting service. “It is expected that Mr. Akeredolu-Ale would drive a media revolution, inspire drastic reforms in media innovation and creativity,…
Miss Nkechinyere Umeh, a 16-year-old female student of Deeper Life High School in Mowe, Ogun State, who emerged as the top scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exams (UTME), has explained how she accomplished this achievement. During an interview with the Punch Newspaper, Miss Umeh, who is from Anambra State and is the first child in a family of four children, thanked God for allowing her to be the top exam scorer. “My school was highly involved in our preparation for the exam,” she stated of how she prepared for the exams to score 360. We had a succession of…
Melanie Cox’s mammoth sore had gotten worse – much worse. It started as a hot, puffy spot between her thumb and index finger, where she’d been injecting heroin for nearly two decades. But soon, the lesion bloated into a grotesque, brownish-green slug. It wasn’t the heroin that had rotted Cox’s flesh away. It was the animal sedative known as “tranq,” which has infected every facet of the drug game and left healthcare workers bewildered and addicts reeling from its shocking side effects. “You could put my hand to your lips and feel the heat emanating,” the 51-year-old mother of three told…
CIA Director William Burns believes negative attitudes toward Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led to a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” for the US to recruit Russian spies. “Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership, beneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression,” Burns said during a lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in London on Saturday. “That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA, at our core a human intelligence service,” he said. Burns, 67, added that the intelligence agency is “open for business” when it comes to recruiting new Russian moles. “We’re not letting it…
The principal officers emerged by consensus, the Senate President said. L-R: Senators Opeyemi Bamidele, Dave Umahi, Ali Ndume, and Lola Ashiru Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced the principal officers of the 10th Senate, which he says emerged by consensus. The new officers are Senator Opeyemi Bamidele from Ekiti State as Senate Leader, Senator Dave Umahi from Ebonyi State as Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume from Borno State as Chief Whip, and Senator Lola Ashiru from Kwara State as Deputy Chief Whip. More to follow…
Iran Iran executed three men on Tuesday who were convicted of raping women they had lured to a fake cosmetic surgery clinic and injected with anaesthetic drugs. They were found guilty of conspiring in 12 cases of sexual assault in late 2021 in the southern province of Hormozgan, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. The three men “who raped a number of women in an unauthorised beauty salon were hanged in Bandar Abbas prison this morning,” Hormozgan’s Chief Justice Mojtaba Ghahramani was quoted as saying. One of the men, a medical assistant, had lured seven victims to the fake clinic…
Amid the quest for a solution to the effect of fuel subsidy removal, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced plans to install charging ports across its filling stations nationwide to charge electric vehicles. The Managing Director of NNPC New Energy Ltd, Kanayochukwu Odoe, disclosed this in NNPCL’s latest quarterly publication released Monday. It also said the company is currently discussing with indigenous firms to boost the local production capacity of electric vehicles as part of moves to reduce carbon emissions. Recall that removal of the fuel subsidy in June led to the increment in the pump price of…
The Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is billed to parley with members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) ahead of national caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings. The parley, slated to hold 1:00 p.m. today, at the NWC Hall of the National Secretariat in Abuja, is aimed at addressing challenges affecting the party. The meeting is expected to prepare ground for the APC NEC parley, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. Faceoff between Adamu, National Secretary of the party, Iyiola Omisore, and National Vice Chairman (North West), Salihu Lukman, concerning the party’s…
