South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that former President Jacob Zuma should return to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. The court said the decision to release Zuma on early medical parole was unlawful. Zuma was sentenced in 2021 to 15 months’ imprisonment after ignoring a court order to testify at a government inquiry into widespread corruption during his time as president. Zuma was released on medical parole in September 2021 after only serving a fraction of the sentence however, in December the high court set aside the parole decision and ordered him to…
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Around 300 victims of gang violence have been found dead in similar circumstances in recent months in Guanajuato, an industrial hub in Mexico. As applause rang out at a nearby international arts festival, Bibiana Mendoza unearthed human remains from a clandestine grave in a Mexican region where prosperity, culture, and cartel violence converge. The 32-year-old woman, who is looking for her missing brother, arrived at the site in the town of Irapuato in Guanajuato state after residents reported seeing a dog carrying a human hand in its mouth. “While people from all over the world were celebrating the Cervantino festival,…
Poland along with Slovakia and the Czech Republic, will ask Hungary to promptly ratify the documents on Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said. The two Nordic countries forsook their decades-long neutrality after Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking a conventional military conflict that Europe had not seen since World War Two. Morawiecki made the declaration on Sunday in Helsinki where he met with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. “In a few days, I am meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban as part of the Visegrad Group format. I am sure that together with our friends from…
“These letters essentially tell a story that is as deeply personal as it is painstakingly national, and global”, Ololade Bamidele, who coordinated the production of the book, said. “This tour de force of historical writing situates Musikilu Mojeed as a witness and skillful raconteur who deftly manages to braid far-flung pieces into a magisterial whole that unveils the attitudes, worldview, relationships, emotional complexity and stewardship of this enigmatic global statesman, through the correspondences he exchanged with others” The Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed will on 1 December, 2022, release his debut book to the Nigerian public. The book, The Letterman: Inside the…
“India is an important case study for the Sustainable Development Goals, the first of which is to end poverty in all its forms and to reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions by 2030” The number of poor people in India dropped by about 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a historic change and a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal target of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty…
Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Plc on Sunday said it recorded a Gross Premium Written (GPW) of N8.3 billion in 2021, representing a 16.9 per cent increase over N7.1 billion it recorded in 2020. Ms. Oyinkansola Sobande, Manager, Corporate Communications, Brand Management and Customer Service of GNI, said in a statement in Lagos, the insurer declared the result at its 51st Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on November 14. Sobande stated that the insurance company’s claims expenses increased from N1.4 billion in 2020 to N2.1 billion in 2021, while its underwriting expenses declined drastically during the period under review. She noted…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Saudi-bound widow with cocaine concealed in footwear at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja – Lagos. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs Kehinde Ajisegiri, was arrested over her attempt to traffic 400 grams of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He said the suspect who claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adults and children’s wears on Lagos Island was intercepted on Sunday…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has foiled an attempt by traffickers to smuggle consignments of cannabis and ecstasy tablets concealed in three tubers of yam. The Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the anti-narcotics officers attached to the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) export shed of the airport, made the arrests. He said the yam, which was going to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), was intercepted on Wednesday November 17. He also said the freight agent who presented the yams for export, Inegbu Akunna,…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized no less than 5.6 kilograms of methamphetamine, cocaine and tramadol in Lagos. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the drugs were discovered in items like play station, bicycles, motor propeller and local fabrics packaged for export to Australia and Cyprus through some courier firms in Lagos. He said two suspects, Gabriel Emeka and Vintura Grillo, had been arrested in a follow-up operation linked to one of the seizures. Also, in Niger, NDLEA operatives on stop and search operation along Mokwa-Jebba road on Saturday…
Among the reasons given by the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for the redesigning of the ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1000 notes is that there is some ₦3.2 trillion in circulation out of which 2.7 trillion is outside the banking system. The assumption is that those stupendous amounts outside could be proceeds of crime – corruption, kidnappings, robbery, etc., and so they would cease to be legal tender since the owners would not take them to the banks for fear of being found out. Again, the CBN governor disclosed that between 2015 and 2022, the currency in circulation…