The Nigerian Sex Workers Association has said the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will lead to an increase in the number of female prostitutes.

This disclosure was made by the national coordinator of the association, Amaka Enemo, on Friday.

The National Coordinator noted that even without the strike, many female students had been engaging in ‘runs’.

Enemo said if the strike was not called off soon, students would embrace sex work, she told Punch.

According to Enemo, “Even without the strike, a lot of the students were doing ‘runs’, which is exchanging money for sex. But with the strike, just like a holiday, the rate of sex work will double.

“In this job, strike or holiday period is like a peak period. So, I urge them to stay safe because we cannot kick them off the streets. They should be safe and use condoms.

“The government needs to ensure that the strike is called off because if the students are left idle due to the closure of schools, it means the government is indirectly telling them to go to the streets.”

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has withdrawn its threat to stop the conduct of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.

The decision was reached after a meeting organised by a non-governmental organisation, the Ala-Igbo International Foundation with the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu in Owerri, Imo State.

This is coming just days after the FG asked a court to send Kanu back to prison, for violating his bail conditions. Leader of the foundation, Professor Uzodinma Nwala, says after much deliberations which they say is still ongoing, IPOB has assured the Igbo leaders that it won’t disrupt the November 18 governorship election.

People who are eligible to vote have also been told to go out and exercise their franchise without fear of molestation.

The Ala-Igbo Development Foundation is an Igbo group that brings together Igbo academics, elders, clerics, patriotic public figures, women and youth, with the main objective of protecting and ensuring the survival of Ndigbo, their culture and civilisation as well as the development of Igboland.

In our Usual way, Nigerians have reacted after the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God visited the President, Muhammadu Buhari in London.

Following the report, Nigerians have taken to social media to share their support and their displeasure of this visit.

Ugoo Ugochukwunyereoha said:

“Hope you have accepted Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour. Muhammad will not save. Repent and ask for forgiveness of your evils against the children of the Most High God. You will see yourself coming back to life. A word is enough for the wise”

Onuchuckwu Leonard Emeka said:

“So, finally PASTOR Adeboye is into this scam? I wonder if its God or money he is serving. Please uncle PMB should resume office Or resign. He should also apologise to Nigerians for not keeping to his promises.”

Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has finally banned the sale of bleaching products in Ghana.

Ghana has banned bleaching creams in the country. This was made public by the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Mrs Mimi Darko on Wednesday while appearing before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

Darko revealed that the ban commenced since last year as it also stopped registering body creams with bleaching agents.

Adom News reported that while answering questions posed by the Chairman of the PAC, Mr James Avedzi, on what the FDA was doing about bleaching creams, Mrs Darko said the FDA was currently engaging in sensitisation programmes to educate market women and other groups on the negative effects of bleaching.

The committee commended the FDA for its performance so far and urged it to do more to protect consumers in the country. It emerged during the committee’s sitting that an amount of GH¢61,448.00 was paid to a former staff of the Pharmacy Council while she was on study leave for three years.

Ms Marian Torgagbo now Mrs Marian Honu, who was an Inspecting Pharmacist, resigned from the council in November 2013 after returning from her studies abroad but the council declined her request.

According to the 2015 Auditor-General’s report, Mrs Honu was on study leave from July 2010 to September 2013 to pursue her Master’s Degree in Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America (USA) but resigned immediately after the course.

According to the report, “her action violates the terms of the bond on July 7, 2010, which required her to serve the Council for five years after completion or in breach refund the compensation paid her during the period of her study with five per cent interest.”

Officials of the council told the committee that the council had sued Mrs Honu for recovery of the amount plus interest.

The Federal Government has urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail granted to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for failing to keep to the terms of the bail.

The government particularly wants Kanu to be returned to prison for issuing threats that the scheduled gubernatorial election in Anambra state would not hold unless there was a referendum about the proposed secession of the south-east region from Nigeria.

Other grounds cited by the government include claims that Kanu has allegedly conducted himself in manners that threaten public peace and his choosing to address crowds exceeding 10 persons as against the court’s directive that he must not be seen in a crowd of over 10 people.

The government made the demands in response to an application filed on behalf of the IPOB leader that his bail conditions be reviewed by the court. In the counter-motion, dated August 1, 2017 and filed by Magaji Labaran of the Federal Ministry of Justice, the government argued that not only had Kanu not met the bail conditions and was enjoying the bail, it was also an affront to the court’s authority for the IPOB leader to approach the court for the review of the conditions, having allegedly breached them.

“The offence for which he (Kanu) is standing trial is not ordinarily bailable; the court, not withstanding, granted bail to the 1st defendant/applicant (Kanu) on health grounds on 25th April 2017,” a portion of the motion published by The Nation read.

The government added, “We categorically state that justice would have been denied the state by this court, if the state is not protected from the offences being perpetrated by the 1st defendant/applicant, who is currently on bail.”

Kanu and four other suspected IPOB members – Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Bright Chimezie – are being tried before the Federal High Court, Abuja on offences relating to conspiracy and treasonable felony.

Luck ran out of a suspected thief Mr Madabuchukwu Unamba from Ebonyi state as he was arrested by men of the Imo security Network Orlu West on Thursday afternoon.

Maduabuchi, a native of Ebonyi state and bus conductor broke into a shop located at No 2 Maternity road Mgbidi belonging to Mr Chijioke Ogidi an automobile electrician along side his driver accomplice known as Nwa Papa as they attempted to sell their loot at the Onitsha old parts market.

With signals from the Anambra state vigilante service, men of the ISN quickly moved in and got Maduabuchukwu having arrested Nwa Papa earlier and handed him to the Nigeria Police Mgbidi.

Items stolen include eleven (11)Vehicle batteries, one (1) Tiger Power Generating set as well as five (5) mobile Phones.

The suspect who confessed having once escaped from Police cell, also just finished serving a one year jail term for similar offense. He has equally been handed over to the police.

The police in Nasarawa State have confirmed the arrest of a 25-year-old woman, Mwuese Keleve, who allegedly murdered her three-day-old child in the Kadarko area of Keana Local Government Area of the state.

The Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Idirisu Kennedy, who hinted this in an interview with Northern City News on Thursday in Lafia, said the command on Monday received a report about the corpse of a baby found in a river in the Keana Local Government Area.

He stated that police detectives on Tuesday arrested the suspect who turned out to be the mother of the dead child.

The police image-maker said the suspect had confessed to committing the crime, but did not give any cogent reason for killing the baby.

Kennedy said,

“Based on the report from the preliminary investigation, the woman is sane and has admitted to committing the crime.”

The suspect’s husband, Mr. Fanen Peter, said what his wife did took him by surprise.

He explained that they had been married for 15 years with two children and the deceased was their third child.He said the deceased child had since been buried.

Reacting to the incident, the paramount ruler, Kadoko of Kadarko, Chief Fabian Orugu, described Keleve’s action as a devilish act “which cannot be tolerated.”