Month: August 2024

The Abia State University, Uturu, has handed a 3 months suspension to Dr. Udochukwu Ndukwe, a lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, over allegations of s3xual harassment by a female student.

A letter signed by the school’s registrar, Dr Acho Elendu, dated July 30, 2024, and obtained by Punch Metro on Thursday, stated that Ndukwe would be investigated and would lose half of his pay “in line with the University Conditions of Service pending the conclusion of the investigation for which a panel has been set up.”

The letter described the suspended lecturer’s actions as an “embarrassment” to the institution.

The disgraced lecturer, Punch correspondent learnt, had repeatedly been accused of s3xually harassing, intimidating and extorting female students of the department.

A viral social media video showed the lecturer on his knees, being interrogated by several individuals in a room.

Ndukwe was allegedly set up by a final-year female student whom he was accused of continuously s3xually harassing and intimidating.

Punch Metro investigations revealed that to expose the predatory lecturer, a female student he had allegedly been harassing for over two years collaborated with others to set him up at a popular hotel in Umuahia, where he was caught pants down, pleading not to be exposed.

In the viral short video that the lecturer’s lips were bloodied and he had visible bruises.

According to the letter, a panel has been established to further investigate the suspended lecturer “pending the conclusion of the investigation.”
 

There was an attack by suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists in the Mafa community in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.

The attack has left a total of 2,390 people displaced.

Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, in a statement on Thursday, August 1, 2024, said the video was recorded by a police officer stationed with the troops, adding that no soldier in Kanana is poorly fed.

The Nigerian Army has reacted to a video claiming that soldiers of 159 Battalion in Kanama, Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State are given substandard meals.

These include increase in the Ration Cash Allowance, prompt medical evacuation of wounded in action soldiers for both foreign and local treatments, commencement of payment of the backlog of Group Life Insurance Scheme that had accumulated since 2012. Affordable House Ownership Option for all Soldiers (AHOOAS) with the COAS offsetting about 60 percent of the cost, and the activation of Personnel Insurance Scheme payments to soldiers who incure injury in combat operations.

He accused authorities of disrupting peaceful demonstrations and teargassing the protesters.

On August 1, 2024, he took to the X platform to respond to a post by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who claimed that protesters in Lagos were peaceful.

Mr Macaroni wrote, “This is proof that the protests are always peaceful and with good intentions until state-sponsored thugs are sent to disrupt the protests. The police, in their complicity, will ignore the infiltrators and start to attack peaceful protesters. This is how it happens not only in Lagos but in other states in the country.”

He drew parallels to the 2020 ENDSARS protests, criticizing the government for trying to rewrite the history of these events. “At the end of the day, the government will then attempt to rewrite history as if it didn’t happen before our very eyes. This is exactly how it happened with EndSars and the records will forever be there to point at the real enemies of Nigeria who unleashed terror and mayhem in our society,” he added.

Mr Macaroni also criticized the presence of anti-protesters who confronted peaceful demonstrators. He questioned, “Isn’t it crazy that the same people who protested peacefully are now trying to stop others from doing the same thing?”

He stressed, “If people want to protest and cry out to the government, let them. How can the government keep punishing people and then tell them they can’t complain? The government should protect peaceful protesters, but instead, it’s the same government that’s causing the problems.”

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A former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has reacted to the ongoing nationwide protest against the economic hardship in the nation.

Popular American rapper, Cardi B has filed for divorce from her husband, Offset, for the second time.

TMZ confirms the news, revealing that the separation has been a long time coming.

Sources close to the situation told TMZ that the breakup is not related to cheating. Instead, the couple has been drifting apart for an extended period. “They’re just disconnected from each other,” one insider explained.

Hints of the impending split were apparent in Cardi B’s social media posts from December, where she expressed frustration with the relationship. “You know when you just outgrow relationships … I’m tired of protecting people’s feelings … I GOTTA PUT MYSELF FIRST!” she wrote.

Despite efforts to reconcile earlier this year, the distance between the two only widened. The decision to part ways is reportedly amicable, and Cardi B has already enlisted a divorce lawyer to handle the case, seeking primary custody of their two children.

The couple, who married in 2017, share two kids: 6-year-old Kulture and 2-year-old Wave. This is not the first time Cardi B has filed for divorce; she previously initiated proceedings in 2020 but later withdrew the documents. Sources indicate that this time, she is determined to follow through with the decision.

According to Sources, the victims are still in the pool of their blood at press time, even as the video has gone viral on Social Media Platforms.

As the protests turn chaotic in Maiduguri, four individuals suspected to be workers have been killed at the Kime filling station near Bolori junction in the city.

According to Sources, the victims are still in the pool of their blood at press time, even as the video has gone viral on Social Media Platforms.

Already, Police authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew in the state, citing violence that escalated in the nationwide protests and the Bomb blast that took place in Kawuri village of Konduga local government area of the state which left 20 people dead with 16 injured.

Unconfirmed reports indicated that the victims/workers of the filling station were shot as a result of stray bullets, while other versions revealed that there was no sign of bullets/gunshots on the victims.

Speaking to one of the filling station attendants, Baba Musa in a telephone call, said, “It was an explosion that took place and killed four persons instantly, while I managed and escape unhurt”.

The Chairman of the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Borno State branch, Alhaji Mohammed Kuluwu confirmed the killing of four persons at Kime filling station in the afternoon, but said, he has been making contact with the Director of the affected station, but couldn’t get his phone line to ascertain details of what led to the killing of the victims.