Apr 25, 2019 – Top News Magazines.

Gateman declines house parting gift for borehole in his community

Apr 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019 topnews

Musa Usman, a gateman, who has served an Indian National for 25 years, has declined a house offered to him as parting gift, requesting for a borehole for his community instead. Usman, who hail from Giljimmi, a Fulani settlement in Birniwa local government area of Jigawa state, lives with his family in a thatch house. Usman, who served the Managing Director of Jawa International Limited, a pharmaceutical company in Lagos, Mr. Verghese for 25 years, left the services of his boss in order to reunite with his family in the…

Scientists validates Corn husk in malaria treatment

Apr 25, 2019 topnews

The husk extract fractions of corn/maize (Zea mays) has been confirmed by scientists to possesses antimalarial and anti-plasmodial activities. This justifies its use in ethno-medicine to treat malaria infections. Botanically called Zea mays, corn or maize belongs to the plant family Poaceae. Husk (or hull) in botany is the outer shell or coating of a seed. It often refers to the leafy outer covering of an ear of maize (corn) as it grows on the plant. Literally, a husk or hull includes the protective outer covering of a seed, fruit,…

Father arrested for attempting to sell his two children

Apr 25, 2019 topnews

Police in Calabar, Cross River State, have arrested a 30-year-old man, Essien Inyang, for attempting to sell his two children. An eyewitness, Clement Edet, who informed the police, said the suspect took his two children, a boy and a girl to Murray Street to look for a rich buyer. He said Inyang asked for a particular rich man living in that street to sell the children to him. Edet said they were surprised by what the man said and to stop him from taking the children elsewhere to sell they…

NMA faults Ngige for saying Nigeria has more than enough doctors

Apr 25, 2019 topnews

The Nigerian Medical Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors, the Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project and human rights groups on Wednesday faulted the statement credited to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, that the country had enough medical doctors. Ngige, had on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, said doctors who felt they wanted to relocate in search of greener pastures were free to do so as the nation had enough medical personnel. Ngige had, while responding to a question on brain drain and the deliberate…

Woman wakes from coma 27 years after

Apr 25, 2019 topnews

In a miraculous turn of event, a woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son from school. Omar Webair, who was then just four years old, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with…

Buhari Inaugurate Projects in Lagos, Commends Ambode

Apr 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019 topnews

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated three legacy projects in Lagos on Wednesday, including Oshodi Transport Interchange and 820 buses, Institute of Maternal and Child Health and the newly reconstructed international Airport Road, executed by the outgoing governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. He also inaugurated a 500-seater theatre in Oregun, Ikeja, the state capital, to enhance entertainment and the social lives of Lagos residents. While inaugurating the projects, Buhari said Ambode, who was denied the opportunity of re-election by his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State…

Man arrested for allegedly killing seven persons, drying victims with chemicals

Apr 25, 2019 topnews

Ismaila Raji, a car wash attendant, was on 20th April arrested by a mob as he confessed to killing seven persons, including pupils of Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan whose bodies he dried with chemicals. Raji was arrested at Olorunsogo area of Ibadan, Oyo State, while trying to dispose the body of his latest victim, Rasaki Musibau, who he allegedly strangled inside the deceased’s home. According to sources, Raji had been arrested twice for being in possession of human skeleton at Second Gate, University of Ibadan and Benjamin in Eleyele Road…