UNIMEDTH doctors protest non-payment of salary arrears

   

Residents Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure have protested non- payment of five months salary arrears by the state government. The doctors have therefore issued a week ultimatum to the state government to pay their salaries.

  The doctors threatened to embark on an indefinite strike if the state government fails to meet their demand. Armed with placards with various inscriptions, the doctors said they can no longer take care of their families.

Coronavirus- Six-weeks old baby becomes youngest UK victim to die

 

 A six-week old baby has become the youngest victim to die of coronavirus in the UK. The tragedy comes as the UK's coronavirus hospital death toll increased to 26,093 after 414 more fatalities were reported amid signs the trend had stabilised this week.

   England reported 332 new deaths, Scotland had 49, Wales recorded 28 and Northern Ireland had five. Those among the new deaths announced today by NHS England were aged between six weeks and 103.

Court stops FG from extraditing Kashamu to US

 

 

   The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Federal Government from taking fresh steps to extradite the former Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America on allegation of complicity in illicit drug deal.

   Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment, held that no fresh application for Kashamu’s extradition could be initiated when previous judgments of the Federal High Court in Abuja and Lagos prohibiting the extradition moves had not been set aside by superior courts.

    The judge noted that while the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation successfully obtained a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos, delivered on May 4, 2018, dismissing the restraining order in suit marked 508/2015, the AGF failed to appeal the other judgment in the suit marked 49/2010.

Supreme Court Nullifies Orji Uzor Kalu’s Conviction

 

The Supreme Court has nullified the judgment which convicted the former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor    Kalu.

A seven-man panel of the apex court also set aside the judgment which convicted Ude Udeogu, a former Director of Finance and Account at the Abia State Government House.

The Supreme Court gave the judgement on Friday, about five months after both men were convicted of corruption allegations levelled against them by the Federal Government.

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos had sentenced Senator Kalu to 12 years imprisonment in his judgement delivered in December 2019. He had also sentenced Mr Udeogu to 10 years imprisonment on the same day.

 Displeased with the judgement of the Federal High Court, Kalu and Udeogu filed an appeal to challenge their sentencing at the Supreme Court.

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Bayern Munich appoints Klose a Assistant coach

  Germany’s all-time leading scorer, Miroslav Klose has been appointed Bayern Munich assistant coach for next season. The 41-year-old has been a youth coach at the club for the past two years after retiring as a player in 2016.

  He spent four seasons as a player with Bayern from 2007, winning league and cup honours. Bayern head coach Hansi Flick, who signed a contract extension last month, was Germany assistant coach when a side featuring Klose won the 2014 World Cup.

  Klose scored 71 goals in 137 games for Germany between 2001 and 2014. He also played for Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen and Italian side Lazio.

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