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It’s another edition of NRTC WEEKLY Roundup —in this week’s edition, we are focusing on five trending stories across the country. As usual, NRTC brings the top five trending stories across five beats [politics, business, sports, entertainment, and metro].
As we all know, a day can’t pass without trending stories and we have tracked many of them for you this week. Why not scroll down and treat yourself?
Business:- Nigerian officials have received N712 billion as bribes, NBS reports reveal
To premiere NRTC Weekly this week, we start with the business segment. Everyone knows the trend of bribery in Nigeria especially in public service. You cannot get something done in public service unless you grease the palms of public officials. Services that are meant to be free have prices on them, the ones that are priced are doubled.
In other words, public officials are one of the sole planters of the corruption seed. The bribery of public officials might have seemed intangible until the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed a shocking report.
The report read in part, “According to the 2023 survey, the average cash bribe paid was 8,284 Nigerian Naira. While the nominal average cash bribe size increased since 2019 (from NGN 5,754), this does not account for inflation. The inflation-adjusted average cash bribe in 2023 was 29 percent smaller than in 2019 in terms of what could be bought with the money.
“Overall, it is estimated that a total of roughly NGN 721 billion (US$1.26 billion) was paid in cash bribes to public officials in Nigeria in 2023, corresponding to 0.35 percent of the entire Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria.”
It might be safe to say that some bribery went on without record. It is possible the amount revealed is only a quota of the big chunk of the bribery money received. These reports far from being impressive, it only show the deep-rootedness of corruption in the public service.
Politics: The Presidency receives the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the constitutional rights of LGAs
The local government is a level of government that is constitutionally granted rights to function properly as a level of government. The Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed, “the constitutional rights of local governments, emphasising their pivotal role in governance at the grassroots level.”
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu accepted the decision of the Supreme Court ” highlighted longstanding challenges in local government administration and expressed optimism that the ruling would empower local leaders to ensure effective service delivery to all Nigerians.
Metro: Jos school building collapse, dozens dead, about 100 persons trapped
At the start of a day, one cannot foretell what is to happen, we only hope for a good day. Yesterday, in the heart of Plateau, Jos, a school building collapsed whilst students and teachers were in their classes.
The incident happened at the Saint Academy building located in the Busa Buji community around 8:30 am. Unfortunately, the collapse was a result of structural issues and its proximity to a riverside.
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Mobilisation of the rescuing of survivors has begun since yesterday. Injured and wounded persons have been transported to Bingham University Teaching Hospital Jos. At the time of information gathering, it has been discovered that 22 people lost their lives in the unfortunate incident.
Yesterday night, rumours about the death of a whole family began to surface. A woman died after receiving the news about the death of her four children in the building collapse. Following that, when her husband heard about the news of his wife’s and children’s deaths, he died as a result of the shock. What a calamity!
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Sports: Lammie Yamal makes his debut as the youngest goal scorer in the European Championship league
The sports feature of NRTC Weekly is Lammie Yamal. On Tuesday, Lammie Yamal’s name was on the lips of football lovers to the extent that non-football lovers were curious to know what was happening. Football lovers painted the town red with Lammie Yamal’s name.
Lammie Yamal is the youngest goal scorer in the 2024 European Championship league at the age of 16! The Spanish player scored a goal against France on Tuesday in Munich in the Semi-finals.
Apparently, Lammie has been baptized into football from a young age. The picture of a 20-year-old Messi bathing Lammie during a photoshoot surfaced on the internet on Tuesday. People speculated that Messi passed his finesse football skill to the young player through that bath.
‘The photo was featured in a 2008 charity calendar, a collaborative project between Barcelona’s foundation and Diario Sport, with proceeds benefiting various charitable organisations, including UNICEF and local NGOs in Catalonia, supporting vulnerable communities and children.’ – Punch.
Lammie started his football career at the young age of six and a half years with the La Masia Academy. The football star is named one of the best Spanish players right now.
Entertainment: Toyin Abraham arrests X user over an offensive comment
In the entertainment segment of NRTC Weekly, we bring the news of a Nollywood celebrity. Toyin Abraham this week arrested X user, Big Ayo after his offensive comment to get. However, it all started after Toyin Abraham endorsed Tinubu as her choice of candidate before the 2023 presidential elections. Fast forward to Tinubu’s tenure, all did not seem rosy and netizens began to criticize her choice.
The Nollywood actress has suffered from various defamatory remarks and it felt as if the actress could no longer bear it. She decided to take legal action against Big Ayo. After this action, fans dragged her and even began to write petitions to Netflix to put down all her movies on the platform. It is really a trying time for her. But in a video released by the Nollywood actress, she vowed to take down her
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