A man in Texas who filmed himself licking ice cream and putting the carton back into a supermarket freezer has been sentenced to 30 days in prison.

D'Adrien Anderson, 24, was also sentenced to two years' probation for the stunt, which occurred amid a viral trend of ice cream-licking at shops, NBC News reported.

The video of him was shared on social media last August.

Surveillance cameras at the Walmart supermarket revealed he returned to take the ice cream back out of the freezer and bought it.

Anderson has been fined $1,000 (£770) and ordered to pay $1,565 (£1,208) to the ice cream company, Blue Bell Creameries.

He was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.

He pleaded guilty to misdemeanour criminal mischief and told police he licked the ice cream as a prank before going back to buy it.

However Blue Bell Creameries, a beloved Texas ice cream company, replaced all of the ice cream in the Walmart freezer as a precaution at a cost of $1,565.

"Anderson's actions caused public concerns about the safety and quality of consumer products offered for public consumption, impacted Blue Bell consumer confidence and caused the company financial loss. This type of activity will not be tolerated," the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office said.

The office said any similar case will be taken seriously.

Walmart said in a statement: "If food is tampered with, or a customer wants to leave the impression that they left behind adulterated product, we will move quickly with law enforcement to identify, apprehend and prosecute those who think this is a joke - it is not."

Texas Governor Greg Abbott previously hailed police for tracking down another teenager who took part in the viral Blue Bell-licking trend, and warned in a tweet: "Don't Mess With Texas... or with Blue Bell".

The federal government is to reunite another batch of 606 former repented Boko Haram fighters with their families after undergoing rehabilitation.

The former terrorists are to be rehabilitated under the federal government’s operation safe corridor, The Nation reports.

Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Shafa, who is tasked with coordinating the programme made the disclosure at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) in Abuja at a stakeholders’ meeting.

Shafa said some Nigerians who voluntarily laid down their arms in Niger Republic had been repatriated in February and were awaiting reintegration.

He said the Nigerians included 14 male adults, three female adults and eight children.

Shafa noted that the government established Operation Safe Corridor in 2015 to enable repentant Boko Haram fighters surrender and go through well-structured de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme.

The senior army officer said that the programme upheld high standards as candidates who are believed not to have been sufficiently de-radicalised would be made to repeat the programme.

The chief of defence staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, who chairs Operation Safe Corridor 2,000 low-profile Boko Haram terrorists/ISWAP members have laid down their arms since the establishment of Operation Safe Corridor.

He stated that 1,000 repentant terrorists have been processed by Operation Safe Corridor.

In another report, a bill in the Nigerian Senate seeks to clip the powers of the president to ensure security appointments is not concentrated in one region of the country.

The Niger State police command has begun a manhunt for the kidnappers of five schoolgirls, their teacher and a security guard from their school, Tulare Academy, Maruba in the Mariga local government area of the state last Sunday

According to a police source, the bandits numbering about 36 invaded the school on motorcycles on Sunday evening and started shooting into the air to create panic and fear and in the process abducted their victims

The private boarding primary school is said to be located on the outskirts of the town and without even a perimeter fence and communication facilities.

The bandits, however, took the advantages of the location to carry out the criminal act.

The school has now been deserted after the attack as parents hurriedly moved in and removed their wards.

Meanwhile, the Niger State police commissioner, Alhaji Adamu Unman has led heads of other security agencies to the school for on-the-spot assessment of the incident.

The police boss who described the attack on the school children as inhuman and barbaric, said “a special technical squad and armed anti-kidnapping squad have been deployed to the area to identify the area and rescue the victims unhurt.”

He explained that the visit of the security chiefs to the scene was to enable them deploy additional security measures to the school and the community to forestall future attack.

Unman, however, said that no amount of pressure and intimidation will deter the command from discharging its constitutional mandate of safeguarding lives and properties of people in the state but appealed to communities in the state to always report to the nearest security agencies, any person or group of persons with questionable character for prompt security response.

Last Sunday the Pastor of Kauna Baptist Church, Danazunmi near Grigori in the Rafi local government area of the state Reverend Genesis Zaka and three female church members were kidnapped by bandits. The names of the kidnapped female church members were given as Tabitha Luka, Liatu Nuhu and Rahila Luka.

The pastor and the female church members were said to have been abducted by the bandits during the morning Sunday service.

An eyewitness who narrated how the incident occurred told our correspondent that during the service, the bandits came in large numbers riding on motorcycles; they surrounded the church resulting in a stampede with many of the worshipers running for their lives.

It was in the confusion that the pastor and the three female church members were kidnapped and taken into hiding.

The source said that on Monday the bandits contacted the church secretary asking for N30m ransom before those kidnapped will be released. The church reportedly pleaded that they could only raise N40,000 which the bandits reportedly rejected but promise to get back to the church.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 5, 2020, arraigned Charles Adonyi, a former Internal Auditor with the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), before Justice Ajoke Adepoju, of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, on a one-count charge bordering on corruption and gratification.

The defendant was alleged to have extorted pensioners, and in some instances their relatives, claiming to assist to facilitate the processing of their entitlements.

The count reads: “That you, Charles Adonyi, a Public Servant, whilst being an auditor with Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, sometimes in March 2016, at Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, corruptly received the sum of N30,000 (Thirty Thousand Naira), through your agent, Dennis Okenwa Chukwudi, as a reward for paying his father's pension, which you knew was corrupt and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(1)(a)(i) of the independent and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under the same act.”

He pleaded “not guilty” to the charge.

Counsel for the EFCC, Sunday Robert, thereafter, asked the court for a trial date, in order for the prosecution to prove its case against the defendant.

The defence counsel, S.A. Ajayi, informed the court of the formal application he had made for the bail of the defendant which was dated on November 27, 2019, and urged the court to allow the defendant enjoy the administrative bail already granted to him by the EFCC, pending the hearing of the bail application.

Justice Adepoju, thereafter, adjourned until April 2, 2020 for the bail hearing, and ordered that the defendant continue to enjoy the administrative bail granted him by the EFCC.

Operatives of the Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on March 5, 2020 arrested one Patience Onu, who allegedly disguised as a food contractor to defraud her victims of about N5million.

Petitions received from her victims indicated that she defrauded them in the guise of selling food items to them.

The fraud, which was allegedly committed sometime in 2019 involved her claiming to sell to them food items worth N5million, including 138 bags of rice, 40 jerry cans of groundnut oil, 100 cartons of spaghetti, dried meat, bags of melon, nine jerry cans of palm oil, bag of elubo (yam powder) and 400 pieces of fabric.

She, however, collected the money, but never supplied the items; all efforts to retrieve the money paid her also proved abortive.

She will soon be arraigned in court.

The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on March 4, 2020 arraigned one Comfort Obayemi and Lydia John before Justice S.I. Mark of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on a six-count charge of obtaining by false pretence.

They are alleged to have collected money from unsuspecting members of the public under the pretext of getting them employment into National Task Force.

One of the counts against them reads: “That you, Comfort Obayemi, Lydia John and Kakari Sarki (now at large) sometime in February 2017, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, conspired among yourselves to commit an illegal act to wit: obtaining money under false pretence contrary to section 8(a) and punishable under section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006.”

They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.

In view of the plea, counsel for EFCC, Odibo Gift, requested the court for a trial date.

Counsel representing the defendants, Tajuddeen Shitu applied to move the motion for bail of the defendants, but the prosecution raised objections to three paragraphs contained in the motion.

Consequently, the Shitu applied to strike out the paragraphs, but the judge asked him to do so formally.

Justice Mark, thereafter, adjourned until March 9, 2020 for hearing of the bail application, and ordered that the defendants be remanded in Kano Medium Custodian Centre.

The three suspected Coronavirus patients quarantined in Lagos have tested negative to the deadly disease, Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi said on Friday evening.

Abayomi had on Thursday said three people had been quarantined at its isolation centre in Yaba area of Lagos on suspicion of Coronavirus.

One of the suspects quarantined was a Nigerian who travelled to France eight days ago and arrived the country four days ago. He developed headache and respiratory symptom which led to him being quarantined.

Two other travellers from England and China were also quarantined for coronavirus after they developed certain symptoms.

According to Abayomi, their samples were collected for tests to ascertain if they have been affected by Coronavirus.

However, the commissioner tweeted on Friday evening that the three suspects had tested negative to the deadly disease.

He said the three people had been discharged after they were certified free from Coronavirus.

“Breaking! #COVID19Lagos All the three #COVID19 suspected cases; travellers from France, England and China whose samples were collected yesterday for analysis have tested negative and they have been discharged,” he wrote on his twitter handle.

However, Abayomi had said on Thursday that the index case, an Italian was seriously responding to treatment at the isolation centre, as his clinical situation was stable.

He stated that the Italian was in high spirit, but that he required psycho-social support as he was getting depressed for being in isolation alone, adding that the patient was in touch with his family and friends in Italy.

Breaking! #COVID19Lagos
All the three #COVID19 suspected cases; travellers from France, England and China whose samples were collected yesterday for analysis have tested negative and they have been dischsrged. #ForAGreaterLagos @jidesanwoolu @drobafemihamzat @NCDCgov @SegsDr pic.twitter.com/thVQcOAAS5

— Prof. Akin Abayomi (@ProfAkinAbayomi) March 6, 2020

Abayomi, however, said the level of viral load in his body had gone down and that if that continued, in the next few days, he might be discharged if he tested negative to the disease.

He said the government would not just release him immediately he tested negative to the disease, but would still keep him and run a second test in few days to ascertain he was completely free of the disease before letting him go back to his country.

On the people who alighted from the Turkish Airline on arrival in Lagos, he said government had been able to trace 13 of the remaining 15 contacts, leaving only two that had not been reached, saying that if at the end of today, they could not be reached, he would release their names to the media declaring them wanted.

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has revealed the reason why some lecturers will not receive their February salary, stating that only those who have enrolled for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System(IPPIS) will get their salary.

Ahmed disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a management retreat in Kano, saying that the objective of capturing lecturers on the IPPIS was to check corruption.

She also revealed that in spite of the resistance from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), 55 percent of its members have been captured on the platform.

She said; “Unfortunately most reforms that you undertake you come across resistance. We have had resistance from ASUU on the implementation of the IPPIS and I am happy to report that at least up to 55 percent of ASUU members are registered and the ones that have not are not getting their February salary.

“It is in eliminating ghost workers because you register on the IPPIS using biometrics and we are currently working with the office of the head of the service to link up the IPPIS HR management module with the payroll itself. It will help us better maximise the efficiency of the system.

“I know that we have up to 70,000 ghost workers that have been identified in this process and we hope that we will come to a time when we will say that we have no ghost workers.”

Four months after acquiring a Boeing B737- 800NG aircraft Air Peace has taken delivery of new ERJ-145 aircraft to boost its domestic and regional operations in line with its expansion plan.

The aircraft, with the registration number 5N-BXG, arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 19.30hrs on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, from Morocco.

Mr. Stanley Olisa, the Senior Communications Executive of the airline told journalists that the new arrival is a 50-seater jet, stressing that the aircraft was previously undergoing routine checks in Morocco.

The arrival of the aircraft was the seventh Embraer 145 Jet to be acquired by the airline in recent years and increased the total fleet of the airline to 27 aircraft.

Olisa, restated the airline’s determination to ease the burden of travel in Nigeria and beyond, adding that the carrier was still expecting some of the Embraer 195-E2 Jets it ordered for in 2019.

He further assured the flying public that the airline was poised to interconnect various cities in the country and promised more domestic and international routes like Johannesburg, London, Houston and Mumbai.

It would be recalled that Air Peace, West and Central Africa’s largest airline, last year, at the Dubai Airshow, signed an order for three E195-E2 Jets.

A suspected baby-making home has been uncovered at Imedu Olori area of Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local government, Ogun State.

The illegal baby factory was discovered when one of the inmates who escaped from the home reported at Mowe Police Station that she was lured into the home and held captive for sometime now.

She alleged that the owner of the home, Florence Ogbonna who lured her into the home usually contract the service of some men to sleep and impregnate them, and that immediately any of them gave birth to a baby, such baby would be taken away by the said Ogbonna to an unknown place.

Upon her report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mowe Division, SP Marvis Jayeola mobilized his detectives to the scene where 12 ladies between the ages of 20 and 25 were rescued with six among them heavily pregnant.

Three suspects: Florence Ogbonna , Chibuke Akabueze and Chibuzor Okafor were arrested in connection with the case.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.

He equally directed that the victims be kept in safe and protective custody pending when they would be re-united with their respective families.