By Handel Patrick and Anastasia Mbaebie (Staff Reporters) AWKA — The Police Command in Anambra has arrested four suspected members of a syndicate, two males and two females who extort money from people through blackmail. DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, Police Public Relations Officer who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday said they specialised in taking nude pictures of victims and threaten to post them online unless they paid money. Ikenga gave the identities of...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has taken over the alleged battery case involving the suspended Chairman, Nnewi North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Mr. Mbazulike Iloka. According to testimonies of neighbors, Mbazulike had allegedly beaten his wife, Chidiebere, to death, a development that led to his suspension by Governor Chukwuma Soludo. In a letter dated July 16, 2022, and signed by the Principal Staff Officer to the...
… Appeals to Nigerians to Stop Cutting Trees The Oyo State Government has saluted the bravery of Park Rangers at the Old Oyo National Park, while it also appealed to Nigerians to desist from cutting trees and harming rangers guarding forests. The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun said this yesterday, during the celebration of 2022 World Ranger Day, marked at the Old National Park, Oyo. World Ranger Day, which is marked...
By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter) Following frequent cases of domestic violence in Anambra, the state government has set up a family court to handle such matters, exclusively. According to the state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs, Ify Obinabo, the family court which was newly inaugurated had 10 pending cases, with nine suspects remanded while one was granted bail. Stating that Anambra had the lowest cases of domestic violence, the commissioner said the state had recorded...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) Nigerian Engineers across the world pulled together for Peter Obi and the Labour Party. On Sunday 14th of August 2022, talented Nigerian Engineers of the different fields held a meeting via zoom which was organised by a group called Engineers for Peter Obi and the Labour Party. The group is formed to work with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party as well as the Party in articulating and developing...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a renowned Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev’d Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma has lashed out at the candidates and supporters of the Labour Party in Nigeria saying Enugu State people would never be part of their controversial “Obidients” mantra. According to a report, Archbishop Chukwuma who said this on Thursday at Eziokwe Village, Ndiagu Akpugo, Nkanu West local...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) Anambra State Government has said that all presidential candidates wishing to publish or paste their posters in any part of Anambra State for the 2023 General Elections must pay N10m. This was contained in a public notice signed by the MD/CEO of Anambra Signage and Advertising Agency(ANSAA), Tony Odili Ujubuonu obtained by our Correspondent on Sunday. The presidential candidates in the 2023 polls include: Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu ( APC),...
“You can gallivant all you want with junk premises, and all of them will lead you back to the money bags in this man’s head.” Peter Cheyney, the British maestro, the one before this other British maestro, James Hadley Chase, was in the game as Britain’s most shrewd detective novelist, the second his first, the most daring book, ‘This Man Is Dangerous; Go Get Him, Boys’ hit the shelves. If I am lying, I am...
Fire Service men have averted a fire outbreak in the new-wing of the House of Representatives, National Assembly complex, Abuja, which started at about 6:30 pm Thursday. Director of Information, Mr. Rawlings Agada, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said the clerk of the committee raised the alarm when he saw the smoke, and fire service men arrived on time to put it out, blaming it on electrical faults. Agada said the combined prompt...
By Anastasia Mbaebie (Staff Reporter) NNEWI — Mbazulike Iloka, the newly sworn-in Transition Committee Chairman, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, has been suspended. In a suspension letter signed by the Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Tonycollins Nwabuwanne, Iloka’s suspension is a result of the sudden death of his wife, Chidiebere, on Sunday. Part of the letter read, “Following the sad and sudden death of your wife, late Mrs....
