NDLEA Arrests General Overseer for Drug Peddling at Lagos Airport

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNDLEA Arrests General Overseer for Drug Peddling at Lagos Airport

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 13, 2022

LAGOS — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested the General Overseer of Christ Living Hope Church, Rev. Ugochukwu Emmanuel Ekwem, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport for drug peddling. The cleric was arrested while on his way to a three-week crusade in Nairobi, Kenya, with 54 sticks of drugs wrapped around his body. The popular preacher who has his church headquartered in Isuaniocha, Mgbakwu road, Awka, Awka North LGA, Anambra State, and...

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Saudi Arabia Executes 81 Convicted Criminals

Law & JusticeWorld NewsSaudi Arabia Executes 81 Convicted Criminals

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 13, 2022

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced on Saturday that it had executed 81 convicted criminals, the largest mass execution conducted by the country in its modern history. Of the 81 people killed, 73 were Saudi citizens, seven were Yemeni and one was a Syrian national. Prior to Saturday, the largest mass execution in the country’s history since 1980 was in 2016 when 47 persons were killed. According to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), 81 individuals were...

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Medical Doctor Narrates How A 13-Year-Old Girl Was Gang Raped By Seven Men In Lagos

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeMedical Doctor Narrates How A 13-Year-Old Girl Was Gang Raped By Seven Men In Lagos

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 11, 2022

IKEJA, (LAGOS) — A medical doctor, working at the Mirabel Centre, a sexual assault referral centre, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, narrated how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. Shogunle testified before the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed Fashola who is being charged for two counts of conspiracy and defilement of a child. Fashola had, however,...

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We Are Yet to Get Certified Copy of Judgement on Umahi – INEC

Law & JusticeNigeria ElectionsWe Are Yet to Get Certified Copy of Judgement on Umahi – INEC

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 11, 2022

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it has not gotten a certified copy of the judgement of the Federal High Court which ordered the sack of the state governor, David Umahi and his deputy, Kelechi Igwe. The National Commissioner of INEC revealed this on Thursday in an interview with Channels Television. He, however, said that the commission has gotten a letter from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), nominating replacements for...

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Umahi Rejects Court Order Directing Removal As Ebonyi Governor

Law & JusticeNewsPoliticsUmahi Rejects Court Order Directing Removal As Ebonyi Governor

Beloved John (Staff Writer)March 8, 2022

ABUJA — The governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi, has rejected the court ruling directing his removal from office. The governor described the court order as a sham. On Tuesday, a federal high court sitting in Abuja had ordered the removal of Umahi and his deputy, Eric Igwe. The order was over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Umahi declared that there is no constitutional provision that...

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DEVELOPING STORY: Court Sacks Ebonyi State Governor and His Deputy

Law & JusticeNewsPoliticsDEVELOPING STORY: Court Sacks Ebonyi State Governor and His Deputy

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 8, 2022

ABUJA — A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has removed from office, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy Dr. Eric Kelechi Igwe on Tuesday, for defecting from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order in response to a petition filed by the PDP demanding the removal of Governor Umahi and his deputy, Dr. Igwe, from office. Justice Ekwo ruled that...

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Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Justice Centus Nweze Moot Court UNEC, 34 Customary Courts In Enugu

Law & JusticeUgwuanyi Inaugurates Justice Centus Nweze Moot Court UNEC, 34 Customary Courts In Enugu

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)March 5, 2022

ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Friday inaugurated a Moot Court in the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, UNEC, and 34 other Customary Courts across the 17 LGAs in the state. The Moot Court in Faculty of Law UNEC was named after Hon. Justice Chime Centus Nweze of the Supreme Court. Commending the Faculty of Law for the provision of the Moot Court and other facilities appropriate for students’ academics and training,...

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Baba Ijesha Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Princess Framed Him Because He Broke Up With Her

Law & JusticeLove & HappinessNewsBaba Ijesha Pleads Not Guilty, Claims Princess Framed Him Because He Broke Up With Her

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 5, 2022

LAGOS — Embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James popularly known as Baba Ijesha on Friday, March 4, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that comedienne, Damilola Adekoya, aka Princess, is his former lover, as his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor who is the foster child of his colleague, Princess resumed. Testifying in court, Baba Ijesha who is facing six counts bordering on allegations of indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault...

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Police Arrested 36 Suspected Terrorists

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticePolice Arrested 36 Suspected Terrorists

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 4, 2022

ABUJA — Police have arrested 36 suspected terrorists and 388 over alleged murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism in the last two months. The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, said the suspects were arrested during various police operations across the country. He made this known in Abuja during a meeting with Strategic Police Managers, consisting of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police (CPs), explained that 78 were arrested over murder, 110 armed...

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Fake Medical Doctor Arrested In Gombe

HealthLaw & JusticeFake Medical Doctor Arrested In Gombe

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 3, 2022

The Gombe state Commissioner of Police Babatunde Ishola Babaita has paraded a 36-year old fake medical doctor, an employee of a popular specialist clinic in the state capital. Babaita, said luck ran out of the suspect Vincent Edesine from Ekpoma in Edo State when his principal noticed irregularities in his official conduct. “When the medical director of the clinic noticed that he (Vincent) could not satisfactorily discharge his assigned duties, he called for verification of...

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