Ekweremadu, wife bags prison sentence in the UK for organ trafficking

The trial of former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, which began in March ended on Friday as the politician was sentenced to nine years and eight months in jail. His wife, Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment while their doctor, Obinna Obeta received a ten-year prison term. The trio stood trial at London’s Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey for conspiring to bring a young man, David Nwamini...

Igbos and their growing dominance of Nigeria’s economy

The Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria is known for their entrepreneurial spirit which has been wrongly interpreted as the ‘love of money’ by other ethnic groups. The enterprising skills of the Igbos make them migrate in droves away from their cultural enclave in southeastern Nigeria to other parts of Nigeria and beyond where they establish different lines of business ventures, which turn out to be successful in a few years. In recent times, the entrepreneurial...

South Africans sign petition for Britain to return the diamond in King Charles III’s scepter

Amid the global conversation on returning artworks and artefacts that were pillaged from Africa during the colonial era, South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world’s largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa. The diamond is set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday. Officially known as Cullinan I, the diamond in the sceptre was cut from the Cullinan diamond, a 3,100-carat stone that...

Why do Subordinates Mimic their Superiors?

” …Many of them started using walking stick, just because Obiano uses it. They started wearing hart, just like Obiano. ” —Ebuka Onyekwelu Mentorship I suspect has some form of uncanny influence on mentees or so it seems. I recall with clarity as an undergraduate student in the university some years ago, how followers of a particular Pentecostal Church pastor, specifically students’ preachers in that Church’s campus fellowship in those days; all, dressed up like...

Suspected Ritualist Confessed Of Buying Human Legs At N20, 000

On Wednesday, a 35-year-old suspected ritualist, Ifasoji Ayangbesan who offered one million naira (N1m) bribe to evade arrest in Ogun state, confessed that he bought two human legs of a victim, Oyindamola Adeyemi they killed and dismembered at the cost of N20, 000. The suspect who was paraded alongside other 12 suspects at the state Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, however, denied partaking in killing the victim who was reportedly murdered on January 28, 2023. Ayangbesan,...

Governor Ugwuanyi Places 5million Naira Bounty On APGA Gubernatorial Aspirant’s Killers

The Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Wednesday placed a bounty of five million naira on the killers of Engr. Dons Udeh, Enugu State gubernatorial aspirant under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2023 general election. Ugwuanyi made this announcement when he received delegates from Ozalla in the Enugu State Government House led by the President General of Ozalla Development Union, Barr. Charles Nwagbara; the group demanded for justice and appealed for government...

Nigeria’s advertising regulator, ARCON slams N30bn lawsuit on Meta for breaching advertising laws

The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has granted the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, ARCON, leave to serve a writ of summons on Meta, the parent company of Facebook. A writ of summons is an official order for someone to appear in a court of law when they have been accused of committing an offence against someone. Meta is the first defendant in the suit, and AT3 Resources Limited is the second defendant....

Tinubu, Wike disagree over refund of state funds used for federal projects in Rivers

President-elect Bola Tinubu and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, washed their dirty linens in public over the repayment of the cost of some federal road projects undertaken by the Rivers State government. The Governor hosted the President-elect in his state on Wednesday for the commissioning of the Rumuokwuta–Rumuola flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. In his speech during the event, Wike reeled off some projects embarked upon by his administration which ought to...

Anambra Police Rescue Abducted Female, Arrest Suspect 

On Wednesday 3rd, May 2023, Police operatives in Anambra attached to Ogbunike division responding to a distress call along St Monica College Ogbunike road, has arrested one Mr Jamui Emiron ‘m’ aged 22 years. The Police also recovered one already damaged yellow Mitsubishi L300 bus with Anambra reg nos: UKP 729 A. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the suspect is among a gang of armed robbers that attacked...

Soludo Swears Udechukwu As Commissioner For Industry, Ubah As SA on Trade, Market 

The Governor of Anambra State Professor Chukwuma Soludo has sworn in Christian Udechukwu as the new Commissioner for Industry. Mr. Evarist Ubah was also sworn-in as Special Adviser to the Governor on Trade and Markets. The swearing-in ceremony which took place at the Executive Chambers, Government House, Awka was witnessed by members of Anambra State Executive Council. By the ceremony, the duo were officially inducted as members of the Council. Reeling out his charge to...

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