ANAMBRA GOVT APPREHENDS 8 SUSPECTS FOR EXTORTING MORE THAN N800, 000 FROM WOMEN IN AWKA. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.
Anambra State Government Apprehends 8 Suspects For Extorting More Than 800,000 Thousand Naira From Women In Awka By Chidinma Ikeanyionwu Anambra State Government, through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, has arrested eight suspects for allegedly extorting more than Eight Hundred Thousand Naira from women in Awka. The arrest was part of state government's resolve in eradicating crimes and corruption in the state. The exercise came following the directive of the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo of an NGO using government's name to extort the sum of twenty thousand naira and above from unsuspecting individuals mostly women in Awka. When the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner bursted the office complex of the Host Communities of Nigeria Anambra State Chapter located opposite government house Awka, it was discovered that the suspects were operating with the United Bank of Africa staff in opening a current account for the women who must pay
According to an international broadcasting network,many people in Crimea have been holding pro-Russian rallies before sundays referendum.Russia has vetoed a draft UN resolution criticising sunday's secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region.The only security council member to vote against the measure.China regarded as a Russian ally on the issue,abstained from the vote.Western powers criticised Russian's veto over the referendum,which will ask Crimeans if they want to rejoin Russia.Kiev has accused Russian forces of seizing a village just north of Crimea and demanded they withdraw.Ukraine's foreign ministry said 80 military personnel backed by four helicopter gunships and threee armoured vehicle had taken the village of Strikove.An unnamed Russian official quoted by Pravda Ukraine said they had taken action to protect a gas distribution station from terrorist attacks.Russia intervened in the Crimean peninsula after the fall of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February.Mr Yanukovych had sparked months of unrest across Ukraine by pulling out of a deal on closer ties with Russian .The Crimean region was part of Russia untill 1954 and most of it's residents are athnic Russian,many of whom would prefer to be governed by Moscow rather than Kiev.Russia's black sea fleet is also still housed in Crimea but Russia has signed agreements promising to uphold Ukraine's territorial intergrity.Crimea's regional parliament instigated the secession referendum after MPs voted overwhelmingly to support rejoining Russia.The national parliament in Kiev ruled the referendum unconstitional,and earlier on Saturday voted to disband the regional assembly.At the United Nations,13 members of the security council backed a resolution that called for all nations to respect Ukraines territorial intergrity and condemned the referendum as illegal. 
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