RUSSIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE DRONE AND MISSILE BARRAGE ON UKRAINE, KILLING AT LEAST 18 CIVILIANS AND STRIKING KYIV AND MULTIPLE CITIES. (PHOTO).
Russia launches massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine, killing at least 18 civilians and striking Kyiv and multiple cities Russia carried out a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine, launching hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded more than 100 others across multiple cities, officials said Tuesday. The strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro and other regions, with emergency crews working through destroyed residential buildings where some victims were trapped under rubble. In Dnipro, rescuers recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old child and a mother and her 8-year-old son, while officials reported 12 deaths in the city and six in Kyiv. The bombardment stretched from night into daylight, with explosions reported across wide areas of the country. Kyiv residents had been on alert for days after warnings of a major aerial attack, including advisories for foreign diplomats to leave the capital. Despite those warnings, most remained in pl...
One Okunmwendia Victor was arraigned today by EFCC before Justice P. I Ajooku of the Federal High Court,Benin City on a three count charge bordering on fraud and obtaining by false pretense.Okunmwendia 29,a graduate of Delta State university is alleged to have presented himself as Sister Julia Imoke,founder and coordinator of Happy Home Orphanage in his attempt to extort money from unsuspecting persons.One of the counts reads, ''that you Okunmwendia O. Victor ''m'' {alias Sister Julia Imoke of Happy Home Orphanage} and others now at large on or abiut the 24th of January 2016 in Benin city,Edo State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud,did obtain the sum of 900 US Dollars from one Ada k. ''F'' through Western union money transfer under the false pretense that you ar sister Julia Imoke,the founder and coordinator of a non existing Happy Home Orphanage,a pretex you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 {1} {a} of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act,2006 and punishable under Section 1{3} of the same Act''.The accused person pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him.Counsel to the Commission,M T Iko asked the court to fix a date for trial and to remand the defendants in prison custody.Attempt by the defense counsel,Osman Idehen to move for bail was refused by the court.Justice Ajoku adjourned the matter to November 16 for trial and ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.
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