OBI ATTRIBUTES STAMPEDE TRAGEDIES IN OYO, FCT, AND ANAMBRA TO HUNGER AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES. (PHOTO).

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 Peter Obi has blamed hunger and systemic failures for the recent spate of stampedes across the country.  Scores of persons were dead, and many others wounded in the tragic incidents in Ibadan, Oyo State; Okija in Anambra and another one in the nation’s capital of Abuja. The stampedes happened in a space of five days with the last two occurring on Saturday morning during food distribution campaigns. Obi, who was the Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said the incidents underline the rising hunger in the country which has led to desperation. “I am deeply saddened and distressed by the tragic loss of lives in desperate searches for food,” Obi, who is a former governor of Anambra State, wrote in a post on his X account Saturday afternoon. “While I will not cast blame but instead appreciate the organizers of these respective events for their kind gestures in providing palliatives and support to society, especially the poor, these tragedies reflect the...

MAN BAGS 2 YEARS FOR POSSESSION OF COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.


Man Bags 2 Years for Possession of Counterfeit Currency

The Kano Zonal Command of the EFCC on 22 July, 2022, secured the conviction of one Abbas Saleh before Justice Obiora Egwuta of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano on a one count charge of possession of counterfeit currency.

The convict was arraigned by the Commission on the 14th of October, 2019 for allegedly being in possession of counterfeit United States Dollars and attempting to exchange the same to Naira at Wapa Market Kano.

Saleh pleaded not guilty to the two count charge preferred against him by the prosecution thereby settling the stage for his full trial.


 

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