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POLICE ARREST KUJE PRISON ESCAPEE IN SANGO OTA OGUN. One of the Kuje Correctional Center escapees was on Monday 11th of July 2022 arrested by operatives of Ogun state Police Command. The escapee, 28year old Yakubu AbdulMumuni was arrested following an information received by policemen at Sango ota divisional headquarters that, the convict was sighted somewhere around Sango Ota.  Upon the information, the DPO Sango ota division, SP Saleh Dahiru quickly moblised his men and moved to the area where the convict was apprehended. He confessed to the Police that he escaped from Kuje Correctional Center on the 5th of July 2022, when the Center was attacked by bandits. He stated further that he was convicted by Kogi state High Court for offence of Conspiracy and culpable Homicide and sent to Kuje Correctional Center. Meanwhile, the commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to facilitate the transfer of the convict to Correctional Cente...

NIGERIA SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS ( NSCDC ). LAGOS STATE COMMAND. PRESS RELEASE. WEDNESDAY, 13TH JULY, 2022. MINISTER OF INTERIOR VISITS LAGOS STATE COMMAND. The Honourable Minister, of the Ministry of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, today, Wednesday, 13th July, 2022, at about 15:27hrs visited the Lagos State Command Headquarters, of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), situated at Alausa, Ikeja, in Lagos State. The Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, was also warmly welcomed by the Commandant, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, Commandant Eweka Edenabu Okoro and the Management Staff of the command. The Minister evidently, during the historic and epoch - making visit adequately inspected the state of the Command, along with the Commandant and his Management Staff, before his departure from the Command's Headquarters.   E - Signed. ASCI Abolurin Oluwaseun , ma, fcss, amb, mpa, anipr. CDPRO, Lagos State Command. More photos ...

ASUU strike: Money Spent On Politics Can Meet Lecturers’ Demands – Shehu Sani Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has suggested a way to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Sani said money spent on politics in Nigeria can easily meet the demands of ASUU. ASUU had been on strike since February 2022 over the Federal Government’s inability to meet a 2019 agreement. The Federal Government had refused to allow ASUU to use their own generated payment platform, University Transparency Accountability Solution, UTAS, among other demands. Amid the prolonged strike, President Muhammadu Buhari had urged ASUU to call off its industrial action. In a statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari had said “truly, enough is enough” for keeping Nigerian students at home. Reacting, Sani tweeted: “If you can calculate what is spent on politics, you will realise that this country can easily afford to meet the financial demands of ASUU with regards...

Nigerian Actor Emma Buchi Allegedly K!lled by His PA Whom He Was Helping, Body Discovered After 5 Days The actor who hails from Abia State picked the suspect to help him find his feet. He housed and fed him. But the young man moved by greed reportedly k!lled the actor, packed all the properties in his house and locked the doors and allowed his corpse to rot. Fast-rising Nollywood actor, Emma Buchi has reportedly been murdered in cold blood by his personal assistant, Sunny, in Asaba, Delta state capital. The news of his sad demise was announced on Facebook by his friend, Melody Obia, on Tuesday, July 12. According to Melody, the decomposing corpse of the actor was found in his apartment recently and it’s alleged that he was killed by his PA who carted away all his belongings. Fear of unknown A betrayal can never come from outside but an insider Trust no one in this life!  My God is never wrong, He says, the heart of man is desperately wicked, no man knows it.  Ha, who can be tr...

“It is with great pleasure on behalf of a grateful nation, that I award the George Cross to the National Health Services of the United Kingdom.” Yesterday The Queen, accompanied by The Prince of Wales, presented the George Cross to representatives of the National Health Service at Windsor Castle. The award recognises staff, past and present, across all disciplines and all four nations. The Chief Executives and front line workers from each of the Home Nations accepted the award. Recipients included Modern Matron May Parsons (pictures front row, second left in group photo) from University Hospital Coventry who administered the world’s first COVID vaccine in December 2020. 🎖 The George Cross was instituted by King George VI on 24th September 1940, during the height of the Blitz, to recognise, “acts of the greatest heroism or the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger.” This is only the second time during The Queen’s 70-year reign that the award has been presented collectively to...

Alleged $111,500,000 Fraud: Absence of Defence Counsel Stalls Stanley Okafor 's Trial The trial of one Stanley Okafor alongside his company, Larbrador Shipping Services Limited, for an alleged $111,500,000 fraud before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an amended nine-count charge bordering on attempt to obtain money by false pretence, forgery, and possession of document containing false pretence could not continue on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 due to the absence of the defence counsel as the presiding judge further adjourned till August 1, 2022 for the defence to open its case.

Oil Thief Bags Two Years Imprisonment in Port Harcourt Justice P. M. Ayuba of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced Mohammed Sambo to two years imprisonment for illegal dealing in petroleum products without an appropriate licence.  He was jailed on Thursday, July 7, 2022 after pleading “guilty” to one-count charge preferred against him, upon being arraigned by the Port Harcourt’s Zonal Command of the EFCC. 

  "What a wicked world we live in !... This is what someone kept in one of my daughter's home at Oraifite,in Anambra state.Her co-wife,out of envy and jealousy wanted to eliminate her diabolically !..After my spiritual intervention,she came out and confessed and died this morning after I returned it back to sender ! 🔥      Child of God hear this;anybody that has embarked on an evil journey for your sake will never come back alive,anybody that used the money you gave him or her to cast a demonic spell on you,causing you financial stagnation,leaking pocket,promise and fail,disappointments,failure in your business and career shall be destroyed by their evil thoughts and plans and they will not see the end of this month,in Jesus name ! 🔥🔥🔥..Exodus 22 : 18". One more photo below. 

Protests Erupts In Anambra State As Soludo Orders Commercial Vehicles To Pay N25,000 Tax Per Month To Anambra State Government.   THE BREAKDOWN   N25,000 monthly tax on commercial drivers; Soludo govt explains: Bus drivers in Anambra use to pay N1,000 daily (x 30 days)= N30,000 monthly. 80% of these money enter into private pockets. Now they are to pay N25,000 monthly directly in to government account and they started fictitious protests…🤔🤔. Hand of Esau, voice of Jacob.

A young Nigerian man, Kosarachukwu Ugwuka, has openly confessed to the killing of his elder brother over a piece of land in Nnewi, Anambra state. Ugwuka, who was made to confess before a popular shrine at Nando in Anambra East Local Government Area on Sunday, July 10, admitted to being responsible for his brother’s mysterious death at Akala village in Anambra state. A family narrated thus: “But when both of them were repeatedly interrogated, the nephew maintained that he is innocent, while Ugwuka continued to accuse him, and also continued to deny that he himself did not have any hand in the death. “As a result, the villagers had to resort to using traditional means to unravel the truth. They have to take them to a popular shrine at Nando last Sunday, to swear before the deity, to prove their innocence. “After his nephew had sworn and was vindicated, Ugwuka was hooked and instantly blinded by the deity while swearing, which made him to start confessing immediately. It was during the co...

Anambra State Government Demolishes Structures At Fegge, Onitsha Anambra State Government has continued the removal of shanties and Illegal structures located along Pineapple Market (Ogbo Pineapple) Woliwo and Silas Work, Waterways, Fegge Onitsha. The government taskforce arrived Onitsha this morning to continue from where they stopped last week. Speaking to the press, some residents around the area, Christian Igwe, Chibueze Jonathan and Obinze Odenigbo said that blockage of drainage channels during the rainy season caused flood water to pass through wrong channels there destroying people's life and property. They commended the state government and tasked them on being relentless in the fight to reclaim the Anambra space.. More photos below. 

Report Touts' Operations To Anambra State Government- Soludo's Aide Anambra State Government has reiterated it's ban on touts operating in any location within the state. Chief of Staff to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Mr Ernest Ezeajughi stated this while speaking to some aggrieved tricycle operators who took their peaceful demonstration to Government House, Awka. According to Mr. Ezeajughi, Governor Soludo-led administration which is barely four months in office is trying out measures to make life meaningful for the masses, including members of the tricycle riders' association. He asked them to call the hotlines provided by government to report any wrong doing, explaining that the monthly payment of fifteen thousand naira which amounts to about six hundred naira, daily. While asking the keke riders to make sure to get enrolled into the system by acquiring their identity cards and other modalities, Mr. Ezeajughi noted that they have the option of paying fourty-two thousand ...

APC Adopts Ben Ayade Who Took 3rd In Senatorial Primary As Winner In Cross River State Ben Ayade, the Cross River State governor has been adopted to take over the Senatorial ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Northern Senatorial District of the state. The party is scheduled to conduct a primary for his formal adoption on Thursday at the Ogoja, headquartres of the district to handover the ticket to the governor. In a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC by the party’s National Chairman Dr Abdulahi Adamu and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore , the APC listed three constituencies across the country including Cross River North whose ticket bearers have withdrawn their candidacies to contest the 2023:election on its platform which warrants the conduct of fresh primaries to elect new flag bearers to replace them. The constituencies are: Cross River North Senatorial district, Isa Sabon Bimi Federal Constituency, Sokoto State and Bauchi ...

MAN DIES AFTER HIGH CONSUMPTION OF BURUKUTU DRINK IN ABUJA A middle-aged man simply identified as Hassan, has reportedly lost his life after high consumption of a local liquor known as burukutu in Kubwa, Abuja. The deceased was said to have engaged in a drinking spree with his friends in the Byazhin area of Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the FCT last Saturday when the incident happened. According to Daily Trust, a witness, Bello Yusuf, said Hassan died while vomiting after consuming the drink. He said, “Hassan and his friends, mostly touts and urchins, were seen drinking heavily during the day. They were competing over who would finish some calabashes of a local liquor popularly called burukutu. “It was during the contest that Hassan collapsed. His friends who tried to revive him took him away. When they were unable to bring him back to life, they abandoned him in an uncompleted building and fled.” A police officer at the Kubwa division told our reporter that “One Ibrahim reported that a...

Signing of the peace accord by Osun State governorship candidates at the ongoing signing of the Peace Accord Ceremony. #OsunDecides2022. We appeal to political actors to play by the rules of the game, and parents should not allow their wards to be used as political thugs. We will not rest until the vote buyers and sellers are taken off our streets. Security is our collective responsibility, when you see something say something. #OsunDecides2022 DIG Johnson Babatunde Power belongs to the people you can only try your best. we appeal to all our political actors to help us to help our state. You can not love the state more than all of us. We look forward to peaceful election come this Saturday 16th July 2022.  Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II  #OsunDecides2022  However, the success of the Peace Accord depends on the continuous support and commitment of political parties and candidates, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agenc...

MRS OBINABO ASSURES OF MINISTRY’S SUPPORT TO Association of Persons Living with Sickle Cell Disease (APLSCD)  By Blessing Austin Nweke Chidinma Ikeanyionwu Anambra state Women and Social Welfare commissioner Mrs Ify Obinabo has assured of her ministry’s support towards alleviating the plights of persons living with sickle cell disease in the state. This she said during an interface in her office with members of the association led by their national coordinator Aisha Edwards - Maduagwu.  Mrs Obinabo while addressing the group explained that intending couples should always go for their genotype test before marriage to avoid birthing children with sickle cell anemia disease. Madam Commissioner went further to explain that the government of Prof Chukwuma Soludo will not only sensitize the public on the threatening situations surrounding the health and economic well-being of sickle cell patient but will go the extra mile to give support and attend to their needs. Earlier while reel...