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  News    File Image  An angry mob in Umuehim Nvosi, Isialangwa south LGA of Abia state killed and buried a farmer, Mbaogu Eke, on Sunday. He was accused of stealing a Nokia torch that belonged to the resident pastor of United Evangelical Church Umuehim Nvosi. The deceased Mr Mbaogu Eke who is said to be an orphan and a single man in his early 40s has about five step siblings, three sisters and two brothers. Our source, an indigene of Umuehim who pleaded anonymity said one of his step brothers, Mr. Shadrach Eke reportedly said he didn't want chaos and wasn't reporting the incident to the police. He further said; “There’s a case of murder in my community, Where they accused a young man of stealing Nokia touch, and beat him to death and buried him Sunday night. without notice to the police. “The phone is still ringing as at yesterday, Monday. The man’s name is Mbaogu Eke, the phone belongs to a pastor, in United Evangelical Church Umuehim Nvosi. I don't know the pastor...

  Crime    File Image  Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force Oji-River Division in Enugu State have arrested a 27-year-old man identified as Gabriel Gibson for raping his friend’s wife. The suspect who is also known as Ogidi was alleged to have committed the act in his friend’sd house on August 18 by 5am. He was arrested a few days later by Police operatives. The Spokesman of the state Police Command, Daniel Ndukwe in a statement said that further investigation into the matter is ongoing. “The suspect was arrested on 21/08/2023 at about 10am, by Police Operatives serving in Oji-River Police Division. “His arrest was due to the receipt of a report alleging that suspect who is a friend of her husband, on 18/08/2023 at about 5am, came to their house in the absence of her husband and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her. “The case is undergoing further investigation,” the statement reads.

  Sports    File Image  Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen, has made a major move by deleting Napoli-related posts from his Instagram page. This action follows a controversial incident involving the  club, where they posted and subsequently deleted a TikTok video "mocking" Osimhen for missing a crucial penalty. We had reports that Osimhen could take legal action against Napoli after the Italian club posted a video “mocking” him on their official Tik Tok according to the player’s agent, Roberto Calenda. Calenda in a statement released on Tuesday described the video as unacceptable. The statement read, “What happened today on Napoli’s official profile on TikTok platform is not acceptable. A video mocking Victor was first made public and then, but now belatedly, deleted. “A serious fact that causes very serious damage to the player and adds to the treatment that the boy is suffering in the last period between media trials and fake news. “We reserve the right to take ...

  Opinion    File Image    “I want to use this medium first as a concerned citizen and secondly as a key stakeholder in the Abia project to give feed backs based on my personal assessments, observations and publicly available information. “When the governor assembled the best of the best into his transition committee we leaped with joy and our hearts were very warm. We are earnestly expecting the fruition of that conglomeration manifesting in very structured, idea-driven, innovative and exceptional outputs in governance or else it would have amounted to yet another wastage, political flagellations indeed a jamboree. “When the Governor also brought Julius Berger to Port Harcourt Road even before his inauguration I was one of those who defended him against PDP onslaught. 4 months after, one wpuld have expected the Julius Bergers, Arab Contractors, Setraco and other notable construction firms in that cadre to have taken over Abia turn it to a construction site. “I ...

  Opinion   ...........Why we feel embarrassed   File Image   By Kanu Iwuala , Agbama Estate Umuahia.  I did not vote for Alex Otti in 2015 and 2019. By 2023, it became obvious Abians needed a change for better. Many, like me, who voted for Otti voted for stoppage of waste, non payment of salaries, construction of solid roads, a civil service with dignity, appointment that was not based on nepotism. We voted for Otti for the NEW ABIA. Four months after many of us took that risk, exposed ourselves to danger and challenged the ruling PDP, Otti has been embarrassing us. The level of embarrassment made some of us to think that we either overrated Otti or dressed him with borrowed robes. Here are a few examples: 1.) The first embarrassment was Otti dancing Alanta with our Civil Service. It is wrong to compensate a Lady with a position as big as Head of Service. How would we have imagined that a whole Otti, a former Bank Director who knows the application of...

  News    File Image  Popular Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola popularly known Naira Marley, who has been a subject of public outrage over the death of fellow musician and former signee, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba aka Mohbad, has denied having a hand in Mohbad’s death. Naira Marley is the owner of Marlian Music, the record label that formerly signed the late Mohbad. Mohbad died on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Following his death, there have been allegations that he was assaulted by Naira Marley and his crew. However, in a statement he posted on his Instagram page on Tuesday, Naira Marley said though he and Mohbad had misunderstandings, he never fought or attacked him. Naira Marley, who is not currently in Nigeria said he would return to the country to clear his name. The statement reads: “In the last few days, there has been a lot of onslaught on my person and reputation globally over the death of my former signee. All manner of stories has been woven against me in res...

  News    File Image  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria have resolved to begin an indefinite nationwide strike starting on October 3, 2023. This comes after a joint press briefing held by the leaders of the unions in Abuja on Tuesday. The NLC and the government have failed to reach an agreement on the best way to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and the attendant hardship in the country on Nigerians. Following Tuesday’s separate virtual National Executive Council meetings, the unions resolved to commence the strike on October 3 and urged Nigerians to stock up on food supplies for at least one week. The three-week ultimatum which was given by the NLC to the government expired last week. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero and his TUC counterpart, Festus Osifo disclosed after their separate Emergency NEC meetings in Abuja on Tuesday that the Nigerian government had been insensitive to the plight of the citizens followi...

  News    File Image  Perez Medcare Hospital, where singer Ilerioluwa Aloba aka MohBad was allegedly taken to, has released a statement concerning the singer’s death. In the statement shared on its Instagram page on Monday night, the hospital stated that the singer was brought in dead at the hospital. The hospital also debunked rumours that the singer was admitted into the hospital. The statement partly read, “The attention of the management of Perez Medcare Hospital has been drawn to the misleading and false information being circulated in some social media platforms that Mr. Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba (AKA Mobbed) died in our medical facility. “We consider it pertinent to put on record that at about 04:30pm on the 12th of September 2023, the lifeless body of Mr. Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba (AKA Mohbad) was brought to our medical facility and our medical team immediately sprang into action and after assessment, it was discovered that there was no sign of life, no cen...

  News    File Image  French President Emmanuel Macron has said that his country will withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger in the wake of the July coup that overthrew democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. Macron in a televised interview on Sunday said military cooperation with Niger was “over” and that 1,500 French troops stationed in the country would withdraw in “the months and weeks to come” with a full pullout “by the end of the year”. “France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France,” Macron said in a televised interview.  France’s exit comes after weeks of pressure from the military and popular demonstrations. Thousands of people have protested in recent weeks in the capital Niamey, including outside a military base housing French soldiers. Niger’s new rulers, who had been demanding France’s exit after Macron refused to recognise the July 26 coup, welcomed the F...

  News    File Image  The Delta State Police Command has called on members of the public who have illegal and prohibited firearms in their possession to render such firearms to any nearby police station, area command or the state headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force. The command said it is part of efforts to tame the proliferation of firearms and in line with the directive of the Inspector General of Police Olukayode Egbetokun. The police commissioner in the state, CP Wale Abass assured individuals who voluntarily submit illegal arms will not be punished. A statement issued by the spokesman for the state police command, DSP Edafe Bright, said that “wilful submission of such illegally possessed weapons to police will attract “no sanction”. It said, “This is aimed at reducing the number of guns in circulation across the state, and also to stop firearms from getting into the wrong hands and being used by offenders to commit crimes on our streets or anywhere else in ...

  News    File Image  Over 14 Local Government Areas out of the 27 in Imo State have been overrun by insecurity and killings, with death becoming a normal way of life. Unfortunately, the government of Imo State seems more interested in reelection than finding solutions to this dire situation." The Labour Party has condemned the killing of security agents in Imo State by gunmen and the subsequent burning of houses and businesses in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area by soldiers. The party in a statement on Saturday by the National Vice Chairman (South East), Chief Innocent Okeke, described Governor Hope Uzodimma as clueless in the face of the killings and destructions going on in the state. SaharaReporters reported on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, that some gunmen, who were yet to be identified attacked and killed five security agents attached to the Joint Task Force, Operation Search and Flush (OP SAF) and subsequently burnt their two patrol vehicles along a road a...

  News    File Image  The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives(NANNM) has said the nurse who treated the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Olademeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, and reportedly gave him an injection before his death is not a registered health practitioner. The union said this in a press statement dated September 22, 2023, released via the office ‘Of Toba Odumosu, State Secretary NANNM Lagos State Council, describing the arrested nurse as a “quack.” On Thursday, it was reported that the Lagos State Police Command arrested the nurse. A police source told SaharaReporters investigators established that the musician was beaten by the same people who always threatened and harangued him, after a show he had in Ikorodu. He was said to have sustained injuries following the b**ting, leading him to seek the services of a nurse at home. It was learnt that Mohbad started convulsing after being given injections, one of which was said to be an ant...

  News    Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu PhD   By Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka , Spokesman to Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu.  The immediate past Governor of Abia state, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu has been appointed into the member of Advisory Body of Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NSBMB. Barrister Onyebuchi Ememanka, the spokesman to Dr Ikpeazu announced this development in a statement captioned: “ IKPEAZU JOINS THE ADVISORY BOARD OF BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY IN NIGERIA” on his Facebook handle, further narrates Dr Ikpeazu’s commitment to study and teaching. The statement in full: “The immediate past Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has been appointed as a Member of the Advisory Body of the Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NSBMB). “The appointment was conveyed in a letter dated 20th September, 2023 and signed by the President of the Association, Professor Matthew Owhonda Wegwu. “According to the letter, Dr. Ikpeazu's appointment ...

  News    File Image  The video showing the failed newly commissioned cemetery road went viral on social media, drawing the attention of both the public and government officials. Among those who took notice was Governor Otti's media Adviser, Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma, who wasted no time in reacting to the alarming footage on Barr Onyebuchi Ememanka's post captioned:“ WELCOME TO THE NEW ABIA, POWERED BY ALEX OTTI!.” Barrister Ememanka’s post reads in full: “My dear brother, Ferdinand Ekeoma,What is happening? ”I don't want to believe that this is the same Cemetery Road you people rushed to commission few days ago with so much pomp and pageantry. “Few days ago o! What? Chai! “Nwanne, please go and arrange one correct Press Release and then thereafter proceed to at least 3 radio stations to tell the world how Ikpeazu caused this. “Okoro Nnaemeka Oti, una go explain tire o!.“ Barr Ememanka wrote on his Facebook profile, Ururu Aja. As the video circulated online, concerned citi...

  News    Nyesom Wike  The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, informed the Peoples Democratic Party's leadership before accepting a position in President Bola Tinubu's cabinet but the leaders did not take a position, a member of the Party's National Executive Committee has confirmed. The party's Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, and a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed this in an interview with  PUNCH . Wike, a former Rivers State governor, stated shortly after taking office as a minister that he sought the consent of top PDP leaders before accepting an offer from an All Progressives Congress-led government. In response to claims that his decision to work for the APC government constituted a betrayal of his party, the PDP,  Wike had claimed, “They said they will sanction me that I took an appointment. That’s ridiculous. The President wrote to all the 36 state governors to bring names of people to...