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Jan

2023

ICPC re-arrests ex-JAMB registrar, Ojerinde at Court premises over alleged 5b fraud

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ICPC re-arrests ex-JAMB registrar, Ojerinde at Court premises over alleged 5b fraud The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has re-arrested the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde, on Thursday in Abuja. Ojerinde, who is already facing trial for allegedly diverting public funds totalling about N5billion, was arrested at the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja by operatives of the ICPC, shortly after his case was adjourned till February 15. According to a statement on Thursday by the Commission’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, Prof. Ojerinde’s re-arrest…

Oct

2021

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Nnamdi Kanu Trial: File 10,000 Suits Against FG or risk treatment as enemy of Ndigbo- OYC Urges Igbo Lawyers

NATIONAL NEWSAdministration, arrest, Comrd. Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, intimidations, Lopsided Government of Buhari, Marginalization, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Nigerian government, ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council OYC, president Mohammadu Buhari, Pro-Biafra groups, sabotage, Saboteurs, Self-preservation, Sustenance, victimisation

Nnamdi Kanu Trial: File 10,000 Suits Against FG or risk treatment as enemy of Ndigbo- OYC Urges Igbo Lawyers Ohanaeze Youths Council, OYC has enjoined every qualified Legal Practitioner from Igbo extraction to, as a matter of urgency, sue the Federal Government of Nigeria otherwise risk treatment as an enemy of Ndigbo with a befitting treatment. The apex youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide--the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has urged Igbo lawyers all over the globe with ten years legal experience to file a suit against the federal government of Nigeria in order to "save Alaigbo from political cum economic…

Oct

2021

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Nnamdi Kanu: FG, AGF plead for more time to defend suit

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Nnamdi Kanu: FG, AGF plead for more time to defend suit The Federal Government and the Attorney General of the Federation have applied to the High Court of Abia State for extension of time to file their defense to the Fundamental Rights suit filed by Barrister Aloy Ejimakor on behalf of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It will be recalled that Kanu had in late August approached the Abia High Court to enforce his fundamental rights, stemming from the military invasion of his Umuahia home in 2017 and his extraordinary rendition from Kenya in June 2021. When the matter last came up…

Oct

2021

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Veteran Actor, Chinwetalu Agu released from DSS Custody

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Veteran Actor, Chinwetalu Agu released from DSS Custody The director of Communications, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Monalisa Chinda Coker has confirmed the release of the veteran Actor, Chinwetalu Agu from the custody of Department of State Services, DSS in Abuja. This was shortly after the news of the transfer of the detained Actor to DSS office in Abuja went viral. This was revealed in a statement signed by the director of Communications, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Monalisa Chinda Coker. The release read in detail: “The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ejezie Emeka Rollas has yet again secured…

Aug

2021

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IRONA: Uzodinma Must Desist From Fake News

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IRONA: Uzodinma Must Desist From Fake News By Collins Opurozor People need to believe the government. This is the reason government must be staffed by credible individuals, imbued with integrity, whose words are bankable. But, when a gang of sleazy characters or when some men and women of loose morals foul up an institution as sacred as government, then society itself is imperiled. Governance, in short, is not for those who in the words of the fine British poet, Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child". Since the January 2020 legal mishap that brought Chief Hope Uzodinma to power in…

Jul

2021

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Bollywood Star, Raj Kundra Arrested For Producing, Broadcasting Porn Online

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Bollywood star, Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty's husband, has been arrested for producing, broadcasting porn on the internet. Raj Kundra, Shilpa Shetty's husband, has been arrested for reportedly producing and broadcasting pornographic films online, by Mumbai Police, in India. The arrest is the most recent scandal that has struck Kundra, the 2007 winner of British reality show “Celebrity Big Brother. This is coming six years after Kundra, a businessman was banned from cricket-related activities consequent upon do match-fixing charges. It would be recalled that in 2015, Kundra was banned for life from all cricket-related activities, following an investigation into match-fixing while…

Jun

2021

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Happening: Police Arrest Nollywood Producer, Mike, With Guns Delta

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Unknown gunmen Nollywood star, Mike Omoruyi has just been arrested by Operatives of the the Police Rapid Response Squad, RRS, on patrol along Obiaruku/Umuebu Community in Delta State. Reportedly, the 37years old Nollywood Star was arrested with guns in his vehicle by the Police. The Police recovered from the first suspect, one Lar rifle without magazine, one fabricated AK-47 rifle, one air rifle, one pump action, one English double barrel gun, and two toy guns from the suspect. The Delta State Police Command led by CP Ari Muhammed Ali, confirmed the report in a statement signed by the Acting Police…

May

2021

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Imo NUJ Condemns Invasion, Arrest Of Newspaper Vendors, Distributors

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Comr. Chris Akaraonye, the chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Imo State Council. The leadership of and members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), Imo State Council has condemned with bitterness, the unwarranted invasion and arrest of Newspaper Vendors in Owerri, the State's capital, yesterday. This is contained in a press statement, jointly signed by Comr. Chris Akaraonye and Comr. Juliet Dim, the chairman and Secretary of the Union, respectively, and issued to Famous Reporters, today, Tuesday. It would be recalled that Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police, yesterday, Monday, arrested not…

May

2021

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Tension, As IGP’S Team Arrests Imo Newspaper Vendors, Distribution Agents

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All progressives Congress, APC Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Not fewer than seven Newspaper vendors and distribution agents in Imo state have been arrested by the Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police. The police operatives swooped on them on Monday morning at their base located at Number 5 Rotibi Street, Douglas Road, Owerri, as the circulation of the day's newspapers was on going. Other vendors and distribution agents who ran away, told Journalists that the gun welding police operatives accused them of circulating Newspaper publications that had stories on the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and…

Nov

2020

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Seforp2023 Fraud:Rev Okechukwu Christopher Obioha, in Police Net, Over Conducts Likely to Cause Breach of Public Peace, Criminal Breach Of Trust, Deceit, Extortion and Obtaining by False Pretence, Unlawful Society and Impersonation

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Rev Okechukwu Christopher Oboha, is currently cooling of in the police custody, in Enugu and will likely be charged to court pursuant to a petition written and addressed to the Inspector General of Police and captioned “RE:CONDUCTS LIKELY TO CAUSE BREACH OF PUBLIC PEACE, CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST, DECEIT, EXTORTION AND OBTAINING BY FALSE PRETENCE, UNLAWFUL SOCIETY AND IMPERSONATION, AGAINST REV OKECHUKWU CHRISTOPHER OBIOHA USING SEFORP2023 MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED” The petition written for Obiezu Nwachukwu, an indigene of the southeast of Nigeria, for himself and other members of the group, Youths For Better Nigeria, a non-governmental organization focused on transparency,…