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Wike to Amaechi: You did not attract any meaningful project to Rivers as minister

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Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, on Monday said his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, did not attract any meaningful project to the state as Minister of Transportation; describing his tenure as a total failure. Wike said this while reacting to Amaechi’s comments that the Rivers State Government refused to give state burial to the late Chief Alabo Graham-Douglas that was laid to rest last weekend. He used the occasion of the formal inauguration of the reconstructed former Rivbank Insurance building in Port Harcourt on Monday to lampoon the former transportation minister. He…

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Ekweremadu’s daughter seeks kidney donor 82 days after dad’s detention

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The ailing daughter of the detained former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia Ekweremadu, has appealed to members of the public to donate a kidney to save her life. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, were arrested by the Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London, United Kingdom, for bringing a child into the country to allegedly harvest his organs. They were arrested in June 2022 at the Heathrow Airport in London and arraigned before a UK Magistrate’s Court. While Ekweremadu’s wife was granted bail by a…

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Three female students found dead in Ojukwu varsity hostel

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  Three female students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU, Anambra State, were at the weekend found dead in their hostel at the Igbariam campus of the institution. The three female students were identified as Obidiaso Chidera (200 level Political Science); Mercy (200 level Pharmacy); and Emmanuella, (200 level Business Administration). The cause of their deaths has not been ascertained, although some people on the university campus suspected foul play as they were locked in their rooms from outside. “The students were locked up in the apartment. When we gained…

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Pregnant lady, others arrested by NDLEA for drug possession

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A 25-year-old pregnant woman, Favour Haruna, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, with 82 pinches of methamphetamine as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup in Auchi, Edo State. The NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who highlighted other arrests made by the agency last week in a statement on Sunday, said a Brazilian returnee, Okolie Nwabueze, was also nabbed for importing 92 wraps of cocaine into the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Nwabueze, a father of…

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Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy attacked by gunmen, policemen killed

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Suspected assailants opened fire on the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on Sunday at Enugwu-Ukwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State leaving unspecified number of police operatives killed. Sources in the community, who do not want their names in print for security purposes, said when the gunmen opened fire on the convoy, police operatives in the convoy responded and some of the policemen were gunned down in the shoot-out. A source said, “Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was attacked today by some hoodlums in Enugwu-Ukwu. It was a calculated…

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Nigeria is in it’s darkest hour -Catholic Bishop

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President of the body, Most Rev Lucius Ugorji, stated this, weekend, at the opening session of the 2022 Second Plenary of the CBCN at the Sacred Heart Pastoral Centre, Orlu, Imo State. He lamented that Nigerians had been subjected to high level insecurity, high rate of unemployment and soaring prices of good and services, now priced beyond the reach of a larger portion of the population. Ugorji said: “The level of insecurity in the country is very worrisome. We are passing through what might be deemed as the darkest chapter…

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60million Nigerians suffer from mental illnesses – Prof Obindo

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Professor Taiwo Obindo, President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria, has said… “Mental healthcare is in a sorry state given that we have more than 60 million Nigerians suffering from various mental illnesses and the fact that only about 10 per cent of them were able to access appropriate care. “We are left with more than 90 per cent who are unable to access care and this group is called the treatment gap for mental illnesses,’’ Obindo said. He said the gap was as a result of various factors…

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Anglican priest resigns, begins support for polygamy

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Rev. Ogbuchukwu Lotanna, an Anglican priest of the Nnewi Diocese in Anambra State, has resigned his position as a priest of the church. Lotanna, also a lawyer, from Mbanagu Otolo Nnewi, in the resignation, stated that he received a divine mandate to float a movement in support of polygamy. He claimed that the divine mandate he received to float a movement was aimed at encouraging polygamy, with a vision to reducing the rate of sexual sins in society. He pointed out that polygamy is not a sin, contrary to what…

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Two injured, 20 burnt to death in Oyo road accident

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Over 20 passengers were burnt to death with two others injured in a road accident at Lanlate, Maya junction in Ibarapa East Local Government area of Oyo State. The accident which involved a commercial bus and a Sienna car occured on Friday evening. Witnesses said the incident was as a result of collision which led to fire outbreak that consumed more than 20 persons. It was further gathered that only two passengers survived while others were burnt beyond recognition. The Chairman of the Local Government area, Gbenga Obalowo who led…

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Nigerian born US professor scolded by Jeff Bezos over tweet

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Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has slammed a Nigerian-born US professor, Uju Anya, for her tweet on the late Queen Elizabeth II. While the queen was critically under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Anya had expressed her wish for the queen to have an ‘excruciating’ death. The tweet has now been removed by Twitter but still generating reactions on the platform. The American billionaire quoted Anya’s tweet and said, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better?” “I don’t think so,” Bezos added. “Wow.” Anya, a Carnegie…

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