EXPOSED: Policemen Force Youths To Transfer Money To POS Account At Gunpoint A disturbing incident has been reported in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State, where some policemen allegedly extorted and harassed over 50 youths at a checkpoint on the Enyiogugu Mbaise road. Eyewitnesses claimed that the youths were forced at gunpoint to transfer money from their bank accounts to designated POS account numbers. The incident has sparked widespread outrage among residents, who are demanding that traditional rulers and community leaders intervene to put an end to the alleged abuses. The extortion has also forced many youths to avoid the checkpoint; instead…
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I’m In Charge Of Lands In Abuja; Wike Blows Hot Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said he’s not bothered about land grabbing allegations against him. Mr Wike, who stated this during a thanksgiving service organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ahoada East and West local government areas of Rivers State on Thursday, said he would remain to deliver on the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu. While dismissing the land grabbing allegations, Mr Wike said he’s is in charge of lands in Abuja and cannot in any way be a land grabber.…
REVEALED: Charges Against Oni’s Ex-wife, Oriyomi Hamzat, Others Over Ibadan Stampede The Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan filed four charges against Queen Naomi Silekunola, the former wife of the Ooni of Ife, broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat, and Abdullahi Babatunde over the tragic incident that occurred on Wednesday at the Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan. The event, a funfair carnival intended to bring joy to children, ended in chaos, resulting in the deaths of 35 individuals, including children aged between five months and 13 years. On Tuesday, the Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan ordered the remand of the defendants at the…
BREAKING: DIG Jitoboh, Who Buhari Forced Out Of Police To Impose Northern kinsman Usman Baba As IG, Dies Moses Jitoboh, a former deputy inspector-general of police, is dead. Mr Jitoboh, a Bayelsa native, died on Friday morning at the Garki General Hospital Abuja after complications from blood clots in his lungs, according to online outlet The Network, which first reported the news on Friday afternoon. He was 54. Mr Jitoboh served as the aide-de-camp to President Goodluck Jonathan and quickly rose through the ranks in the Nigeria Police Force. But he was perhaps best known as a victim of one…
JUST IN: Expect More Deaths At Tin-Can Port; Says MWUN The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) on Friday highlighted several safety concerns at Five Star Logistics Terminal located at Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos, attributing safety lapses to the death of a dockworker on Christmas Day. Recall that tragedy struck on Christmas Day at the Five Star Logistics Terminal when a Liebherr Crane crushed a dockworker onboard the vessel MSC Samu, killing the port worker instantly. Speaking on the incident, the President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, blamed the dockworker’s death on negligence…
Bar Owner Cries Out, Says Despite Economic Hardship Nigerians Drank More Alcohol On Xmas Day In spite of the widespread outcry over economic hardship, some business owners in Bwari Area Council, Abuja, said they made huge profits during the Christmas celebrations. In separate interviews on Friday, the business owners attributed the success to high patronage. Bosede Bamidele, owner of a restaurant and bar, said the Christmas celebrations brought in one of her highest customer turnouts in recent times. Ms Bamidele revealed that her usual stock of 50 crates of alcoholic drinks and 15 crates of soft drinks, which would normally…
Hackers Stole N180Million From My NGO Account, One Arrested; Says VeryDarkMan Hackers have reportedly infiltrated the account of Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, and stolen about N180 million. Otse, who runs a popular non-governmental organization, revealed the breach on Friday via his Instagram account, confirming that a suspect had already been apprehended in connection with the crime. According to Otse, the hacked account has been placed on PND (Payment Network Disconnection), and while N160 million was diverted to an undisclosed account, the balance of N20 million remains within the compromised account. This security breach comes shortly after Otse…
Jubilation As Soldiers Kills Terrorist Imposing Levies On Zamfara Residents Troops of 1 Brigade in Sector 2 Joint Task Force North West, Operation Fansan Yamma, have neutralised several terrorists, including a notorious kingpin known as Alhaji Ma’oli. The operation took place in Mai Sheka village, near Kunchin Kalgo town, which is one of the local communities that had suffered under Ma’oli’s reign of terror. Ma’oli is renowned for always imposing illegal levies on residents of Unguwan Rogo, Mai Sheka, Magazawa, and other surrounding areas of Bilbis in Tsafe LGA of Zamfara State. The neutralisation of Ma’oli has brought relief and…
JUST-IN: Benue On Fire As Bandits Kill Dozens Palpable fear gripped the people of Yaav and Mbakyol council wards of Kwande local government area of Benue State as armed bandits suspected to be herdsmen invaded the two communities on Christmas day, killing over 12 people and abducted seven children. A resident of now deserted Mbadura council ward who is taking refuge in Jato-Aka Lawrence Akerigba, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent, informed that the attackers abducted seven children with the oldest being 6 years, while the youngest is 2 years of age. According to him, “The attackers invaded Yaav…
Simon Ekpa Set To Be Released From Detention, Biafra Nation Independence; Says His Deputy Ngozi Ezeobika Orabueze, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Biafra Government In Exile, has said efforts are ongoing to ensure Simon Ekpa’s release from detention and the actualisation of the independent nation of Biafra. Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister the Biafra Government In Exile, is being detained in Finland. Orabueze who made the vow in her Christmas message to the ‘people of Biafran Nation,’ said she and others were working to achieve the actualisation of the United States of Biafra and ensure Ekpa’s release. In November,…