Alleged ‘mentally unstable’ octogenarian stabs wife to death
A former Director General of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Mr. T.C. Okere, aged 86, has allegedly stabbed his wife to death. Okere who is largely believed to be mentally…
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- Corruption , News
- May 24, 2020
- 598 views
Imo: Activist wants EFCC to recover pensions paid to ex-Speakers, their deputies
…ex-Governors’ pension restored Following last Friday’s abrogation of the law that empowered former governors, their deputies, former Speakers and their deputies to receive pension and gratuity, reactions have continued to…
Imo: Uzodinma signs law stripping ex-Governors, ex-Speakers of pensions, gratuity
The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has assented to a Bill repealing the law that created pension allowances and gratuities for former Governors, Deputy Governors, Speakers and Deputy…
COVID-19: Group kicks, as Nigerian prisons reject new inmates
The policy of rejecting new inmates into the country’s Correctional Centres to avoid infection of the old inmates has been condemned by a group, Human Rights Defenders of Nigeria(HURIDE). HURIDE…
Outrage as pregnant woman dies at Police checkpoint
Aggrieved youths Thursday staged a protest in Abigi, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, following the death of a pregnant woman at a police checkpoint, New Telegraph reports.…
- Sex Crimes
- May 21, 2020
- 943 views
Court remands 65-year old man for defiling 8-year old child
A high court sitting in Owerri, Imo state has remanded a 65-year old man, Eke Duru in custody for sexually assaulting an eight years old child. Mr. Duru hails from…
- Corruption
- May 21, 2020
- 510 views
ICPC secures bench warrant to arrest two Sri Lankan nationals
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured a bench warrant to arrest two nationals of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for their failure…
- Corruption
- May 20, 2020
- 556 views
$10m Scandal: Court stops Reps’ ‘trial’ of CUPP spokesman, orders Gbajabiamila to appear before it
The Federal High court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo has restrained the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Clerk, other officials and privies of…
- Human Rights
- May 20, 2020
- 700 views
10 suspects in police net for flogging pastor in Ebonyi
No fewer than 10 persons are presently cooling their heels in police cells in Ebonyi state following the bizarre flogging of a young pastor, Oko Chukwu Obeni, a native of…
Many rural communities still believe COVID-19 is a ruse – Group
…Takes awareness campaign to the rural areas An anti COVID-19 advocacy group, the South-East Coronavirus Intervention Network (SCIN) has taken the awareness campaign of the pandemic to rural areas in…
- Cross-border Crimes , Terrorism
- May 19, 2020
- 616 views
“Soldiers from Niger Republic protecting Sokoto residents from bandits, not Nigerian soldiers”
Nigerians living in Sokoto state have been abandoned by the Nigerian military in a wave of violent attacks by bandits and terrorists. Premium Times reports that the Senator representing Sokoto…
- Human Rights , News
- May 18, 2020
- 628 views
For insulting elders, cleric gets 36 strokes of the cane, buys-off 18 strokes with N9,500
A cleric and social critic in Amasiri community, Afikpo North council area of the Ebonyi state, Pastor Oko Chukwu Obeni, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of his kinsmen…
- Investigations
- May 17, 2020
- 863 views
Imo: Playground of revenue syndicates
By Oge Nosike When the new Chairman of the Imo Internal Revenue Service (IIRS), Justice Remigius Okoye said he was committed to plugging all avenues of revenue leakage in the…
Durueke: A Major part of us is gone!
.Tribute to a fallen comrade By Okey Nwanguma The news of the death of Uche Wisdom Durueke on the afternoon of 14 May, 2020 hit me with a devastating suddeness…
- Corruption , News
- May 16, 2020
- 542 views
Business Rivalry: Imo Perm Sec under fire for alleged influence-peddling
A Permanent Secretary in the Imo state Ministry of Works, Engr. Egbuka E.C has come under a barrage of criticisms for allegedly taking sides in a dispute concerning two rival…
