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  7 Comfirmed Dead. This 7 were amongst the many who went to get a bag of rice at the Customs office. They lost their lifes Due to Hunger. RIP to the deceased and Condolences to the family. Its truly a Tragic Scenario that shouldn't have happened.

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Adaobi Nweke alongside her mother and four family members for alleged possession of various drugs, including cocaine, metamphetamine, cannabis and heroin. The sum of N578,400 was also recovered from the suspects who were said to be ‘a second generation family of drug dealers.’ Adaobi, 36, was said to have taken over the leadership of the drug gang after the demise of her father, Jonathan Nweke. The suspects were apprehended at 23, Arochukwu Sreet, Umuahia, Abia State, by NDLEA officers during a joint operation with Abia State Homeland Security on February 14. A report of the operation obtained by  Saturday PUNCH  on Friday indicated that the suspects include Mrs Ngozi Nweke, 65; Adaobi’s friend, Emeka Nkemefola, 36; and the herbalist to Mrs Nweke, Dike Okpara, 43. Others are Adaobi’s nephew, Chukwudi Abel, 33; Blessing Jonathan, 22;  said to be a salesgirl and Amarachi Paul, 18,  a member of the family....

           The Suspect Ekiti State Police Command, on Friday, disclosed that its operatives have arrested eight suspected members of a kidnapping cartel involved in the abduction of five pupils, three teachers, and a driver of Apostolic Faith School in the state. Some gunmen had  abducted  the nine individuals while they were returning from Eporo-Ekiti a few weeks ago. They were, however,  released  last Sunday, after spending six days in the kidnappers’ den. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abutu Sunday, while parading the suspects said police received a credible intelligence that some armed men were planning to kidnap expatriates in a dairy farm in Ikun Ekiti. The spokesperson said the police mobilised to the farm and arrested one Abubakar Aliyu, who was on a mission to spy on the location of the expatriates. He noted that a member of the group identified as Ayuba was shot dead during a gun duel when policemen were attempting...

  Slain DPO, Bako Angbashim. A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has issued an order restraining the Nigeria Police from re-arresting and taking to Abuja any defendant already standing trial in the murder charge concerning the killing of late Ahoada Divisional Police Officer, Bako Angbashim. The court, presided over by Justice Sika Aprioku, also issued an order restraining any move or plans to move the case file of the murder to the Abuja High Court. Justice Aprioku commended the prosecution team of Nigeria Police and Rivers State Department of Public Prosecution led by C.F Amadi, who insisted that only those whose cases have been established in the case file can be tried after amending the charges. The trial judge frowned at a situation where some defendants in the murder case are already being prosecuted for the murder in Abuja when the main case file is already in Rivers State High Court. Justice Aprioku said such is illegal and a breach of court processes, citing...

  A professor, Uche Chigozie, who allegedly defrauded the Maize Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, was on Thursday re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before a Federal High Court in Lagos, for N1.47bn money laundering. Chigozie, who was arraigned alongside three companies, Visionary Integrated Consulting Ltd, Nemad Associates Ltd. and Revamp Global Enterprises, is facing 11 counts bordering on conspiracy, fraud, stealing, and money laundering, preferred against him by the EFCC. He was first arraigned in August 2023, before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, and had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Justice Oweibo was, however, transferred out of the Lagos Division, and the case was reassigned to the new trial judge, Justice Dehinde Dipeolu. The EFCC’s prosecution counsel, Mrs Chinenye Okezie, told the court that the defendant allegedly conspired with the other defendants, and used the sum of N1.47bn belonging to the Maize Growers, Processors a...

  The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Adegoke Fayoade, has ordered a detailed investigation into the incident of a 12-year-old Aminat Alege allegedly hit by a teargas canister fired by officers of Dopemu Division. The officers allegedly fired the teargas while responding to public disturbance by students of Abibat Mogaji Millenium Secondary School Iloro and Iloro Junior Grammar School Iloro both in the Dopemu area of the state on Friday, February 9, 2024. A statement released by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday noted that Fayoade made this known during a visit to the victim in the hospital. Hundeyin added that the outcome of the probe would be made available to members of the public. “The Lagos State Police Command assures the general public that the investigation will be comprehensive and no attempt whatsoever will be made at a cover-up; while equally assuring that any police officer found culpable in the matter will be dealt with in a...

  Mrs Eucharia Agbasimalo, the wife of kidnapped candidate of the Labour Party during the November 2021 Anambra State governorship election, Obiorah Agbasimalo, has told an Ihiala High Court sitting in Nnewi, Anambra State, that the two defendants, Chukwudi Odimegwu and Maxwell Nwokolo, currently standing trial before the court have a hand in her husband’s kidnap. Eucharia said from her conversations with one of the defendants (Nwokolo) to his confessional statements at the police and how he collected a total sum of N5.4m as ransom, without releasing their victim, she was convinced that they had a hand in the kidnap of her husband. She testified before the court presided over by Justice C.N. Mbonu-Nwenyi, during a cross-examination by B.I. Nkememena, the counsel for one of the defendants in continuation of the trial of Odimegwu and Nwokolo and others at large. Odimegwu and Nwokolo are currently standing trial for their alleged conspiracy and kidnap of Agbasimalo on September 18, 20...