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The police in Kwara have arrested 23-year-old Nigerian internet fraud suspect Awoleye Oluwatofunmi for allegedly duping an American national, Vonapolouis Moss, of US$ 1,000. Police commissioner Paul Odama said in Ilorin on Friday that the suspect presented himself to the victim as an American on TikTok, using the name Howard Adams, and defrauded her of $1,000. Mr Odama said the suspect later took a step further by luring the victim to fly into Nigeria on January 9, 2023, through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. According to him, the victim flew into Ilorin the next day and was received…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the weekend busted another Tramadol cartel in Lagos with the seizure of millions of opioids pills and bottles worth over five billion naira (N5billion) from their warehouse in Amuwo Odofin area of the state and arrested two of the kingpins. It would be recalled that officers of the Agency on January 10, 2023, intercepted an imported consignment of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis, weighing 4, 878.72 kilograms along Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos. After a near fatal encounter with some suspected fake security agents escorting the drugs, the NDLEA operatives…

Youths have once again been urged to shun violence and vote wisely at the forthcoming 2023 general elections. This call was made by the President Igbo Youths Assembly Worldwide, Honorable CASMIR IREKAMBA when he featured at an interactive session program on Alpha Radio 106.5 FM titled POLITICAL HEAT, hosted by Emmanuel Asiegbunam (Mr E on the Mic) X-raying the topic "Can the Youth Make or Mar the 2023 General Elections?", Honorable Irekamba stressed that the youth have the power to make or mar the election and determine the winner by virtue of their population. Honorable Irekamba elucidated that the INEC…

The wife of the Accord governorship candidate and the General Overseer of the Chapel of Faith Bible Assembly International, Mrs. Nnenna Faith Nwankpa, has reaffirmed her resolve to keep supporting her husband in his ministry of blessing the widows for over 17 years in the ministry of the word of God. The friendly mother of everyone around her, whom the widows address as their co-wife and mother because her husband calls them "my father's wives" while speaking to a team of journalists that came to witness the 17th Annual "Widows Must Smile" event which took place on 9th January 2023,…

  More tongues are wagging over the judgement of Justice Evelyn Anyadike concerning the pre-election suit instituted by one of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Abia State. The most recent group being Concerned Lawyers for Advancement of Democracy, frowned at the judgement delivered by the Federal High Court Judge in Umuahia, Abia State. The Judge ruled in favor of the PDP and Prof Ikonne Uche alleging that the non-physical presence of Samson Orji during the gubernatorial primary meant he withdrew from the race. The group led by one Barrister Thomas Ikechukwu Iko disagreed with the position of…

Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi aka Papa Ajasco, is dead. His death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday, He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the 'Papa Ajasco' character on the popular #waleadenugaprod comic series 'Papa Ajasco' Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is dead."

Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, on Saturday, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari for the release of the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The governor also offered to act as a surety for the IPOB leader who remains in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). This comes days after Channels Television reported that the Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, similarly offered to stand as Kanu’s surety if granted bail again. Soludo, who spoke at a rally in Akwa, Anambra State to launch…

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State Friday met with President Muhammadu Buhari in his office at the State House, Abuja. Speaking with newsmen after the meeting at the Council Chambers, Adeleke, a member of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hailed President Buhari for signing the Electoral Act in 2022 and entrenching democracy further in the country. The governor, who described himself as a beneficiary of the president’s action, further noted that the president’s action has also earned Nigeria more respect with the international community, where the country is now considered as being ready for real democracy. Asked the…