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Tim Probert-Wood, prosecutor of Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the case of alleged trafficking for organ harvesting, has told a London court how 21-year-old David Nwamini, the alleged victim, fled the senator’s residence and reported him to the police. Speaking in court on Monday, Probert-Wood said Nwamini presented himself at Staines Police Station on May 5, 2022, and told the police he was brought into the country on February 20, 2022, to have his kidney removed, Daily Mail reported. He said Nwamini claimed he did not consent to the removal of his kidney, and when he returned to the apartment where…

The identities of some of the officers who lost their lives in an ambush by terrorists in Abuja have been unveiled. A captain and two soldiers were killed by terrorists in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Sunday night The deceased officers, who were attached to the Presidential Guards Brigade, were reportedly ambushed after they visited the Nigeria Law School in Bwari following a distressed call from the authorities of the school. The school management was said to have alerted that terrorists had dropped a letter indicating an imminent attack. Spokesman of the Guards Brigade, Captain…

Operatives of the Lagos Command of EFCC have arrested two self-acclaimed spiritualists, one Alfa Abiodun Ibrahim and Wale Adifala, who along with one Ifawole Ajibola (aka Baba Kalifa currently on the run), allegedly conspired to defraud an aspiring House of Representatives member in Ekiti State, of the total sum of N24,071,000 which they claimed was to be used to secure spiritual help for the political ambition. They were arrested on July 7, 2022 in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, following a petition against them, alleging that after collecting the said sum, the whole efforts came to a dead end. Under interrogation by…

The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has invited the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi its 25th General Assembly. Obi is to speak at the Church Headquarters at the Hope Waddell Parish, Calabar on Saturday, 13th August, 2022. In a letter signed by the Principal Clerk of General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Rev. Dr. Miracle Ajah, and made available to THE WHISPERER on Monday, Obi is invited as special guest of honour to the opening ceremony of the 25th General Assembly of the Church where they are to celebrate their 176 years in the country. Ajah…

A US-based medical expert, Dr. Ene Innocent has given insight into the health complication which Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar is currently undergoing, saying it is an autoimmune disease which a lot of women acquire during pregnancy. The Internet on Monday abuzz with a publication alleging that popular Nigerian Pastor, Johnson Suleiman is responsible for the health issues of the Nollywood star. The health issue, our correspondent gathered causes Halima lots of body pain, in addition to loss of pregnancies. The publication alleged that Halima's health complications is spiritual, dating back to days she allegedly had an affair with Pastor Suleiman.…

Barely 24 hours after terrorists threatened to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el’Rufai in a viral video, troops of the Guards Brigade have been ambushed by armed bandits in Abuja. Three soldiers were wounded during the attack, which has thrown residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) into a panic. The bandits were headed to the Nigerian Law School in Bwari when they ran into the troops. There were Intelligence reports, according to military sources, the terrorists have laid siege to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with the intention to attack the Law School in Bwari and…

A Nigerian senator’s wife accused of plotting to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest a kidney for her daughter has been granted bail. Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, together with her husband Ike Ekweremadu, 60, allegedly trafficked the 21-year-old to London from the streets of Lagos in order to harvest his organ. They are accused of plotting to traffic him to transplant his organs to their daughter who suffers from kidney failure. Ike, a barrister and former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate, and Beatrice, an accountant, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday for a bail hearing.…

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Monday, said the insecurity situation in the country has reached its peak with the threat by bandits to kidnap the President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that there was no government in the country and those surrounding the presidents were criminals. Ortom, who was reacting to a video trending on social media where bandits were flogging Kaduna-bound train attack victims and their threat to kidnap the president and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said Nigerians were now exposed to the Afghanistan treatment. The governor, who briefed journalists at the new banquet hall of the government…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Dauda Biu as the Acting Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), following the retirement of Mr Boboye Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi said this when he handed over the affairs of the Corps to Biu at the FRSC headquarters on Monday in Abuja. This is contained in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem on Monday in Abuja. Oyeyemi said that Biu’s appointment took effect from July 24 and wished him a successful tenure as he assumed office. The FRSC Board Chairman, Malam…

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, to subject himself to an hour long Television interview. Reacting to the allegation of Tinubu Campaign Organisation that he was not prepared to lead the country because of some of the issues discussed during his last Television interview, the former vice president dared Tinubu to take up the challenge. “‘We would like to challenge Bola Tinubu to subject himself to an hour long interview, like the Waziri did, and if he is…