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David Nwamini, the alleged victim of attempted organ harvesting, is 21 and not 15 years old as widely reported, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has confirmed on Sunday. The NIS Comptroller-General, Isah Jere Idris, confirmed this during a briefing with journalists held via Zoom. Nwamini, according to the NIS boss, applied for his international passport using the agency’s online portal where he filled October 12, 2,000, as his date of birth. Idris said Nwamini subsequently “visited the Gwagwalada office of Immigration in Abuja with his birth certificate issued by the National Population Commission, National Identification Number (NIN) and a letter…

The younger brother of David Ukpo Nwanmini, an alleged victim of organ trafficking, involving Senator Ike Ekwerrmadu and his wife, Beatrice, in the United Kingdom, said his sibling is 25 years old as against 15 claimed by the British Police. The brother, Jonathan Ukpo Nwanmini, who claimed to be 22 years old, told Sunday Vanguard that the victim is his elder brother. He said: ”David is my elder brother, we are both of the same father with different mothers and we hail from Ebonyi State. I will be 22 years old by next month and David is 25 years old.…

Public sympathy appears to be growing by the day for former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his family in their current travails in London, United Kingdom. From Ilorin, the Kwara State in North-Central Nigeria, a lady, who identifies herself as Martha Uche has volunteered to donate her kidney to save Sonia, the sick daughter of the lawmaker. The woman, in a short video that has gone viral, claims she saw Sonia in her dream and had received a divine instruction to donate a kidney to her to save her life. She said it was the second time she was…

Possible disqualification is staring the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, in the face over his education qualification filing to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC ahead of the 2023 presidential election. In his personal documents filed at INEC shared with The Whistler on Friday evening, Tinubu’s 2022 educational qualification claims contradict the 1999 and 2003 claims he filed with the electoral umpire. In 1999 and 2003, the man regarded as the APC National Leader claimed, when he ran for office as a governorship candidate in Lagos, that he attended primary and secondary schools. In his…

Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Kalu has congratulated the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo- Olu on the occasion of his 57th birthday anniversary. Describing the Governor as a pragmatic and astute public administrator, Kalu applauded the leadership qualities of Sanwo-Olu, stressing that the Governor has sustained the foundation laid by the Tinubu administration in Lagos state. The former Governor made these remarks in a goodwill message in commemoration of the Governor's 57th birthday anniversary. He said, " on behalf of the people of Abia North Senatorial district, I congratulate Governor…

The Nigerian Bar Association, Ohafia Branch on Friday elected new executives to manage the affairs of the branch for the next two years. The returning officer, Uma Ezera announced Oko Ebe Uche as the new Chairman of the branch having scored the highest number of votes. The NBA Ohafia also elected Ufere Ufere Onyike as Vice Chairman and Obinna Noble Obasi as Secretary. Others are Eke Odiba, Assistant Secretary; Emma Okoronkwo, Treasurer; Nkechi Iro Onwuka, Social/Publicity Secretary; Iro Ogbuabia, Legal Adviser. The newly-elected Executive Committee members were inaugurated after the election held at Umeh Kalu Bar Centre, Ebem Ohafia.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the list and particulars of candidates vying for various positions at the federal level in the 2023 general elections. Conspicuously missing were the names of Senate President Ahmad Lawan, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi. All had contested the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress but may have been hoping to reclaim the APC senatorial seats after failing to win the top seat.   More to follow . . .

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, and ex-beauty queen Precious Chikwendu have finally resolved their differences. The duo reunited on Saturday after their bitter separation in 2020. Fani-Kayode, in a statement he authored on Friday evening, described their meeting as a truly surreal and historical moment. He said: “For the first time in two years, totally unexpectedly and out of the blue, and after she took our sons Aragorn, Ragnar, Aiden, and Liam out for yet another beautiful outing, Mama Aragorn came to the house to visit with us. “For two years she and I had not seen or spoken…

There are indications that the young man who was to donate a kidney to the daughter of embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu was actually over 21 years old. This is according to information on the data page of the international passport bearing David Ukpo Nwamini, the same name in which Ekweremadu provided an introductory letter in the medical visa application submitted to the British High Commission in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to the documents trending on social media and sighted by THE WHISPERER, the date of issuance of the passport is indicated as November 4, 2021 while…