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SE anarchy: UNIZIK lecturer gunned down
Yet to be identified assailants on Tuesday trailed and killed an academic staff of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The victim identified as Professor Anthony Eze of the of Faculty of Education was shot by his assailants at his residence…
Kidney donation: UK prosecutor accuses Ekweremadus of exploitation
Sopuruchi Onwuka Review of reports emerging from the UK court where former Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, daughter and wife stand trial on charges related to organ harvesting shows that the key subjects of the case now emphasizes exploitation of the…
Daughter, Sonia, in Hospital as Ekweremadus stand trial
Daughter of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, lay critical in hospital in the United Kingdom as London prosecutors struggle to send her parents to jail. The Senator who is detained in London and his wife who is…
Bandits, jihadist plunge Nigerian into global Emergency Watchlist
Sopuruchi Onwuka Global concerns are rising over Nigeria’s increasing vulnerability to roaming jihadists and armed bandits pouring down from the Sahel region where they have helped wreck the economies of the Central African countries, leaving their governments with weak military…
Nigeria makes the list of World’s most dangerous countries in 2022
Sopuruchi Onwuka With global peace index (GPI) score of 2.72, Nigeria is the of 17th most dangerous country of world’s nearly 200 nations, explaining the difficulty of the country in attracting floating global investible funds despite her abundant man and…
Boko Haram: Borno govt sends militia to protect soldiers
Government of Borno state is sending some 300 militia to help out the military after Boko Haram Islamist insurgents killed at least eight soldiers during an attack. Governor Babagana Zulum who convened a security meeting in Maiduguri on Tuesday ordered…
Bandits kidnap 130 in Zamfara state
About 130 people, including women and children were on Sunday abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Zamfara state, worsening the spate of mass abduction of villagers in the Northwestern states of the country. State Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Dosara,…
Two Nigerian graduate athletes head to US prisons
Two Nigerian rising athletes who are graduating from separate American universities, Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebaki, would now head to prisons in the United States after they have been indicted in multiple cases of internet financial fraud. A federal district…
Heroic Idun: The fireworks over Akpo oil lift
Sopuruchi Onwuka After months of hunting, catching and detaining the ocean going crude oil carrier, MT Heroic Idun, swings in legal battle has started in Nigeria while diplomatic dispute is brewing in India where lawmakers are coming under pressure to…
Francophone hackers stole $11m , cause $50m damages in Nigeria, others
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Internet fraud syndicate operating from one of Nigeria’s neighbouring francophone countries have successfully launched over 30 successful attacks at financial institutions and stole over $11 million, causing damages worth over $50 million to the institutions….
