The controversial OurMumuDonDo Protest group led by the popular Nigerian entertainer, Charles Oputa, has stormed EFCC offices to demand that Diezani be repatriated.
Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, and his #OurMumuDonDo protesters on Monday stormed the offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja to demand the repatriation of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
Diezani, who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been the subject of several graft probes.
Already, the courts in Nigeria had ordered the forfeiture of some properties, linked to the former ministers and believed to have been acquired with stolen wealth, to the federal government.
A Nigerian woman by name Ukamaka who works with the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, in Enugu has met her untimely death after leaving her office on permission to go and buy things for her children’s school resumption only to be involved in a fatal road accident. Narrating the sad story, Gabriel Simplicity Okoye wrote: “Whenever you wake up every morning, you say a prayer because you won’t know the outcome of the day.
ONIDURO: FINALLY TOPE ALABI APOLOGISES OVER 'ONIDURO STATEMENT. ▪︎"Let Me Acknowledge That My Mistake Was That I Externalised A Personal Message In Public; And I'm Awfully Sorry For Doing That." Initially, I didn't want to delve into the controversy over the gospel hit song, "Oniduro," because I have intervened behind the scenes in concert with other stakeholders in gospel music ministry. However, I discovered that online media would not allow the dust to settle calmly. I want to state that Tope Alabi, Adeyinka Adesioye a.k.a Alaseyori and Tolu Adelegan are all members of the same family of God and they belong to the same calling – singing ministry. "Adeyinka is my daughter in ministry. Her Pastor asked me to pray for her because she took after me, which I did wholeheartedly. Envy who? Never! I love the girl so much. She can confirm to you, sir, that we relate so well. God has given each of us the grace to go as far as His enablement could carry ...
For more than five decades, the black-and-white image of Irene Garza has haunted the town of McAllen, Tex., her story painfully recounted again and again. She was a 25-year-old dark-haired former beauty queen, her high school's first Latina drum majorette, the first in her family to graduate from college. She was named Miss All South Texas Sweetheart, and worked as a teacher for disadvantaged children. But at the center of Garza's life was her Catholic faith. In a letter to a friend in April 1960, she wrote about how she was no longer afraid of death. "You see, I've been going to communion and Mass daily and you can't imagine the courage and faith and happiness it has given me," she wrote in the letter, according to Texas Monthly. And so when Holy Week came, the most sacred time of year for Catholics, Garza decided to go to confession. On the eve of Easter, she drove to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen. She never came h...
A disgruntled husband killed his wife during their cruise-ship vacation because "she would not stop laughing at me," according to newly filed court papers. Kenneth Manzanares attacked his wife, Kristy, inside their cabin aboard the Emerald Princess cruise ship Tuesday night, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in Alaska federal court. A witness told authorities that when he entered blood-splattered Cabin D726 — where the Manzanareses were staying — Kristy, 39, was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. "She would not stop laughing at me," Kenneth told the stunned witness, who then watched as the distraught hubby grabbed Kristy's body and tried to drag her toward the balcony. The witness got hold of the slain woman's ankles and pulled her back to the bloody cabin until cruise security arrived. Kristy, identified only as K.M., "had a severe head wound" and Kenneth "had blood on his hands and clothing," court papers said. She was pro...
An OCS has been fired over a shooting incident in Kitui County. In Summary The officer would be arraigned in court this week to face charges of attempted murder. According to a report filed at Nguutani police station, the OCS had spent the better part of Sunday night drinking at Kata Kiu bar. A police station commander in Kitui County was Tuesday disarmed and locked up by his colleagues after he started shooting indiscriminately while drunk. Chief Inspector Simon Mugira, who is the Nguutani police station OCS, has also been relieved of his duties after the morning shooting drama that shocked local residents. Migwani OCPD Julius Muu confirmed the incident, saying the OCS had only served as the station commander for two weeks and it was not clear why he attempted to attack innocent people with his official firearm. CHARGES Mr Muu said the officer would be arraigned in court this week to face charges of attempted murder. “As for now he is...
Nigerian policeman pays 15-yr-old girl for sex,collects his money back at gunpoint 27-year-old Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, a washington, D.C., police officer has been charged with soliciting sex from a 15-year-old in Glen Burnie and then robbing her at gunpoint, in January. Police said a 15-year-old girl who was receiving services from the Department of Social Services said she had met Ekwonna on a social media application called "Tagged" and set up a meeting with him where he'd pay for sex. The two met in the Quarterfield Crossing Apartments in Glen Burnie, where the 15-year-old performed sexual acts in exchange for money, police said in charging documents. As the teenager attempted to leave, Ekwonna pulled out a handgun,police said. He demanded his money back and the girl complied and left. Ekwonna faces a number of charges,including armed robbery, assault, prostitution and two counts of third-degree sex offense. Ekwonna has been with the Metropoli...
File Photo The Cross River State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of three robbery suspects that attacked a new generation church along Goldie Street in the Calabar South axis of the metropolis. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said the three suspects were members of a six-man gang that had been terrorising the area lately. The commissioner said that the robbery suspects, identified as Offiong Effiong, Jeremiah Affiah and Christian Donatus, were arrested on a tip-off. He said, “The three suspects confessed to be members of a six-man robbery gang that have been terrorising residents of Calabar South for some time now. “When they were interrogated, the suspects led our detectives to one of their victims, the General Overseer of Trinity Villa International at 101 Goldie Street, Calabar, who they robbed at the weekend. “We recovered assorted phones, laptops and Ipads as well as an undisclosed amount of money, both in foreign and lo...
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle. San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. A jury on Thursday found Garcia Zarate not guilty on possible charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 2015 death of Kate Steinle on a popular pier. Jurors did find Garcia Zarate guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a Mex...
My sister’s husband forcibly had sex with me, my 2 sisters, witness tells court January 28, 2017 Metro A 17-year-old school dropout, on Friday, told a Jikwonyi Customary Court, Abuja, that her sister’s husband forcibly had sexual intercourse with her, and two other sisters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reported that the teenager, who resides in Minna, gave the testimony as a witness in a divorce petition filed by her elder sister, Janet Suleman, against her husband, Philip Ogho. “When I was living with my sister, her husband attempted to sleep with me but I never agreed. Whenever I refused, he would beat me. “One day he asked me who I was, that he couldn’t have sex with me, claiming that he had had sex with my other two sisters living with them,” she testified. The witness said that her sister’s husband kept on maltreating her until she gave in to his request. “He kept on beating me, the day I could not bear it again I allowed him to sleep with ...
11 long days in kidnappers’ den January 29, 2017 Life and Living When some staff and students of the Turkish International College in Ogun State were kidnapped, they never bargained for the physical and emotional trauma they went through not with the huge ransom demanded by their kidnappers. OLUYINKA OLUKOYA reports the whole kidnap saga. WITHIN the past five months, kidnappers had abducted several students in schools across Lagos State, including the adjoining Ogun State. Two schools, privately- owned Babington Macauley Girl’s College, Ikorodu and the government-owned, Model College, in Lagos, had been visited by the hoodlums. The most recent attack was on Nigerian-Turkish International College (NTIC), located in a swampy area of Isheri/Ifo Local Government of the state. Just like the earlier abductions, there was a media frenzy surrounding it more so because of the very high ransom demanded by the kidnappers. Following public interest in the criminal a...
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