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Emeka Ojukwu Jr., a legal practitioner and son of Igbo leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said that the only thing he holds against Nnamdi Kanu's agitation for the actualization of Biafra, is "their methodology". Speaking to Punch, Ojukwu Jr., admitted that the agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Kanu and The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), was "valid". He however warned against hate speech, which could lead to "bad consequences". "The agitation of IPOB and MASSOB is a valid agitation. The only thing I hold against them is their methodology. But for somebody to fight for self-determination I do not see anything wrong in that. It is like a marriage; there are times the situation will be rosy and pleasant, there are times there will be some upheavals.  "So, we must give room for those things. No one should say those boys shouldn't talk. They are allowed to talk. But what...

Nigeria's D'Tigress have emerged champions of the 2017 FIBA Women's Afrobasket. D'Tigress won the title on Sunday evening after defeating strong rivals Senegal 65-48 in the final. Trailing by six points from the first quarter, the Nigerians fought back to win the second quarter 21-10 points. D'Tigress never looked back as they extended their lead by winning the third quarter 15-7 points and the fourth quarter 17-13 points. Point guard, Osaretin Ekhator, emerged top performer for Nigeria with 13 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Following their victory, Nigeria also qualified for the FIBA Women's World Cup in Spain next year.

The Rivers State Police Command has dismissed Police Sergeant, Johnbosco Okoroeze, for allegedly helping suspected ritual killer, Ifeanyi Dike, escape from the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in Port Harcourt. Okoroeze was also arraigned before a chief magistrate's court on two counts of obstruction of justice and conspiracy. No bail was granted to him, he remains in police custody for the alleged offences. Chief Magistrate, Sokari Andrew-Jaja, cautioned the dismissed Sergeant as he cried uncontrollably inside the court. The prime suspect, Ifeanyi Dike raped, killed and removed the organs of 8 year old Victory Nmezuwuba, before he was arrested and taken to the SCIID. Okoroeze, who was the Investigating Police Officer, said he temporarily removed Dike's handcuffs while he took his statement, but that Dike escaped from his custody in the covers of the dark. The victim's father, Dr Ernest Nmezuwuba, who was also in the charge room while Dike was suppos...

There was pandemonium, yesterday, at 3, Okon Edak Street, off Atamunu, Calabar, Cross River State premises of a church, when the fresh heart of a one-year-old girl, Success Ime, was discovered in the church. Subsequently, the G.O of the Ministry, a Reverend, was arrested for allegedly using the girl for ritual. Other fetish items, including goat heads, dead chicken, male and female effigies, wooden boat, crafted camel among others, were uncovered by men of Uwanse Police Division. The grandmother of the victim, Mrs Arit Ime, revealed that at about 3a.m. yesterday, they heard banging on their door, following which two masked men entered their room at 8, Okon Edak Street and took away Success. A Police source said they got a distress call from the area and swung into action and that while looking for Success' assailants, some people in mask were arrested. The source said: "Some persons have been arrested including one Okon, who said he was sent by the Reverend to kidnap the girl....

A man identified as Mr Okoronta (surname withheld), has become utterly displeased with his wife Agnes over the sudden denial of s*x by the wife because of her new faith in Catholic Church. According to P.M. Express, the incident happened in Umuchu town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State where the couple hails from. P.M. Express reports that Agnes married Okoronta some years back as second wife according to Igbo tradition and they had five children. However, the wife recently embraced the Catholic faith and wanted to be receiving Holy communing as a true faithful. But because she was the second wife and was not properly married according to church rules, she cannot receive the communion. It was gathered that Agnes sought for spiritual guidance from an undisclosed priest and she was advised to confess her sins, separate from the husband and she will worthy to receive communion. P.M. Express reports that Agnes moved to her own room in the house built by Okoronta and would no...

A truck driver has approached a spiritualist at his shrine begging the man of cloth to unite him with a wife he caught pants down with another man. File photo A South Africa-based truck driver idenified as Junior Manyengavana shocked congregants last Sunday during a service at a shrine in Chitungwiza area of Zimbabwe where he begged the spiritualist to unite him with a wife he caught pants down with another man.  H-Metro reported that the man who revealed that he caught his wife pants down having s*x with another man in South Africa, said; "Madzibaba I am a truck driver in South Africa and I caught my wife pants down having s*x on my bed.  "I was supposed to go out with the truck so it developed a problem and my boss told me to go back home as it required some touch ups. I went home and knocked but the door was locked. I forced my way into the house and saw the two having s*x.  "I gave the man a thorough beating. He even reported the matter to the police in South Africa ...

A gang of notorious internet fraudsters have been apprehended in Imo state after they reportedly duped people of millions of naira. A female internet fraudster and her gang members have been arrested by men of the Imo state Police command. The three suspects were arrested for using fake Facebook account alleged to be used to impersonate the Chief of Staff to Imo state Governor, Chief Uche Nwosu to dupe innocent victims to the tune of N70 million. Parading the suspects at the state command headquarters, Owerri, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Enwerem informedu that the suspects: 1. Nwokoma Ezekachi 2. Reuben Ogwuonye Ubongwung; and 3. Nwaeguzor Hope Miracle, created the alleged fake Facebook social network account using the name of Chief Uche Nwosu and uploaded pictures of his state's' functions for the aim of defrauding unsuspecting individuals of huge sums of money. Information has it that through this medium, the syndicate has duped over 70 million naira from ...

Four days ago, we gave you an update on the murder of 8-year-old Miss Chikamso Victory by a 23-year-old undergraduate of  the University of Port-Harcourt, (UNIPORT) Maxwell Ifeanyi Chukwu Dike. We told you that the devil-minded 200 level student was trying to dump the body of late Chikamso when he was apprehended by local vigilantes in the early hours of Saturday,  August 19, St Messiah Street, Eliozu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. He abducted the child, who was his neighbour, defiled her and after killing her, he removed her v**ina, eyes, tongue and br**sts. Here's another update, Investigation into Chikamso's murder took a different twist this morning, as the man who allegedly asked Dike, who is currently on the run, to get human body parts so they can use it for money ritual, was apprehended by officers of the Rivers state police command this morning. In an interview with Channels TV this morning, here's what the state commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, disclosed...

Pietermaritzburg - The fifth suspect in the "cannibalism" case appeared briefly at the Estcourt Magistrate's Court on Wednesday afternoon, a court official said on Thursday. Khayelihle Lamula, 32, of Esigodlweni area in Estcourt, faces a charge of conspiracy to commit murder and a murder charge. The media had been told by the police's provincial communications office that he would appear on Thursday, but when they arrived in court they were told that Lamula appeared the previous day. Also read: Fifth alleged KZN 'cannibal' due in court Lamula, who was arrested on Tuesday night, appeared before Magistrate Arti Sookraj. He was remanded in custody until Monday, August 28, for a formal bail application. He will appear together with his co-accused - traditional healer Nino Mbatha, 32, Sthembiso Sithole, 31, Lindokuhle Masondo, 32, and Lungisani Magubane, 30, who were arrested last Friday after Mbatha confessed to police that he had ate human flesh. He allegedly wal...

Iran's education department has banned ugly teachers from the classroom, including women with facial hair or those suffering from acne. A list of proscribed ailments, including having a scar or a fungal infection was released by the FARS news agency. Anyone who is cross-eyed, has ugly facial moles or skin conditions such as acne or eczema faces redundancy. Women who have facial hair will also be sacked, along with teachers with fewer than 20 teeth or those suffering a fungal infection. Women are allowed to teach in Iran although they must wear a scarf covering their hair. Art teachers will be sacked if they report they are colourblind and infertile female teachers will also be banned from the classroom. According to Euro news Social media users also attacked the rules, prompting an advisor to President Hassan Rouhani to promise the list would be investigated.

A jilted lover chopped off a 15-year-old schoolgirl's hand with a sword at a busy Indian market in broad daylight. The attack took place at the Lakhimpur Kheri market, in India, when the victim was shopping with her younger brother. The girl was immediately rushed to a private hospital where doctors are trying to stitch her dismembered hand back on. Vinod Chaurasia, 19, is accused of attacking her and is alleged to have been stalking the girl for past few months. Vinod, who works at a welding workshop, spotted the girl shopping on Wednesday afternoon. Police claim he followed her to try and convince her to go out with him but when she turned him down, he took out the sword and cut off her hand. He then repeatedly struck her with the sword but fortunately, the crowd overpowered him and handed him over to the police. A senior police officer said: 'The girl was referred to Lucknow for treatment as she was in a very critical condition. She had lost a lot of blood. Our priority is t...

A restaurateur in New York City has reportedly apologized for — and fired — an employee who wrote "Ching Chong" on an Asian woman's receipt in place of her name. Ziggy Chau, a friend of the woman's daughter, first posted a photo of the receipt to Facebook last week, decrying the "racist staff" and urging the Facebook community to boycott the establishment. "Please boycott this place Cornerstone Cafe NYC until they publicly apologize," wrote Chau alongside a picture of the receipt, which clearly reads "Ching Chong" under both the "to go" and "customer name" sections. "Better yet, call them directly and let them know they have a racist staff," Chau added. Chau also urged the Asian community to share her post "in light of what is happening here in the USA," adding that President Trump has seemingly "ma[d]e it OK to come out and be blatantly racist." Later that evening, Chau phoned the Corners...

It wasn 't a lucky day for an unidentified man in Umuonyeashi , Nsokpo Ogbaku in Mbaitolu LGA of Imo state , who has been arrested after a lady he captured and planned to use for rituals escaped . Reports online reveal that the man stabbed the lady several times before she was able to escape to a nearby house where she got help. Youths of the community mobilized themselves and searched for the man inside the bush where he was hiding. Some hours later , they caught him and handed him over to the police.

ISIS for the first time apparently used an American child in a propaganda video, a boy living in the so-called Islamic State . "My message to Trump, the puppet of the Jews: Allah promised us victory, promised you defeat," the child who gives his name as Yousef said amid ruins in the terrorist group's Syrian capital, Raqqa. "This battle is not gonna end in Raqqa or Mosul. It's gonna end in you lands." Yousef speaks in clear, unaccented English, but his real identity is unknown. Yousef said he moved to Syria from America with his family two years ago. "My father's an American soldier who fought the mujahideen in Iraq," he said in the video. The video shows Yousef speaking Arabic, and also has clips where he appears to be reading from a Qur'an in Arabic. In other clips, he and the Yazidi boy walk through bombed out areas of Raqqa, and in another they follow an adult man into a building and assemble rifles and other weapons. Six of the 131 Amer...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Bayelsa Photo: Twitter The Rivers state government has condemned the escape, from police custody, of Ifeanyi Dike, a suspected rapist and killer of Victory Chikanso, an eight-year-old girl. The Rivers state deputy governor, Dr Ipalibo Banigo, in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, asked the Police and other law enforcement agen­cies to ensure that the suspect is re-arrested and brought to justice without delay. She stressed that the report that the suspect es­caped from the hands of the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) is "totally unaccept­able and very embarrass­ing." Banigo who condoled with the bereaved family on the gruesome murder of their daughter, said that "as a mother, I am still numb with shock to hear that a man could defile an eight-year-old girl and go ahead to mutilate her body for purported money rituals."

A 72-years-old woman, Madam Victoria, yesterday narrated her experience in the hands of suspected Fulani herdsmen, who took turn to rape her in her farm in Ore in Odigbo LGA of Ondo State. A youth group under the auspices of Ondo State Youth Coalition (OSYC) and farmers yesterday converged on Akure, the state capital, to protest the rape of Victoria and Madam Ebun in Ore. Narrating her experience in the hands of her attackers, the septuagenarian said she was working on her farm on the fateful day when the two Fulani herdsmen took turn to rape her. She said: 'I was working on the farm when the two men invaded my farm and before I could question them on their mission in my farm, they gagged me and tore my clothes before they raped me one after the other. They threatened to kill me thereafter if I make any noise and they left me in the farm after injuring me." In its reaction, the group threatened to take laws into their hands if the state government failed to address the issue i...

At least 11 people have been beheaded in southern Libya following an attack apparently carried out by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). Nine fighters loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA), the force aligned with Libya's eastern government, and two civilians were executed following an assault on a checkpoint 300 miles south of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in Jufra. No group has claimed responsibility for the killings, but according to Agence France-Presse, LNA spokesman Colonel Ahmed al-Mesmari, ISIS carried out the gruesome attack. The onslaught against the LNA forces, under the command of Gaddafi-era General Khalifa Haftar, comes as Libyan military sources warn ISIS is regrouping following catastrophic defeats in December 2016. The Times of London reported there were now believed to be 1,000 ISIS fighters in Libya. While the number is a fraction of the 6,000 said to be present in the country when ISIS was in its ascendency in Libya in 2015, the militants are said to be ex...

The meeting of the Federal Executive Council that holds every Wednesday did not hold yesterday. Yesterday would have afforded President Muhammadu Buhari who returned to the country on Saturday the opportunity of presiding over the council meeting for the first time in over three months. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed in a statement that the meeting would not hold. Adesina did not however disclose the reason behind the decision to cancel the meeting. But he said Buhari would yesterday receive the report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke. The statement read, "The meeting of the Federal Executive Council will not hold today. "President Muhammadu Buhari, will however, receive the Report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the susp...

Photo,LATE Musa Yar'adua,Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo The International Criminal Court (ICC) is considering a petition sent by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), over the N11 trillion allegedly wasted on power by the administrations of ex-presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar'Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan. SERAP had sent the petition, stating that the funds were squandered by the former presidents. Timothy Adewale, SERAP deputy director, confirmed this in a statement issued on Wednesday. He said it received a letter from the court, with regards to the petition. "SERAP can confirm that the ICC is now considering our petition. We have received communication from Mark P. Dillon, head of information and evidence unit of the ICC indicating that the court will give due consideration to our petition," the statement read. The letter reads in part: "This communication has been duly entered in the communications register of the office. ...

Members of Boko Haram Boko Haram insurgents have killed six men in a village in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday in what appeared to be a targeted reprisal attack. A militia fighting the group said nine Boko Haram fighters allegedly entered Kijimatari, a village in north-east Borno state, at around 2 am (0100 GMT), breaking into the homes of six men including the village chief before slitting their throats. "The attackers evaded a nearby military checkpoint by entering the village through bush paths," said Ibrahim Liman, the head of a local anti-jihadist militia force. "The chief of the village was among the victims and it was clear the victims were deliberately targeted." Local resident Kulo Musa said that while the attackers had carried guns, they "chose to use knives" to avoid alerting soldiers manning a nearby checkpoint. Musa said the killings were a reprisal for the arrest of two Boko Haram members who moved into the village claiming to have been displac...