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Sep

29

2024

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Binnance Founder, Zhao Released After Serving 4 Months

Crime, Economy, News Flash

Binance Founder, Zhao Released After 4 Months Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance and a key figure in the global cryptocurrency industry, has been released. He was released from a California correctional facility after serving a four-month sentence for failing to enforce anti-money laundering protocols on his exchange. The 47-year-old, widely known as “CZ,” returned to the US from Dubai earlier this year to face charges and serve time linked to regulatory breaches at Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume. His release came two days ahead of schedule due to standard practices when release dates fall on…

Sep

29

2024

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Hardship: Be Patient With Government – Kumuyi Tells Nigerian Youths

Columns/Opinions/Letters, News Flash, Religion

Hardship: Be Patient With Government – Kumuyi Tells Nigerian Youths The General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William F. Kumuyi, has called on Nigerians, particularly the youths to be patient with the government, stressing that soonest there will be a great change in the society. Pastor Kumuyi made the call yesterday, when he visited the palace of Eze Ekpeye Logbo of Ekpeye Land, His Majesty, Kelvin Ngozi Anugwo, ahead of the church’s mega crusade and free medical outreach in Ahoada town, Rivers State Speaking on the programme, the General Superintendent assured that the crusade will bring tremendous transformation…

Sep

28

2024

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Governor Alex Otti’s Political Alchemy For Ohafia LGA In Context – By Dr. Engr. Odo Ijere (Okpotemba)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, News Flash

GOVERNOR ALEX OTTI'S POLITICAL ALCHEMY FOR OHAFIA LGA IN CONTEXT. As we finally dovetail into the selection and election spectacles of the third tier of government nationwide, Abia state has taken its own fair share of the intrigues and orography concerning who's best fitted to become the next executive chairpersons to take over from the mayoral governance entities, in other words known as our local governments. Of particular interest in this review within the context of analytical spectrometry is what may appear today as melodramatic political dynamics amid evolving alchemy of political mechanics in Ohafia mythical society. The big question…

Sep

28

2024

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Revealed: Why Bobrisky Was Separated From Other Inmates

News Flash, Personality

Why Bobrisky Was Separated From Other Inmates (Details Emerged) Prison experts have clarified why controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, was separated from other inmates at the correctional centre while denying claims of a VIP section. Speaking on Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Friday, the Director General of the Prison Rehabilitation Mission, Bishop Kayode Williams, explained the accommodations provided for inmates based on different categories. He said, “There are accommodations for condemned prisoners, those sentenced to death, who must not mingle with other inmates. The second accommodation is convicted inmates, who are the owners of the prison.”…

Sep

28

2024

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Planned October 1 Demonstrations: Nigerian Police Warn Intending Protesters

FGN, News Flash, Security

Police Warn Protesters Ahead Of October 1 Demonstrations The Lagos state commissioner of Police, Olarenwaju Ishola, has warned intending protesters against unlawful acts during the planned protest. He gave the warning during a town hall meeting with stakeholders and security agencies organised by the Lagos police command on Friday in Ikeja, Lagos. There are talks of another planned nationwide protest by some groups over challenges being faced in the country, which is slated for Oct. 1. Mr Ishola assured Lagos residents of police presence to maintain safety and order during planned protests. “We are not stopping anybody from protesting, it…

Sep

28

2024

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EFCC Arrests Former Governor Over Fraud Allegation Of N27 Billion

Crime, News Flash

EFCC Arrests Former Governor Over N27 Billion ‘Fraud’ Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested a former governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, over alleged N27bn fraud. It was learnt that Ishaku, who left the as governor of the State in 2023 after spending 8 years, was picked up at his Abuja residence in the early hours of Friday. Impeccable sources within the commission confided in our correspondent that the former governor was still in the anti-graft agency’s custody as at when filing this report Friday night. One of the sources revealed that at least 15-count…

Sep

28

2024

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Bribery Scandal: Reps Invite EFCC Chairman, VDM, Bobrisky

Crime, National Assembly, News Flash

Alleged Bribery: Reps Invite EFCC Chairman, VDM, Bobrisky Following the House of Representatives resolution to investigate allegations of bribery against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Joint Committees of the House has extended an invitation to the chairman of the commission Ola Olukoyode. In a letter dated 27th September 2024, the committee asked the EFCC Chairman and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service to appear on Monday the 30th, with all officers involved in the allegation. The allegation of bribery against the anti-graft agency and the Nigeria Correctional Service followed a trending social media voice conversation…

Sep

28

2024

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Bobrisky: We Will Not Shield Anyone – FGN Vows

Crime, FGN, News Flash

Bobrisky: Nobody Will Be Shielded – FG Vows The Federal Government has promised to sanction any officer found guilty in the alleged bribery saga involving a crossdresser Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky. In a viral video, the crossdresser who was sentenced to six months in prison for naira abuse was said to have served his term outside of a correctional facility after paying some officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS). But speaking during a media in Abuja to mark his one year in office, the Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said no officer of the NCoS found wanting in the…

Sep

27

2024

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Taking Stock, Looking Ahead: Being Gov. Otti’s Speech At Special Retreat For State Executive Council And Senior Appointees Of The Government

Abia State, Good Governance, News Flash, Politics

TAKING STOCK, LOOKING AHEAD… Being the Text of an Address by Governor Alex C Otti, OFR, at the 2024 Special Retreat for Members of the Abia State Executive Council and Senior Appointees of the Government Held at Panyu Hotel and Resort, Aba on Friday, September 27, 2024. Protocols For many of us, this particular auditorium has come to represent a learning theatre, a place where excellent plans are laid, questions are asked and clarity established. Shortly after our victory in the 2023 general election, the best brains and thinkers from different parts of the country and beyond assembled here to…

Sep

27

2024

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It’s ABIA O’clock: Why Not Alex? – By Ukoha Njoku Ukoha (CPS To Gov. Otti)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, News Flash

WHY NOT ALEX? Today is a happy day for me. Not just because it’s my birthday but because it’s another step of God’s goodness and preservation in our lives. The almighty has used the instrumentality of the revolutionary Alex Chioma Otti government to not only ease but studiously improve the living standards of Abians in particular and Nigerians in general. It is all this realization that has lifted my spirits and inspired me to do this piece. For those who follow my writings, sometime in early 2019 (prior to the then elections) I did a piece “WHY ALEX?” This treatise…