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2022

Baba-Ahmed hails Shettima’s ‘improved dress sense’

Lifestyle, Opinion, PoliticsDatti Baba-Ahmed, Lifestyle, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has sarcastically applauded his counterpart in the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Kashim Shettima, over his “improved dress sense” at public functions. This is even as he described the former Governor of Borno State as a “morally-bankrupt character” who is out of touch with reality. The APC vice presidential candidate, who stood in for his principal, Bola Tinubu, was mocked on August 22 for dressing in an oversized suit-and-sneakers combo at the Nigeria Bar Association conference in Lagos. The development led to a backlash, especially on Twitter where #ShettimaChallenge trended…

Dec

01

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

All Passengers In 18-Seater Bus Kidnapped In Kogi

Lifestyle, MetroBandits, Crime, Kidnappers, Kogi State, Nigeria, Security

All passengers in an 18-seater bus have been reportedly kidnapped at Anyigba-Itobe road in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State. An eyewitness stated that the incident happened around 4pm on Monday at the notorious kidnapping spot at Ochadamu area on the said highway. Our reporter learnt from a competent source in the area that the hoodlums in their numbers flagged down the said bus at gun point and evacuated the passengers to the bush. The bus was said to be heading to Abuja from the eastern region of the country. The locals further added that kidnapping activities in the…

Dec

01

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Senate considers Orji Kalu’s bill seeking to make Criminal Justice Act ‘more humane’

Lifestyle, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsCrime, Kuje prison, Metro, Nigeria, Opinion, Orji Uzor Kalu, Politics, Security

A bill seeking to amend of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) has passed second reading at the senate. The bill sponsored by him Orji Uzor Kalu, senate chief whip, is seeking to make the law more “effective and more humane”. The bill passed first reading at the upper legislative chamber in July 2020 about a month after he was released from prison. The former governor of Abia state was released from the Kuje Correctional Centre on June 2, 2020. He had spent five months in prison.In December 2019, a federal high court in Lagos convicted the chief whip of money laundering…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ikpeazu signs female inheritance Bill into law

Abia State, Lifestyle, News, PoliticsAbia State, Lifestyle, Next Level, Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, Politics

Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has granted assent to the Bill, which guarantees the right of females to inherit and own property in their father’s family in the State. Abia Assembly some weeks ago passed the Bill to bring Abia State in conformity with international best practices of eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. While appending his signature on the Law, Ikpeazu made it clear that his administration shall lean on the side of reason and common sense in the discharge of its obligations to residents, noting that it has become anachronistic to continue to treat women as second-class citizens even in…

Nov

30

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Native Doctor Guns Down Client While Testing Anti-Gun Charm

Lifestyle, MetroCrime, Enugu State, Lifestyle, Metro, Native Doctor, Security

Enugu state police said they arrested a native doctor in Umuaram, Ikem, a community in the state’s Isi-Uzo local government area, for allegedly shooting dead his client in Eha-Amufu, another community in the council area. The suspect, 23-year-old Emmanuel Odoh, allegedly killed the victim, Onunze Benedict, at a shrine while testing a gunshot protection amulet that the native doctor had prepared for the victim. State police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the suspect was arrested on November 16 by police officers from the Isi-Uzo Police Division Headquarters. Ndukwe, deputy superintendent of police, said…