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Gunmen enforcing sit-at-home on Friday evening killed four persons at two locations on Owerri-Okigwe Road in Imo State. The gunmen also kidnapped two expatriates supervising the ongoing construction of the phase 11 of the Owerri-Okigwe Road. The killings occurred at Umunachi in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state and at Umuna in the Onuimo LGA, respectively. The expatriates were kidnapped at Umunachi after two persons suspected to be their security aides were suspectedly brought down.The expatriates who are staff of German construction giants, Cremburg, were taken away immediately the gunmen struck. Locals told our correspondent that the fleeing suspects operated in three vehicles. At Umuna junction, the gunmen opened fire and killed two persons.Iheme was killed at Ubomiri in the Mbaitoli LGA of the state while allegedly on transit to a campaign rally being organised by the All Progressives Congress candidate for Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency, Akarac

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has released popular musician, Daniel Oladapo, also known as D’Banj. D’banj’s lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, who announced the development on Friday, said the musician was released on self-recognition.the lawyer had yesterday called for the release of the singer from ICPC custody. Olajengbesi in a statement on Thursday said D’Banj who was arrested by the anti-graft agency on Tuesday, was innocent of the allegations of fund diversion trailing him regarding the social empowerment programme ‘N-Power Scheme.’This was also as he demanded that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs should make public the names of government officials allegedly involved with D’Banj in the alleged fraud. But sharing the news of the singer’s release on his Facebook page and a statement on Friday, Olajengbesi explained that nothing incriminating was found on D’banj. The statement read, “After 72 hours of unfair detention and false all

 A suspect, one Anthony Onuoha, who was arrested by the Ebonyi State police command over alleged car theft, on Thursday, confessed to having worked with over 30 election riggers during last year’s Anambra election in favour of Prof. Charles Soludo. Onuoha, who was paraded alongside other suspects, alleged that they were hired by one Uche General, to rig the governorship election for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. The suspect alleged that they were given a car and fifty thousand naira after the election. According to him: “Last year November, a car was given to me after governor Soludo’s election, because I was involved as one of the 30 persons that were kept in one place to work for APGA. We were promised to be given a car and fifty thousand naira after the election. “What attracted me to work for APGA was the car and not the fifty thousand naira. I went to Anambra State that November; I was picked by one Mr. Uche General, I don’t know his surname. Uche General

The President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, on Thursday, said Nigeria needed a deliverer and not a leader. The cleric, during a sermon at the ongoing Shiloh programme at the church’s headquarters in Ota, Ogun State, lamented the current security and economic crises, adding that he warned Nigerians in 2015 that the country was heading for trauma. He urged the people to therefore pray to God to send Nigeria a deliverer so people could have a rest of mind. He said, “I think I am prompted by the spirit we need to pray for this nation. I warned this nation in 2015 that we were heading for crisis and trauma, many were washing their mouth. They are off today.God does not require consensus to raise a prophet. I saw a nation going down the drain, I cried. There are many prophets of politicians who speak what they want to hear. “I have been very silent, what we need now is not a leader, it is a deliverer. Almost nothing remains except the church that can be

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi Trailer and lorry drivers, in the early hour of Friday, blocked the Enugu-Onitsha, Onitsha-Owerri expressway, Niger Bridge Head and all the roads that leads into and out of Anambra State through Onitsha, protesting government’s tax on trailers, lorries, truck and other vehicles bringing goods into the state. Governor Charles Soludo had imposed a levy of N30,000 for trailers loading and offloading goods in Anambra StateOther vehicles on which the levy was imposed includes lorries and trucks, which have their own amount, ranging from N25,000 and N20,000 respectively, for 10 and six tyres lorries and trucks. Some are also said to be paying N15,000 depending on such truck, down to the lowest, which are buses, paying N5,000 to N3,000, respectively for loading and offloading of goods, a levy that has received heavy criticism and rejection by the people of the state and vehicle drivers, who described the government as callous and anti people. Even industrialist, busi

Residents of the South-East should reject the five-day sit-at-home declared by Simon Ekpa, a Finland-based protégé of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Igbo Elders Consultative Forum led by a former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said. The pan-Igbo socio-political organisation also described the order as draconian and epitomising insensitivity to the plight of the people. Ezeife told journalists in Abuja on Thursday night that it must never be observed nor allowed to stand. According to him, the IECF met, discussed and made critical analysis of some national issues and questions that had far reaching consequences on the peace, unity, stability and corporate existence of Nigeria in general, and Igbo land in particular including Elpa’s sit-at –home order in the South East. He said, “The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum has always believed that some faceless individuals in government and other unpatriotic elements who do

Elon Musk on Wednesday briefly lost his position as the richest person in the world to Chief Executive Officer of LVMH, Bernard Arnault, whose family owns luxury brand Louis Vuitton. According to Forbes, at 3:30 pm ET on Wednesday Arnault overtook Musk to become the world’s richest person with an estimated $184.7 billion but when US markets closed at 4pm ET Musk was back on top with $185.4 billion On September 27, 2021, Musk overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person for the first time. Bezos has since dropped to fourth place with $111.3 billion while Indian businessman Gautam Adani sits in third place with $134.8 billion. Musk’s major source of wealth is Tesla whose shares peaked at $320 billion in November 2021, after car rental giant Hertz announced a large order from the electric vehicle maker. But in 2022, Tesla shares are down by nearly 50 per cent. Also in October 2022, the billionaire acquired social media platform Twitter, for $44 billion.