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Olalekan Adetayo, Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and Dogara Bitrus
Published 5:34 am
Published 5:34 am
One of the released Chibok girls on Wednesday lamented that the Federal Government was silent on the release of their colleagues still in the captivity of Boko Haram.
The student, identified as Tabitha Stover, while speaking at the seventh anniversary of the kidnapping hosted by the Allamin Foundation in Maiduguri, Borno State, said the Federal Government’s silence was killing them.
The student, who noted that their lives had not remained the same since the incident happened, urged the Federal Government to come to their rescue.
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Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and Dennis Naku
Published 4:08 am
Published 4:08 am
Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced two men, Gerald Uwuoma and Promise Amadi, to two years’ imprisonment for Internet fraud.
The convicts were arraigned on separate charges bordering on impersonation and Internet fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
According to the EFCC, Uwuoma, aka Charlie Clifford Jimmy, was arrested on the Emenike Estate, New Owerri, Imo State, when the agency acted on verified intelligence linking him to some Internet-related fraudulent activities.
The EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday, said Amadi was arrested after being linked with the impersonation of an American, Hector. A. Ramirez, in several Internet-related dealings.
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Controversy as Customs invade Lagos market, cart away rice, money The Punch
Published 4:15 am • Oyo traders protest overnight raid of rice stores
Controversy has trailed the invasion of the Better Life section of the Ikotun Market in Lagos State by men of the Nigeria Customs Service.
While some of the traders claimed that the law enforcement officers carted away local rice, including the money they kept in their shops, the agency said only foreign rice smuggled into the state were taken away.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened around 1am on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
Some of the traders, who spoke to one of our correspondents, claimed that the officials took no fewer than 592 bags of rice and N5m cash.