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Wife of the former Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu, Beatrice Ekweremadu has been released from UK prison, nearly two years after she and her husband were jailed over an attempt to harvest the organ of a young Nigerian boy to fix the

Mrs Beatrice Ekweremadu By CHARLES IWUOHA Mrs Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, has been freed from the United Kingdom (UK) and back in the country. A competent source disclosed the development to News Express in Enugu this

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have called on the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to tackle the illegal activities of scavengers and  manhole thieves by enforcing the relevant environmental laws in the State. The call, which was made

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has remanded a 27-year-old Adebayo Omisakin Sunday, one of the recently pardoned inmates, in Ilesa correctional centre. The defendant, number 8 on the pardon list of Governor Ademola Adeleke on the

The Supreme Court has been urged to expeditiously determine an appeal seeking to compel the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi SAN, to promulgate the order for foreign judgments. A legal practitioner, Emmanuel Ekpenyong, who

A magistrate court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has ordered the remand of a 35-year-old man, Susaine Morgan over an alleged attempt to assassinate the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in Ekeremor town in Ekeremor

Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, has been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). Omokri, a self-acclaimed third highest disccused African on social media, is wanted in connection with alleged defamation of

Justice Musa Kakaki of a Federal High Court, Lagos, convicted and sentenced a 40 year old-man, Sanusi Lawali, to three years imprisonment for trafficking 25.4 kilograms of cannabis Sativa popularly called marijuana. The convict was given the jail-term, after he pleaded

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has sealed off ‘Civilian Garden’, a popular relaxation spot located on Abacha Road, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, over “excessive noise” from the joint. A statement issued by the Assistant Director, media and publicity,