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The 24-year-old man was nabbed by youths of Ajata Ibeku, Wednesday night, while dumping the dead body of his girlfriend in the bush. A Keke Napep operator, Chigozie Nwokoro, has blamed his sexual urge for the fight that led to his girlfriend’s death inside his house in Umuahia. In his confessional statement to Ajata youths,…

Jacob Olalekan Ponle, also known as Woodberry, was given an eight-year and three-month jail sentence by a federal judge in the United States for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud. According to court documents obtained by Peoples Gazette, Ponle was sentenced on July 11 by Judge Robert Gettleman of the United States District Court for the Northern…

In a note sent to its customers on Friday, the financial institution said it has imposed a $500 monthly limit on international spending conducted through its naira cards. Last year, many commercial banks in the country prohibited the use of naira cards for international cash withdrawals, including web and point-of-sale (POS) transactions. The development exacerbated…

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced an increase in visa application fee paid by immigrants. The announcement came after a speech regarding an increase in public sector wages. Sunak confirmed that part of the funding for the wage increase will be raised from the foreign migrants who come to the United Kingdom to live…

Action Alliance, AA, and Action Peoples Party, APP, have described as unfortunate the call by the Labour Party, LP, through its Director General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu. In a statement on Thursday night, Barrister…

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has assured residents and visitors carrying on businesses in the state of their safety, stressing that his administration had already placed security agencies on the highest level of alert to forestall security breaches and sefeguard their lives and property. The governor who further enjoined them to erase everything about…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said 12 million families will get N8, 000 over a period of six months to help cushion the economic hardship being faced by all Nigerians following the removal of fuel subsidy. The Nation reports that the President stated this in a letter addressed to the House of Representatives read by…

Peter Obi Condemns Attacks In South-EastThe presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has reacted to spate of killings in the South-East and North-Central, saying the rising insecurity in the country leading to mindless bloodletting, particularly in the North-Central zone of the country, and the continued disruption of business and social activities in…

Engineer’s Representative for the second Niger Bridge, co-named Muhammadu Buhari Bridge, Seyi Martins has condemned the removal of road fittings from the Bridge by vandals. He also attributed low traffic on the bridge to security challenges facing the region, stressing the experts’ mandate was to construct the bridge to decongest traffic. Speaking with reporters on…

The detained suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, will today, know his fate concerning the fundamental human rights suit he filed to challenge his arrest and detention by the Department of State Services. Recall that on June 10, the DSS arrested the governor of the apex bank shortly after President Bola…