A car has been abandoned by gunmen who abducted a yet-to-be identified man at Enugwu-Ukwu community of Anambra state. Eyewitnesses who shared a video from the scene of the incident, said the gunmen shot sporadically before abducting their victim. The video also captures the damage done to the car which was left behind.
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Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has reacted to findings by a panel formed by the Anambra State Government, confirming that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362 she was parading. In an eight-page report released on Friday, July 7, the state’s panel of inquiry, said Mmesoma had sent a request to JAMB with a different registration number showing a UTME result of an aggregate score of 362, with Eng: …
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced the withdrawal of Anambra pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme’s result and banned her from writing the examination for three years. In a statement released on Tuesday, July 4, JAMB spokesman, Benjamin Fabian, said after considering the ‘weighty infraction’ committed by Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line with its established procedures, the board has withdrawn her 2023 UTME result and also barred her from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three …
Senator representing Anambra South, Ifeanyi Ubah, has told a Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, to take his sit-at-home campaign to his home state of Ebonyi and leave Anambra State out of it. Ubah had urged residents of the state to open their businesses on the first weekday and shun the Monday sit-at-home order by non-state actors. There have been several reports of attacks on residents who defied the sit-at-home order of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). …
Youths in Oba in Idemili South Council Area of Anambra State on Friday morning, June 23, stormed a brothel where underaged girls work as sex workers. It was gathered that the brothel is run by a woman identified as “Madam Ukwu Venze”. It was further gathered that the minors numbering over 30 are kept in separate rooms where they wait for fun seekers to arrive to patronize them. The girls are said to be between the ages …
Anambra State Police Command has confimed the killing of two gunmen in separate operations at Okija in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Awka, on Sunday, July 24. Ikenga said four automatic pump actions, four vehicles, four motorcycles, and other items were recovered from the suspects on Saturday, July 23. He explained that police operatives in the state had …