The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has denied media reports that it would participate fully in the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023. One Okechukwu Isiguzoro had last week claimed that “Ohanaeze will participate fully in the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.” He also claimed that “the Ime-Obi Ohanaeze Ndigbo has mandated that every agitation for the 2023 election should come to an end,” while stating that “Peter Obi is the candidate of the future and that nobody
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UK Court convicts wife, lover of slavery for maltreating disabled husband A UK court has convicted a 49-year-old woman and her lover of slavery for the inhumane treatment meted out to her disabled husband. Reports said that Tom, who has cerebral palsy and is partially blind, was kept barely alive at his home in Chichester, West Sussex while his wife, Sarah, 49, and her lover George Webb, 50, treated him ‘like a piece of property’. Tom’s sister, Holby City actress, Kate Somerset-Holmes, and mother, Helen Somerset-How, spoke of the horror they
Read MoreA suit demanding an order to discontinue the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29 has been filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Instituted by five residents of the Federal Capital Territory, the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, urged the court to stop the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, any other judicial officer and/or any other authority or person from swearing in any candidate in the February 25 presidential election as President or Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It added
Read MoreThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has been convicted of speeding. He was ordered to pay £510 in total for exceeding a 20 mile per hour limit near Lambeth Palace on 2 October last year, according to Sky News. The 67-year-old was also handed three penalty points after being caught by a speed camera in his Volkswagen Golf on the A3036 Albert Embankment. He was convicted in a private hearing at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday – the same day he criticised the government’s plans to combat the issue of migrants crossing the C
Read MoreThe President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on Friday, inaugurated six Tertiary Education Trust Fund [TETFund] projects worth about N1 billion to boost teaching and learning in three universities in Ekiti State. Beneficiaries of the projects are the Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti; Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti; and Federal University, Oye Ekiti. Buhari, represented by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Adeniyi Adebayo, during the inauguration of the projects at Ikere Ekiti, Ado
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