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NMDPRA said its surveillance officers sealed a company in Taraba State for illegally engaging in the sale of Liquefied Natural Gas.

Igwe Gift Okechukwu, a fake doctor has been apprehended by the police for defrauding Anita Chinwe Mathias, a POS operator in Owerri, Imo state, for N21 million.

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo recently visited the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, at his residence in Owerri,

A group of unidentified gunmen have reportedly kidnapped Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri, the former chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers.

A man who paraded himself as a medical doctor, Igwe Gift Okechukwu, has been arrested by Nigeria Police Force for alleged criminal conspiracy, organ trafficking, fraud, cybercrime, stealing, impersonation, cheating and identity theft. It was learnt that the fake doctor was arrested in Nasarawa State by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, after defrauding a point of sale (POS) owner in Owerri, Imo State. 

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Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, revealed this on Friday in Abuja at the parade of the suspect.

No fewer than 1400 fleeing inmates from the Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State and the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have yet to be recaptured after the jailbreaks.  Two years after the attack on the Owerri custodial centre, 864 fleeing inmates have yet to be recaptured according to the Ministry of Interior’s website on Friday.  The custodial centre was attacked by gunmen on April 5, 2021, who forcefully released a total of 1,844 inmates in custody.�...

The Nigeria Police Force has nabbed an alleged organ trafficker and fraudster, Gift Okechukwu Igwe, who also parades himself as a doctor.

Professor Anthony Ani, a distinguished figure in Agricultural Extension at the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Imo State, emerged as the All