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A 28-year-old man, Victor Ohale, pictured left, has been arrested by men of the Anambra state police command for stabbing his younger brother, Kelechi Ohale, to death at their home in Awka the state capital today June 25th. A statement from the state police command says Victor, a law graduate from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, recently returned from his one year mandatory NYSC service in Imo state. He got into an argument with Kelechi this morning, which degenrated into a fight. Victor brought out five knifes which he used to stab the deceased in different parts of his body. Kelechi was rushed to the Amaku Teaching hospital Awka where he was cerfified dead on arrival by one of the doctors on duty. His corpse was then deposited at the hospital morgue for autopsy. The police say the suspect would be charged to Court for prosecution soon.

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on President Buhari to urgently constitute his cabinet, warning that a delay may further affect the country’s economy.   The PDP also called on the President not to “run the country into recession again with his know-it-all attitude”. The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, said it was disheartening that the President had yet to name his ministers more than three months after winning the presidential election.   Secondus alleged that the delay by the President in naming his ministers in 2015  contributed to plunging the country into recession. He said, “We in the opposition believe vehemently that we won the presidential election. This is the reason we are contesting the outcome of the election at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.  However, having being declared the winner (of the February 23 polls), and also sworn in for a second term, the President ought to have realised h...

A 34-year-old dismissed soldier, Sunday Umaru, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Plateau State High Court for hacking his girlfriend, Charity Thomas, to death following his suspicion that she was cheating on him. At the sentencing which held yesterday January 23rd, the prosecutor, Emmanuel Awe, told the court that Umaru, a married man, was a Private in the Nigerian Army and was serving with the Special Task Force, Sector 7, Barkin Ladi, when he murdered Thomas in January 2016. According to Awe, Charity who lived in Kaduna state, visited Umaru in Plateau state and while she was there, Umaru searched her phone and found a text message with a love intonation from a man. In anger, he stabbed Charity with a knife in the stomach, slaughtered her body and then dumped it by the roadside. At his arraignment, Umaru faced a count of culpable homicide. He was accused of killing his lover, Charity, who visited him from Kaduna, by stabbing her with a knife in the stomach, sl...

Thierry Henry 's managerial career is reportedly set to be cut short with Monaco ready to sack him just 15 weeks after he landed his first coaching job. The Arsenal legend landed his first manager's job with the French club on October 13 when he signed a three-year contract until the summer of 2021. But he has only won just four of his first 20 matches in charge. According to The Mirror, Monaco is ready to sack Henry and are lining up predecessor Leonardo Jardim as a possible replacement. The 44-year-old took charge of 232 matches and Monaco were victorious in 125 of them, giving him an overall win percentage of 53.88. In comparison, Henry was won just 20 percent of his games so far and the club is not impressed with him. It is claimed that Henry will be told in the next 48 hours that he is no longer the man to lead the Ligue 1 strugglers.

Two days after an increase in Minimum wage was announced, the Federal government has announced plans to also increase Value Added Tax. Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, announced this at the launch of the Strategic Revenue Growth Initiative in Abuja. According to the Minister, some of the items that will be having an increase in VAT include carbonated drinks as well as some luxury items. “There will be a VAT increase. During the course of 2019, we will have clarity as to which items and what the rate will be and we will have to take a request to the National Assembly for amendment before it takes effect. There is also going to be luxury tax. Already, there is luxury tax imposed on things like jets, yachts and few exceptional items that are classified as luxury and the Chairman FIRS will speak to that but we are contemplating increasing excise duties on carbonated drinks just like we have excise duties now on Tobacco and alcohol. “But this is going to be a ...

Moments after Oby Ezekwesili announced her withdrawal from 2019 presidential race saying she has opted to help build a coalition to defeat APC and PDP in the February election, Fela Durotoye has issued a statement saying he's ready for a coalition. According to him,  'I am ready to submit myself to any transparent process that will help us arrive at a selection of a Consensus Candidate from amongst us'. He went on to say,  'to be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation'. See his full statement below... I have always believed that leadership is about service and sacrifice and today, I would like to commend Dr. (Mrs) Oby Ezekwesili for leading the charge to forming a viable coalition to presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidenti...