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Armed with an Appeal Court judgment reinstating him as the Chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya is set to take over the Imo Traditional Rulers’ Council Secretariat located around the Concorde Boulevard, Owerri.
Ilomuanya has also invited all recognized traditional rulers in the state to a general meeting at the secretariat on Monday, the 16th, having waited to no avail, for Eze Samuel Ohiri, who was deposed by the court to honourably vacate the secretariat...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/ilomuanya-dares-okorocha-summons-monarchs-to-meeting-at-imo-traditional-rulers-secretariat-ohiri-risks-committal-to-prison/

The attention of the Police Command has been drawn to stories making rounds in the media that the Police blocked the road to the Rivers State Government House, in Port Harcourt denying His Excellency, Governor Rotimi Amaechi access to the Government House.
The Nigeria Police Force hereby categorically states in clear terms that the Police did not in any way block the road to the Rivers State Government House; neither did it deny the Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi access to the Government House in Port Harcourt or elsewhere...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/press-release-we-did-not-block-amaechis-access-into-government-house-police/

Callistus Lekwa’s illiteracy is gradually tearing at the fabric of his three-year-old marriage. The father of two is a secondary school drop-out turned businessman and is married to a Masters Degree graduate.
“Now I understand why my parents were against our marriage,” said Lilian Lekwa, an insurance salesperson. “They argued that the education barrier would cause problems but we felt our love would conquer all...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/the-embarrassment-of-nigerias-rising-illiteracy-levels-by-chinedu-ozordi/

In an unexpected turn of events along the road to a US military strike on Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday afternoon, Sept. 9 that he had urged Syria to hand over its nuclear arsenal to international control if that would stop an American attack. Moscow had lost no time in picking up the gauntlet thrown down by US Secretary of State John Kerry in London a short time before.
Asked if there were steps the Syrian president could take to avert an American-led attack, Kerry replied: “Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week — turn it over, all of it, without delay and allow the full and total accounting...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/russian-ultimatum-to-assad-give-up-chemical-arsenal-or-face-us-attack-alone/

No fewer than 162 commercial bus drivers in Lagos State,
Nigeria have been tested positive for cocaine and marijuana.

This was disclosed by Governor Babatunde Fashola of
Lagos at a Motor Park Health and Safety Awareness
Campaign, put together by the Lagos State Ministries of
Health and Transportation in Partnership with Guinness
Nigeria Plc at New Garage Motor Park, Bariga, on Thursday...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/162-lagos-drivers-tested-positive-for-cocaine-marijuana/

Yesterday, we were prattling away in our newly formed BlackBerry group. Our discussions brought the memories of growing up; of the dusty streets of Sabon Gari; of dogonyaro trees and their antiseptic smell; of the brief, torrential rain falls; of the intense sunlight, and those chilly, dust whirling, energy sapping, skin cracking, seasons of the harmattan.
The streets of Kano are wide and bare; the buildings planned, with rusted roofing and faded painting. Snooker and table tennis boards lounged by the gates of some houses in Sabon Gari...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/the-north-is-dead-by-ukamaka-olisakwe/

While the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) challenges the structures and institutions that perpetuate poverty and inequality, the Feminist Task Force (FTF) promotes a women’s rights agenda and calls for Gender Equality to End Poverty. Both groups have taken serious exception to a jocular comment credited to the Russian Finance Minister and have called for urgent actions to bridge the widening gender gap and ensure gender sensitivity among leaders and especially policy makers.
At the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov joked towards the end of a briefing on Financial Inclusion that “women consume a lot, so they need help with their financial management”. At a summit where women are largely absent – and where the communiques hardly mention gender – Siluanov’s quip is insightful...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/women-group-calls-on-g20-nations-to-address-gender-gap-says-old-boys-network-still-at-work/

Report reaching Crimefacts.org indicates that President Goodluck Jonathan may have ordered the forceful sealing of the National Secretariat of the break-away faction of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by security agents today.
The office of the group otherwise known as the new PDP was earlier today stormed by heavily armed and combat-ready detachment of mobile policemen who forcefully sacked officials of the group and sealed up the office.
This followed breakdown in negotiations and interventions by party leaders and former presidents particularly, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who had earlier expressed hope that the factions would once again fuse together.
Reacting, the spokesperson of the new PDP, Mr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere who is also the chairman of the PDP Stakeholders Forum issued a hasty statement condemning the action in very strong terms...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/jonathan-seals-new-pdp-national-secretariat-as-faction-kicks-says-its-impunity-taken-too-far/

Prolife activist, Dr. Philip Njemanze has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan on the controversial Imo Abortion Law. Njemanze presents to the Presidency sections of the law that support same-sex marriage, violation of traditional Ezeship practices in Igboland by granting a woman right to inherit the throne of her father so long as she is older than her male siblings. The law provides a four-year jail term for anyone that stands between the woman and her father’s throne.
Njemanze also drew the attention of the Presidency to the 27 General Hospitals under construction in Imo state which was concessioned to an Indian Hospital, the Appollo Hospitals as declared by Governor Okorocha. Njemanze informed that Appollo hospital has since been indicted by the authorities of their home country for human organ trafficking offences...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/njemanze-petitions-presidency-over-imo-abortion-law-says-law-supports-same-sex-marriage-violates-igbo-ezeship-by-enthroning-female-monarchs/

Radical surgeon and anti-abortion activist, Philip Njemanze has dragged Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state to court for the sudden revocation of his property following his vociferous stand against the Okorocha administration and particularly, the Imo state Law No.12 known in street parlance as the ‘Imo Abortion Law’.
Njemanze who blew the whistle of the Imo Abortion Law, is asking the court to redress the alleged injustice against him and pronounce the revocation of the said property as illegal, null, void and of no effect on the strength of the fact that the property was lawfully acquired with valid Certificate of Occupancy.
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Friday, August 30, at a news conference in Washington, US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a ringing statement accusing Syria’s President Bashar Assad of responsibility for the lethal poison gas attack on Damascus suburbs on August 21. His words signaled the start of the countdown for the US military strike on Syria, which our military sources estimate could be launched from Friday night until US Labor Day on September 2.
Kerry laid out the evidence put before congressional leaders that the Syrian government had that day fired chemical weapons at 11 separate sites in and around Damascus, launching them from ...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/countdown-to-us-military-strike-on-syria-assads-chemicals-killed-1429-syrians-426-children-kerry-alleges/

A cold war is now raging between Imo State Government and the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri following alleged legalization of abortion in the state.
Consequently, the Archbishop of the Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Anthony Obinna has demanded the immediate abrogation of the two laws containing the anti-life legislation said to have been signed into law by both Governor Rochas Okorocha and his predecessor Chief Achike Udenwa in 2012 and 2007 respectively.

Addressing newsmen in Owerri, on the forth coming 2013 Odenigbo lecture of the Diocese, the fiery cleric regretted that in spite of the public retreat of the State House of Assembly from legalizing the evil of abortion in 2010, Governor Okorocha quietly signed the state law No 12 which he said contains the obnoxious lethal legislation into effecton the 29th of May 2012 and...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/archbishop-obinna-set-to-battle-okorocha-over-abortion-law-calls-for-immediate-abrogation/

The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory towers because of the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has also been awashed by many criticisms, most of which have been directed at the Federal Government in which President Jonathan is the representational character. However, it appears many of the critics have failed to consider the other side of the coin, which is one of the essentials in a debate on such a controversial issue.
Therefore, the focus of this piece is to examine the purpose of the present ASUU’s strike and their sympathizers’ rage against the FG. Firstly, ASUU came up with the issue of autonomy for universities. The FG approved the idea of autonomy so long as the universities would generate internal revenue to offset their expenditure, including salaries and allowances...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/questioning-the-sincerity-of-ASUU-by-felix-festus/

Did you read the article by Tim Newmann entitled End of an Assignment that clinically analysed how the system works in Nigeria just from a Lagos point of view? Well, I did over the weekend and found myself shaking my head to what the British expatriate oil worker catalogued as some of the problems with Nigeria. In all fairness, I always want to differ on some of the issues that people raise that has to do with Nigeria not working as it should especially when such person just does that from a corner then hopes to paint the whole court yard in the same colour, but to some extent, I will say that Tim Newmann was not far from right.
But he has finished his assignment and written about his experience with a promise to come back to Nigeria in time to come... CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/between-the-return-of-a-governor-who-survived-an-air-crash-and-a-boy-who-dared-to-fly-by-ahaoma-kanu/

The stage is set for the eschatological events that will usher the End-time. The place of this event I will maintain is in our town Owerri, the ancient Holy City of Jerusalem. I will illustrate it clearly to the reader. On 29th May 2012, Governor Rochas Anayo Okorocha, OON signed as law, abortion all through 9 months of pregnancy in Imo State, paradoxically called Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law No.12, of 2012. Everything about this Law No. 12 has the characteristics of the Main End-time Event of the Abomination in Jerusalem. This infamous event occurred in the Holy Month of May declared by the Holy Catholic Church for Devotion to Our Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854. The number twelve means ‘completeness’ of the events of the End-Time Genocide of the Unborn Child...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/okorochas-abortion-law-and-ominous-signs-a-catholics-perspective-by-philip-njemanze/

Most Reverend Anthony Obinna the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Diocese has rejected his appointment as Chairman of Committee to Disburse N500m Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC) empowerment fund for youths of Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta LGA of Imo State.
"I am not a Local Government agent and therefore not in any position to distribute money meant for the youths of the area", Obinna said last Sunday.
"I told them before I travelled overseas that I cannot be an agent in a Local government"..."I want to state clearly that I did not accept the offer, that it is not my duty to distribute money for Ohaji/Egbema/Oguta Youths"...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/archbishop-obinna-rejects-okorochas-appointment-cautions-against-politicization-of-prayers/

On the 4th day of August, 2013 Femi Fani Kayode published an article on his facebook page titled “Lagos, the Igbo and the Servants of Truth” which was supposedly his reaction to the controversies surrounding the dumping of some Igbo citizens at the Upper Iweka. But rather than address the issue dispassionately and as a statesman, Femi Fani Kayode chose to a...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/is-femi-fani-kayode-a-servant-of-truth-by-kissinger-ikeokwu/

Dozens of suspected Boko Haram militants trapped in Magumeri forest, Borno, have turned to human eaters after being stranded for days without food or water.
Magumeri forest is about 150 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Mallam Momodu Bukar, a suspected militant, told newsmen on Saturday in Maiduguri that he fled the camp at the forest on Thursday when it became obvious that he was going to be eaten.
“I thank God that I escaped because I would have been slaughtered by now to provide meal for my colleagues at the camp,” Bukar said.
The suspected militant was captured by a Youth Vigilante Group, popularly known as the civilian JTF at Baga Road motor park, Maiduguri, on Friday...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/famished-boko-haram-members-resort-to-cannibalism-for-survival/

I write to strongly condemn the false and defamatory statements against the Deputy Governor of Imo State Prince Eze Madumere by Sandra Duru published in some media sites. Sandra in her publication said she caught Madumere in bisexual act with her ex-husband. She has been making conflicting statements in her quest to blackmail the Deputy Governor of Imo State. Normally I would have investigated her story but I did not because she once phoned me to do the fake story for her. As a Columnist I have been involved in the struggle for good governance in Imo State with series of media articles. It is on record that I launched the first media attack on Owelle Rochas Okorocha when he became governor of Imo State. For all my human fallibility, I have sought to make my case with fervor and some measure of clarity. But one thing I hate strongly is blackmail...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/imo-deputy-governor-and-a-blackmailer-by-kenneth-uwadi/

A Nigerian movie director living in Ghana has be arrested for the early release of his movie
“Boko Haram” The producer, John Dada Adedayo has been arraigned before a Ghanian court after he refused to wait for the Ghana Cinematography Exhibition Board to censor certain parts of the film before giving him the green light to distribute to the public.

The accused person was put before a court presided over by Audrey Kocuvie-Tay and charged for refusing to subject himself to censorship laws, but he denied any wrongdoing...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/nigerian-producer-docked-for-circulating-boko-haram-movie/

A Nigerian has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam, state media said on Wednesday.
According to AFP, a court in Vietnam, whose drug laws are among the toughest in the world, on Monday handed a 31-year-old Nigerian man, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu, a death sentence for smuggling 3.4 kilograms of methamphetamines from Qatar to Vietnam...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/drug-trafficking-nigerian-ejiogu-benjamin-sentenced-to-death-in-vietnam/

It is no longer news that a particular brand of rice not meant to be eaten but planted during this planting season is now being parboiled and sold to unsuspecting consumers in the state.

It was gathered that bags of rice numbering over 500 which was distributed to council areas since last month under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the Federal government – the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme, GES, to enable farms at the rural level get more yield, had been marred ...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/killer-rice-in-circulation-in-ebonyi-state-as-politicians-divert-rice-variety-meant-for-planting/

On May 14, 2013, when I published an article ‘Fashola: Porting from admirable achievements to peeving policies’, some respondents could have sworn that it was sponsored. Their position was however pardonable because unfortunately, we are in a country where due to the poverty rate, some believe that you can only disagree with an incumbent government after someone somewhere has deposited something in your bank account. Once more, here we are divided over yet another policy that has gone sour.

In late July, the government of Anambra State protested the ‘deportation’ of certain south-east indigenes from Lagos, Nigeria’s former national capital. Governor Peter Obi was said to have forwarded a letter of protest to President Goodluck Jonathan in which...CONTINUE:http://crimefacts.org/deportation-brouhaha-fashola-cup-don-full/

Dear Sirs, I hope this letter meets you in a good, patriotic spirit. Let me first use this opportunity to join other Nigerians in congratulating the opposition on the registration of the long-awaited alternative party, the All Progressives Congress. Its registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission was a significant moment for Nigerians. It, hopefully, signals a new dawn considering that for once, a truly national opposition platform which has been elusive in the Fourth Republic, appears to have emerged to challenge the ruling party in 2015 and beyond. In many ways too, the merger of the once disparate opposition parties under a unifying bloc represents a milestone in the quest for the enthronement of genuine democracy. That the union has come at a time when this democracy is under imminent threat of annihilation by anti-democratic forces gives Nigerians cause to cheer. Now, they hope that the ruling party will subsequently be held accountable and its excesses curtailed. While also admitting that your union may not be a gathering of saints, it nonetheless, represents a starting point...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/an-open-letter-to-buhari-and-tinubu-by-bayo-olupohunda/

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has directed the shut-down of 15 rooms in Rockview Hotel Owerri.This went into effect more than a fortnight ago when the governor paid an unscheduled visit to the Hotel on one Thursday evening.
A source close to the Government House who was on ground during the governor’s visit told crimefacts.org that the governor who moved into the diner for a quick meal on arrival, thereafter made straight for the upper floors of the hotel where he alleged that security reports at his disposal indicate that some people were monitoring activities in the government house from some rooms in the hotel...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/okorocha-shuts-down-15-rooms-at-rockview-hotel-owerri-says-they-pose-security-threat-to-the-government-house/

The Honourable Minister of State (1) for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Mrs. Viola Onwuliri Tuesday in Owerri, the Imo state capital stated in clear terms that a leader without any traceable political ideology; who lacks consistency in his political philosophies cannot be taken seriously in the Igbo nation of today.

Referring to the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Onwuliri condemned calls and insinuations that the Igbo nation is marginalized under the present administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Our sensibilities have been inundated with such fickle tissues of deceits that our people are marginalized under the PDP-led government of President Jonathan”, She noted...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/okorocha-is-politically-unstable-he-cannot-be-trusted-onwuliri/

Scores of angry youths Monday marched the streets of Owerri to the Imo State Government House in protest of alleged persistent destruction of farmlands, armed attacks and killing of natives by Hausa Fulani herdsmen in the state.

The group largely made up of young men and women from Irete community in Owerri West council area of Imo state, took to the streets following renewed attack by the nomads which left two brothers critically injured and 10 others sustaining various degrees of injuries.
The incident followed the invasion of farmlands...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/imo-youths-protest-killings-armed-attacks-by-nomads-accuse-okorocha-of-playing-politics-with-human-lives/

Civil servants in Imo state may be gearing up for another round of protest against the Imo state government over alleged extortion occasioned by the scandalous cost of producing plastic identification cards (ID cards) for civil/public servants in the state.
Some workers who expressed grave concern over the believed unjustifiable cost which would be deducted from their salaries at source, complained that they still had their valid ID cards issued by the same government and could not understand the need for another ID card at such exorbitant rate.
In a memo posted on every ministry and parastatal of the Imo state government, the Head of Service, Mrs. Nkechi Onumajulu notified workers of the immediate commencement of deductions...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/okorochas-new-id-card-project-is-a-scam-imo-workers/

National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie has described the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC) as one and the same in ideology and purpose.
Okorie stated this in Owerri during a news conference marking the end of a three-day sensitization visit of the entire party leadership to Imo state.
Alluding to their policy thrusts and geopolitical bias, Okorie averred that, “PDP and APC are tenants in Igboland and their tenancies have since expired.”
According to the UPP founder, both parties are largely populated by those so called leaders who brought Nigeria to its knees and have kept Nigeria down through all the previous political dispensations till date...CONTINUE:http://crimefacts.org/pdp-apc-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-says-chekwas-okorie-derides-okorochas-sojourn-in-apc/

The Imo state police command has recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against armed robbery, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state. The command yesterday killed one Emeka Osueke popularly known as Ogbanje, a notorious criminal and leader of an armed robbery and kidnap gang that has been terrorizing the state.
Displaying the dead body of the late gang leader at the Imo state police headquarters in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the state commissioner of police, Mohammed Katsina said the late armed robber was identified to be responsible for various bank robbery attacks and kidnap cases in Imo state and other neighbouring states especially the deadly robbery attack that left three people dead including 2 policemen at Naija Plaza hotel in Oguta council area of the state last February.
Mr, Katsina said the gang was rounded up by the command Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad after a massive gun duel at...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/imo-police-command-kills-notorious-armed-robbery-kingpin-ogbanje-arrests-four-kidnap-suspects/

Philip Njemanze, a medical practitioner and researcher has declared that by the 1st of January, 2014, Nigeria would be an expired state.

Njemanze made this declaration in Owerri, the Imo state capital while interacting with our correspondent.

According to him, the amalgamation document of 1914, a letter patent by which Nigeria came into being would expire by January 1, 2014.

Njemanze explained that according to standard international protocol, every territorial claim has a life–span of 99 years.

He cited example of the Northern and Southern Sudan which was also amalgamated by the same Lord Lugard in 1912.

According to Njemanze, the Sudanese amalgamation expired two years ago and a United Nations sponsored referendum has since been conducted to determine whether the people wanted to continue as one united entity or revert to separate entities...CONTINUE: http://crimefacts.org/why-nigeria-cannot-exist-beyond-2014-by-dr-njemanze-says-america-was-right/