April 26, 2019

North Korea demanded $2 million before releasing US student

April 26, 2019 9:02 pm

North Korea billed the Trump administration $2 million for the medical care of Otto F. Warmbier, an imprisoned American student who had fallen into a coma, before agreeing to release him in 2017.

A senior American diplomat negotiating for Mr. Warmbier’s freedom accepted the bill, and Mr. Warmbier was released. He died six days later in the United States, after his parents decided to end the life support that was sustaining his vegetative state.

The bill was passed from the State Department to the Treasury Department, but on Friday morning, President Trump said that no money had been paid.

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Human parts thieves caught inside church’s cemetery in Ogun

April 26, 2019 8:34 pm

A bricklayer, Kunle Adewunmi, an alleged specialist in breaking into cemeteries to steal human body parts, and his two accomplices have been arrested in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

They were arrested penultimate Saturday after allegedly Istealing human body parts from no fewer than 35 tombs in recent times.

It was said that nemesis caught up with the trio while they were digging up graves at a cemetery belonging to a parish of the Methodist Church at Ogbe,Abeokuta.

They were said to have been sighted by a female member of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC), who was attracted to the scene by …

Nine Nigerians nabbed in US for multi-million dollar fraud

April 26, 2019 8:25 pm

Nine Nigerians have been arrested in the United States of America for defrauding businesses and individuals of more than $3.5 million.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, and Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) Special Agent-in-Charge of the Tampa, Florida, Field Office of U.S., James C. Spero, announced on Thursday that the suspects committed the fraud through business email compromises, a Russian oil scam, and a romance scam.

Kogi civil servants begging to feed, says NLC

April 26, 2019 4:12 am

Civil servants in Kogi State now beg to feed their families, due to non-payment of their monthly emoluments, according to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lamented yesterday.

The state chairman of NLC, Onuh Edoka, at the seventh quadrennial delegates’ conference in Lokoja, appealed to the state government to do something urgently to reverse the trend.

Edoka maintained that the civil servants were owed between seven and 30 months in salaries, a situation he said made it impossible for them to pay their bills.

He also regretted that workers were being owed their leave bonuses, while promotion exercise carried out by …

Sri Lanka Easter Sunday attack leader died in hotel bombing

April 26, 2019 4:02 am

Facts have emerged how the suspected leader of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Mohamed Zahran died.

Authorities said Zahran died in the Shangri-La hotel, one of six hotels bombed in an attack which ISIS had claimed responsibility.

Three churches were targeted in the attacks that killed over 300 people.

Nigeria’ll divide when South-South joins Biafra – Okowa

April 26, 2019 3:50 am

The Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, Thursday said Nigeria as a country will divide the very day the South-South region decided to join struggle for the actualisation of Biafra Republic.

“Nigeria will divide the very day the South-South agrees to join Biafra,” Governor Okowa declared at the Niger Delta Peace and Security Summit held in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area.

Governor Okowa, who was represented by his Executive Assistant/Directorate of Orientation, Barr. Eugene. A. Uzum, said some parts of Nigeria were being oppressed just as he cautioned that peace may continue to elude us as a people.

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