Cross River: Ritual killings resurface ahead of 2027 elections
Observations over the last 11 years have shown that in Cross River State, cases of alleged ritual killings tend to increase as general elections draw near, with women accounting for more than 90 per cent of the reported victims. Our Correspondent, Emma Una, highlights the ugly trend in the last decade.
Anambra Court jails native doctor ‘Eke Hit’ 12 years
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA — An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka has sentenced a native doctor, Ekene Igboekweze, popularly known as “Eke Hit,” to 12 years’ imprisonment for offences arising from alleged kidnapping, protective charms and money rituals. Justice Jude Obiora sentenced Igboekweze to six years’ imprisonment on each of two counts, with […]
Deaths in custody: FG suspends 20 NSCDC officers, sets up probe panel
“Any attempt to destroy or conceal evidence, intimidate witnesses or obstruct the investigation will be treated as a serious offence”
3 Abia policemen arrested over extortion of 200 victims via ‘sting operations’; 4 at large
The officers targeted patent medicine dealers and proprietors of maternity homes, sezing pharmaceutical products, money and other valuables
Cells that cheat Death: New clue to why some cancers return
By Sola Ogundipe Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have uncovered a cellular mechanism that could deepen understanding of tissue regeneration while offering clues to why some cancers return after treatment.Published in Nature Communications, the study identified a population of cells that begins the process of programmed cell death but survives to help rebuild […]
‘I want to be a pilot’ – 9-yr-old ‘detained’ at LASUTH over N4m bill
“There is a metallic screw measuring 11x 7mm impacted in the segmental bronchus to the right lower lobe causing complete collapse and consolidation of this lobe”
