NDLEA arrests 146, rehabilitates 114 drug suspects in C’River
By Joseph Kingston, Calabar
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Cross River state has said that it arrested 146 suspects and rehabilitated 114 others within the last 12 months.
The Commander of the Agency in the state, Mrs Anthonia Edeh made this known on Friday in Calabar in an event to mark this year’s United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. She said that within the period under review, the command also secured 15 convictions in respect to drug related offenses at the Federal High Court Calabar.
https://orientdailynews.com/cr....ime/ndlea-arrests-14
Uwazuruike apologises over Kanu’s offensive Radio Biafra broadcasts
By Phil Okose, Onitsha
The founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on behalf of Ndigbo, has apologised to those affected by the incessant insults, abuses and blackmails from radio Biafra, London broadcast or any other Biafra news channels.
Uwazuruike, who is the founder of new Biafra as well as the radio Biafra London said that since he was the one that trained the blackmailers, he should be held responsible for any offence they committed either directly or indirectly in the course of this struggle for a sovereign state of Biafra.
https://orientdailynews.com/ge....opolis/south-east/uw
Court dissolves 32-year-old marriage over husband’s drunkenness
A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Friday dissolved a 32-year-old marriage between Hassana Shuaibu and Abdullahi on grounds that he was a drunk. Hassana in her petition, prayed the court to dissolve her marriage on grounds of Abdullahi’s drunkenness, refusal to fast and hatred.
She had earlier sought dissolution of her marriage in court on same grounds, sometime in June, 2018 and Abdullahi entered an undertaking to desist from his attitude but had failed to do so. She informed the court that she had not seen any of Abdullahi’s elders whom he claimed would come for settlement since the last adjourned date on May 21, 2020.
https://orientdailynews.com/ci....tyscope/court-dissol
Cross River communities cry out over ‘oppressive Land use act’
By Joseph Kingston
Communities in Akamkpa and Biase local government areas of Cross River state have said the land use act of 1978, which they described as ‘oppressive, was causing uncontrollable level of poverty to the indigenous people with loss of livelihood resulting in health challenges and hunger.
https://orientdailynews.com/ci....tyscope/cross-river-