Some Stakeholders in Ebonyi including the Police have expressed concern over the spate of jungle justice across states of the federation, urging citizens to desist from the act.
They gave the advice on Thursday in Abakaliki at a Town hall meeting with relevant stakeholders in commemorations of the National Police day scheduled for April 7.
The theme of the meeting is tagged: “Police and the community: strenthening cooperation for improved service delivery.”
The stakeholders, who spoke at the event condemned the act of jungle justice, police extortions, police molestation and harassment, extra judicial killings among others.
CP Anthonia Uche-Anya, Commissioner of Police in the state explained that the meeting was to harness issues towards achieving maximum security of lives and security for citizens.
Uche-Anya noted that it was unlawful to take a life of fellow citizens.
According to her, nobody has the right to take the law into his or her hands.
“Citizen must follow due process in the efforts to ensure security,” the Commissioner said.
On police extortion, she said the Police Force had zero tolerance to such act and warned officers to disengage from the nefarious act.
Uche-Anya noted that the police had no right to check another person’s phone at the checkpoint except, if such a person was under investigation.
Earlier speaking, Nwanneka David, Ex-Officio, National Association of Nigeria Student (NANS), Ebonyi chapter, decried police harassments of students in the state.
“We are not happy the way police have been harassing students, to the extent of tagging most of them, “Yahoo Boys”.
“We need the Commissioner to intervene. The police have gone the extra mile checking people’s phone,” David stated.
Mr Chidi Igboji, the state’s Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), also condemned the unprofessionalism among the police personnel.
Igboji, therefore, suggested regular training for the police force in the efforts to harness and promote security.
Mr Sunday Oketa, Traditional Ruler, Nkaliki-Echara Unuhu Autonomous Community, in Ebonyi Local Government Area, called for more stakeholders collaboration for improved security.
Oketa hailed community policing in the state and urged the officers to keep the flag flying.
Actor Segun Arinze has opened up about his past conflict with fellow actor Emeka Ike, revealing that they have long since reconciled.
In a recent interview with QEDNG, Arinze shared insights into their disagreement, which stemmed from a leadership issue within the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) in 2009.
Segun emphasised the importance of moving on from grudges, stating, “Emeka Ike is a fine actor. We still talk; we laugh about those things. It doesn’t change the fact that he is a fine actor.
“The conflict ended naturally. We were not quarrelling. It was just about the position. That’s why I left the position. He also had other things to do.
“Then time and chance happened. And we are growing old. He is my friend, and we are cool. I’ve asked him to go for lunch or dinner whenever he is around.
“What are we having enemies for? The work I am doing is enough of a burden. Hate is a burden. Travel light. How long do you have to live in the world? You want to carry it on your shoulders? What do I need that animosity for?”
He also discussed his experiences with being typecast in movie roles and his desire to take on more diverse characters.
Segun also praised his colleagues, including veteran actor Olu Jacobs, Richard Mofe-Damijo, and Ramsey Nouah, for successfully avoiding typecasting.
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former governor of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged N1. 3 trillion fraud.
A credible sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections was arrested in Port Harcourt, when he reported at the Port Harcourt Directorate of the EFCC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okowa, was arrested for allegedly diverting N1.3 trillion being proceeds of 13 per cent derivation fund that accrued to the state during his tenure.
He was alleged to have diverted the fund from the federation account between 2015 and 2023 when he held sway in the oil-rich state.
Officials of the commission, who did not want their names in print, said that Okowa had earlier been invited by a team of crack detectives of the agency handling his case.
One of the sources said that he was arrested and would have to provide satisfactory answers to the questions posed to him regarding financial impropriety under his watch.
The former governor was also alleged to have failed to render accounts of the funds as well as another N40 billion he allegedly claimed he used to acquire shares in UTM Floating Liquefied Natural Gas.
Specifically, Okowa allegedly bought shares valued at N40 billion in one of the major banks in the country representing eight per cent equity to float the offshore LNG.
When contacted, Dele Oyewale, the spokesman of the anti-graft agency, confirmed Okowa presence in the facility of the commission but he declined further comments further.
There is always a moment in a designer’s timeline where denim stops being “weekend fabric” and starts being language. With Ranto Clothings’ Denim Vogue Collection 2024, Creative Director Bright Urhobo takes that step. He doesn’t treat denim as nostalgia or utility. He treats it as attitude, body politics, and modern femininity.
This look, a strapless, fitted, mini-length denim dress is deceptively simple but actually quite strategic.
At first glance, you think: classic bustier top, flirty skirt, but the engineering is smarter than that.
The bodice is cleanly sculpted around the bust and upper torso, with visible seaming that hints at corsetry without the aggression of full corsetry. The neckline curves in a soft wave rather than a hard straight cut. That curve matters. It stops the piece from feeling like a denim tube and instead gives it a romantic line across the chest, that a touch of softness on a famously rigid fabric.
The waist is defined firmly, but not brutally. We’re not looking at a “snatched” Instagram shape; we’re looking at tailored containment. The seaming through the waist and the presence of belt loops introduce the visual language of denim jeans, almost like the ghost of a waistband, but then it dissolves into dress form. That detail is subtle and smart: Urhobo is playing with familiar codes (belt loops, jean seams, topstitch structure) but he’s not letting the garment collapse into casualwear. This is not DIY cut-up denim.
Below that, the skirt opens into a short A-line with structured pleats. The flare is measured. It’s not ruffled or tiered; it has volume controlled by construction, not by excess fabric. The skirt length is unapologetically short, which gives leg, yes, but also gives stride. You can actually walk in this dress. You can dance in this dress. You can sit on a barstool without feeling like the garment is fighting you.
And that practicality is worth noting. Womenswear today is obsessed with performance vocabulary like “workwear,” “active tailoring,” “multi-wear.” But here the performance is quiet. The dress is wearable because the shape respects movement. That is design maturity.
Let’s talk about the denim itself. This isn’t heavy, armored, menswear denim. This is a softened, mid-wash, likely cotton-spandex blend denim with enough give to follow the body without gaping and enough structure to hold the princess seams and pleats. The wash sits in that very flattering in-between space, not stark, not acid, not distressed. It feels like the sun touched it. Lived in, but not destroyed.
That choice is deliberate. A harsher wash would have pushed the dress toward clubwear. A darker indigo would have made it feel more winter, more night, more “serious.” This light, balanced wash keeps it youthful and most importantly: approachable. It looks like something you could throw on instinctively and still look like you meant it.
There is something quietly political about this dress that should not be ignored. This is not cut only for a single, narrow fantasy body. The model’s figure is allowed fullness in the bust, the upper arm, the thigh. The dress doesn’t punish her for that. It accommodates.
Too often, denim mini dresses are built like denial: squeezed bust, hard top seam cutting into the skin, skirt riding up, hem threatening to split. Here, we see ease. We see confidence. We see a designer who understands that curves are not a design challenge.
And that matters for the brand. It announces who Ranto Clothings thinks “fashion” is for.
Urhobo treats denim not as a symbol of grit or anti-luxury, but as a legitimate fabric for femininity. There is no apology in it. There is no “I’m dressing down, but with heels.” No. The dress is the outfit.
That’s the confidence of the Denim Vogue Collection as a whole: it argues that denim belongs in main-character dressing, not supporting role.
From a commercial perspective, this is an extremely smart piece. It lives in that sweet zone between day and night, between casual and sexy, between “wear it out” and “wear it again next weekend.” A teenager could wear it. A 30-something could wear it. It can sit with sneakers at 2 pm or with a tiny bag and a heeled mule at 9 pm
And importantly, it feels like Ranto Clothings. This is how brands are built: not by one dramatic runway gown that nobody can buy, but by a piece women will actually live in, be photographed in, tag publicly, and allow to circulate culturally.
Bright Urhobo, through this look, makes a simple but important promise: he will not treat women’s bodies as trends. He will cut for them. He will build around them. He will let denim, that most democratic of fabrics, act like a custom language.
The Denim Vogue Collection 2024 is not just selling denim. It’s selling freedom of wear.
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Leicester City manager Dean Smith has confirmed that Kelechi Iheanacho will not be available for selection when his side face Liverpool in a Premier League clash at King Power Stadium in their penultimate home game of the 2022-2023 season.
The 2013 FIFA U17 World Cup winner did not figure for the Foxes in their last two matches in the top flight due to a groin injury he suffered in the closing minutes of a 1-1 draw with Leeds United on April 25.
Iheanacho is progressing well in his recovery from the injury but the game against Liverpool has come too soon for him.
There is some hope that he will return to group training early next week, after the game against Liverpool, which would put him in contention for the trip to Newcastle United.
In quotes relayed by Leicester City’s official website, Smith stated : “[Iheanacho is] due to train earlier next week rather than later.
“We thought he’d only have a two-day build-up for the Newcastle game, but he’s ahead of schedule which is a big positive for us.”
Experienced center forward Jamie Vardy has led Leicester’s attack in their last two matches in the absence of Iheanacho.
This season, Iheanacho has directly participated in 12 goals (8 goals, 4 assists) in 33 games across all competitions.
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, has dismissed the objection raised by the suspended chairmen of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure and three other national officials of the party against a suit seeking their sack over alleged forgery and corrupt practices.
Justice Hamza Muazu, in a ruling on Friday held that his court has jurisdiction to hear and determine suit filed by some aggrieved members of the party.
The ruling was on the preliminary objection filed by Abure, and the suspended National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim. Justice Muazu faulted the argument by Abure and Ibrahim that the subject matter of the suit was within the realm of the internal affairs of the party on which no court could adjudicate. The judge held that it was no longer the law that the court could not adjudicate on issues relating to party’s internal affairs.
The judge noted that had the party been at peace with itself, there would not have been any need for the court to interfere in its affairs. “When there is no crack on the wall, there will not be need for an outsider to come mend it,” he said. Justice Muazu held that plaintiffs’ case was justiciable contrary to the argument by lawyer to Abure and Ibrahim, Alex Ejesieme (SAN), adding that the plaintiffs were right to have instituted the case via an originating summons.
Following the April 5 ex-parte injunction made by Justice Muazu, stopping Abure, the National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Umar Farouk and two other national officials, Ejesieme had on April 20 argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter. The senior advocate had submitted that the matter before the court bordered on the internal affairs of the Labour Party, adding that criminal allegations made by the plaintiffs in the case, could not be ventilated in an origination summon.
He added that the eight plaintiffs that brought the case before the court were not members of the National Executive Council of the party and as such lacked the locus standi to institute the case. “Our contention is very clear that those criminal allegations cannot be ventilated in an origination summon. The issue of locus standi is there. When you referred to LP’s constitution, the claimants are not members of NEC or the party. They have a duty to present their membership cards to the court which they didn’t,” the counsel argued.
While objecting to the preliminary objection raised by the counsel for Abure and Farouk, counsel for the plaintiffs, George Ibrahim, urged the court to dismiss same. According to him, the first to fourth defendants had yet to obey the April 5 order of the court as they were still parading themselves as national officers of the LP. With the ruling of the court on having jurisdiction to hear the case, its order of April 5 subsists. The judge adjourned until May 19 to hear the substantive case.
The eight plaintiffs in the case are Martins Esikpali John; Lucky Shaibu; Isah Zekeri; Omogbai Frank; Abokhaiu Aliu; Ayohkaire Lateef; John Elomah and Dr Ayobami Arabambi,. They had in an ex-parte motion, marked M/7082/2023, sought the removal of Abure and the three other national officers of the party. They informed the court, through their counsel, Ogwu Onoja (SAN), that Abure and the three other national officials allegedly forged several documents of the FCT High Court, including receipts, seal and affidavits, to carry out unlawful substitutions in the last general election.
Onoja argued that following their indictment by police investigation, the four people are to be arraigned in court, adding that warrants for their arrest have already been obtained. The judge was of the view that, being members of the LP, the plaintiffs have the locus standi to file the suit before the court.
Reacting to the court’s ruling in interview with journalists, the acting National Chairman of Labour Party, Alhaji Bashir Apapa, said that justice had taken its natural course, saying that the judge acted in line with true justice.
According to him, “with this ruling, there is no doubt that I am in charge. As of today, I am the acting National Chairman of Labour Party. Apapa subsequently directed all the party’s lawyers handling its election petition before the presidential election petition court, to within 48 hours come and brief him on the processes so far. “I want to invite all the lawyers representing Labor party to come and give me updates within the next 48hrs because I am fully in-charge now,” Apapa said.
Meanwhile, in his reaction to the ruling, Abure expressed optimism of getting justice in the Court of Appeal. “I am ready to go for an appeal. We will be submitting our notice of appeal to the court and we will move all the matter from that court and take it to the court of Appeal. I believe that I will get justice in the Court of Appeal. I believe that Labour Party will get justice in the court of Appeal,’ Abure said.
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has charged people of the state to stop comparing his administration with that of his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi. Oyebanji described the comparison as inappropriate and absolutely unfair in all its measures, saying he doesn’t feel good about the comparison.
The governor stated these in Ido-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area, on Friday at a special stakeholders’ engagement marking his 200 days in office against the backdrops of commendation for his administration and condemnation for his predecessor’s administration by the people, particularly social media commentators.
The governor who was visibly angry said comparing his administration with that of ex-governor Fayemi who he described as his leader, amount to a waste of time, noting that his government was an offshoot of the immediate past administration.
“I want to appeal to people not to make a distinction from ex- governor Fayemi-led administration and mine. We are one and I said it again. We’re one. My administration is an offshoot of Fayemi’s administration. So, there’s no distinction between what he has done and what I am doing.
“If Oga were to still be governor, by now most the things I am doing is what he will be doing because this is something we’ve put down together in the developing plan, which is guiding what I am doing. So I appeal to our people particularly on social media.
“I don’t have control on what you say but I appeal to you to moderate your comments. Governor Fayemi is my leader and I will continue to respect him. He has done a lot for this state and still doing it and he needs your prayers for him to do more for us,” he said.
Cataloguing his achievements, Oyebanji said that his government has remained focused and committed on the six-point developmental agenda towards ensuring sustainable socio-economic growth and development. He disclosed that his administration has spent over N31bn on salary, gratuity and pension payments in the last 200 days he assumed office in fulfillment of his electoral promise that priority would be given to workers welfare.
Oyebanji added that his government has paid a staggering sum of N6.2 billion as subvention to state’s tertiary institutions towards strengthening the ivory towers and making them competitive nationally and with their contemporaries in other climes, adding that the Independent Power Project started by the Fayemi-led administration would be operational in July to give uninterrupted power supply to government offices, institutions and streetlights, describing the amount being spent on diesel as unsustainable.
On infrastructural development, Oyebanji, said his government has completed the Ado-Ilawe-Erinjiyan road, while aggressive works are ongoing on Ikole , Ado township roads, while other inter-city access roads across the state are enjoying attention to make them motorable. “All the roads we are going to construct are ones that will bring prosperity and boost trading, farming and ease the movement of farm products to the market centres. We will be strategic by targeting our agricultural belt”.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has been urged to among others restrain the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola or any other judge from swearing in any candidate in the February 25 presidential election as President or Vice-President until it is judicially determined with finality or in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution that such candidate has fulfilled the requirement of Section 134(2) (b) of the Constitution.
These formed part of the reliefs being sought in a suit filed by some five individuals, who claimed to be residents and registered voters in the FCT. In the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, filed by their lawyers, Chuks Nwachuku, the plaintiffs raised four questions for the court’s determination in the originating summons filed on April 28.
They are contending that it was a mandatory constitutional requirement that a candidate must obtain at least 25 percent votes in the FCT to be declared winner of a presidential election. The plaintiffs are Anyaegbunam Okoye, David Adzer, Jeffery Ucheh, Osang Paul and Chibuike Nwachukwu, while the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the CJN are listed defendants in the suit.
They want the court to issue “an order setting aside or suspending any declaration and/or issuance of a Certificate of a Return to any candidate in the February 25 presidential election in the country as having been elected, save and except it is judicially determined with finality that such candidate fulfilled the conditions stated in section 134(2) (b) of the Constitution.”
The plaintiffs also want the court to declare “that following the February 25 presidential election, and until a successor is determined in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and sworn in, the term of office of his Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria subsists and endures in accordance with the provisions of section 135 (1) (a) of the Constitution.”
They urged the court to declare that, “the plaintiffs and other FCT residents have a legal interest and constitutional rights to be heard on the question of whether a President-elect must secure at least 25percent of votes cast, on the first ballot, in the FCT, Abuja.” They so want a declaration that no state of the country is at the same time the FCT for any propose whatsoever, including, in particular, under section 134 (2) (b) of the constitution.
Tension brewing between Rivers and Bayelsa States heightened on Friday as the Rivers State Government commenced the demolition of two buildings belonging to the Bayelsa State Government in Akassa Street, old GRA, Port Harcourt. The buildings occupying an expanse of land were being used as residential quarters for workers of Bayelsa State Government Liaison Office in Port Harcourt before the demolition.
Already, the Bayelsa State government has expressed dissatisfaction with the demolition, calling on the governor and people of Rivers State to have some restraints with the demolition. All the workers had moved out of the buildings following a 14-day quit notice issued them by the Rivers government. It was gathered that at 10:20am, escalators and caterpillars began pulling down the buildings while armed security operatives monitored the scene.
Policemen were said to have prevented journalists from taking pictures and entering the building. One of those evicted from the buildings and an employee of the Bayelsa State Liaison office in Port Harcourt, Pastor Isaac Board said he hurriedly packed out of the building. He said: “I have no place to stay as I speak to you. I and my family slept in the corridor of a friends place last night. We are workers with the Bayelsa State, so let the governmentnt come to our aide by giving us a place to stay.”
Another victim and Administration Officer at the Liaison office, Woseebimu Frank-Oputu said he was presently staying at the church with his family. He said: “It was my pastor that came with a truck to carry my property. I and my family are putting up in the church.” The occupants were initially served a notice signed by the Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Lands and Survey, Sir Alozie Nwala, and dated April 19th.
The notice read: “That in contravention of the covenants and conditions contained in the Certificate of Occupancy issued to Bayelsa State Government in respect of plots 34&35 (No 5 Akassa Stree and plot 37 (No 9 Akassa Street ) Golf Course Extension Layout, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, notice is hereby given by the Rivers State Government that the occupants of the said property should vacate. Take notice that the occupants of the above mentioned properties are hereby given 14 days from the date of this notice to vacate buildings thereon.
“As the said buildings are not only constituting public nuisance, but also defacing the Rivers State Government’s Urban Renewal Infrastructural Development Policies as relates to the Golf Course Old GRA Layout. Take further notice that at expiration of this notice, Rivers State Government will take possession of the properties.”
Frowning at the development, the Bayelsa State Government said as sister states, issues between the states can be amicably resolved without recourse to demolition of the properties at Number 5 and 9 Akassa Street, Old GRA, Port Harcourt. According to Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Andrew Esua, both governors had discussed in 2021 when the Rivers State Government first served the Bayelsa State Government the notice for immediate renovation of the property and other subsequent notifications.
Esua hinted that the matter may be taken before the courts. “I set my people in motion again to move straight and then ensure that our officers in the properties are safe so that we can maybe get alternative areas while we take some legal steps. Our people are actually safe. Some of their properties are actually outside as you can see. Today, they sent me a clip that demolition has commenced. Some of the roofs have already been deroofed, the main buildings, you can see cracks in the main buildings, the bulldozer is there. So, definitely, even their lives are no longer safe,” he said.
