By Joe Udo A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and presided over by Justice Chigozie Sergius Onah, has convicted and sentenced three internet fraudsters (popularly Yahoo Boys) to different jail terms for offences bordering on criminal impersonation, internet fraud and possession of fraudulent documents. The convicts, Abraham Itoro Sunday, Ezea Chidera Charles…
By Joe Udo Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi, for defrauding church members and other Nigerians using fake grants from the Ford Foundation to the tune of N1,319,040,274.31( One Billion Three Hundred and Nineteen Million, Forty…
By Frank Ulom Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested three persons for allegedly disrupting the ongoing by-election in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State. CONVERSEER gathered that the three people arrested were one Barr. Emmanuel Itile and his two younger brothers. The trio, suspected to be political thugs were apprehended by…
By Nsikak Ibatt On Thursday at about 8:35 PM, fire engulfed the Central Store House of the Students’ Affairs Division, University of Calabar, burning down office equipment worth millions of naira as well as files that contained Students’ documentation. The students and staff of the institution placed a distress call to the firefighters at about…
By Frank Ulom The students and staff of the University of Calabar, UNICAL on Thursday night saved the institution’s Central Store building from a raging fire. CONVERSEER learned from a video sent to our newsroom by an anonymous source around 11pm where the students and staff were calling for help while trying to put off…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – 44 people have been rendered homeless following the fire incident that razed down their 11-room residential apartment in Cross River. Converseer learned that the unfortunate incident happened on Wednesday at Edibe Edibe by Abua Street in Calabar South Local Government Area of the State. The cause of the fire…
By Joe Udo AWKA (CONVERSEER) – Mrs Chinyere Chukwu, a 38-year-old mother of 11 children, has been arrested for selling two of her children, all boys for N1.8 million in Anambra. CONVERSEER learned Mrs Chukwu who decided to sell the children for N1.8m instead of N2 million was arrested on Tuesday by the Anambra State…
By Frank Ulom Mr Kingsley Benson, a Bolt driver has just stopped another su!c!de after saving a female passenger who intended to take her own life in Calabar, Cross River State. Narrating the incident on Monday after taking the passenger to Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar Road, Benson said the female passenger (name withheld) made a…
By Our Reporter No fewer than 15 persons have been reportedly killed following an exchange of gunfire between the Biafra separatist fighter group, Dragon Fighter Marine and the Rapid d’intervention Battalions (BIR) of Cameroon As reported by Sunrise Daily TV, the pro-Biafra militant group in a bid to capture localities in Isangele subdivision of Bakassi…
By Frank Ulom A 16-room apartment has been razed down by fire along Glado Street in Okuku, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River. The incident which happened on Sunday, 21 January 2024, rendered 38 occupants homeless. Though the cause of the fire could not be ascertained, the caretaker of the house, Pastor David Ogar…
