National Interest

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Chidozie Kingsley Nwachi, (a.k.a Dozie) for  allegedly  marrying an American: Nicole Kierulff Sayers falsely,  and defrauded her $200,000(Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in the process.  Nwachi was arrested in Abuja on Wednesday, February 15, 2023,  based on the claims of Sayers,  alleging that the  suspect lured her into a false marriage  and defrauded  her of her savings. “I was accustomed to transferring money to him and further felt I had no choice,  since I had just married him,  even though I did not feel confident in my choice to have married him”, she said.     Nwachi’s ploy of defrauding his “wife” was the offer of a phony contract by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Abuja.   He allegedly made Sayers finance the execution of the contrac...

  The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed deep shock and sorrow over the death on Thursday of a Nigeria Premier Football League referee, Dr. Kingsley Nnaemeka Eneogwe in an automobile accident on the Abuja-Kogi-Enugu road.   “This is one death that gnaws at the heart real tight. A young man with his life ahead of him, someone doing so well in his profession and in his avocation, and had worked hard to earn the respect of colleagues and acquaintances across board. I am in deep shock and sorrow,” a flustered President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau said in Algeria where he is attending the ongoing African Nations Championship as a guest of the Confederation of African Football.   Gusau added: “I pray that Almighty God will forgive him his sins and give him eternal rest, and also grant those he has left behind including his immediate family, friends and relations, members of the refereeing family, the NRA and Nigeria Football as a whole the fortitude to ...

The Nigerian military is putting up fresh “drastic measures” in the South-East to curtail the excesses of the gunmen ravaging the region and killing security personnel including soldiers. The rising attacks on its personnel in the South-East region of Nigeria which are allegedly being carried out by the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are giving the military concerns and have necessitated the new measures, sources said. Army spokesperson  Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu said that the military’s worry  heightened by the beheading of a Local Government Chairman in Imo State, last week, by gunmen suspected to be members of IPOB. A military intelligence operative who pleaded anonymity said, “It is disturbing that while our troops are working to ensure peace and security in the society; the gunmen not only abduct their own people, they also attack our personnel and destroy other facilities. Very soon, we will unveil strategies on curtailments that will address the cur...