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Group Takes Investment Campaign To Imo, Woos Potential Investors

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4 years ago

February 19, 2020

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Pennywise Wealth Management, an investment management firm has called on investors to take advantage of its investment opportunities.

The group’s head of communication in Imo, Mr Chinedu Nwaonuma, made the call while addressing newsmen during a public sensitisation road walk organised by members of the group in Owerri on Wednesday.

Nwaonuma who described the group’s investment potentials as a square peg in a square hole added that the opportunity could not have come at a better time.

He said that the road walk was to inform Imo citizens of the group’s presence in the state as well as create awareness of its upcoming activities.

He urged Imo residents to rise to the challenges presented by the increasing spate of unemployment in the country through purposeful investments, adding that Nigerians in other parts of the country were already benefiting from the platform.

“We are a global investment management firm with a wide range of financial services and diversified client base.

“Financial institutions, corporations and individuals in Portharcourt, Lagos and Abuja are already benefiting from our services and we are by this means sensitising the Imo populace.

” We are committed to helping to solve the problem of unemployment in Nigeria hence our reason for organising this road show and a workshop that will hold at City Chef Hotel, here in Owerri on Saturday, March 22, 2020 at 12.00 noon”, he said.

Speaking on the team of the campaign :Protect your family, invest for your future, the group’s Head of Programs in Imo, Mrs Rita Ezebube said that the investment opportunity was not limited to job seekers.

She added that employed persons who wished for an extra source of income could also invest through the platform adding that the group was using digital technology to ease any form of physical stress that could be associated with investment management.

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Court Remands Tenant For Setting Landlord’s House On Fire In Ibadan

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10 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Dickson Peter, be remanded in a correction facility for allegedly setting his landlord’s house on fire.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police charged the defendant with two counts of felony and arson.

The Magistrate, Mr M. Mudashiru, who did not take his plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in the Abolongo Correctional Facility, Oyo Town.

Mudashiru said the remand is pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

He adjourned the matter until July 23, 2024, for reference.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Femi Oluwadare told the court that Peter, on April 18, at about 12:30 am, was alleged to have unlawfully set fire to the house of his landlord, Cepas Okeme, and destroyed properties worth N6.5 million.

Oluwadare said that after he set the building on fire, it also spread to the next house property belonging to Bose Ali ‘F’ and destroyed property worth N3.5 million.

He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.

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Officer Who Shot Man Dead During Fuel Queue Tumult Identified — Lagos Police

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11 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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The Lagos State Police Command said it has identified the police officer who shot a young man, Toheeb Eniafe, at a petrol station on Wednesday.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this on Thursday.

He said, “The person behind the shooting has been identified as a police officer serving at Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos.

“Investigation is still ongoing and further findings will be made available.

“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is working with the family of the deceased to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice.”

Recall that Eniafe was shot on Wednesday at a petrol station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

Eniafe was reported to have been shot dead while he and some others were resisting the move by some security agents to buy fuel without joining the queue.

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Woman Kills One Year-old Son In Delta

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15 hours ago

May 2, 2024

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The Delta State Police Command on Thursday paraded a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwo, for killing her one-year-old son.

The woman said she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

Also paraded were fake alcoholic producers, murder, kidnapping suspects, and car snatchers among others.

Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abaniwonda Olufemi, frowned at the evil act perpetuated by the woman.

He said, “On April 28, 2024, a case of infanticide was reported at Oleh Division, that a suspect named Sofia Nkwor 24, from Isoko south LGA, dump her child of one year and four month old in a well along the road in Araya community Isoko south LGA.

“Children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating on the well. The mother Sofia Nkwor was immediately arrested and she stated that she dumped the child on 26th April 2024.

Confessing to the crime, Nkwo, said that she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

On the current kidnappings and killings in Ika North-East and Ika South areas of the state where farmers were being kidnapped and killed by gunmen, CP Olufemi said the command had developed personnel for the area.

“We are aware of the security situation in the Ika area of the state, and I have deployed personnel and directed Area Commander to move into the area and curb the bushes.

“The command is also working with Edo state Command because you know the area is the boundary between Delta and Edo,” he added.