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Woman, 25, docked over alleged sale of 4-months old baby
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 25-year-old woman, Sandra Ishaku, was on Tuesday arraigned at a Jos Upper Area Court, for allegedly selling her four-months-old baby for N100,000. Ishaku, along with three others – Amechi Emmanuel, Jones Osim and Gladys Chukwuma – were charged with conspiracy, cruelty, and child abandonment. According to the prosecutor, Mr L. O. Ocho, Ishaku, on May 10, 2017, sold her baby to Chukwuma, for N100,000. Ocho told the court that the transaction was carried out in Jos, in the chambers of Osim, a legal practitioner. “Ishaku conspired with Emmanuel and sold her baby to Chukwuma, who had just relocated from Ebonyi State to Jos,” he said. The Presiding Judge, Yahaya Mohammed, did not take the plea of the accused, opting to remand three of them – Ishaku, Emmanuel and Chukwuma – in prison custody, while the matter was adjourned to June 1, when hearing would commence. Mohammed, however, granted Osim bail after his counsel, Mr Lawrence Anya, pleaded that he be rele...
Ikpeazu inaugurates scholarship board
http://ift.tt/2qdo1GI Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu<br /> Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia said the state’s scholarship board was the flagship enterprise of his administration because of its role in the development of education in the state. Ikpeazu, who stated this while inaugurating the board in Umuahia on Monday, said the board had provided many youths in the state with the opportunity to earn quality education. According to him, human capacity building programmes are necessary for raising relevant manpower for the achievement of the State Government’s development agenda. The governor said that the board was set up to drive the agenda of providing succour to the most vulnerable in the state, who desired to acquire education. He said that he was confident that the board would evolve innovations and programmes that would place Abia ahead of other states. Ikpeazu said that the State Government would provide the funds and resources the board would need to functio...