Tag Archives: Anambra

The police in Anambra state has arrested six boys for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State.   Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, said the victim had been rescued. She said the suspects …

Two kidnappers have been killed by the police in Anambra state in collaboration with the state vigilantes, at Ichida Community in Anaocha area of the state.    The newly-posted Commissioner of Police, Mr Aderemi Adeoye disclosed this on Wednesday, July 12.    Adeoye said security operatives rescued a female victim …

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has reacted to findings by a panel formed by the Anambra State Government, confirming that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362 she was parading.  In an eight-page report released on Friday, July 7, …

The Anambra State Government has confirmed that Mmesoma Ejikeme manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, where she actually scored 249 as against 362.   In an eight-page report, the state’s panel of inquiry recommended that Mmesoma immediately tender an unreserved written apology to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, …

The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Awka, has remanded a brothel owner, Mrs. Ekpereamaka Okonkwo, 39, and her husband, Okechukwu Okonkwo, 36, for allegedly using underage girls for prostitution purposes in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state.    LIB reported …

Romanus Ejikeme, the father of Mmesoma, the Anambra pupil accused of forging her 2023 JAMB result, says he has left everything to God and will not be seeking any legal redress.   Ejikeme stated this in an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday, July 4, same day the examination board …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced the withdrawal of Anambra pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme’s result and banned her from  writing the examination for three years. In a statement released on Tuesday, July 4, JAMB spokesman, Benjamin Fabian, said after considering the ‘weighty infraction’ committed by Ms Ejikeme …

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB has said that Mmesoma Ejikeme, who allegedly inflated her result and announced herself as the top scorer for the 2023 UTME, has been banned from participating in the examination for the next three years.   The spokesperson, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), …

  Senator representing Anambra South, Ifeanyi Ubah, has told a Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, to take his sit-at-home campaign to his home state of Ebonyi and leave Anambra State out of it.   Ubah had urged residents of the state to open their businesses on the first weekday and shun …

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has ordered a probe into the controversy trailing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE) result of Ejikeme Mmeoma, a pupil from the state who sat for the last JAMB examination.   On Sunday, July 2, LIB reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board …