Umueriland Today

 This is Christiana Igba and her Mom Christiana waited for 10 years with her husband looking for the fruit of the womb before God blessed them with one in December of 2023. Her elated mom then went for omugwo in Abuja. However two weeks back kidnappers entered the home of Mr and Mrs Igba, kidnapped Christiana, her Mom and the baby while asking Mr Simon Igba, the husband for a N 90 million ransom which he couldn't afford.  After bargaining with the kidnappers last week Wednesday the ransom was reduced to N 10 million. While looking for the N 10 million, the baby fell sick at the kidnappers den, they gave the baby to another victim who was released to take to the hospital and contacted Simon Igba to get in touch with the woman which he did and got the baby out of the hospital.  Unfortunately the kidnappers have killed his wife, Christiana and her mother dumping their bodies in the bush.  Our reality now as Nigerians under the situation is appalling. https: //umueriland...

  Court Jails Actress Six Months for Spraying, Stepping on New Naira Notes Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on  Thursday, February 1, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Oluwadarasimi  Omoseyin, an actress, to six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on the new Naira notes at a social event in Lagos. She was first arraigned on February 13, 2023, by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on two-count charges, to which she pleaded “not guilty”. She was subsequently granted bail on February 15, 2023. One of the court reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28th day  of January 2023, at Monarch Event Centre, Lekki, Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion tampered with the sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand  Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same in the  said occasion and you...

 CBN DEPARTMENTS MOVING TO LAGOS Out of the 29 Departments in CBN,  5 will be moved to Lagos: 1 Banking supervision 2 Other financial institutions supervision 3 Consumer protection department 4 Payment system management department 5 Financial policy regulations department

The wealthiest State in Nigeria.  Internally Generated Revenue of all 36 States and Abuja for 2022: 1. Lagos – N651.2bn 2. Rivers – N172.8bn 3. FCT – N124.4bn 4. Ogun – N120.6bn 5. Delta – N85.9bn 6. Oyo – N62.2bn 7. Kaduna – N58.1bn 8. Edo – N47.5bn 9. Kano – N42.5bn 10. Kwara – N35.8bn 11. Akwa Ibom – N34.8bn 12. Anambra – N33.9bn 13. Ondo – N32.6bn 14. Enugu – N28.7bn 15. Bauchi – N25.5bn 16. Osun – N24.6bn 17. Sokoto – N23.6bn 18. Cross River – N21.1bn 19. Jigawa – N20.5bn 20. Abia – N20.1bn 21. Zamfara – N19.4bn 22. Imo – N19.3bn 23. Nasarawa – N19.3bn 24. Borno – N19.1bn 25. Kogi – N18.2bn 26. Ekiti – N17bn 27. Niger – N16.9bn 28. Benue – N15.9bn 29. Plateau – N15.9bn 30. Bayelsa – N15.9bn 31. Gombe – N13.6bn 32. Adamawa – N13.2bn 33. Katsina – N13bn 34. Ebonyi – N12.4bn 35. Yobe – N10.5bn 36. Taraba – N10.2bn 37. Kebbi – N9.1bn Source: National Bureau of Statistics 

 ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL: HOW THE BRITISH HARMED THE WEST TO HELP THE NORTH By Ajiroba Yemi Kotun  LONG POST ALERT! "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) PEOPLE generally become affected when they are not secure. They get unhinged and unsettled. As such, the Northerners were unhinged and unsettled by the liaison between Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) and Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987). They quickly derided their hookup as an “unholy alliance” and pooh-poohed it as "sweetness and light" [Continued from “When Greeks Join'd Greeks: Why Northerners Planted their Feet in their Region”]. That’s how the truncated House of Representatives stayed the course and proceeded with unanimity to pass the motion for adjournment. Home is where the heart is; there is no place like home. Soon after, the remaining members, having successively put a poke in the self-government wheel, called it a day and orga...

 Within space of six months Nneyi Community in Umueri Anambra East LGA of Anambra state has been attack by it neighbor Nsugbe for undisclosed reasons. On 27th May 2023 during the mounting of a Gantry billboard by Umueri Progressive Forum, the engineer and his boys were attacked, their vehicles damaged some of the local guide that was stationed there were beaten to stupor and he recognized them to be from Nsugb e.  The President General of Nsugbe Town Union and his vigilante Chief denied knowledge of the dastardly act and said that the perpetrators  were not from Nsugbe, Nneyi people allowed this to be in the interest of peace.  The wanton destruction of lives and properties of Ndi Umueri by Nsugbe Youths this morning as many structure were destroyed many were maimed leaving them between life and death. Nneyi people are yet to understand what happened to them as they cannot explain what happened.

  Reactions trail court judgment condemning Igbo custom on fatherhood WHAT qualifies a man to lay claim to paternity of children born to him, according to Igbo custom and tradition? This contentious issue was triggered by a recent judgment of an Akure Magistrate Court which declared as “barbaric, evil and ungodly,” a part of Igbo custom which denied a father access to his children for reason of non-payment of bride price to the wife’s family. Ruling on a divorce case between Prophet Theophilus Obayan and his estranged wife, Prophetess Chibuzor Lilian, Magistrate Segun Stephen Rotiba of Akure Magistrate Court, Ondo State, condemned that aspect of Igbo custom as unacceptable. Prophet Obayan is a Yoruba while his estranged wife is Igbo. They were heads of a church located in Ladipo, Lagos State. According to reports, Prophetess Chibuzor left her husband to marry one of his spiritual sons, Abua Obi, and changed her children’s surname from Prophet Obayan’s to Obi, the new husband on the...