No fewer than 13 persons including policemen and hoodlums have lost their lives during attacks by gunmen on police stations on Sunday and Monday in Anambra State. During the attack on Monday, seven persons including four policemen were killed by the gunmen who attacked the Awada Police Station, near Obosi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. This attack occurred less than 24 hours after an attack on the 3-3 Police Divisional left no fewer than six persons, including policemen dead in the Oyi Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. During the attack on Monday, the…

Texas board of nursing has filed charges against some nurses for allegedly obtaining educational credentials fraudulently in the United States. In a multi-state coordinated law enforcement action, called Operation Nightingale, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), discovered that some individuals had obtained fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. The investigation, which was launched on January 25, was aimed at uncovering fraudulent dealings where individuals acquired nursing credentials and used them to qualify to sit for the national nursing board examination. “Upon successful completion of the board exam, the nursing applicants became eligible to…

Gunmen in the early hours of yesterday bombed the Ogidi police station in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State and killed three policemen. The gunmen came in a convoy of motorcycles and sienna cars shooting into the air and chanting no election in Anambra. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident, said security operatives have reinforced the area. According to him, the incident is still being assessed while police operations were still ongoing in the area. Ikenga said, “Anambra State Police Command has reinforced security in the Idemili North area of the…

The United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which were embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The step was in accordance with an agreement between the two governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to what it calls the kleptocracy of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of the oil-producing state of Bayelsa in the Niger Delta, the Justice Department said in a statement. Alamieyeseigha was accused of corruption in 2005 when he was caught with almost a million pounds in cash in his London home,…