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Tears welled up in the eyes of Margaret Ekun, a mother of six as she narrated her ordeal in the hands of Jacob Alonge, her ex-husband, who is now serving 21 years jail term for raping and impregnating his 17-year-old daughter, Gift Alonge. At a point, she paused and wasn’t willing to speak further on her past experiences with her 52-year-old husband. “Everything is in that court. You can go there and ask them. I have nothing to say again,” she said, pointing to a magistrates’ court a stone’s throw from her tailor shop by the roadside at the entrance of Ososo, in the Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. Margaret is the step mother of Gift whose mother’s whereabouts is unknown to many in the community. It took some minutes of persuasion before the woman in her 40s could agree to speak further. She continued softly, obviously weakened by past developments, “When I heard of how he raped and impregnated Gift, I was shocked.’’ She stopped abruptly to use the helm of her ...

The FBI has arrested 28-year-old Nigerian Businessman, Obinwanne Okeke, the CEO of Invictus Group for a $11 million wire fraud, which was executed by hacking into a steel company's CEO's Office365 account. He was in the 2016 Forbes Africa 30 Under 30. The Invictus Obi's saga is disheartening not because another Nigeria yet again has been busted for fraud, it's disheartening because the rippling effect will be enormous. A lot of Nigerians are going to pay for yet another scandal by a single Nigerian. Thing is,Obinwanne was not just another average Nigerian, he had a CV and portfolio that was envied on even by the International Community. He was looked upon as one of the bright spots to come out of this dark hellish place called Nigeria. Obinwanne Okeke (Invictus) was one of the supposed few answers to the damning question of can anything good come out of Nigeria? Featured by Forbes as one of the Forbes 30 under 30. He's been on BBC, given a Te...

 By Patrick Ochoga The magistrate court in Evbuoriaria Benin City, Edo state, has sentenced 52years old herbalist; Jacob Alonge from Ososo in Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo state for 21 years for raping and impregnating his 17 years old daughter Gift Alonge now late. He was sentenced on three count charges of unlawful possession of fetish wrap of the victims’ pubic hair; that unlawfully and indecently have canal knowledge of his biological daughter and repeated sexual assault and impregnated her. The victim, Gift who was five months pregnant and four others who were helping to prosecute died in a ghastly motor accident on January 16 this year when they were travelling to Benin for the judgment. Other victims in the accident were Miss Rhoda Braimoh, Miss Promise Ezekiel staff of a non governmental organization; BraveHeart Initiative for Youth and Women (BHI) which has been helping in prosecuting the case, the victim’s maternal uncle, Mr Ukere Adagbogu and the driver ...