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Court Discharges OPay Representative Who Spent 6 Months in Kirikiri for Failing to Recover N500,000 Loan

After two years of legal struggle and six months in Kirikiri Prison, 26-year-old Vee from Cross River State, formerly employed as an OPay representative, has been discharged by the court.

According to a tweet by the Headfort Foundation, a prison reform organisation, on Sunday, the long-standing case stemmed from a loan issue involving two POS operators in 2022.

Vee, who used to issue point-of-sale machines and process customer loans, faced charges of conspiracy and stealing after two PoS operators borrowed N1 million and shared it equally in January 2022. While one operator paid off their loan, the other defaulted after paying N100,000 of their N500,000 and absconded.

When OPay learned of this, they sacked Vee and arrested her since she issued the loan to the PoS operator. This was in May 2022. According to Headfort, the Alausa police arrested Vee and kept her in their custody, where she spent a week.

“Vee pleaded with the company to allow her to continue her job with them so the money could be deducted from her salary, but the company refused and insisted on charging her in court,” Headfort tweeted on Sunday.

“Vee was charged to Ogba Magistrate Court on conspiracy and stealing, which she pleaded not guilty to. The court granted her bail and remanded her in Kirikiri female prison, but she could not perfect her bail until after six months in custody.”

Headfort said that OPay added interest to the unpaid loan of N400,000.00 and claimed the sum of N1,017,000 on the charge.

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Lifestyle Nigeria reports that the Governor spoke at the Ubima country home of a former governor of the state, Sir Celestine Omehia, in Ikwerre Local Government Area.

The governor, accompanied by some elders of the state, was on a condolence visit to Omehia on the recent death of his mother, Mrs Ezinne Cecilia Omehia.

Fubara is currently locked in a political battle with his immediate past predecessor, Mr. Nyesom Wike.

He pleaded for the support of all well meaning people of the state in order to save it.

Fubara, according to his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Nelson Chukwudi, said the visit was to demonstrate love and show support to Sir Omehia who, as a son, had satisfactorily performed the duty of giving his mother a befitting burial.

He stressed the need for every true lover of the state to stand up to be counted in the fight to safeguard the soul of Rivers State.

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Man Accused Of Stealing Drowns In Lagos Lagoon Fleeing Arrest

A man simply identified as Azeez, has allegedly jumped into the lagoon in Lagos and drowned, to avoid arrest for being accused of stealing some bags of cement.

The Spokesperson of the Police command in Lagos , SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

Hundeyin said that the Director in charge of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) operations in Lagos Central, (name not mentioned), reported the case to Ikoyi Police Division on Friday at about 12.20 p.m.

Hundeyin said that the director reported that at about 10.45 a.m. on Friday, he received a call that there was an incident at Lekki/Ikoyi Link Bridge.

According to him, on getting to the scene, he met a large crowd gathered by the waterside, watching the lifeless body of a man who had drowned at the Lagos Lagoon.

“The deceased was later identified as Azeez. He was later confirmed dead by paramedics of Pre Hospital Care, Lagos.

“It was discovered that one Elijah Amos, the seller of the cement, was pursuing the deceased before he jumped into the Lagoon, because he was alleged to have stolen some bags of cement,” Hundeyin said.

The image maker said that the scene was visited by the police, while the corpse had been evacuated to Mainland General Hospital Mortuary, Yaba, for autopsy and preservation.

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Commercial Blood Infected With HIV And Hepatitis C Killed 3000 In UK

Commercial blood product at the centre of the biggest treatment scandal in the history of the NHS was approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among the paid donors and virus contamination “should be assumed”, corporate filings reveal.

The product, given to haemophiliacs to enable their blood to clot, was injected into thousands of patients in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, including young children, who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

A single batch could contain plasma from 20,000 donors harvested in US prisons and some of the poorest neighbourhoods of America, where drug use and sexual infections were rife. One infected donation would contaminate the entire batch.

An inquiry headed by Sir Brian Langstaff will report next month on the scandal, which has killed about 3,000 people.

He has already concluded “wrongs were done at individual, collective and systemic levels”.

The drug firm Bayer provided 7,000 documents to the inquiry, which reveals its subsidiary, Cutter Laboratories, warned in licensing application documents in the 1970s that its commercial blood product Koate, may contain viruses. It said: “Since the presence or absence of hepatitis virus in Koate concentrate cannot be proven with absolute certainty the presence of such a virus should be assumed.”

The product, known as a factor VIII concentrate, was approved in August 1976 along with similar treatments that were a conduit for deadly viruses for several years.