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A US Court has sentenced an Osun monarch, the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Joseph Oloyede, to 56 months imprisonment for defrauding the United States government of $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds.

Some residents of Enugu on Monday stormed the International Conference Centre, venue of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference, to protest the continued incarceration of Barr Bright Ngene, the winner of Enugu South Urban 1 House of Assembly seat.

Stakeholders from civil society, academia, media, the legal community, security institutions, youth groups, religious leaders, community representatives, and victims of civic space violations, rose from a meeting in Anambra State weekend, condemning the shrinking of civic space by governments at various levels.