Delta State University student found hanging from tree on campus

 

The body of a student was found hanging from a tree in Delta State University. 

Delta State University released a statement around 9 a.m. on Monday morning, September 15, stating that a dead body was found on campus. 

“Earlier today, Delta State University staff discovered a deceased individual on campus,” DSU announced. “University Police and local authorities were immediately notified and are conducting an active investigation.” 
 

DSU said there were no further details to share at this.

“Out of respect for the individual and their loved ones, we will refrain from additional comments until authorities release more information,” DSY stated. 
 

DSU said counselors and support services have been made available to students, faculty and staff. 

In an update, it eas discloses that authorities have identified the student who was found dead Monday morning at Delta State University. 

According to Delta State University President Daniel Ennis, the student is Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, out of Grenada. 

 

“Our community is deeply saddened by this loss. We extend our heartfelt condolences to family, friends, and all those impacted by Trey’s loss,” Ennis said during a press conference at the university Monday afternoon. 

Delta State’s Director of Public Safety Mike Peeler said University Police received a call around 7:05 a.m. in reference to a Black male “hanging from a tree” near the central campus’ pickleball courts. 

“Mr. Reed’s next of kin have been notified. At this time, there is no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said. 

He added that Reed’s body has been recovered by the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office and that the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the Bolivar County Sheriff’s Department have been called in to assist in the investigation.

 

All classes and centennial events were canceled on Monday, and counseling was made available to students and faculty.

I got pregnant a month after I turned 40 - Toke Makinwa

 

Media personality, Toke Makinwa, has revealed that she got pregnant one month after her 40th birthday.

 

She disclosed this on her Instagram on Monday, September 15. 

Makinwa announced the birth of her first child, a baby girl, on August 28, 2025. 

 

The mother of one turned 40 on November 3, 2024. 

 

Nigerian national sentenced to 97 months in prison for international scheme that defrauded elderly U.S victims of $6m

 

A Nigerian national, Ehis Lawrence Akhimie, has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme in the United States. 

 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced this in a statement issued by the Department of Justice on Monday, September 15, 2025. 

Akhimie, 41, who was extradited from the United Kingdom to the US, was sentenced on September 11, 2025, according to the statement. 

 

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With the latest sentencing, eight Nigerians involved in the fraud scheme have been sentenced. 

 

According to court documents, Akhimie was a member of a group of fraudsters that sent personalized letters to elderly victims in the United States over the course of several years. 

 

The letters falsely claimed that the sender was a representative of a bank in Spain and that the recipient was entitled to receive a multimillion-dollar inheritance left for the recipient by a family member who had died overseas years before. 

 

Akhimie and his co-conspirators told a series of lies to victims, including that, before they could receive their purported inheritance, they were required to send money for delivery fees, taxes, and other payments to avoid questioning from government authorities. 

 

Akhimie and his co-conspirators collected money victims sent in response to the fraudulent letters through a complex web of U.S.-based former victims, whom the defendants convinced to receive money and forward to the defendants or persons associated with them. Victims who sent money never received any purported inheritance funds. 

 

In pleading guilty, Akhimie admitted to defrauding over $6 million from more than 400 victims, many of whom were elderly or otherwise vulnerable.

 

“Schemes like this steal not only money but dignity from our seniors,” said U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida (SDFL). “Our Office stands with victims, ensures their voices are heard, and will relentlessly pursue those who prey on them.”

 

“The Justice Department will continue to pursue, prosecute, and bring to justice transnational criminals responsible for defrauding U.S. consumers, wherever they are located,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “This case is a testament to the critical role of international collaboration in tackling transnational crime. I want to thank our U.S. law enforcement partners, as well as those who assisted across the globe, including the National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service of the United Kingdom, for their outstanding contributions to this case.”

 

“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is committed to protecting American consumers from being defrauded by Transnational Criminal Organizations,” said Acting Postal Inspector in Charge Bladismir Rojo for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Miami Division.  “We have long partnered with the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch to deliver justice and we will continue to do so.”

 

“Defrauding the elderly and other vulnerable populations is a betrayal of not just trust but of humanity,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Ray Rede for HSI Arizona. “HSI and our law enforcement partners commitment to investigate criminals who steal money sends a clear message: justice will prevail, and those who exploit others for personal gain will be held accountable. We thank all our partners who assisted in this investigation.”

“Akhimie is the eighth defendant sentenced to prison in connection with the scheme. District Court Judge Kathleen M. Williams previously sentenced six additional defendants in a related case,” the statement read. 

 

On April 25, District Court Judge Roy K. Altman sentenced Okezie Bonaventure Ogbata, who was extradited from Portugal, to 97 months in prison for his role in the scheme, describing the defendant’s offense conduct as “an incredibly serious crime” and stating that it merited a substantial sentence because it was important “to stand up for the most vulnerable, for the least protected members of our society who have done absolutely nothing wrong.”

 

USPIS and HSI investigated the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, Europol, and authorities from the UK, Spain, and Portugal all provided critical assistance.

 

Senior Trial Attorney and Transnational Criminal Litigation Coordinator Phil Toomajian and Trial Attorneys Josh Rothman of the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch are prosecuting the case.

Presidency tackles Atiku over his claim of hunger in Nigeria

 

The Presidency has berated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his comments on the state of the nation, describing his claims of hunger and looming unrest as misleading and out of touch with the reality of many Nigerians.

 

In a statement released earlier today, Atiku compared Nigeria’s current situation to the unrest that preceded the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.He noted that there is so much hunger in Nigeria at the moment and that this may lead to a revolution.

Responding to his remarks, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, dismissed the comparison, insisting that recent data showed positive progress under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

 

“Talk is cheap. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his handlers are clearly out of touch with the positive developments currently unfolding in our country,” the Presidency said.

 

Citing the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Onanuga noted that headline inflation had declined for the fifth consecutive month in August, while over the weekend, the Bureau also reported a record trade surplus. It added that the contribution of non-oil exports to the country’s trade balance was now nearly at par with crude oil at a ratio of 48:52 per cent.

 

 

The presidency further disclosed that Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves had risen to nearly $42billion, up from $32bn when Tinubu assumed office.

According to the Presidency, arrears of over $7billion, including $800million owed to airlines, had also been cleared within the period.

 

 

It added that under the current administration, states were now able to pay salaries and gratuities promptly, while still having funds left for capital and social projects — an achievement it said had not been witnessed at such scale before.

 

“After just two years and five months in office, we are proud of the progress being made under President Tinubu’s leadership. Atiku and his allies may choose to ignore these gains, but Nigerians can see and feel the positive changes taking place across the nation,” Onanuga said

 

The Presidency further accused the former Vice President and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being fixated on “doomsday scenarios and revolutionary rhetoric.”

 

 

It added that many challenges facing the country currently stemmed from what it described as “economic mismanagement during the PDP years, when Atiku was Vice President.”

"I had been praying that this person was from another country" Utah governor Spencer Cox says he had hoped Charlie Kirk shooter "wouldn't be one of us"

 

Utah governor Spencer Cox has sparked criticism after he said Friday, September 12, that he had hoped Charlie Kirk's shooter "wouldn’t be one of us". 

On Friday, it was announced that the suspect arrested for the a$$assination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white man from a pro-gun family with parents who are registered Republicans. 

Speaking at a press conference, Cox said while he was grateful for the quick arrest of a suspect in Charlie Kirk’s a$$assination, he had hoped the suspect “wouldn’t be one of us,” hoping it would be someone from another state or country. 

He said he thought it would “make it easier” to be able to say, “We don’t do that here.” 

“For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn't be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country… Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for… But it did happen here, and it was one of us,” Cox said. 

His statement has sparked criticisms.