The South-East socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday, 21 July, condemned the killing of 14 wedding guests in the Otulu area of Imo state by operatives of the Ebubeagu Security Network. According to Daily Post, the group described it as a sacrilege, an attempt by Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to cover up the killing of 14 young men, and that everyone who was involved in an attempt to cover up the crime would never escape the laws of natural justice and God’s retribution. Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, called for immediate disbandment of the Ebubeagu…
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Operatives of the Niger state police command have arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin identified as Bashiru Abdullahi. The state police public relations officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, while parading the kidnap kingpin on Friday, July 22, said Badhuru was arrested at Kontagora, Kontagora local government area on July 14, 2022, based on credible information in Minna, Daily Post reports. Basiru said he was arrested when he was planning, and making effort to recruit armed men needed to perpetrate his usual kidnapping escapades, according to the police spokesperson. Abiodun said, “Bashiru confessed that he planned to kidnap a former local government council chairman of Mariga, and…
Ado Aleru, a terrorist who was recently named the Sarkin Fulani Yandoton Daji Emirate, in Zamfara State, on Saturday, 23 July, said in a confession that he does not kidnap people but kills them. The coronation of Mr. Aleru, who is the leading terrorist in the Tsafe and Faskari axis of Zamfara and Katsina states, generated public outcry across the country. The state government subsequently suspended the Emir of the town, Aliyu Marafa, who conferred the title on Mr. Aleru, who is wanted in neighboring Katsina State for mass killings. The Katsina government placed a bounty of five million naira on any…
Five suspected Boko Haram members including Mallam Isa, a commander, on Friday, 22 July surrendered to troops of the Nigerian Army in Borno. According to The Cable, the counter-insurgency expert Zagazola Makama said, they surrendered on July 22 to the troops of 73 Battalion, Operation Hadin Kai. “At about 200812A, the troops of Cashew plantation deployed at Valley Shuwa had received five surrendered Boko Haram terrorists,” he said. Preliminary investigation revealed that the insurgents were said to have come out from Gazuwa, an acclaimed new headquarters of the Boko Haram faction, located about 8 kilometers to the Bama Local Government area. Makama…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two herbalists who conspired to defraud an aspiring house of representatives member in Ekiti of twenty-four million naira. According to a statement by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency said Abiodun Ibrahim and Wale Adifala, the two self-acclaimed spiritualists, alongside Ifawole Ajibola also known as Baba Kalifa, an accomplice who is currently on the run, were arrested by operatives of the Lagos command of the commission on Thursday, July 7 in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti capital. It said the trio conspired to defraud an aspiring house of representatives member in Ekiti of the sum of…
Some government schools in Abuja, following the threat of terrorists to attack the Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), made their students to write up to 13 papers in a day in order to shut down schools. The federal ministry of education, had, on Wednesday afternoon, July 27, 2022, ordered the closure of all private schools in the nation’s capital due to the recent attacks of terrorists’ on the capital city. Residents of Abuja have been living in fear since the invasion of Kuje correctional centre by terrorists, suspected to be Boko Haram members, on Tuesday,…
The Ondo state police command has arrested a man simply identified as Wale and a yet-to-be-identified woman for crushing one Sarah Ajesi to death during a driving lesson in the Irese region of Akure, the state capital. The family of Sarah Ajesi had earlier written a petition to the state commissioner of police, Oyeyemi Oyediran, to investigate the killing of the woman by two persons who were driving on Irese road, Akure, the state capital, according to The Punch. The family’s lawyer, Ibukun Fasanmi, who noted that the deceased and her husband were knocked down, said the latter was hospitalised and…
No fewer than four policemen and one civilian, on Wednesday, July 26, lost their lives after a gunboat on patrol duty crushed a 200 horsepower engine boat conveying the victims in Bayelsa state. The civilian, Odi Lyon, was working with Darlon oil and gas limited, an oil surveillance company in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Odi was the younger brother of a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, David Lyon. It was learnt that one of the aides to David Lyon, identified as Ogbojimo, however, survived the incident, which occurred between Ogbunugbene and Ondewari communities near…
A lady identified as Chioma Eunice Igweike, who was abducted on Wednesday, July 20, has been found dead with vital parts of her body missing. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report but it was gathered that the deceased was abducted on Wednesday, July, 20, 2022, after she left her residence in Anambra state for the mandatory three weeks orientation course at the Ogun state National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp. Eunice, who was a graduate of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state, was kidnapped and killed by ritualists, according to a source. Meanwhile, friends…
The body of a young lady simply identified as Kate was found buried in her boyfriend’s room at Okaka area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, on Friday morning, July 29. Kate had been missing for days, and the boyfriend identified as Joseph, denied knowledge of her whereabouts. It was learnt that the family of the deceased confronted Joseph, who is an internet fraudster, popularly called yahoo boy, on Friday morning, July 29, and probed him about Kate’s whereabouts. After much pressure, Joseph admitted that he killed her, and buried the body in a shallow grave dug in his bedroom. He was beaten by the…