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  • Plateau boils again, 8 killed, 95 houses burnt as gunmen invade communities

    Plateau Police Commissioner Undie Adie has confirmed that eight people were killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in Abonong and Zayit villages of Foron District of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

    In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Matthias Tyopev Terna, said three people were injured and 95 houses were burnt during the attack.

    “On the 28/08/2018, at about 2000hrs, the Plateau State Police Command, Jos, received an information that some communities in Foron District of Barkin Ladi LGA namely; Abonong and Zayit were under attack by unknown gunmen.

    “The command quickly mobilised to the communities and while the police were approaching the areas, the attackers sighted them from a far and ran away from the scene of crime.

    “As a result of the attack, eight persons lost their lives, three people were injured, 95 houses were burnt and 310 cattle were stolen.”

    In a related development, the military said its troops have ‘neutralised” four Boko Haram in an ambush in the central part of Borno State, while attempting to clear the highway of explosives. The incident, according to the spokesman of Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, occurred Tuesday, on Gulumba Gana-Masa-Dikwa road in Dikwa council of the state.

    “Troops on a fighting patrol had uncovered two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) buried in the ground on the road by the terrorists. While the troops carried out counter IED actions to disarm the explosives, the insurgents sprang from the ambush, but met fierce resistance by the troops, who swiftly countered the ambush, killing three of the insurgents, while others fled with gunshot wounds,” Nwachukwu said.

    He said the troops were of the 81 Division Task Force Battalion deployed to Operation Lafiya Dole for the counter-insurgency operation in the north-east.

    Two AK 47 rifles, one Light Machine Gun and an empty magazine were recovered from the insurgents, he said.

    “One of the troops who unfortunately sustained injury during the encounter is currently receiving medical attention in our medical facility,” he disclosed.

    In another operation, he said the military troops “successfully staged” an ambush against Boko Haram insurgents that were traversing a crossing point behind Ngala town, in same central part of Borno State.

  • Gunmen ambush, kill 4 policemen in Kaduna

    Gunmen ambush, kill 4 policemen in Kaduna

    Four policemen were ambushed and killed by bandits in Jankasa village, in Rigasa area of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

    The state police public relations officer, Yakubu Sabo, confirmed the incident at the weekend.

    Sabo said the incident took place at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday when a team of detectives drawn from Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Rapid Response Team was ambushed by the bandits.

    He said the officers were on their way for an operation when the bandits engaged them in a gun battle, leading to the death of four of them.

    Sabo added that the command swiftly reinforced and mobilised its men to the area with a view to apprehending the bandits.

    “Yesterday, Saturday, August 11, 2018, at about 6:30 a.m., a team of detectives attached to Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, while on operation along Jankasa village of Rigasa Kaduna, was ambushed by bandits.

    “After a fierce gun battle, four of our policemen paid the supreme sacrifice. We quickly mobilised and reinforced to apprehend the perpetrators of the heinous acts. No arrest has been made yet but, as events unfold, I will give more details,” he said.

    Speaking on the attack, the IRT leader, DCP Abba Kyari, told journalists, Sunday evening that bodies of the deceased operatives were deposited at Saint Gerald Hospital Mortuary Kaduna State for autopsy, while very serious efforts were in progress to get the killers to book.

    He said, “Sequel to the Kidnapping of Sheikh Ahmad Adam Algarkawy in Rigasa area of Kaduna State on 2/8/18 and his subsequent release after ransom was paid.

    “In a follow up to the case on 11/8/18 IRT operative arrested two of the Kidnappers in a remote settlement inside Rigasa forest inKaduna State.

    “As the team was coming out of the bush with the arrested kidnappers, other gang-members hiding inside the bush ambushed the IRT team and opened fire which resulted to the death of four IRT operatives.”

    He gave names of the deceased as, AP/No. 148333 Inspr. Benard Odibo, AP/No. 181539 Inspr. Mamman Abubakar, AP/No. 192938 Inspr. Haruna Ibrahim F/No. 267815 and Sgt Emmanuel Istifanus.

    The police spokesman added that investigation into the matter had commenced.

    Meanwhile, the Zamfara State Police Command on Saturday arrested eight suspected bandits and foiled an attack on a market in Gurbin Bore town in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state. According to the command’s spokesman, SP Shehu Mohammed, the eight bandits were arrested following a distress call to the command on Saturday that bandits had stormed the Gurbin Bore market to cause loss of life and property, and had already abducted one Jafar Yusuf.

    He said: “The command’s tactical teams swiftly arrived the scene, cordoned it off and rescued the victim who was already injured. Eight bandits were arrested with two locally fabricated guns and two jack knives recovered.”

    He added that all the suspects were in the command’s custody under interrogation after which they would be charged to court for prosecution.

    Recently, some family members of the Zamfara State commissioner for youth and sports, Alhaji Abdullahi Gurbin Bore, were abducted in the same village, but they were later rescued.

  • Fayemi urges police to bring killers of APC chieftain to justice

    The Media Office of Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has challenged security agencies to fish out the killers of Bunmi Ojo and prosecute them.

    Ojo, a former Personal Assistant to ex-governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, was shot dead by unknown assailants at a football viewing centre around Ajitadidun area in Ado Ekiti on Friday night.

    A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity, Wole Olujobi, expressed shock and sadness over Ojo’s murder, describing it as a sad commentary that shattered the relative peace the state had been enjoying after the July 14 governorship poll.

    While commiserating with the family of the late politician, Fayemi charged security agencies to live up to their responsibility to get to the root of the killing and bring perpetrators to justice.

    He said, “This is a sad development that should not be allowed to go away without getting to the root of this killing, but then the public must give security agencies a chance to do their job to get to the root of this sad development.

    “Security agencies are enjoined to swing into action to apprehend the perpetrators of this heinous crime to check the activities of criminals in Ekiti State.”

  • Man splits wife’s head for denying him sex

    A Ghanaian farmer, Kofi Abraham, 38, is currently on the run after he allegedly split his wife, Nana Yaa’s head for denying him sex.

    According to Adom Online, the body of the 34-year-old woman was found on Monday morning and retrieved by the police.

    The Assin Fosu District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Leonard Abakah, said the police got a report from a friend of the suspect, Kofi Abraham that he had found the body of Nana Yaa.

    The friend told the police that he received a telephone call earlier in the morning from Kofi Abraham that he (Kofi Abraham) had mistakenly locked up his nine-year-old son in his room and taken the keys away.

    Chief Superintendent Abakah said the friend went to the house and broke the door only to find the boy sitting near the corpse of his dead mother.

    Items found at the crime scene includes machete, pick axe and shovel with blood stains.

  • We killed our dad for sexually abusing us, teenage girls tell police

    Three Russian teenagers, who allegedly murdered their father have revealed the reason behind their action.

    According to Mirror UK, the teenagers, Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18 and Maria, 17, confessed to jointly killing their heroine-addict father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, claiming they suffered years of appalling sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

    Kristina told police: “We hated him and we wanted just one thing to happen – either that he disappeared or that we never knew him.

    “We wanted him just to go away and never come back.”

    The sisters alleged that on the day of the attack he had threatened them with a knife in their flat near the Altufievskoe highway in Moscow.

    One of the sisters had grabbed the knife and stabbed him, and the others joined in the attack, say reports.

    The man tried to escape the flat but was attacked more and died near the elevator.

    Friends and neighbours claimed the father was tyrannical and that his wife — the girls’ mother — left him because of his abuse, while a son, now a student at Moscow University, had been “thrown out” of the home by the father.

    Sergei, their brother, reported to be 21, was quoted as saying: “My sisters just could not have done it.

    “I don’t know what happened. I don’t know who to believe. I have not lived there since I was 16.

    “He forced our mother to leave too but I do not know what for. He wanted me to grow up a strong man.

    “If he beat anyone it does not mean he was a bad person.”

    In the dead man’s Audi Q7 car police reportedly found two kilograms of heroin along with his arsenal of a pneumatic rifle, a smooth bore rifle, three pneumatic handguns, a signal gun, and a gas gun.

    The three sisters have been charged with murder leading to a maximum penalty of 10 to 15 years in jail.

  • Policemen mistake SARS operative for kidnapper, shoot him dead

    Policemen mistake SARS operative for kidnapper, shoot him dead

    Some policemen on guard in a private residence have allegedly killed a member of the Special Anti Robbery Squad in Alor, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    Our correspondent gathered on Friday that the incident occurred near the home of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.

    A Police source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent in Awka that the deceased, whose identity could not be confirmed as of press time, was mistaken for a kidnapper by his colleagues

    “He (the deceased) accompanied one of his colleagues to somebody’s residence to effect an arrest at about 4.30 am.

    “They were handcuffing their suspect when somebody who did not know that they were SARS operatives alerted some policemen on guard in a private residence in the neighbourhood.

    “The neighbour had told the policemen that kidnappers were trying to abduct someone.

    “As soon as the policemen arrived the scene and saw the SARS operatives, they opened fire at them and gunned down the deceased, thinking they were kidnappers.

    “It was minutes after that his colleagues identified him as a SARS operative on special duty,” the source stated.

    The Officer-in-charge of SARS at Awkuzu, Sunday Okpe, confirmed the incident.

    Okpe, who spoke on the telephone with our correspondent, said the deceased was one of his subordinates.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Haruna Mohammed, did not pick the call put across to him by our correspondent for confirmation of the story; nor did he reply a text message sent to him for that purpose.

    An insider in the Police Command, who begged not to be mentioned, said that the offending policemen were already facing orderly room trial.

  • How Ondo ex-deputy governor’s daughter was killed in my house – Boyfriend

    How Ondo ex-deputy governor’s daughter was killed in my house – Boyfriend

    Saidu-Shakiru Adeyemi, the boyfriend of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, the slain daughter of Lasisi Oluboyo, former deputy governor of Ondo State, has denied involvement in her death.

    Miss Oluboyo, the 25 year-old final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was on Sunday found dead at the home of her boyfriend in Akure, the state capital.

    Mr Adeyemi denied involvement in Oluboyo’s death when he faced journalists at the headquarters of the Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday in Akure.

    According to him, it was the slain girl that brought two boys into his room, who eventually killed her.

    Mr Adeyemi explained that he had dated Oluboyo for four years before they parted ways in 2015, and that they only reconciled after the last Ramadan celebration.

    Adeyemi, who completed his National Youth Service in 2017, said he had no reason to kill her because he hoped to use her father’s connection to secure job.

    He said that Khadijat came to his house on Thursday because of her project which he was helping her to do.

    According to him, they had finished chapter one and her supervisor had already approved it and she came for final correction so that she could move to chapter two.

    He explained further that the girl later travelled to Lagos on Friday to buy some wrist watches but she forgot to drop her project with him and promised to return to school from Lagos.

    “Meanwhile, on Saturday she snapped both the soft and hard copy of her project to me on my WhatsApp for correction.

    “On Monday, I believed she was already in school when she sent me a text message to send her N2,000. But I was able to send only N1,000.

    “So, I was surprised when I heard a knock on my door later in the day and she entered my room.

    “She later told me that she wanted to receive some visitors in my place, and few minutes later she brought two boys in. I was not surprised because that was not her first time to bring someone to my house.

    “Later when they came in, we exchanged greetings and I left them in the room. But after 30 minutes, one of the boys called me in and I discovered he held a small gun in his hand while the other boy was on her, naked.

    “And I heard Khadijat saying ‘I will not tell anybody.’ The boy strangled her to death and threatened me not to shout or else they would kill me.

    “They later forced me to find a digger with which they dug the ground in my room and buried her

    “They are the ones that killed and buried her. I could not shout after they left because of the implication of what has happened, for I was sure nobody would believe me.

    “On the fifth day, I was not comfortable anymore, so I exhumed her body and confided in my younger brother who advised that we should inform our father about the development.

    “It was my father who informed the police before I was arrested,” Mr Adeyemi said.

    Femi Joseph, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, who paraded Mr Adeyemi with other suspects, said he would soon be charged to court after completion of investigation.

     

  • Client kills native doctor after testing bulletproof charms on him

    Client kills native doctor after testing bulletproof charms on him

    A 26-year-old native doctor, Chinaka Adoezuwe, reportedly died as one of his clients, Chukwudi Ijezie, attempted to test the bullet-repelling charms Adoezuwe had allegedly prepared for him.

    The incident happened in Umuozu Ugiri village, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo States.

    A villager, Kingsley Ugochukwu, told newsmen that Ijezie, who is now being held in Police custody, had gone to the herbalist to procure charms that would prevent bullets from penetrating his body when shot at.

    Adoezuwe, after allegedly preparing the charms, had reportedly instructed Ijezie to position himself so that he (the native doctor) could test-run the efficacy of the charms — an instruction that Ijezie allegedly declined to carry out.

    Adoezuwe according to the report was confident of the charm’s efficacy and therefore went ahead to wear the charms round his neck, and thereafter instructed Ijezie to shoot at him.

    Ijezie reportedly obeyed him this time around, shot him, resulting to Adoezuwe’s instant death.

    The villager said, “A young man had gone to a native doctor to prepare bullet-proof charms for him, which the native doctor did.

    “After preparing it, the native doctor asked his customer to position himself very well so that he could test the efficacy or otherwise of the charms, but his customer refused .

    “But to prove the efficacy of the new charms, the native doctor positioned and handed over a gun to his customer to test-run the charm.

    “Tragedy struck and the bullets penetrated Adoezuwe, resulting in his death.”

    Confirming the development, the Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, said that the suspect had been arrested by the operatives of the command.

    Enwerem said,”The suspect is in our custody. It is a case of murder. The Isiala Mbano division of the Command has moved in, arrested the suspect and returned normalcy to the area.”

    “The case will be transferred to the State Criminal and Investigation Department in Owerri for thorough investigation,” Enwerem added.

  • How man killed fiancée, deposited her body in a bin in Lagos [Video]

    The man who murdered his fiancee and deposited her corpse in a bin in Oshodi, Lagos, is believed to have killed her because another man picked her call while he was away on a journey.

    Isaiah Chukwu, 35, a spare parts dealer in Ladipo, Oshodi, lived with his 26-year-old lover, identified only as Joy, in a house on Balogun Street, Oshodi. Though not married, Chukwu and Joy, both indigenes of Ebonyi State, had been living together for the past two years.

    All seemed smooth in their relationship until Chukwu traveled, then called Joy on the phone, only to hear another man’s voice. He concluded Joy was cheating on him and when he returned to Lagos, he stabbed her in the back. He then declared her missing.

    However, he ran out of luck when he tried disposing of the body and was caught by youths in the neighborhood.

    To dispose of the body, Chukwu stuffed his victim into a bin with her legs tied, then he put the bin in a sack and knotted the top.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCBwnmm9q1s

    At about 4am on Monday, he dragged the sack containing the body to go dump it but as he got to the ground floor of the house he was accosted by some youths. The suspicious youths asked what the content of the sack was but the suspect ignored them. An Islamic cleric passing by then opened the sack and found the corpse. At this, the mob pounced on the suspect and beat him to a pulp.

    Residents who spoke to Punch Metro on Tuesday said they were shocked because the couple lived together peacefully. Friends of the deceased said Joy adored Chukwu and spoke fondly of him.

    A friend of the deceased said:

    They don’t fight. In fact, people always envied their relationship. The woman could be doing something and immediately she heard that he was around, she would leave it and say, ‘My oga don come. My darling don come.’ I never believed this could happen.

    A police source told Punch that Joy was stabbed in the back.

    We recovered a knife which he used for the crime and four mobile phones from the house. Although investigations are ongoing, we suspect it had to do with suspicion of infidelity.

    The man said he had called her when he travelled and a man picked the call. He said the man queried him (Chukwu) for disturbing his wife.

    Narrating what happened, the suspect said:

    I travelled on Thursday to attend a burial in Abraka, Delta State. I left Abraka the following day for my hometown in Ebonyi State. I called my wife around 11pm to know how she was faring. We exchanged pleasantries.

    Around 11.45pm, I called again, but she did not pick her calls. I called about 10 times, but she did not pick. Then I heard a man’s voice.

    On Monday (after he returned), as I was going to take my bath, I saw the corpse.

     

    A sibling of the victim broke down in tears at the Akinpelu Police Station upon hearing the news of Joy’s death. As a result, the sibling couldn’t speak to the police but her husband spoke on her behalf.

    He said:

    They were not married, although he has visited her family members in the village. They have been living together for the past two years without formalising their marriage. He rented that apartment for her, while he stayed with his brothers in another house. He used to go to meet her at her apartment.

    She (Joy) had come to see my wife about a week ago to say that she was no longer interested in the relationship. But the man said he could not let go because of the money he had spent on her. My wife counselled her to consider him and she said she would think about it before this incident happened.

  • Herdsmen kill soldiers, kidnap two in Benue

    Herdsmen kill soldiers, kidnap two in Benue

    No fewer than five soldiers have been reportedly killed and two others kidnapped after suspected herdsmen clashed with some personnel in Logo LGA of Benue State, yesterday.

    The attackers also burnt down Army patrol vehicles during the clash.

    It was gathered that the herdsmen had wanted to attack a village in Logo but where foiled by the Army men.

    A youth leader who spoke to newsmen under condition of anonimity said that the attackers also burnt one of the patrol vehicle of the soldiers leaving some of them with serious injuries while others were taken captive by the attackers.

    According to the source, “That community is a Tiv/Jukun settlement and it is a border community where you can hardly draw a border line between Benue and Taraba states. “From what we have gathered so far, two of the soldiers were killed some where taken alive and one of their patrol vehicles was also burnt.

    “Though we had that some of the soldiers were still unaccounted for which means that the casualty figure might be higher when the true picture of the attack becomes clearer.” When contacted, the Chairman of Logo local government area, Mr. Richard Nyajo confirmed the attack. Nyajo said, “the incident happened this morning (Sunday) at about 7 to 8am.

    “It happened in Logo local government area. I gave them a base at Gov in Mbagegh Council ward of Logo local government. So in the course of carrying out their peace keeping operation, they went into the bush and I don’t know whether the herdsmen heard about them, they came behind and entangled them and opened fire on them.

    “They burnt one of their patrol vehicles, injured some of them, took some alive and killed one person but the second person was seriously injured and might not make it alive because he was in bad shape.

    “Though one was said to be missing but by tomorrow we will get a clearer picture of the situation including the actual number of deaths because when an attack scatter a group of people like it happened and some are missing you cannot just conclude on the casualty figure.

    “But surely some were killed and some were abducted. Though many among those that were missing escaped alive. But by tomorrow we will get a clearer picture of the situation.” All efforts to confirm the incident from the operational base of the Operation Whirl Stroke failed as the personnel who picked the call in one of their dedicated numbers refused to confirm the attack.