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  • Just In: Many feared dead as alleged herders invade Enugu community again

    Just In: Many feared dead as alleged herders invade Enugu community again

    A group suspected to be Fulani herdsmen and collaborators from Agala community in Benue State on Sunday attacked Ebor community in Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo local government area of Enugu State.

    The number of people that were killed during the latest attack cannot be readily ascertained.

    The attack comes barely eight days after assailants attacked the community and killed 25 people at the last count. The attack forced residents of Mgbuji, Umujiovu and Ebor communities to flee their homes.

    Subsequently, businesses were forced to shut down in Eha-Amufu, the third largest town in Enugu.

    A security source lamented Sunday’s attack and the negligence of the state government to tackle the problem once and for all.

    The source said: “These assailants have sacked over 40 villages and settlements. Now they are attacking the hometowns. This is the harvesting period and people have been forced out of their homes and communities and the government is paying lip service to this. These people are coming from communities in Benue State and the government is aware of it.

    “The invaders who outnumbered the soldiers and vigilantes, launched another attack on Ebor community this early Sunday morning. I have seen bodies of less than 10 but I can’t give a specific figure right now.

    “We are still in the bushes combing and searching for more people killed. What is happening here is unfortunate. It is exactly what they did to Benue State people. Probably they want to create a vast land joining Benue communities they had already sacked and call it their own land.”

    “From the report I received, the armed herdsmen and their collaborators from Benue State communities launched the attack around 5:30 am to 6 am this morning. Before we got there, several people had been killed. We are few soldiers here and where we are based is a little bit far from the communities. There are no other security operatives from other security agencies here in Eha-Amufu except local vigilantes. They (vigilantes) first engaged them but the invading armed herdsmen outnumbered them,” the source added.

    A community leader, who gave his name as Ogbuabor Samuel, confirmed the attack.

    “As I am speaking to you, the invading armed herdsmen are still shooting. Several people have been killed. At least, we have recovered the bodies of 10 people killed. The chairman of Isi-Uzo local government is playing politics with our lives. He didn’t want to tell the governor the true facts of what is happening in these communities. He is not supporting the local vigilantes and other local security.

    “A few weeks ago, he dissolved all the local vigilantes formed by Eha-Amufu communities yet he hardly visits the affected communities. We need the government to declare a state of emergency on security in Eha-Amufu – especially in Ebor, Umujiovu, Mgbuji and Agu-Amede communities. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi should do something drastic. His government should stop politicising the situation in our place.

    “They should stop fabricating stories that our people are collaborators. That is a fallacy and it diverts attention from the real issues. Agala people in Benue State have joined forces with armed Fulani herdsmen to continue to kill and destroy our people. That is the situation. Since these recent attacks started in October, we haven’t seen policemen here. You can only see the police if their commissioner is coming to witness the destruction and go back to Enugu to dish out false narratives. “Where are the tactical squads and operational assets of the police he told Nigerians through the media that he had deployed?

    “We want to know, who are the security agencies in Enugu State protecting their interest? Could it be that the security chiefs in Enugu State are in the state to give cover to armed herdsmen?”

    Meanwhile, the state police command has confirmed the recent attack but did not give the casualty figure.

    The command’s spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, told journalists in Enugu that the “sketchy report at my disposal shows that there was an attack”.

    “But the assailants were repelled by a joint police and army team that is currently trailing them,” he added.

  • Police officer who killed man over lighter sentenced to death by firing squad

    Police officer who killed man over lighter sentenced to death by firing squad

     

    Mohamed Abdulkadir Sheikh Ibrahim, a junior Somali police officer who was sentenced to death

    A Somali military court has sentenced to death a police officer convicted of killing a civilian following an argument over a cigarette lighter.

    Mohamed Abdulkadir Sheikh Ibrahim, a junior officer serving in South West, one of the five Federal Member States in Somalia, was booked for a firing squad for the murder he committed in April.

    Ibrahim, who served in the police force in Afgoye town, 30 km southwest of Mogadishu, was found guilty by the court for the killing of Abdifatah Abdullahi Ali, a trader, on April 25, 2022.

    Ibrahim reportedly stabbed Ali to death after the two argued over a cigarette lighter.

    Firing squad

    Ali’s relatives were present in the army court when Ibrahim was sentenced to face a firing squad as pronounced by Major Mohamed Abdi Mumin.

    The community in Afgoye district has been stunned by incidents where locals are killed in quarrels over items worth about 10,000 Somali shillings (less than half a US dollar).

    In recent incidents, a man killed another over a cigarette while another was killed over a cup of tea.

  • SAD! Three siblings die as fire guts building

    SAD! Three siblings die as fire guts building

     

    Three siblings died on Monday when fire razed a one-storey residential building in the Kabuga Yan Azara area of Kano State.

    An eyewitness, Ibrahim Lawan, who resides in one of the apartments in the building, said the fire started from the first apartment, adding that the inability of the residents to alert firefighters to the fire incident on time led to the fire spreading to adjoining apartments.

    He identified the victims as Fatima Isyaku, 16, Abdulsamad Isyaku, 15, and Saddika Isyaku, 6.

    “All the victims were rescued unconscious but later confirmed dead, and handed over to their parents,” Lawan said.

    The spokesperson for the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said the agency received an emergency call around 10.40pm from one Marwan Umar, who reported the fire incident at Kabuga Yan Azara.

    According to the statement, fire fighters promptly mobilised from the central fire station and arrived at the scene around 10.50pm, adding that the fire fighters found a building with two apartments on fire.

    The cause of the fire incident could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.

  • Just In: Gunmen kill three policemen in Enugu

    Just In: Gunmen kill three policemen in Enugu

     

    Three policemen of the Enugu State command have been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Agbani, headquarters of Nkanu West Local Government of the state.

    The incident, occurred on Saturday morning at a roundabout near the Agbani Divisional Police station.

    The police officers were on stop-and-search duty when the assailants sighted them and immediately opened fire, bringing down the three security operatives.

    The attack occurred less than 24 hours after a former Commissioner in the state and Oji-River Local government’s chairman, Chief Gabriel Onuzulike and his elder brother were killed at their Nkpokolo-Achi hometown by gunmen.

    Meanwhile, the State police command has disclosed that, following a distress call on the incident, two assailants were intercepted and neutralized by a joint Police/Army team.

    This was disclosed by Daniel Ndukwe, the state police spokesman.

    He said the team recovered an AK-47 rifle with two magazines loaded with ammunition, a Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep belonging to the deceased victims, a Toyota Camry car and a RAV4 Jeep.

    Part of his statement read: “Pending the receipt of a detailed report, kindly be informed that preliminary report reveals that two (2) of the assailants, said to have infiltrated into Oji-River from neighbouring Anambra State community, in the evening hours of 18/11/2022, that attacked and murdered one Gabriel Onuzulike (identified as former Chairman of Oji-River LGA and Commissioner in Enugu State Government) and his brother at Nkpokolo-Achi in Oji-River LGA, were neutralized by a Joint Police/Army Team, who swiftly responded to a distress call on the incident and intercepted the hoodlums at Inyi community of the same LGA, as they were escaping into Anambra State.”

    Meanwhile, the chase for the assailants, many of whom escaped into a nearby forest is ongoing, he added.

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  • Suspect confesses of how he killed his step mother over N1million

    Suspect confesses of how he killed his step mother over N1million

    A Ekenedilichukwu Okeke has confessed of how he killed his step mother for refusing to give him one million naira purportedly for school fees.

    Ekene was among 20 criminal suspects paraded by the Anambra State Commissioner of Police CP Echeng Echeng on Friday in Awka Anambra state.

    Ekenedilichukwu had on 28th September, 2022 in company of his gang killed his mother one Mrs. Theresa Okeke aged 54 years, an accountant with National Population Commission, Awka.

    She was murdered in her residence at No. 4 Umuziocha, Awka by her step son and some of his gang members.

    Speaking to journalists on why he killed his step mother, he said that his step mother refused to give him one million to pay for his school fees.

    ” I had problem with my step mother and I wanted her to give me one million naira and she said no after sometime, I pleaded with her and she agreed to give me .

    ” I wanted her to give me that one million naira to pay for my school fees and she said that she did not have such amount. I had to arrange for some of my friends to come and help me to extract the one million from her.

    ” They came at night tied her hands and leg to force her to give me the money ,but in the process she stopped talking and before we know it, she was dead ” he said .

    On who paid his school fees, before the attempt to extract money from his mother ,he replied that the mother has been paying, noting that he needed the money to settle some certain issues. One of the accomplices, arrested along with him, Mr Peter Jideofor said his friend called him to help him get some money from his step mother.

    “Ekene told me he was having issues with his step mother and that I should help him to settle the problem and extract N1m from her to enable him pay his school fees in the university. I actually know him on the street because I do music and he also does music. I did not want to do it before but he continued pleading that I should help him out and I agreed to help him. When we got to his step mother house at about 2am,one of the guys tied his mother’s hands and legs and when she wanted to shout, I personally covered her mouth and i called the other one to bring something to tie her mouth.

    After tying her mouth ,she stopped breathing and we have to rush out because we did not come to kill her.

    ” When we were leaving ,we told Ekene to be checking her every 30 minutes and report to us to find out if she has recovered that he should call and tell us about development .

    “Later in the morning he called us that the woman was dead and we were shocked, some of us ran away but I did not run away, I only stayed inside the room till they arrested me” he said.

    According to him, they could not get any money from her because she could not give them her pin number. He also expressed regret for allowing himself to be used to kill her , noting that all his life he had tried to avoid killing .

    While parading the 20 suspects terrorising the state , the state Commissioner of Police CP Echeng Echeng said the security operatives in state have arrested the killers of one Mrs. Theresa Okeke an accountant with the National Population Commission, Awka. The suspects, he said include kidnappers, armed robbers , EEDC materia vandals and others He said Ekenedilichukwu Okeke who slept in the same house with the deceased was arrested for interrogation immediately the matter was reported to police.

    According to him, on arrest Ekene claimed that armed robbers stormed their residence and killed his step mother but after an intelligence based interrogation, he eventually confessed to the crime and named his accomplices.

    “Detectives from State CID Awka swiftly mobilized in search of the accomplices which led to the arrest of three additional suspects, namely; Peter Jideofor ‘m’ a.k.a Rider, aged 23yrs, Chukwuemeka Christopher ‘m’ aged 29yrs and Chisom Emmanuel Dike ‘m’ 22yrs. They have all confessed to the crime and disclosed that it was the deceased’s stepson, Ekenedilichukwu Okeke ‘m’ who contracted them to come and kill the deceased to enable them transfer the sum of one million naira from her account, having known her phone password. The suspects will soon be charged to court” he said .

    He called on criminal elements in the state to relocate as the state would be too hot for them.

    However, he urged law abiding citizens to continue to go about their lawful businesses and give prompt information about criminal activities within their domain to the law enforcement agencies for appropriate action.

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  • Sad! Son stones father to death in Plateau as Police nab suspect

    Sad! Son stones father to death in Plateau as Police nab suspect

    The Plateau State Police Command on Friday confirmed the arrest of a 25-year-old man, Bernard Danlami, for stoning his father to death in Mangu Local Government of the state.

    The Commissioner of Police in the state, Onyeka Bartholomew, made the confirmation while briefing journalists on the activities of the Command at its headquarters in Jos on Friday.

    He said, “On 12/05/2022 at about 1800hrs, a case of culpable homicide was reported at Mangu Police Station of the Command that on 11/05/2022 at about 2120hrs a fight ensued between two brothers, .namely Bernard Danlami ‘m’, 25 .years old and Zugumnan Danlami ‘m’, 18 years old of COCIN Shamsoho, Kerang Mangu LGA over a bucket of water.

    “But as their father, one Danladi Mangna, faulted Bernard Danladi for being rude and flogged him with a stick, the said Bernard picked a stone and hit his father on the
    forehead, which resulted to a serious injury that
    eventually led to his father’s death.

    “On receipt of the case, the suspect was arrested and interrogated. The suspect confessed to the commission of the crime. He will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.”

    The Commissioner, who also paraded about ten other suspects for various offences, including criminal conspiracy, cattle rustling, and kidnapping, advised members of the public to report suspicious movements and persons to the Police and other law enforcement agencies to help nib crimes in the bud.

    The Commissioner added, “On our part, we are prepared to respond within a reasonable time whenever we receive a distress call.

    “I also call on all residents of Plateau State to cooperate and synergise with the police by giving us timely and useful information in order to fight all forms of criminalities.”

  • Man chops wife to death with cutlass for touching his phone without permission

    Man chops wife to death with cutlass for touching his phone without permission

    A 37-YEAR-OLD Mutasa man last weekend gruesomely hacked his wife on the neck, shoulder, chest and mouth with a machete after she took his cellphone and unlocked it without his consent, hardly three months into the couple’s marriage.

    Mirriam Joni (27) died on the spot from the injuries sustained during the brutal and heartless attack.

    Police confirmed the murder which happened in Matsapa Village in Chief Mutasa’s area last week on Saturday.

    Acting Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka confirmed the incident and said the suspect, Gwaramba Jimu, disappeared from the scene soon after committing the heinous act.

    It is alleged that a few minutes before vanishing from the scene, Jimu instructed his mother, Ms Kandala Maluwiza (72), to take care of his children when he was gone.

    “The two who were customarily married for three months had a domestic dispute after Joni took Jimu’s phone without his consent. After a heated altercation, Jimu went to his aunt, Ms Netsai Jolomile (48) of Mhandire Village, to ask her to solve the dispute.

    “Ms Jolomile accompanied Jimu back to his home and she counselled the couple, advising them to live in peace. Ms Jolomile left the couple and went back home.

    “On October 28, at around 2am, Jimu woke up and armed himself with a machete. He hacked Miriam several times on the shoulder, neck, chest and mouth,” said Assistant Inspector Chinyoka.

    He said after the heinous act, Jimu proceeded to his mother, Ms Maluwiza’s homestead in the same village and told her to take care of his children. He then disappeared.

    “Ms Maluwiza became suspicious and proceeded to Jimu’s homestead. Upon arrival, she saw Joni’s body lying in a pool of blood. She alerted other villagers.

    “A report was made to the police who attended the scene,” said Assistant Inspector Chinyoka.

  • SAD! Tragic family of six die in Anambra flood

    SAD! Tragic family of six die in Anambra flood

     

    Six members of a family have drowned in Nzam community in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    The deceased were getting ready to leave their home for a safer place when the floodwater surged into their house and they all drowned.

    A video shared online shows youths in the community bringing out dead bodies and lining them up in an upland area of the town.

  • Herdsmen go ga-ga in Delta pluck out man’s eye

    Herdsmen go ga-ga in Delta pluck out man’s eye

     

    Herdsmen suspected to be jihadists have gone ga-ga as they reportedly opened fire on one Saturday Kesiena Ikoro and his wife Judith, along Jeddo Road, Otokutu, Ughelli south local government area of Delta State.

    Palaver started around about 7.00pm on Sunday 2nd October, 2022, when the couple were going to a domestic cooking gas shop when they were accosted by the suspected herdsmen.

    The victim, Ikoro, a resident of Otokutu Community, lost his left eye to the attackers.

    A reliable source disclosed that Mr Ikoro was shot severally with his wife Judith by the herdsmen.

    Mr Ikoro who sensed danger attempted to escape, his car was shot at severally by the angered suspected herdsmen and in the process, he was said to have lost his left eye to the trigger happy hoodlums.

    Judith luckily escaped the hostility of the herdsmen unhurt.

    The herdsmen were said to have vanished into the bush after the attack.

    Meanwhile, the badly injured Ikoro was said to have been rushed to a private hospital in Warri where he was later taken to University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City for better medical attention owing to the severity of the injury sustained in the unholy attacks.

    The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe confirmed the incident, assuring that “effort is on to arrest the suspects”.

  • See photos shared on FB by serial killer doctor who killed his girlfriend, wife and cab driver

    See photos shared on FB by serial killer doctor who killed his girlfriend, wife and cab driver

     

    Sadly, before Adeyemi’s gory activities were brought to light, he was leading a normal life and even shared pictures of himself with his wife and son on Facebook.

    The Chief Medical Director at Kaiama General Hospital, Kwara State, Dr Adio Adeyemi Adebowale, who allegedly killed four people in the space of one year, had posted pictures of himself and his family two months before his arrest.

    It was earlier reported that Adeyemi, an indigene of Offa, Kwara State, was arrested by the Edo State Police Command after he killed a cab driver in Benin City, Edo state, dumped his corpse in the bush, and absconded with his vehicle.

    Adeyemi, who has been dubbed a ‘serial killer’, also confessed that he kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend, Ifeoluwa, who was declared missing in Tanke area of Kwara state in 2021.

    An investigation was launched into the gruesome murders and in the process, the decomposing remains of two women were found in his office.

    One of the women was found inside a shallow grave dug in his office while the corpse of the second woman was found in a garbage bin. While the former is yet to be identified, the latter was identified as a housewife, Nafisat, who was declared missing by her husband.

    Before the suspect’s gory activities were brought to light, he was leading a normal life and even shared pictures of himself with his wife and son on Facebook.

    In one of the pictures he shared in July, the suspect donned a brown Kaftan and was complimented by his unsuspecting followers.