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  • Man, 50, commits suicide in Abia community

    A 50-year-old man, identified as Chukwudi Maduka has allegedly committed suicide at Umuezu-Ore Umuana village in the Uhuahia North Local Government Area of Abia.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Abia State Police Command, SP. Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Tuesday.

    Ogbonna said that Maduka was found dead early on Monday in his one-room apartment.

    The spokesman said the man did not leave suicide note, adding that the command had commenced investigation into the incident “to possibly unravel the reason for the suicide”.

    Narrating the development, a resident of the area, Mr Dave Maduakor, said that Maduka set his apartment on fire before hanging himself, using the ceiling fan in the room.
    Maduakor said that neighbours sensed danger when they noticed smoke coming out from the room of the deceased.

    “When they tried to open the door, they noticed that it was locked from inside so they forced it open and found Maduka’s body hanging on the fan,” Maduakor said, quoting the deceased’s landlord, Mr John Chikezie.

    He said that the deceased was reported to have travelled to his village in Lokpanta in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia and returned to Umuana community on Friday.

    “The landlord said that when he wanted to speak with the man, who locked himself up in his room on Saturday, he told him that he was praying.”

    Maduakor said that the incident was later reported to the Ehimiri Police Station, where some operatives were detailed to the scene.

    He said that the Chairman of the community, Mr Ngozi Onwumere, together with the landlord, consulted a group, known as “kamanu” that specialised in handling suicide cases.

    “The group brought down the body of the man, which was later deposited in a mortuary,” Maduakor said.

    NAN learnt that the deceased worked as a security man at the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Umuahia.

    He was also said to be married to a teacher in a charity home at Ahieke community in Umuahia but later separated with the woman after their childless marriage.

  • Graphic Photo: Man beats wife to stupour, brags about it on social media

    Graphic Photo: Man beats wife to stupour, brags about it on social media

    A man who beat his wife mercilessly and boasted about it on Facebook has been arrested by the police in Lagos.

    The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT disclosed this on its twitter handle on Thursday.

    According to DSVRT, its attention was drawn to a viral post on Facebook wherein one Afobaje Maiyegun boasted that he had just beaten up his wife and declared he is ‘’waiting for her police‘’ to come and arrest him.

    “Immediately, the team reached out to ACP Gbolahan Odugbemi, Area Commander, Area J who ensured that the said person was arrested immediately,” it said.

    DSVRT said preliminary investigation conducted revealed that this was not the first time the said Mr. Maiyegun would perpetrate such a dastardly act.

    “A partner NGO was on ground to assist with the investigation. The case is set to be charged to court on Friday, 15th May, 2020.

    “This is to sound a clear warning that the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared a zero tolerance to Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the State and as such perpetrators will face the full weight of the law,” it said.

  • Man, 30 hangs self to death in Nasarawa public school

    Man, 30 hangs self to death in Nasarawa public school

    A 30 year-old young man, James Samuel has hanged himself to death in a classroom of Government Secondary School Gurku, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa.

    The deceased, a Tiv and an indigene of Benue State committed the suicide on Friday night.

    The remains of the deceased was discovered by one of the residents in the area, who is also a police officer, serving in Abuja, who quickly reported the matter to the Gurku Police Outpost.

    The police found two pictures of himself at tender age and that of his mother at the scene, but no suicide note.

    The body of the late James Samuel was brought down in presence of the police and taken out of the government facility by family members.

    Chief Samuel who is the Tiv community leader in Gurku and also the biological father of the late James cried with the brothers and sisters of the deceased.

    According to him, “My late son attended Government Secondary school Gurku, he was a farmer, welder and a traditional drummer.

    ” He was popular among his peers. He is a Tiv, but understands Gbagyi, Jaba, Hausa and Gwandara tribes.

    “I learnt that this is the first suicide in the history of Gurku land and that it is taboo here”. He said

    The traditional ruler of Gurku, Alhaji Jibrin Waziri who spoke through an aide, Madakin Gurku, Zubairu Adamu, confirmed the incident and said that he visited the scene.

  • Keep my son in jail, man begs Osun police

    Keep my son in jail, man begs Osun police

    A nonagenarian simply identified as Pa Olasupo has begged the police to keep his son in a correctional centre as long as necessary after purportedly stabbing a neighbour with a knife.

    Oladimeji Supo, 37, was ordered to be remanded following his arraignment on Wednesday for assault and theft before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State.

    Pa Olasupo, on the court premises, said his son was very tempestuous and given to violence.

    He said, “I have sacrificed a lot for him. The court has done what is right. I am not interested in his bail.

    Enough is enough. I have gone to so many places to rescue him anytime he ran into trouble. The Police should keep him in the cell as long they want.”

     

  • VIDEO: Man with breathing problems, high temperature, collapses while using ATM in Lagos

    VIDEO: Man with breathing problems, high temperature, collapses while using ATM in Lagos

    The video of a yet-to-be identified customer who collapsed while using the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Branch at the Onipanu area of Lagos has surfaced.

    In the video obtained exclusively by TheNewsGuru.com (TNG), some security officials were seen carrying the man to the entrance of the bank for attention from the ATM where he collapsed.

    According to eyewitness accounts, when the security men on duty checked the man’s temperature, it was above the normal 98.6°F (37°C) range.

    While the symptoms exhibited by the customer are COVID-19 related, however, TNG could not independently confirm as at the time of filing this report if he (the customer) is truly COVID-19 positive. Efforts by TNG to reach the bank for comments was also successful as at the time of filing this report.

    TNG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had last week ordered a gradual relaxing of the lockdown which had been imposed on Lagos, Ogun and Abuja since Monday, 30th of March 2020 to help curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

    Sequel to the relaxation of the lockdown which took effect on Monday (today), some Lagosians were seen grossly disrespecting the social distancing and compulsory use of mask in public sending signals that there might be an explosion in numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in the coming weeks.

  • Man bags 12 months jail term for stealing in Osun

    Man bags 12 months jail term for stealing in Osun

    An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, sentenced a 21-year-old man, Lekan Usman to 12 months imprisonment for stealing mobile phones and other valuables.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Mary Awodele, sentenced Usman after he pleaded guilty to charges of break-in and stealing.

    Awodele, however, granted the convict an option to pay N15,000 fine.

    Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Rasak Olaiwola, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on May 1 at 3 a.m. at Oke-Aiyepe area of Osogbo.

    Olaiwola said the defendant broke into the apartment of Mr Adebayo Olalekan and stole his valuables before he was apprehended.

    “He broke into the house of the complainant and carted away different types of phones and some valuables.

    ”The defendant was arrested and taken to the hospital for treatment due to the injuries he sustained during the burglary but later he escaped before he was re-apprehended”.

    He said the offences contravened Sections 135 (b), 390 (9), 412 of the Criminal Law of Osun, 2002.

  • Man rapes teenage wife to death days after forced marriage in Jigawa

    Man rapes teenage wife to death days after forced marriage in Jigawa

    Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Alasan Audu, for allegedly raping his wife to death days after she denied him sex for 20 days after their wedding.

    Audu reportedly raped 17-year old Hansa’u to death on the 21st April, 2020, at Kankarelu village in Ringim Local Government Area, Jigiwa State.

    The spokesman of the Command, SP Abdu Jinjiri, who confirmed the incident last Thursday said the teenage wife had another person she had in mind but her parents betrothed her to Audu she never wanted to get married to.

    However, she was forced to get married to Audu and when he wanted to have sex with her, she refused and Audu forcefully raped her to death.

    Audu may likely face a charge for murder which attracts life imprisonment if he is tried and found guilty before the Court over the alleged offence.

    Jinjiri said the Police removed the corpse and took to the hospital where it was confirmed dead by a medical doctor and deposited for autopsy report.

    He said the investigation revealed that the suspect, Alasan Audu, was not the one the deceased prepared to get married to but was forced to get married him.

    Jinjiri said after interrogation, the suspect confessed committing the crime.

    “At about 0400hrs, I went to her (the deceased) as a husband, but she turned my request down. I then used force on her to satisfy my sexual desire.”

    Police spokesman said the case was still under investigation and will be taken to court for prosecution.

  • Coronavirus: Panic as man on self-isolation dies in Kano

    Coronavirus: Panic as man on self-isolation dies in Kano

    A man on self-isolation in Kano State has died, raising panic that he may have died of Coronavirus.

    The deceased, Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, a resident of Gwammaja Quarters in the metropolis, according to neighbours returned to Kano from Abuja last Monday.

    The neighbours also revealed on the day he returned to Kano, he was seen washing his car before proceeding on an alleged self-isolation.

    According to The Nation, residents in the neighbourhood became apprehensive after an offensive smell started oozing out of the deceased’s house.

    They observed he had remained indoors for three days.

    It was gathered that the development compelled the residents to alert his relatives, who broke into his home where he was found dead.

    Efforts for further inquiries were unsuccessful from relatives of the deceased.

    Director, Public Health and Disease Control, Dr Imam Wada Bello, confirmed the incident, while calling for calm.

    He said health officials had been deployed to the scene to exercise all requisite medical measures, adding that blood sample of the deceased has been collected and subjected to medical examination.

  • COVID 19: MAN tasks governors on smooth movement of essential items

    COVID 19: MAN tasks governors on smooth movement of essential items

    The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has appealed to state governors to give necessary directives to some officers who were hindering smooth passage of essential products across states of the federation.
    In a statement to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos, MAN President, Mr Mansur Ahmed, said that better sensitisation of such officers became necessary following some of their actions, which were hampering the chain of distribution.
    “Since the decision to lock down economic activities by different states and the eventual national declaration by the Federal Government, MAN has maintained consistent talks with relevant governmental authorities.
    “The talk is on the survival and sustenance of livelihood of Nigerians, via the operation of critical manufacturing sector and has indeed yielded positive results.
    “One of the numerous results is the letter addressed by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) to my humble self for manufacturers.
    “The food, beverage, pharmaceutical and other complementing sector that makes the value chain of essential products available are very critical.
    “The Association is glad that Government recognised this critical role in its directive for 14-day lockdown.
    “Let me add that the directive of the NGF has yielded good outcomes in some states as our members have testified to unhindered operations in the face of the lockdown.
    “Notwithstanding, some security operatives in other states are not yielding, particularly, the rank and file officers on the field,” he said.
    Ahmed said, in order address this setback, MAN has been in talks with the NGF to give the necessary directives for adequate sensitisation of officers to give manufacturers of essential products easy movement.
    He commended the Federal Government’s response to manufacturers as it the tackles Corona Virus pandemic. (
  • Coronavirus: Police arrest man for refusing to isolate self after returning from foreign trip

    Coronavirus: Police arrest man for refusing to isolate self after returning from foreign trip

    British police Friday arrested a man for failing to isolate himself upon arrival on the Isle of Man amid the coronavirus outbreak.

    Police said in a statement that the man, 26, was arrested for failing to self-isolate on his entry to the island. Earlier, authorities said anyone arriving must self-isolate for 14 days under emergency legislation.

    A police statement said: “We currently have one male in police custody for failing to adhere to the new legislation requiring him to self-isolate.

    “Please follow the guidance issued by the government and think about the safety of the community. This is an ever evolving situation and it is important we act in the best interests of keeping people safe.”

    The local government said anyone who does not follow the rules on self-isolation could face three-month imprisonment or a £10,000 fine ($11,800).

    The man, thought to be the first person arrested in Britain for breaking quarantine laws, is being held in a specially cleaned area set up for people who should be self-isolating.

    The National Health Service announced on Thursday that the death toll rose to 144 on Thursday, with 3,269 positive cases in the country.

    Around four out of 10 coronavirus deaths are in London, according to various reports.

    COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China last December, and has spread to at least 160 countries and territories, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the U.S.

    Out of more than 245,000 confirmed cases, the death toll now exceeds 10,000, and over 86,000 people infected have recovered.

    The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic and Europe the new epicenter of the disease.

    Despite the rising number of cases, most who get infected suffer only mild symptoms and recover.

    (www.newsnow.co.uk)