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  • Graphic Photo: Mysterious son stabs mother, sets self ablaze in Imo

    Graphic Photo: Mysterious son stabs mother, sets self ablaze in Imo

    The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man, Johnbosco Ejiogu, for stabbing his mother and then setting their home ablaze.

    According to a statement by the police command, the incident occurred at Umudagu Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state on Friday.

    State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Orlando Ikeokwu said that Ejiogu perpetrated the acts following an altercation between him and his mother.

    He noted that only a swift reaction from neighbours and police prevented the suspect from killing himself and his mother in the burning house.

    The statement read, “On the 24/4/2020, at about 1020 hrs, operatives of Mbieri Divisional hqtrs, while reacting to a distress call arrested the above-named suspect and rescued the above victim.

    “Preliminary investigation revealed that the said Johnbosco Ejiogu stabbed his mother Pauline Ejiogu as a result of an altercation.

    “He went further to lock the door behind himself and the victim, and then set the house ablaze, but they were rescued alive sequel to the swift reaction of the officers and men of the Division and the members of the neighbourhood.

    “However, Both of them have been taken to the hospital for treatment, while investigation has commenced.”

  • Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello loses mother

    Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello loses mother

    Hajia Hauwau Bello, mother of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, is dead.

    A statement personally signed by the governor and circulated among media houses in Lokoja said that Hajia Hauwau died after a brief illness on Sunday at the age of 101 years.

    “We are relieved that her passing was peaceful and painless,” Bello said in the statement.

    According to him, she will be buried according to Islamic rites on Monday, March 16 at her residence in Nagazi, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State.

    She is survived by children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and many adopted children.

  • Just in: Amaechi’s mother released by kidnappers

    Reports reaching TheNewsGuru (TNG) reveals that Mrs. Appolonia, the mother of Ikechukwu Amaechi, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of TheNiche Newspapers, who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen has regained her freedom.

    According to reports from close associates of the Nigerian publisher, the 79-year-old grandmother and a retired teacher, who was abducted on Tuesday, March 3 has been released by her abductors.

    As at the time TNG filed this report, calls made to her son, Ikechuckwu proved abortive.

    Details sooon…

  • Buhari not committed to securing my daughter’s release – Leah Sharibu’s Mother

    Mother of Leah Sharibu, the only Dapchi school-girl remaining in Boko Haram captivity, Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, has doubted the commitment of the federal government, especially President Muhammadu Buhari to securing her release from Boko Haram terrorists.

    Mrs. Sharibu, who spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, said she has serious doubts Buhari was serious about securing the release of her daughter.

    She however said she was in London to seek the assistance of the the British Government to free Leah from the terrorists’ captivity.

    She is due to meet British Prime Minister on Leah’s predicaments.

    According to Mrs. Sharibu in the interview monitored by our correspondent in Kaduna on Thursday, President Buhari did not contact their family until seven months after the abduction.

    She also lamented after the President contacted her and sent three Ministers, assuring her that Leah was going to be released soon, there has been nothing else from the President.

    She however said it was against that background she decided to visit London to lay her complaints and seek the British government’s help.

    According to her : “I have come to Britain to lay my complaints, I need their help. They should help me, I will like my daughter to be freed from captivity.

    “My daughter was abducted among others by Boko Haram terrorists, it was seven months later that President Muhammadu Buhari called me.

    ” Since their abduction in February, it was seven months later that he called me.

    “When he called me, he told me that my daughter would return, that she would not stay long.

    “Two weeks later, he sent three ministers to our house and they corroborated what Mr. President had told me. The ministers reiterated that Leah would be returned to me, shortly.

    “The Ministers said they were in my house to reassure me that my daughter would soon return. But since that day, I never heard anything again from the government.

    “My major worry now is for the government to do whatever possible and free my daughter from captivity.

    “Because, I am seriously disturbed, but there is nothing I can do. If the government is doing nothing, what can I an ordinary citizen do?”

    Mrs. Sharibu however commended a non-governmental organisation, Leah Foundation established in honour of her daughter, saying it had been of great assistance to the Leah family.

    She also disclosed the Foundation assisted the family towards making her trip to London a reality.

    According to her: “Leah Foundation is helping us by sponsoring some girls, even my trip to London, they assisted. Recently, we were assisted by them.”

    Leah Sharibu was among 110 school-girls, abducted from their school premises in Dapchi village of Yobe State in February 2018.

    While others have since been released, Leah is being held back in captivity by Boko Haram terrorists, allegedly for her refusal to denounce her Christian faith.

  • Mother, daughter, three others burnt as tanker explodes in Ogun

    A woman, her daughter and a vulcaniser suffered varying degrees of burns after a petrol-laden tanker fell and exploded at Atatun, Ijaiye-Tutun, in Abeokuta on Friday evening.

    According to an eyewitness, the victims were immediately rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

    No fewer than five houses and several shops were burnt in the incident.

    An eye witness, who simply identified herself as Mrs Olufote, told newsmen that the incident happened when a fuel tanker suffered a flat tyre.

    She said the driver had parked beside the road to fix the flat tyre unaware that he was parking on a sloppy area.

    The eyewitness added that as he was alighting the vehicle to negotiate with a vulcaniser beside the road, the tanker tilted and the container fell.

    ” The tanker had a flat tyre and in the process of trying to fix it, the tanker exploded and even the vulcaniser who was to work on the tyre was affected.

    “The vulcaniser was fixing a motorcycle tyre when the tanker exploded.

    “There were many houses that were affected, with some burnt to ashes. In fact, a mosque was also affected,” she said.

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident on Saturday.

    Akinbiyi said the fire was later put out after some houses had been burnt.

    The TRACE spokesman stated that the tanker driver erroneously parked in a sloppy area while trying to fix his tanker’s tyre.

    According to him, the container removed from the hook, fell and exploded.

    He said the fire was put out on Friday night.

  • Do whatever you can to get my daughter- Leah’s mother begs British PM

    Do whatever you can to get my daughter- Leah’s mother begs British PM

    Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah Sharibu, kidnapped by Boko Haram, yesterday pleaded with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to help rescue her daughter from the holds of Islamic insurgents.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that on February 19, 2018, Leah Sharibu was taken from her school, Government Girls’ Science and Technical College. Dapchi, north-eastern Nigeria, along with 109 of her schoolmates.

    Now aged 16, Leah is thought to be the only girl held by the radical militants because she refused to convert from Christianity to Islam.

    Marking the two-year anniversary of her kidnap at an event in Westminster, Leah’s mother, Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, said she was “constantly in pain” over her daughter’s abduction. Speaking in Hausa, which translated by Dr. Gloria Puldu, head of Leah Sharibu Foundation set up in the 16-year-old’s name, Ms Sharibu asked British government to prevail on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in her case.

     

    She said: “I have come to plead with the UK, the US, all the nations to please hear me and help me out. I am pleading with your government, please do whatever you can to get my daughter, Leah released.

     

    “I want to plead directly with PM Boris Johnson that he should please help me to ask President Buhari to release my daughter. On Tuesday, my daughter, my only daughter was two years in captivity, and (President Buhari) has promised me that she would be released but she has not been released.”

     

    Linked to the so-called Islamic State terror group, Boko Haram are known for mass abductions of schoolgirls and attacks in north-eastern Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

    Just over a month after the abduction, 104 of Leah’s schoolmates were released while five other girls were said to have died on the way. Mrs. Sharibu, who travelled from Nigeria to the UK on Monday, asked the Nigerian President to intervene as he and the government had promised in September 2018.

     

    She continued: “I need Leah back home and I need him (President Buhari) to set Leah free, just like the other girls were set free.

     

    “The students who were taken along with Leah have been brought back to their parents and their parents do not know the pain we have been going through for two years, pains that cannot be described. So please, help us.”

    Boko Haram prompted an international outcry after the 2014 attack on a boarding school in Chibok, where militants kidnapped 276 girls, some of whom are still being held by the group. Mrs Sharibu said she had only heard “rumours” about her daughter’s condition in captivity, but believed she was still alive as a healthcare worker who had been released reported hearing Leah was alive from another captive

    She said: “On a daily basis we hear Leah this, Leah that. We are in great pains. “At times, when the stories come out, we feel so pained, we feel so terrible. So if I tell you that I am happy, I am telling you a lie. We are constantly in pain, all we desire is to have Leah back with us.”

    Baroness Caroline Cox also spoke at the event to help launch the International Organisation for Peace and Social Justice’s Silent Slaughter campaign to raise awareness of violence in Nigeria. The campaign has its own website which is set to go viral. It also has a hashtag #SilentSlaughter.

    Pastor Ayo Adedoyin, Chief Executive of PSJ UK, said: “It is both shocking and deeply saddening that two years on from the brutal abduction and abuse of innocent girls in Nigeria, the Government in Abuja has failed to return Leah to her grieving family.

     

    “Human trafficking, kidnapping, and murder are all on the rise as Boko Haram increasingly weaponises and utilises Islamic Fulani herdsmen.

    ”PSJ UK is working very hard to bring Leah back to her mother, as well as reduce and eventually stop any future such incidents. “One way to do this is to bring the vital issue to the attention of the Nigerian Government, and by extension the British, French and American governments, all of whom have a deep connection with Nigeria. Threatening sanctions, reputational damage or foreign aid reductions are all possible ways to put this untrammelled violence at the top of the Nigerian agenda,” Pastor Adedoyin said.

     

  • Ighalo’s mum in tears over son’s dream move to Man Utd

    Odion Ighalo has revealed that his mother broke down in tears, after he told her about his move to Manchester United.

    The 30-year-old has agreed a six-month loan deal with the Old Trafford side.

    The deal was confirmed few minutes before the January transfer deadline.

    In an interview with Manchester United Official website, Ighalo said his mum was overcome with emotions when it became official.

    “I was excited. I called my mum and she was happy, crying and all that.

    “This is your dream and all that and I’m happy for you. It was dramatic, I didn’t sleep through, I was very happy that finally, we got the deal done.

    “Yeah, it was very dramatic. My agent called me the day before and said Man United,” he said.

    Ighalo, who has been brought in as replacement for the injured Marcus Rashford, is in line to make his debut away to Chelsea after the winter break.

  • Landlord saga: Bimbo Afolayan hurls curses on trolls, colleagues

    Landlord saga: Bimbo Afolayan hurls curses on trolls, colleagues

    Yoruba actress and entrepreneur, Bimbo Afolayan showed her angry side yesterday when she took to Instagram to cry for justice.

    The drama began when Afolayan revealed that her mother was allegedly attacked by a landlord in the estate where she resides.

    As expected internet trolls who watched the videos she shared showing her mum’s bruised body, asked her to go rent a more befitting apartment for her mum as the current one doesn’t suit her status as a celebrity.

    Infuriated by their remarks, Bimbo posted series of videos on her cursed those criticizing her .

    According to her:”My mother ! My mother !!! I I don’t do social media rubbish but not my mother and I face my business because I know most of you are miserable and I know some of you useless people that does eye service and begging for money will be using fake pages to type ! May God punish your entire generation ! And your mother and fathers will be treated like this for saying I don’t take care of my mum !

    “My mother is receiving treatment Awon oloriburuku! Mad people everywhere for those that started saying bad things about my mum on my page !may every curse of mine happen to your entire generation !! May your mothers and your children infact your entire generations go through this. ! I have never been on social media before to join the set of your role models because I know it’s not worth it ! Buh for you all to start saying rubbish without caring and even concerned about an old woman ! May you carry your curse all around ! I am in for all of u!” she wrote

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  • Photo: Court sentences mother, son to 12 years for duping American of $82,570

    Photo: Court sentences mother, son to 12 years for duping American of $82,570

    The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced Mrs Damilola Ahmed Adeyeri and her son, Alaba Kareem Adeyeri, to 12 years’ imprisonment each for duping an American of $82,570.

    Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke convicted the duo following their plea of guilty to four counts of “fraudulent trick business email compromise” during their arraignment on Tuesday.

    He sentenced each defendant to three years’ imprisonment on each of the four counts filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    The judge said the sentences would run concurrently.

    This means Mrs Adeyeri and her son will spend a maximum of only three years in correctional services custody.

    EFCC counsel Bilikisu Buhari told the court that mother and son conspired with one Kareem Russell, still at large, to defraud the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of American Cranes Manufacturing Company.

    She said they committed the offence in June 2017 and were arrested on September 6, 2019.

    The prosecutor said Mrs Adeyeri and her son carried out the fraud by “dishonestly representing yourselves as the CEO of American Cranes Manufacturing Company and thereafter you sent an email from personal@managements-securemail-office-portal.online with intent to gain advantage to yourselves.”

    She the convicts acted contrary to Sections 27(1)(a) and 23(3) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 and were liable to be punished under Section 22(1) of the same Act.

    The offences were also said to have been contrary to sections 421 and 422 of the Criminal Code Act Cap C38.

    Buhari also called an EFCC investigator, Idi Musa as witness.

    Musa testified that sometime in April 2019, the commission received a petition from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of America, stating that the official email address of American Cranes Manufacturing Company was hacked and the sum of $82, 570. 00 was lost to the fraudsters.

    He told the court that the FBI reported that there was a syndicate of fraudsters who defraud companies through business e-mail compromise and obtain millions of dollars from American citizens.

    Idi said Damilola was arrested on September 6, 2019, after which his mother was apprehended when she went to withdraw money from the bank upon hearing that EFCC was investigating her son.

    She purchased properties in the name of her son with the money made from the fraud.

    The court heard that the monies stolen by the convicts were used to acquire properties in choice areas of Lagos, and some cash was also found in their bank accounts.

    Before sentencing, the prosecutor pushed for the judge to apply the maximum sentence possible on the convicts to serve as a deterrent.

    Responding, Justice Aneke agreed that although the convicts immediately admitted guilt and showed remorse, he had a duty to apply punishment in accordance with the law to serve as a deterrent to others.

    But he said he would temper justice with mercy because the convicts, by pleading guilty immediately, had saved the court’s time.

    “Consequently, I hereby sentence each of the convicts to three years on counts one, two, three and four. The sentences are to run concurrently,” Justice Aneke held.

    The judge further ordered that all the properties and monies recovered from the convicts be forfeited to the Federal Government and upon applications by the victims, be restituted to them.

  • Man smashes mother’s skull in Imo

    Man smashes mother’s skull in Imo

    47-year-old Sunday Agwim from Umuobom in Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State is in police net for killing his 62-year-old mother Christiana Agwim with a hammer.

    Agwin was reportedly arrested over the weekend for killing his mother using machete to severe her head before smashing the skull with a hammer.

    Jude Mbionwu, a security coordinator at Umuobom, disclosed that the suspect completely broke the victim’s skull into pieces with a hammer with tissue of the brain littering the floor.

    “When we get to the suspect’s house we saw him with a hammer and machete which he used first to cut off the head of the victim and then used the hammer to break the skull into pieces beyond recognition,” he stressed.

    It was gathered that the corpse of the deceased could not be taken to mortuary because of the degree of damage done to the head as coroners were called from the University Teaching Hospital Nnewi to conduct the autopsy to enable the family bury the deceased immediately.

    In his confessional statement, the suspect stated that he never knew what came upon him to commit such crime.

    “It is the devil because I did not know what came upon to kill my mother,” he told investigators.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Orlando Ikeokwu confirmed the incident.