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  • Sad! Medical Doctor allegedly murdered in his private clinic in Delta

    Sad! Medical Doctor allegedly murdered in his private clinic in Delta

     

    …as family demands justice

    A Medical Doctor identified as Dr. Uyi Iluobe has been allegedly killed in his hospital in Delta state.

    Dr Uyi Iluobe a young Nigerian doctor, entrepreneur and an ordained minister with the Church of God Mission Ministries, was gruesomely murdered in his privately-owned hospital (Olive clinic) in the town of Oghara-eki by unknown assailants on the evening of 29th December 2022 while everyone was busy with end of year preparations.

    At a time when most doctors are dumping the country for greener pastures abroad those who stayed back are falling victims to the poor security situation of the country.

    Dr Uyi stayed back and established a clinic that provides care to the people of Oghara-eki.

    Sources close to the family have revealed that Dr Uyi has received numerous threats in the course of his selfless services either by patients who do not want to pay for services rendered or those who felt that he was a foreigner in the land and should offer free care to them by force.

    Few days before he was assassinated a gunshot victim was brought to the hospital and in following the laws, he advised that they would need to provide a police report while treatment is commenced but they rather insisted that the victim be treated off police notification.

    He refused and they took the gunshot victim away angry and furious.

    On the day of the attack, he was in the consulting room with a patient (who is currently at large).

    The patient was said to have come in with severe pains and was being reviewed urgently without registration in medical records when suddenly the assailants came in and shot him dead.

    The lady (supposed patient) and the assassins left hurriedly in a car parked outside the hospital while other hospital staffs were all lying face down and in fear.

    This is the most gruesome manner to kill a doctor who places the wellbeing of the community he serves in high esteem.

    The body of the late doctor has been deposited in the mortuary while the security agencies are making efforts to fish out his killers.

    It is the prayers of family, friends and well-meaning Nigerians that the Nigerian security agents catch his killers and reveal the true motivations behind this assassination.

  • BREAKING: NECO Registrar Godswill Obioma murdered by unknown gunmen

    BREAKING: NECO Registrar Godswill Obioma murdered by unknown gunmen

    Unknown gunmen on Monday night invaded the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, crushing him in what his wife suspected to be an assassination.

    “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Tuesday morning.

    Crying copiously, Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, prowling in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.

    TheNewsGuru reports that Mr Obioma has been facing challenges to remove him from office as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.

    Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14, 2020. He hailed from Abia in Nigeria’s Igbo-dominated South-East region.

    The sad incident occurred barelly a day after Ahmed Gulak, a top politician of the ruling APC, was assassinated.

    Details shortly…

     

  • Pastor murdered over missing male organ in Benue

    Pastor murdered over missing male organ in Benue

    The Pastor-in-Charge of Divine Shadow Church Daudu, Uhembe Jacob, has been killed by angry youths over his alleged involvement in missing male organ in the community.

    Daudu is a satellite town on Makurdi- Lafia federal highway predominantly inhabited by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) owing to hersdmen attacks on farmers in Guma and Logo local government areas in Benue.

    For more two weeks, the town has witnessed huge protests over alleged missing male genital organ.

    Youths in the area went on rampage and set the house of Pastor Uhembe Jacob burning last Tuesday.

    They accused him of being the brain behind the missing organ.

    They said he was one of the syndicates acting as a pastor to pray and heal those who had their organs removed.

    The Nation reports that while the burning of houses was going on, Pastor Jacob attempted to escape in his vehicle.

    But as he drove towards Lafia road in Nassarawa state, youths caught up and killed him.

    His body was found in the bush on Friday.

    There is tension in the community as some residents loyal to the pastor organized a peaceful demonstration on Sunday while displaying his poster.

     

  • Police arrest two suspected killers of ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh

    Police arrest two suspected killers of ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh

    Two suspects have been reportedly arrested in connection with the murder of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

    The suspects are ‘murder contractor’ who reportedly hired the assailants and the one who is said to have pulled the trigger.

    It was also gathered that Badeh was killed on Keffi-Abuja road following the information that he had some cash on him to pay for additional farmland. He was on his way from his farm.

    The farmland was said to be next to the one he had already cultivated.

    The police may parade suspects today to give Nigerians some insights into how Badeh was killed.

    The parade will also allow the media to interact with the suspects.

    An interim report has been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari who ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, to fish out Badeh’s killers.

    Badeh( 61) was shot dead on December 18 near Gitata, a village on the Keffi-Bade-Abuja road.

    Badeh was killed, his driver wounded and his friend abducted by the assailants.

    The friend of the ex-CDS was released on Monday after the family had paid ransom said to be in millions of naira.

    According to sources, the breakthrough was recorded by the IGP Rapid Response Team (IRT) in conjunction with the military and other security agencies.

    A source privy to the matter said: “After about a week of investigation, the Police, in collaboration with the military and other security agencies have arrested the man who contracted out the killing of Badeh.

    “And following intelligence, the detectives traced and arrested the suspect who actually shot at Badeh at close range to kill him.

    “The killing had to do with alleged transactions on additional farmland which was to be sold to the ex-CDS.

    “The suspect who hired the assailants was not part of the deal. But he got to know of the transactions the day and time that Badeh was coming to pay for the farmland.

    “Unfortunately, the deal was not yet concluded on the appointed day, but the ‘murder contractor’ suspected that Badeh was with the cash on December 18 and engaged some assassins to waylay and kill him in order to haul the cash.”

    The Police, the military and other security agencies are still on the trail of other accomplices, the source said, adding:

    According to another highly reliable source, the suspects were said to have confessed that their intention was not to kill Badeh, but his driver refused to stop when they carried out the attack, leading to their shooting sporadically to stop the Toyota Tundra in which the former Nigerian Air Force Chief was travelling from his farm in Nasarawa State to Abuja.

     

  • BREAKING: Tension as gunmen murder Imo APC chairman

    Gunmen suspected to be assassins in the early hours of Friday murdered, Sunny Ejiagwu, the All Progressives Congress chairman in Ideato North Local Government of Imo state.

    Ejiagwu, popularly known as Ohaneze was one of the 27 LGAs chairmen inaugurated on Monday by the new state chairman, Daniel Nwafor, after the state APC rescheduled election as ordered by the court.

    The state commissioner of police, Dasuki Galandanchi, who confirmed the murder to our correspondent in a telephone conversation, said that the corpse had been evacuated to a nearby mortuary.

    According to the CP, the politician was killed along the Akokwa road in the Ideato North LGA .

    The CP said “the APC chairman in Ideato North has been murdered. I was at the scene of the crime and only came back. His corpse has been evacuated to a mortuary.

    There is no preliminary suspicion but the investigator would find out. The blood of the innocent would expose them.”

    Briefing newsmen at the state party secretariat, APC state chairman, Nwafor, said that the killing was condemnable.

    He said that political killings and violence has no place in a democracy.

    Nwafor said; “The killing is condemnable because APC preaches peace and political tolerance. People should practice politics without bitterness and violence.

    The constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria guarantees freedom of association.

    We, therefore, call on the Inspector General of police to press on the commissioner of police to nab the culprits. Imo is a peaceful state and an example of how politics should be played.

    The deceased was in our meeting on Thursday and he expressed concern about political violence in his area. He told us that his area is volatile and called on us to come to his rescue when the need arises.

    From the information made available to me, he was double-crossed and when he tried to move back he fell into the gutter. His killers went there and shot him severely. “