A security guard, Ifeanyi Ani, a father of three from Enugu State, was allegedly beaten to death by a customer at a popular eatery in Rumukrushi, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
TheNewsGuru reports that the horrific incident occurred on Thursday, March 27, 2025 when the security guard approached the customer’s car to request that he turn off his headlights.
The yet to be named customer, allegedly pounced on the security guard, and started punching him, repeatedly, leading to his collapse and eventual death.
The management of the eatery immediately arrested the customer and handed him over to the Mini-Okoro Police Division.
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the incident, and an investigation is currently underway.
Police in Lagos State have arrested two men who allegedly drugged a school’s security guard and robbed the school of property estimated at millions of Naira.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, police spokesman in Lagos State told NAN on Wednesday in Ikeja that on Dec. 29, 2023, the suspects bought sedatives close to the school.
They, thereafter, proceeded to the school and engaged the security guard in innocuous discussions; bought food from a nearby restaurant and drugged it before handing same to the victim.
No sooner than the security man finished eating the food than he slept off, giving room for the suspects to actualise their objective, Hundeyin explained.
“They constructively broke into the school’s administrative office, removed the ignition key to the school’s bus, and removed a 65-inch television set and six inverter batteries.
“They fuelled the bus with diesel found at the parking lot and drove the vehicle away. They also removed the security man’s iPhone 11 cell phone,’’ he said.
Hundeyin added that investigation into the incident paid off as one of the suspects was later arrested at Ajao Estate area of Lagos where the crime was committed.
The suspect confessed to the crime and led the police to his accomplice who was working as a laundryman at a hotel at Oshodi area of Lagos.
“The duo confessed that they sold the diesel stolen from the school at Berger Bus Stop to an unidentified driver and drove the bus to Ibadan.
“The vehicle later developed mechanical fault close to the toll gate at Ibadan and it was abandoned there. They also sold the inverter batteries in Ibadan.
“The suspects led the operatives to Ibadan, where the vehicle was recovered. They will be arraigned for conspiracy and robbery,’’ Hundeyin said.
Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has relayed his life experience, saying that he started off by doing menial jobs in the United States before joining politics.
He said he once served as a security guard and a low grade teacher in the United states.
According to him, his life tracjectory prepared him for leadership positions.
The president made this known while addressing a gathering of Nigerians in India; where he is attending the G-20 summit.
Tinubu told a story of his slow start to greatness, including working as a security guard and a tutor in school.
“Good education brought me here and I am happy to stand before you here as the president of Nigeria,” he said.
“I started small. I was a security guard. I was a tutor in school. I was a brilliant student.
“I joined Deloitte and was trained by one of the biggest accounting firms in the world, because of my education.
“When I joined them, I asked them, do you have branches in Nigeria? and they said, ‘we have a lot of clients that will take you, if you want to go home.’
“That’s how I got to Exxon Mobil and was a very successful accountant, auditor-general, and treasurer, until I joined politics with a can-do attitude.
“You can also do it; do not be despondent in any way. Nigeria is ready to accommodate all. It does not matter which part of Nigeria you are from,” the president exclaimed.
At least three people were killed after a security guard began shooting near a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday.
The attacker was also dead.
According to the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, the Ghriba Synagogue visitors killed were a 30-year-old person from Tunisia and a 42-year-old person from France.
The third death was a security guard killed by the attacker, who was also a security guard.
The Interior Ministry said that late on Tuesday the attacker killed his colleague, seized ammunition and then opened fire randomly at security posts in the vicinity of the synagogue, where pilgrims are currently visiting. Security guards fired back killing the attacker, the ministry said.
Four civilians and five security personnel were also injured.
The synagogue was cordoned off and an investigation is underway to determine why this “this treacherous and cowardly attack” occurred, the Interior Ministry said.
The synagogue was hosting the festival for the Jewish holiday Lag Baomer, which is attended every year by many Jewish locals as well as pilgrims from Israel, France and other countries.
Lag Baomer, the Jewish festival of joy, traditionally interrupts the mourning period between Passover, which commemorates the liberation of the Jews from Egyptian slavery, and the harvest festival of Shavuot.
According to Israeli media reports, around 1,000 people were in the house of worship during the crime. Extra tight security is in place during the festival every year.
Videos circulated on social media appeared to show panicked people running through a neighbouring building to the synagogue while gunshots were heard.
According to the Jewish community, only about 1,800 Jews still live in Tunisia, most of them on Djerba.
In the middle of the 20th century, there were still 100,000 Jews in Tunisia.
In 2002, a suicide attack targeted the synagogue, leaving 21 dead, including 14 German tourists.
In 2015, the North African country saw a string of attacks that hit the tourism industry – its main source of income. Most of the attacks were claimed by extremist militia.
The Police Command in Ebonyi has arrested a security guard over the fire incident that gutted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Izzi Local Government Area on Sunday.
SP Chris Anyanwu, Spokesman of the Command in a statement on Wednesday in Abakaliki, said the suspect is a staff of the commission.
He said that the suspect was in possession of the keys to the building as at the time of the incident.
“Witnesses including police personnel were invited to make statements.
“The fire incident was reported to the Mobile Policemen on duty by one Nwebe Emmanuel, a retired security staff of INEC who was in his farm at the time of the incident.
“The mobile policemen in turn alerted the Divisional Police Officer at Izzi who then reported the situation to the Commissioner of Police.
“The assessment conducted indicated that the fire emanated from inside the INEC office building.
“There was no perceived external attack on the property; the two civilian security staff posted to the premises were not on their duty post,” he said.
According to him, investigation confirmed that there was no electric power supply that would have triggered the fire, and the building had no fire-fighting tools.
Anyanwu urged members of the public with information on the possible cause of the fire to assist the police, as investigation continues.
“We also advise that INEC offices across states of the federation be installed with solar-powered CCTV cameras and fire-fighting tools,” he added.
Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Monday sentenced a 23-year-old security guard, Blessing Okon to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old student.
Newsmen reports that convicting Okon, Soladoye said the prosecution had succeeded in proving the essential ingredients of defilement beyond reasonable doubt.
Describing Okon as shameless, the judge noted that the victim was consistent in her oral testimony before the court which established that the defendant had been having sexual contact with her since she was nine-years-old.
“This defendant is lacking in compassion he had sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl. There was overwhelming evidence against him as presented by the prosecution. He therefore should pay for his sexual crime.
“The defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment without an option of fine.
“He is to have his name registered in the Sexual Offenders Register as maintained by the Lagos State Government,” she said.
Soladoye in the judgment commended the chaplain of the survivor’s school to whom the revealed that she was defiled by the guard. The chaplain alerted her father about the crime.
“The chaplain of the school in question had a listening ear thereby allowing the victim to share her thoughts, worries, anxieties and frustration which eventually led to the reporting of this case to the authorities.
“I salute the chaplain’s courage and candour for not sweeping this case under the carpet.
“I wish him all the best and I do hope sincerely that others in positions of power will be able to speak up in issues of sexual abuse and report them to the authorities,” Soladoye said.
Newsmen reports that according to the state prosecutors, Mr Olusola Soneye and Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, Okon committed the offence on Sept. 13, 2019, at Ribadu Road off Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
He was 20 years old when he committed the offence.
The prosecution presented three witnesses; the survivor, her father and a medical doctor while Okon testified solely in his defence.
The survivor in her testimony said that the defendant had sexually assaulted her when she was nine years old by touching her breasts on two occasions.
She said he defiled her when she was 14.
The offence, she said, contravenes the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos 2015.
Clement Sagwak, the security guard assaulted by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), asking for a probe into the March 29 incident.
Sagwak, in an April 9 petition signed by his lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien, accused the CCT chairman of abuse of power, assault, torture, and ‘xenophobia’.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Umar was caught on camera physically assaulting Sargwak, at Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja, on March 29.
Umar, who presides over the trial of public offers accused of breach of code of conduct, was seen in the five-minute viral video clip, slapping and kicking the security guard following an altercation that ensued between them over a parking space on the premises of the plaza.
Sargwak, with a bruised lip, later revealed to newsmen that he was attacked by the CCT chair after he approached him over wrong parking on the plaza premises.
A phone repairer, Peter Onyiuke, with an outlet at the plaza, was also detained for one week allegedly on Umar’s instruction, following a quarrel they had on the sideline of the scene created by CCT chairman’s attack on the plaza’s security guard.
In the petition dated April 9, 2021, and addressed to the Secretary of the NHRC, Anthony Ojukwu, Sargwak urged the commission to investigate the assault he suffered in the hands of Umar and his driver, and the subsequent slur campaign the CCT launched against him and tenants of the plaza after the incident.
In a statement filled with blunders, the CCT press and media unit, accused Sargwak of being rude in his encounter with Umar.
The unit also alleged that CCT chairman was mobbed by ‘Biafran boys’, a characterisation that was widely condemned as a slur on an ethnic group.
Sargwark said, through his lawyer, thar the slur in the statement after he was attacked by the CCT chairman violated section 26 of the Cybercrime Probation and other Offences Act, 2015.
The petition reads, in part, “As if that was not enough, that the said Umar Danladi through his press office issued a press statement at Code of Conduct Tribunal wherein he complained in defence of his atrocious act of Umar Danladi said that the tenant of Banex Plaza and the Clement Sagwak attacked him and some tenants of Banex Plaza who witnessed the ugly incident and nominal complainant/our client’s assault are Biafra boys, wherein same publication is contrary to 26 of Cybercrimes Prohibitions and Other Offences Act 2015, as same act as Umar Danladi and his press officer constitute use of racist terms and the aftermath distribution of the same through (an) electronic medium by all persons, constitute a distribution of xenophobic material in this regard.
“Whereof the act of Umar Danladi and all persons associated with him is contrary to the provisions and sections under the Penal Code Act section 26 of Cybercrimes Prohibition and other Offences Act 2015.”
The petitioner also accused both Umar and officers of the F.C.T police command of “intimidating and threatening tenants and all eyewitnesses in an attempt to cover up Umar’s dirty tracks of the March 29 event.”
“That the F.C.T Police Command officers are busy inviting and threatening to arrest banex plaza tenants and all those that (who) witness(ed) the unruly behaviour of Umar Danladi to cover up Umar Danladi criminal and dirty tracks.
“That the IPO of the Police Command has again invited a colleague of Clement Sargwak who is one of the eyewitnesses to the event on Monday, March 29, 2021.
“That the Umar Danladi is bent on intimidating everyone around Clement Sagwak who has any useful information to indict our client,” the petition partly reads.
A video of the incumbent chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar assaulting a security man at a mall in Abuja has surfaced online.
The thug in suit here is Danladi Umar who, as Chairman of #Nigeria's Code of Conduct Tribunal, #CCT, polices #EthicsInPublicLife. Here he is assaulting innocent citizens in a market place. But the regime will seek to excuse him in because he is their own #BanditInSuitspic.twitter.com/qOG6zPEh4f
The undated video saw Umar physically hitting the security man over an unstated issue before he was restrained by policemen who accompanied him.
The actions of Umar provoked anger among bystanders who in turn turned against him forcing him into his vehicle. The video, however, showed that as he made his way to leave the complex the gate was locked against him a situation that allowed more people to taunt him and shell his vehicle with stones.
A security guard who never failed to put on his face mask to protect himself from the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) has reportedly suffocated to death.
According to reports, on Friday, August 28, the 50-year-old private guard, identified as Solomon Ede and attached to a building in Alako area of Abeokuta, was said to have gone to bed without removing his face mask shortly after he took a local gin popularly called ogogoro.
His lifeless body was found face down with his face mask the next day, suggesting that he died of suffocation from the face mask.
Sources revealed that neighbours who came to fetch water at the compound of the house where the deceased worked as a guard until his death banged on the gate of the building endlessly but Ede did not come out to grant them access to the tap.
It was said that the noise at the gate of the building alerted Ede’s boss who opened the gate for the visitors and decided to check on Ede in his room, but the door to his room was firmly shut. His boss then forced the door of the apartment tucked inside the security house of the building open only to find Ede lying face down on the bed lifeless and with his face mask in place.
The boss was said to have raised the alarm which attracted other residents to the building, with many blaming the deceased’s tragic death on his obsession with alcohol.
The news of the guard’s death triggered emotions as sympathisers had a hectic time consoling his widow, who had rushed to the scene on receiving the news of her husband’s death.
It was said that the expectant wife of the deceased’s boss was shell-shocked and almost passed out at the scene but for the quick intervention of female sympathisers who took her away.
A source said: “But for the noise from those who came to fetch water in the early hours of the day, no one would have known that a tragedy had occurred.
“It was when the deceased failed to come out of his apartment to attend to those fetching water in the premises of the house that his boss came out and discovered his body.”
Shocked by the discovery, the unnamed Ede’s employer reported the matter to a police division at Kemta, Idi Aba.
Sources said the deceased was recently persuaded by his boss to open an account in a bank for the purpose of receiving his salary, following the way he was lavishing his money on alcohol.
A neighbour who spoke in confidence said: “Earlier on the day of his unfortunate death, his employer reminded him of their previous discussion about opening a bank account so he could be paying his salary into the account without delay, especially when he is out of town.
”He was to be paid his salary same Saturday his lifeless body was found in his room.”
Some sympathisers revealed that Ede took to alcohol after suffering depression. He was said to have been warned by his employer and residents of the neighbourhood many times to desist from excessive consumption of the local gin.
“He usually removed his face mask before going to bed. But he took some ogogoro late in the evening and was downcast. Those who saw him at the entrance of his apartment asked him to remove the mask on his face and go to bed, but he refused.
”However, he went to bed forgetting to remove his face mask and slept face down. He was probably choked to death by the face mask,” said a source who spoke in confidence.
The source added: “No one would believe that he started working as a guard in the building in March this year, because he was a likable fellow who related with everyone pleasantly. Hence, he had unhindered access to his boss’ apartment.
“He was a very easy going man, only that he could not restrain himself from indulging in the consumption of local gin which eventually led him to wear a face mask to bed, leading to his death.”
A resident identified simply as Olamilekan disclosed that the deceased had rebuffed those who pleaded with him to retire to bed when he was discovered to be drunk.
“He was sighted on Friday seated at the entrance of his apartment at the security house where he worked. He was looking downcast and was asked to go into his room but he refused. It was shocking that he died overnight.
“From the look of things and without prejudice to police investigations on the cause of his death, he was so drunk and probably forgot to remove his face mask before sleeping face down and suffocating to death.”
Policemen from Kemta Police Division in Idi Aba were said to have evacuated the body of the deceased to the mortuary at the State General Hospital at Ijaiye, Abeokuta.
Three family members have been charged with the fatal shooting of a Michigan Family Dollar store security guard who denied entry to a customer who was not wearing a state-mandated face mask, officials have said.
43-year-old Calvin Munerlyn was shot in the head on Friday at the store, north of downtown Flint, and later died in hospital, said Michigan State Police Lieutenant David Kaiser on Monday.
Mr Munerlyn had told the daughter of Sharmel Teague, aged 45, that she had to leave the store on Friday because she was not wearing a mask, said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.
Ms Teague was charged alongside her husband, Larry Teague, aged 44, and their son, Ramonyea Bishop, aged 23, with first-degree premeditated murder and gun charges.
“From all indications, Mr. Munerlyn was simply doing his job in upholding the Governor’s Executive Order related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the safety of store employees and customers,” Mr Leyton said in the statement.
According to the prosecutor, witnesses at the dollar store have since identified Mr Bishop and Mr Teague as the two men shot Mr Munerlyn.
Surveillance video at the store confirmed that Ms Teague had argued with the security guard, who then told her the 45-year-old to leave after her daughter had been told to do the same.
The woman immediately left the scene in an SUV, before the same car returned around 20 minutes later, said prosecutors.
Two men – identified as Mr Bishop and Mr Teague – entered the store, before the husband shouted at Mr Munerlyn for disrespecting his wife, said the statement.
The son, Mr Bishop, was later identified as the man that allegedly shot the security guard.
Mr Teague was also charged with violating Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order which mandates everyone inside stores to wear face coverings, said Mr Leyton.
The mother has been arrested but police are still looking for the husband and son.
No information has been released about the daughter, who has not been charged in the shooting.
“It is important that the governor’s order be respected and adhered to, and for someone to lose their life over it is beyond comprehension,” Leyton said earlier on Monday in a statement.
