No fewer than one hundred and three Nigerians arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday, June 28, after they were deported from the Republic of Turkey.
They arrived at the pilgrims wing of the airport at about 6:45 pm on the Southwind Airlines flight with registration number TC-GRB. Multiple agencies of government like the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) as well as those of the military received the deportees.
It is yet to be ascertained why they were deported. The angry deportees narrated their treatment, alleging they were unfairly treated in the European country. According to them, they were detained by the Turkish authorities for over 11 months before being deported.
They therefore called on the Nigeria government to fight for them and reclaim all their valuables.
Former First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. has stated that she wouldn’t want to return to the presidential villa she and her husband, Goodluck Jonathan, occupied for eight years because “the stress of Nigeria is too much.”
While at a public function on Friday, June 28, Mrs Jonathan said;
"If you call me now for villa, I wouldn't go there. I won't. Don't you see how young I am? The stress is so much. The stress of Nigeria is so much. If God manages to bring you out of it, you should glorify God and thank for the lord's doing because it is marvellous in his eyes. He has taken you there once, why do you want to go there again? Me I won't go oo!!!'' she said
The Jonathans exited the presidential villa in 2015 after Buhari won the elections and was sworn into office.
A female enger identified as Ayemobola Mojadesola has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a female airport official.
Disclosing this to newsmen, the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at NCAA, Michael Achimugu, said Ms. Ayemobola attacked the official because she was asked to return a borrowed pen.
Because she was asked to return a borrowed pen, a enger named Ayemobola Mojadesola (born 1995) and her mother attacked an airport official, causing facial injuries and destroying two laptops in the process. She was arrested by Avsec and had to buy replacement laptops and offered fifty thousand naira cash for medical treatment of the injured staff.
I must reiterate that unruly behaviour and destruction of airport equipment will not be tolerated. Aviation equipment and staffers are there to facilitate safe and secure travel. They are not punching bags.'
Achimugu urged aggravated engers to always seek the assistance of the NCAA Consumer Protection Officers at the terminals. He said the NCAA Consumer Protection officers are there to help you and that aggrieved engers should always refer to them if they are not satisfied with the service rendered by operators.
He added that the airline offloaded Ms Ayemobola for unruly behaviour and she was taken by Avsec to Tango City before being handed over to the Nigeria Police Force.
Mikah Suleiman, the parish priest of St. Raymond Catholic Church in Damba, Gusau, Zamfara state, has appealed for help to regain his freedom after being abducted. In a 51-second video circulating on social media, Suleiman, dressed in a blue T-shirt and boxer shorts, is seen sitting on the ground and pleading for assistance.
Suleiman was kidnapped by bandits in the early hours of June 22 from the rectory within the church premises in Gusau, the state capital. He stated that he's the only one being held captive by the bandits.
He said;
I am pleading for help to be freed from this place. They (bandits) told me that they don’t keep people here for long. People don’t stay for up to a week, he said. They told me that killing a person is not difficult for them. They said they are just helping me by keeping me; please, I am asking for help. Please save my life in the name of God. Look at my head; look at my legs. I was tied to a robe, and I am the only one in this place.
Normally, if they kidnap somebody, they don’t waste time. If ransom is not paid immediately, they kill the person. Please, for God’s sake, help me. Shortly after making the plea, a stick from one of the bandits standing off the camera was seen touching his head.
Prudence Daniel-Obia, a 36-year-old pregnant Nigerian woman, has tragically ed away in the UK. According to a post by the Nigerian community in the UK, Prudence died on Friday, June 21, 2024.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of a Nigerian in the UK who tragically died on Friday, the 21st of June, 2024," the Nigeria Community in the UK wrote in a GoFundMe page. "We’re raising funds in memory of Prudence Daniel-Obia." Prudence, who became pregnant late last year, was eagerly anticipating her first childbirth.
With her new immigration status, she was excited about becoming a mother and starting a family with her husband. Tragically, just three days after celebrating her 36th birthday, Prudence went to bed and never woke up.
She ed away along with her unborn triplets, leaving behind her heartbroken husband and aged parents.
The Anambra State Government has apprehended one Mr Ike Okoye in Isuofia for allegedly molesting and engaging in same-sex activities with young boys in Isuofia, Aguata local government area of the state.
The arrest was carried out through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare in conjunction with the Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA, Brigade. According to a statement posted Wednesday morning, June 26, on the official Facebook page of the Commissioner, Hon. Ify Obinabo, the incident was reported to the ministry by the President-General of Isuofia Peoples Assembly, Chief Jude Chikadibia-Okeke.
The Chikadibia-Okeke alleged that Okoye has been molesting and engaging young men in homosexual activities for a long time but that anytime he got arrested, he usually got bailed by higher individuals in the state. Chief Chikadibia-Okeke narrated that they caught Mr Okoye over the weekend having sexual relationships with lots of boys and young men and quickly put a call through to the Women Affairs Commissioner who instructed them to apprehend him immediately.
The suspect Okoye, a native of Okpoko village, Isuofia, and a retired teacher, earlier denied the same sex allegations on the basis that it was his haters at work. However, he later revealed that he had at some point romanced some of the boys, and held their private sexual organs but never penetrated them as alleged. He begged for forgiveness.
Meanwhile, two of his victims who pleaded anonymity said that the suspect usually comes under the guise of either assisting one with financial issues or allowing them to do his house chores and get paid.
One of his victims, who is currently 25 years old, explained that the suspect first molested him when he was 17 years old and ever since then has been on his case until he decided to involve his mother. The other, 31-year-old, stated that the suspect usually gets satisfied when he holds his private part but he got uncomfortable with the whole thing.
Both victims alleged that after they left, the suspect kept pressuring them and even threatened them at some point. The suspect was handed over to the police for further investigation.
An innocent bricklayer who spent 24 years in jail has been set free and is now sharing his ordeal. Lukman Adeyemi, a 50-year-old bricklayer, was just 26 years old when he accompanied a friend who had been invited by police to the police station. His act of loyalty towards his friend led to him being detained. He ended up spending 24 years in jail and was only freed on June 14, 2024.
He spent nine years in pre-trial detention, followed by an unbearable 15 years on death row.
Narrating how he was detained.
He explained that when he got to the station with his friend, during interrogations by SARS Police officers, he endured severe physical and psychological torment, leading to coerced confessions for crimes he knew nothing about.
Sharing his story with Vanguard, he said: "I am Lukman Adeyemi, a native of Iwerele, Iwajowa Local Government, Oyo State. I am a Bricklayer by profession. I was 26 years old when I had this problem.
"In August 2000, after returning home from work with a friend living with me, Ismaila Lasisi, we were told that the Police came to look for Ismaila and he was asked to report himself in the station. I immediately decided to follow him to the station, lo and behold I was arrested and detained along with him. I was tortured to the point of death over a crime I knew nothing about, right from the police station.
I had a close shave with the death over a murder of a woman who was hired by some ex-friends of Ismaila Lasisi to fetch water for them at the construction site. The woman left home in the morning and she never returned home. Ismaila Lasisi once lived with them. He begged to come and live with me after he had a misunderstanding with these people in March. I knew these people from a far distance. Our paths never crossed in life for anything. This was how I was charged to court along with these people over an offence I never had any knowledge of.
In 2009 we were sentenced to death. We filed separate appeals but the appeal failed to the Supreme Court. My story of innocence to whoever cared to listen fell on deaf ears, with many questioning, ‘If you’re not one of them, why mention your name?’ ‘If truly you are innocent why can’t court free you?’
I felt abandoned by truth itself. I spent 24 years behind bars like 24 hours, a sleepless night that lasted for two decades. In June 2023 one of the officers of the Correctional Service, Deputy Superintendent of Correctional (DSC) AbdulKareem Awesu introduced my case to a Pastor and I spoke with him on phone.
On 17th July 2023, a group Centre for Justice Mercy and Reconciliation, CJMR, led by Pastor Hezekiah Olujobi visited us at the Ibara Correctional Service where they listened to all of us including the culprits who exonerated us. The organization went with all our judgement and shed light on our innocence.
June 14, 2024, shall remain evergreen and memorable day in my life. Light shone upon me, rain fell on my head for the first time and I saw the moon for the first time. I never knew I could pay for the sin of another man. How could I have committed an offense and still boldly walk into a police station to report myself?
I am grateful that the organization Centre for Justice Mercy and Reconciliation intervened on my behalf, a beacon of hope in a sea of despair. Her belief in my innocence reignited the flame of justice within me, propelling me toward the possibility of redemption. Pastor Hezekiah Deboboye Olujobi the Executive Director of Centre for Justice Mercy and Reconciliation, CJMR, an NGO based in Ibadan shed light on the innocence of Lukman Adeyemi and Ismaila Lasisi.
He said: "Our attention was drawn to the complaints of these two people on their claim of innocence by the Welfare Officer D Awesu, who invited us to come and help these people assuring us of their innocence and the effort made through the legal process without justice. We came down to Ibara Custodial Centre, Abeokuta, to hear from them. The two perpetrators confided in us that truly, they were the ones who committed the crime and that the two people were totally innocent of the crime. We adjusted our seats to hear them very well.
It was a long drilling of questions on their parts. But yet they insisted on their innocence. What they said carried no weight in my ears until I read through the judgement that convicted them. We obtained their judgements from both the trial court and the Supreme Court for our review. We noticed the presentation of the state before the appellate court could never allow the court to shift ground.” Pastor Olujobi said he observed that “while reading through their separate judgements, it was a contradiction.”
Narrating how the release of both innocent suspects was facilitated, Pastor Olujobi said: “With all the analysis and the evidence in the record, we forwarded our findings to the office of the Attorney-General of Ogun State and the Committee for the Board of Prerogative of Mercy and they considered our appeal.
It's not about their story, it is about the fact that the record corroborated their story." Currently, Lukman Adeyemi and Ismaila Lasisi are at the CJMR Halfway Home for recovery and reintegration process.
Two teenagers have drowned in Mkar Hills Dam and Kontien stream in Gboko, the headquarters of Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State.
It was gathered that a 12-year-old boy, Kumater Kachii of Trinity Primary School's street, Akaajime, Gboko, went to fetch firewood at Mkar Hill on Saturday, 22, June 2024 with his siblings. From fetching firewood, they proceeded to swim in a dam at the same Mkar hill where he (Kumater) drowned and died. The deceased's mother, Mrs Veronica Sesugh, said that with the help of farmers and Mkar youths, the body of Kumater was recovered and taken to his family's residence at Akaajime for a brief stopover and proceeded to his home town, branch, Kunav, Vandekya Local Government area for burial. Another teenager, Aondosoo Ansambe, 13, of Jerusalem Street, Akaajime, Gboko, drowned in the Kontien stream around Akaajime-Mkar-Gboko road when he went swimming with his friends on Sunday morning, 23rd June. Eyewitnesses, Mrs Mary Ioryange and Avalumun Hembaor told journalists that the incident occurred when the parents of the deceased were still in the church for morning mass, but with the aid of Akaajime Youths and ers, the lifeless body of Aondosoo was recovered and handed over to the family.
Late Aondosoo was a primary pupil of Vaxtee Nursery and primary school, Akaajime Gboko. He will be buried at Mayongo, Kunav, Vandekya Local Government area of Benue State. Some stakeholders of the Akaajime residence, Elder Tyover Akaajime, Hon. Smith Akom Takema and the Youth leader of the residence, Butty Shima Ukor, called on the security and government to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the frequent drowning of children in the area.
The stakeholders appealed to parents and residents of Akaajime to caution their children against swimming and other unnecessary forms of social outings.
A yet-to-be identified man suspected to be a cable vandal has died inside the powerhouse of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos
The suspected vandal had allegedly attempted to steal electrical cables and other equipment inside the FAAN powerhouse before he was electrocuted by the cables. The middle-aged man found his way into the power generating building and had begun disconnecting the installations that supply power to the Lagos Airport before he met his Waterloo.
Confirming the incident, the managing director of FAAN, Olubunmi Kuku, said the agency was leaving no stone unturned towards ensuring that all loopholes that will allow unauthorised persons into the airports were blocked. Kuku, who spoke at the commissioning of 30 Special Forces that will man the Lagos Airport, affirmed that vandals have crossed the perimeter fences of airports and stole airfield lighting equipment, or potentially harm some workers on site.
“I would say that there are two sides to this, that our environment is quite unique in the sense that we do have some security issues nationwide, we’ve been quite lucky within the airport environments that we haven’t had any of those major incidents. We do have, you know, individual issues.
So across the airside you’ve seen where we have people who are either crossing our fence, or of course, either trying to steal our airfield lighting equipment, or potentially even harm some of the individuals that we have on site. We had an incident, where an individual actually went into our power house and he got electrocuted.”
A Kenyan police officer, Inspector David Maina accidentally blew up his hands during a protest in Nairobi last week.
The police officer attached to the Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU), was facing off with protesters in the Nairobi city centre on Tuesday, June 18, when he blew up his hands with the explosive. It was gathered that some people were protesting against the finance bill. Photos of Police officer who lost both hands after teargas canister detonated on him during protests
During the face-off, police used water cannons and teargas to disperse the protesters. Sadly, Inspector David Maina lost both hands after a teargas canister detonated in his hands. Photos of Police officer who lost both hands after teargas canister detonated on him during protests
He is currently itted to Nairobi West Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment after losing his hands
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA raided a snake guarded shrine used to store illicit drugs in Igor community, Benin city, Edo state and arrested two female suspects.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, June 23, 2024, said operatives raided the shrine after detecting a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers and fetish objects.
Different quantities of illicit substances such as methamphetamine, Loud, Colorado and Arizona, all strong strains of cannabis with a total weight of 8.743 kilograms, were pulled out from the deep hole dug in the wall of the shrine building,” the statement read. At least, two ladies: Sonia Chinonso Ezumezu and Risikatu Tijani were arrested during the intelligence-led operation on Tuesday 18th June 2024 after the big black snake guarding the shrine was demobilized.
“In the same vein, two suspects: Obi Ferguson,45, and Ernest Abanum, 46, were arrested on Saturday 22nd June when NDLEA operatives raided the Usen forest in Ovia South West LGA, Edo state where 209kg cannabis and a motorcycle were recovered.”
A 27-year-old Nigerian man, Winner Terry, has been arrested by the Buduburam District Police Command in the Central Region, Ghana, for allegedly stabbing his Nigerian co-tenant, multiple times with a broken bottle during an argument.
The incident happened at Estate Junction, at Gomoa Buduburam. According to reports, the victim, Nann and the suspect got into a heated argument over the royalties paid to songwriters for their work.
Following the argument, they resumed normal conversation in the suspect’s room, unaware of his ulterior motives. Terry slashed Nann in the neck, shoulder and leg, leaving him unconscious. Neighbours rushed Nann to the ST Gregory Catholic Hospital in Buduburam, where he is currently receiving treatment.
Terry attempted to escape but was apprehended by the police and arraigned before the Ofaakor Circuit Court on Friday, June 21, 2024, which remanded him into police custody for two weeks. He is scheduled to reappear in court on July 1, 2024. The landlord, Nana Amoasi expressed shock over the incident.
He stated that the suspect’s actions were deliberate based on the severity of the victim’s wounds.
An unidentified woman was on Friday, June 21, allegedly caught with kidnapped children in Ojurowo, Folumo, in the Isale Eko area of Lagos Island, Lagos State.
The woman was reported to have kidnapped the children from the Ijora area of the state and brought them to Isale Eko to sell them. Video from the scene shows a crowd gathered around a building where the woman was allegedly caught keeping the children.
A person heard speaking in the video, said the woman confessed that she was going to sell the children for the sum of N250,000. The voice said: “They caught five children with her. She said she sells each of them for N50,000, making N250,000. They said she brought the five children from Ijora. If you know anyone looking for their child in Ijora, please come to Isale Eko in Ojurowo.”
Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested four suspects in connection with the alleged abduction and killing of Magnus Okeke, a student of Alex-Ekwueme Federal University (AE-FUNAI), in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the command, DSP Joshua Ukandu, confirmed the arrest on Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Abakaliki.
“Yes, we have commenced an investigation on the matter and four persons have so far been arrested in connection with the heinous crime," the PPRO said. The victim’s body has been recovered and taken to the mortuary. Investigation is ongoing to unravel the death. Four suspects have been arrested so far."
The management of the university in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Elom Iyke Ubochi, confirmed that Okeke, an extra-year student of the Department of ancy was abducted on June 1, 2024, and was found dead 16 days later. Ubochi described the abduction and killing of Okeke as wicked. “Yes, the security agencies have apprehended some of those alleged to be involved in the abduction and did everything possible to rescue him alive," the statement read. “Unfortunately, on Monday, June 17, the decomposing body of Okeke was painfully recovered under the bridge at Ako stream in Nwakpu village, on Ikwo/Abakaliki Road,” he said.
The university urged anyone with useful information that could aid in the investigation to come forward and assist the authorities.
Former Welfare Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaja Ramota Bankole, has ed on in Mecca.
Bankole, who is one of the Lagos APC women leaders from the Epe Division, died while performing a Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr Seye Oladejo, said the late Bankole was a committed member of the party.
He said in a statement;
“Her death is most shocking and unfortunate. She was a committed and experienced party leader. The deceased was a proven mobiliser and inspiration for women’s participation in politics. May her precious soul be in peace."
Bandits Kill Man ‘Considered Rude During Negotiation’
A 27-year-old man identified as Abba has been shot dead by bandits after he delivered a N16 million ransom and three motorcycles to them for the release of nine victims they abducted in Jere town in Kaduna State. DailyTrust reports that the bandits had invaded some houses at Unguwar Iya in Jere on April 16, 2024, abducted nine residents and demanded N30 million.
A resident of the community, Shuaibu Hussaini, who confirmed the killing of Abba, said the incident happened last Saturday, June 15, after the victim who was behind the negotiation of the ransom, went to deliver N16 million and three motorcycles to the leader of the bandits at a location in the area.
He said the bandits’ leader, after collecting the ransom and the bikes, tied the deceased with a rope and opened fire on him. It was one of the victims who was among those released who said the bandits’ leader claimed that they decided to kill Abba for being rude to him during the negotiation of the ransom. It was when one of the family of the victims tried to find out the whereabouts of Abba after delivering the ransom that the bandits’ leader asked the family to go to a particular location and pick his corpse,” he said
Hussaini, said the death of the deceased had thrown not only the community into mourning, but Jere chiefdom was also pained by the killing of the deceased.
The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Hassan Mansur, was yet to confirm the development.
Officials of the Lagos state government have apprehended a suspected vandal while vandalizing the iron reinforcement in the concrete barrier that demarcates the Ogudu Garden Valley scheme from System One Channel (Odo Iya Alaro).
The suspect (name withheld) who was apprehended last Saturday, confessed that he had engaged in the act once before now alongside some accomplices who are on the run. He stated that he usually sells the vandalized iron at a giveaway amount to mobile scrap buyers. He has been handed over to officers of Ojota Police Station for further interrogation and prosecution.
Speaking on the development, the state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab urged residents to always take ownership of public infrastructure. He added that the concrete barrier which demarcates the Ogudu Garden Valley scheme from System One Channel (Odo Iya Alaro) was constructed in 2011 and is a vital infrastructure for the state drainage system. He said it is only when residents take direct ownership that such criminally minded people in the society would be kept at bay and not allowed to destroy multi-million naira infrastructure that serves the majority.
He emphasised that the full force of the law would always be applied to those caught vandalizing public infrastructure.
A three-storey building under construction inside Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, collapsed on Tuesday evening, June 18, leaving people trapped. Two persons who were working inside the building when it collapsed, reportedly got trapped.
One of the workers was first rescued and taken to the hospital where he is currently receiving medical attention. A rescue team involving engineers and officials of the State Ministry of Works, Capital Territory Development Authority and security agencies battled to rescue the second victim. He looked weak and exhausted when eventually rescued and was rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
The collapse of the building came four days after a three-storey hotel building under construction also collapsed at Eduna Street along Hatchery Road in Abakiliki
U.S. Marshals in Texas have captured a Nigerian woman accused in the murder of her 2-year-old son.
Sharday Bakare was captured by Marshals on Monday, June 17, on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child neglect, and aggravated child abuse. According to Shelby County court records, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) and EMTs responded to the 2600 block of Margot St. just before 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, where they found the two-year-old boy unresponsive, bruised, and bleeding from the mouth. The child was taken to the hospital but later died.
On June 17, U.S. Marshals found Bakare at a residence in Glenn Heights, Texas. She was taken into custody without incident and awaits extradition back to Tennessee, officials said. Last month, Bakare's boyfriend was arraigned on charges that he beat the 2-year-old to death.
Anthony Andrews was indicted by a Shelby County Grand Jury on May 9, 2024, on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. He is currently in the Shelby County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
According to the affidavit, the child's mother said he was left in the care of her boyfriend, Andrews, while she slept. She said she had recently noticed bruising and marks on him when left with Andrews, but he told her it was because the child fell out of bed.
The affidavit said she told investigators she saw Andrews hitting the child with a belt and a braided dog toy as recently as a few weeks ago.
According to the affidavit, Andrews itted to police he hit the child "harder than he should have" the previous week and hit him seven or eight times in the face and back with a braided dog toy Sunday night, throwing him in a corner of the house. He then said he put the child in bed, when the boy fell out several minutes later, unresponsive
A 29-year-old man identified as Joe Philip a.k.a Aboy, was beaten to death by of Anioma Security Watch Network in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State over a missing Nokia touch light phone. The incident happened on Father's Day, Sunday, June 16, 2024, following the death of a young man whom they said was accused of stealing a Nokia touch light phone.
According to an eyewitness who spoke to an Ika news portal, the deceased returned from the church and turned on his generator to relax when an elderly woman living in the same compound with him came to charge her phone in his room to come pick it up later. While the young man was having a nap, it was said that the woman's son came to pick up his mother's phone from the young man's room without his knowledge. It was gathered that when the woman returned to pick up her phone and couldn't find it, the deceased expressed dismay at the disappearance of the phone, however, promised to replace it for her, but the woman insisted that she needed her exact phone or else she would ‘’teach him a lesson of his life.The young man's plea to provide her a similar phone didn't go down well with the woman hence she invited of a local security outfit, Anioma Security Watch Network for intervention.
The vigilante arrived at the scene in the compound and descended on the young man, requesting him to provide the missing phone. The witness said several people pleaded with them but they insisted that he must provide the phone before they leave him.
The persistent beating continued until they realised that the situation had gone out of their control, so they stopped. Narrating further, he said after a while they noticed that the motionless body of the deceased became cold and stiff, they immediately carried him to the office of the security group, Anioma Security Watch Network, at 17 Gbenoba Str, Agbor, where the aggrieved mob started damaging the patrol Hilux.
A quick intervention of the Nigerian Police Force and the Military calmed the situation as some police officers and military personnel were seen talking with the relation of the deceased, thereafter the lifeless body of the young man was taken in a police van in the company of relatives and friends to mortuary at Agbor Central Hospital. A few hours after the tragic incident, the said Nokia torchlight phone was found with the woman's son who went to pick it up.
The woman's son claimed he didn't want to interrupt the sleep of the young man when he entered his room to collect it, hence he took the phone and left. In an interview, the deceased father said he pleaded with the woman to allow them to replace the phone but all his pleas fell on deaf ears.
“I pleaded with the woman to allow us to replace her phone but she insisted it must be that her particular one or she'll make that call,” the grieving father said.
Some gunmen, who were enforcing sit-at-home, have reportedly killed many people and injured others in two Anambra communities. The gunmen invaded Nnewichi community in Nnewi north LGA and Nnobi community in Idemili south LGA, on Monday morning. At Nnewichi community, the gunmen were said to have invaded a hotel after discovering that some persons were having a meeting there. The gunmen started shooting sporadically at the hotel premises, while destroying properties.
The assailants were said to have killed Oseloka Ubajiekwe, head of the vigilante group and chief security officer of the community, while he was attempting to wade off the attackers. Those who sustained injuries have been taken to various hospitals in the state. At Nnobi community, the gunmen shot sporadically to scare away residents and engaged in gun duels with security operatives.
Confirming the attacks in a statement, Tochukwu Ikenga, Anambra police spokesperson, said only three persons, including a 22-year-old lady, have been confirmed dead.
“The commissioner of police, Nnaghe Obono Itam, has ordered an immediate manhunt operation on the armed men operating in a red Highlander jeep, who abducted a citizen in Nnewi by 1:30 pm yesterday 17/6/2024 and were trailed to Nnobi, where they engaged security operatives in a gun battle,” Ikenga said.
During the gun duel, one of the security operatives was fatally hit by the bullet and due to the indiscriminate shootings by the hoodlums in an attempt to escape the scene, the bullet also fatally struck two innocent ersby in the area.
“The police responding team at the scene recovered the bodies of the victims and took them to the hospital but regrettably, three of the victims including a 22-year-old lady were confirmed dead by the doctors on duty while two others are currently receiving treatment.”
A recent graduate of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) was beaten, raped, and killed by unknown assailants who abandoned her corpse on the road. Adekolure Idowu Glory had completed her program in UNIBEN and visited the school to process her clearance. On her way home on Thursday, June 13, 2024, the 22-year-old was attacked by unknown assailants who beat her up, raped her, and killed her, leaving her corpse close to her family's home in Iyowa community, Benin, Edo State .She was bleeding from her private part when she was found and marks on her body indicated she had been brutally beaten. Her body has been deposited in the morgue. Her family is now asking for help to identify the killers and make them pay for their crimes.
Her brother took to social media to write: "Justice for my younger sister Adekolure Idowu Glory, who was rape and killed in lyowa Community Benin Edo state on her way back from school (Uniben) she went for her clearance and her corpse drop close to her mother's house.
Please help us seek for justice for my kid sister that just graduated from university of Benin (Uniben)April 2024 and still processing her projects and clearance and was rape to death on her way back from school on Thursday 13th/6/2024 just 22 years.
Her lifeless body has been deposited to UBTH mortuary on the 15/6/24 with the help of the Nigerian police from Ekiadolor division, she was beaten, rape and killed please Nigerians come to my rescue, the help i need now is just for my innocent sister, my mum can't hold herself."
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two suspected armed robbers and serial rapists in Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, wo disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, June 16, 2024, said the suspects, Chukwuma Diji and Micheal Edochie, gang raped a married woman and two other ladies during operations in Abagana community.
The PPRO added that two locally made double barrel guns, one locally made single barrel gun and six live cartridges were recovered from the suspects. In the early hours of 15/6/2024 Police Operatives attached to Abagana division arrested two serial offenders wanted on a case of alleged rape and armed robbery, recover two locally made double barrel guns, one locally made single barrel gun, six live cartridges, and one Q link motorcycle,” the statement read. The suspects are Chukwuma Diji ‘M’ AKA Sympathy or Chi-boy aged 35years of Obinagu Umudun Village, Abagana, and Micheal Edochie ‘M’ AKA Mikel aged 31years of Eziabunabu Umudun, Abagana sometime last year 2023, allegedly raped married woman at Obinagu Abagana and fled the community when Security Operatives attempted to arrest them
"Also on 6/6/2024, the suspects broke into an apartment belonging to a young lady and raped her and her friend at gunpoint. The criminals later forced one of the victims to transfer money to his after they took turns of sex with them. Chukwuma and Micheal both confessed to the crime.
"The Commissioner of Police Anambra State Police Command, * Nnaghe Itam* has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a Comprehensive look to get justice for the victims of the alleged crime.
"The suspects are to be arraigned in court after the investigation is concluded
Justice 0.0. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced the duo of Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and Ibrahim Sadia Adekunle to 46 years imprisonment for impersonating operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, while executing a fake court order. A statement from the agency on Saturday, June 15, said they were re-arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC on an amended five-count charge bordering on impersonation, attempt to obtain property, possession of documents containing false pretence and unlawfully wearing the uniform of the EFCC.
One of the counts reads;
"That you, Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and Ibrahim Sadia Adekunle, on or about the 12th day of May 2021 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, attempted to obtain property from one Oriyomi Johnson under the pretext that the "Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos State Judiciary, Mushin, Lagos" issued an Order to the effect that the property located at New Horizon Estate, Lekki- Ikate, Lagos be seized and the said apartment sealed pending the arrival of the said Oriyomi Johnson, which representation you knew to be false and committed an offence of attempt to obtain property by false pretence contrary to Sections 8(b) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section11(3) of the same Act."
Another count reads;
"That you, Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and Ibrahim Sadiq Adekunle, on or about the 12th day of May 2021 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court not being a person holding any office in or authority of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, wore a jacket bearing the official mark of the Commission, which was calculated to convey the impression that you held such authority and committed an offence of unlawfully wearing the uniform of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission contrary to Section 79(1) (b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011."
A Fulani herdsman is going viral after he addressed the farmer-herder crisis that has claimed many lives. The herder, who refers to himself as Ibrahim, said he understands how farmers feel when cattle invade their farms and destroy their crops.
He added that he too feels deep pain if anyone beats or harms his cow. He acknowledged that he is aware that many of his colleagues leave their cattle to wander into people's farms and destroy their livelihood. However, he said violence is not the answer. He said when the farmers respond by killing or harming the cows, the herders mostly escalate the situation. He advised farmers to report such herders to the authorities, instead of resorting to violence.
He also advised his fellow herdsmen to try to compensate farmers if their cattle destroyed their crops. He said: "Please, believe me, it's not all Fulanis that allow their cows to spoil other's farm. It's not all Fulanis. I know there are the bad ones among us that allow their cows to spoil you guys' farms. It's very bad. I know you guys must feel the pain because apart from farming, you don't have any other business. Like us Fulanis, apart from following cows, we don't have any other business. But I have one advice for you guys, any time that you catch a Fulani man destroying your farm, please, don't beat him. Just arrest him.
He said whenever his cow destroys a farm, he finds the owner of the farm and apologises. He said some farmers forgive while others ask him to pay for the damage and he pays.
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