Police in Ebonyi on Sunday in Abakaliki confirmed Saturday’s killing of a councillor, Mr Ogbonnaya Ugwu. Spokesman of the police, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that investigation had started to track the killers so as to bring them to book. A resident told NAN...
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A disgruntled former Jehovah’s Witness member shot dead six people of the Christian group’s congregation in the German city of Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Friday. Eight other people were wounded, including four seriously, in Thursday evening’s attack, said Hamburg interior minister Andy Grote, calling...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – The Police Ebonyi State have killed no fewer than three 3 gunmen and arrested two suspects in an operation in the state. The police also recovered two AK-47 riffle, one locally made pistol, one AK-47 magazine, 30 AK-47 live ammunition, 20 AK-47 expended ammunition...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Friday night abducted two wives and a son of the Chief of Sarkin kudu, in the Ibi Local Government Area of Taraba State, Dansalama Adamu. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abdullahi Usman, confirmed this to Channels Television via a telephone...
Gunmen on motorcycles shot at a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo, wife of Lionel Messi, in Rosario, in Argentina’s Santa Fe province early on Thursday morning. Local media and the city’s mayor reported that a threatening hand-written message was also left on the shop’s door for...
Gunmen have killed Nnaemeka Ugboma, the Chairman of Ejemekwuru Customary Court in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. Ugboma was killed on Thursday by gunmen, who operated in motorcycles while presiding a court session. The incident according to the Punch, brought the court sitting to an abrupt...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Professor Getruth Njar has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Main Avenue axis of Calabar South Council of the state. Prof. Njah, who was recently sworn in by Governor Ben Ayade, was kidnapped and whisked away through...
Gunmen have abducted Chief Joshua Ahmadu, the District Head of Chawai in Kauru Local Government of Kaduna State. Ahmadu’s abduction was confirmed on Wednesday by Mr Abel Adamu, President, Chawai Development Association (CDA). Adamu, in a statement signed by Mr Raphael Joshua, Public Relations Officer of CDA, said that...
A 32-year-old woman and her child were abducted at Otaefun/Kobo’ngbogboe Area of Osogbo on Tuesday, police in Osun confirmed on Wednesday. Police spokesperson in Osun, SP Yemisi Opalola, said a report of the abduction was made to the police and that machinery had been set in motion to rescue...
Chris Ohizu, the kidnapped Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, has been beheaded. Ohizu was butchered on Sunday after his abductors allegedly received N6 million as ransom. Video of his beheading surfaced online on Sunday, where his killers insisted that there would be...
Mr Kefas Ishaya, the Catechist of St. Monica’s Catholic Church, Ikuly-Pari in Kauru Local Government of Kaduna State, who was abducted Thursday night, has been released. A statement from the Kafanchan Diocese of the Catholic Church, said that Ishaya, who was kidnapped from the Parish Rectory, was released Saturday...
A Police Inspector from Ndiegoro Police Station was killed on Tuesday by suspected IPOB/ESN members around Ohanku Road-Iheorji junction in Aba, Abia. Two of the attackers were however neutralised by the police in the ensuing gun duel. Confirming the incident, the Abia Police Public Relations Officer, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna...
Unknown gunmen have abducted an operative of the Nigerian Navy in Anambra State,. The naval personnel, identified as Lt. IS Ozuowa, was kidnapped alongside some civilians, whose number could not be ascertained at press time. He was said to have been released from NNS Ologbo last Friday for his...
The Police Command in Plateau says it has rescued the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Pankshin, SP Nwapi Augustus, who was abducted by gunmen. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Alfred Alabo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria...
The abducted Edo Area Customary Court President, Mrs Prescious Aigbonoga, has regained her freedom . The Edo Police command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed her release on Thursday, said that a police officer was killed during the rescue operation. Nwabuzor also said Aigbonoga was rescued by...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Railway Command, Yetunde Longe, said efforts were on by the police and other security agencies, to rescue victims, who were abducted in Edo train station. CP Longe stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday. He...
The President of Igueben Area Customary Court, Mrs Precious Aigbonoga, was on Monday abducted by gunmen, around Ugoneki axis, on her way to Court in Igueben Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo. The Chairman of the Lion Bar, Chief Nosa Edo-Osagie, in a statement by Mr Festus Usiobaifo, the...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The Plateau State Police Command has foiled an attempt by gunmen to kidnap Mr Yakubu Sanda, the Speaker, Plateau House of Assembly. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Jos. According...
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State on Tuesday condemned recent killings in parts of the state. Soludo was reacting to killings in Okpuno in Awka South Local Government Area and Obosi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that four youths...
Former governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Monday evening escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen attacked his convoy in Mbano. Ohakin, a one-term governor of Imo State, hails from Mbano. He was elected governor in 2007 but lost in his second term bid in 2011 to...