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Mr. Ogbonnaya Ugwu, also known as SPACO, was the councilman for Echara Ward 2 in the Okposi Community, Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi State. He was reportedly killed by gunmen. According to reports, Ugwu was assassinated around 10 p.m. on Saturday while coming back from his business, an establishment known in Okposi as ANGLE 90. According to sources in Okposi, the gunmen accosted Ugwu near the intersection of the Okposi Court Area. “The honourable Councillor was accosted while he was returning from his shop, a popular drinking joint in Okposi known as Angle 90. “They shot him and he…

The Kaduna State government has imposed a 24-hour curfew in four communities of the Zango-Kataf Local Government Area following herdsmen attack that killed ten people and a police officer. Yabo According to Chris Ephraim, Special Assistant (Media) to the Executive Chairman of the Zangon Kataf Local Government Council, the curfew was imposed to allow soldiers to restore peace in the area. On Saturday night, a police officer and ten others were killed in the LGA by terrorists suspected of being herdsmen. This comes just 72 hours after a pastor’s son was shot dead and four others were kidnapped in the…

On Friday, the Amotekun Corps, a security network of states in the Southwest geopolitical zone, arrested a 24-year-old suspected rapist in Iwo, Osun. He was accused of having carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old girl while keeping her in his room for three days. Retired Brig.-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, commander of the corps in Osun, told reporters in Osogbo on Saturday that the security outfit had apprehended a 28-year-old herbalist near Iwo. The herbalist allegedly defrauded some people and was also found in possession of counterfeit $100 and N1,000 bills. “The suspects were arrested at different locations in Iwo on Friday after…

Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has fired his Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Mr Ford Ozumba, over a dispute between the Imo chapter of the National Labour Congress and the state government. This is according to a statement signed by the governor’s media aide, Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, and made available to journalists in Owerri on Saturday. “Gov. Uzodimma has approved the immediate removal of Chief Ford Ozumba, Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, from office. Army rescues commissioner from kidnappers in Cross River “Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Declan Emelumba says the governor directed Chief Ozumba to hand over to…

On Saturday, the Catholic Diocese of Warri urged Delta politicians to respect sacred lines as they campaigned. The Very Rev. Fr. Mark Ikeke, Parish Priest of St. Jude’s Catholic Church in Effurun, Delta, made the appeal in a statement issued in Warri. The church was responding to rumors that All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege is not a Christian. Omo-Agege, according to Ikeke, is not only a Christian, but a baptized, practicing, and dedicated member of the Church. “Our attention has been drawn to a rumour that one of our parishioners, Sen. Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of…

The Zamfara police command has dismantled a bandits’ camp and rescued 14 kidnapped victims who had been held captive for 68 days. This is in line with a statement issued on Saturday in Gusau by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu. According to him, “On 10th March, 2023, Police tactical operatives in conjunction with the vigilante group, while on a Mop Up Operation near Munhaye forest, successfully dislodged some bandits’ camp belonging to one recalcitrant bandit Kingpin, popularity know as Dogo Sule”. “As a result of the operation, 14 hostages, made up of two male adults, seven…

On Saturday, fire engulfed the popular Enugu nightclub, Ballroom, at Otigba Junction in Enugu, causing panic. The fire allegedly started from the side of the kitchen around 5.10pm, when preparations for the night’s activities were underway. The fire was said to have engulfed the rest of the nightclub, forcing revelers to flee, while other guests who had parked their vehicles on the premises abandoned them. According to eyewitnesses, about three fire engines mounted by men from the state fire service were on the ground fighting the fire, which spread quickly from within. There were no human casualties, but the inferno…

Baba Bintin, a presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station Fresh FM Nigeria, died after collapsing on his way to the radio station for his program on Saturday. Baba Bintin’s death was announced during a radio programme by the station on Saturday. “I’m finding it very difficult to believe this story that is breaking here,” popular presenter, Mayor Isaac Brown, said on the radio station. “He (Baba Bintin) left his home like we all did this morning to come into this station to do our daily job and contribute our quota to national development; the job like we love to do,…

More than a quarter-century after college freshman Kristin Smart went missing in what became one of California’s most notorious unsolved crimes, the man eventually convicted of her murder was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday. The San Luis Obispo County district attorney announced in a statement that Smart’s former classmate, Paul Flores, received the maximum sentence under California’s current penal system. “Today, our criminal and victim justice systems delivered justice for Kristin Smart,” wrote District Attorney Dan Dow. Flores, 46, was found guilty in October 2022 by a 12-member jury in Monterey County Superior Court after…

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has assured Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state and all Yoruba that it will not attack any region or tribe unless threatened. In response to a claim made by a group calling itself the Delta Igbos that The Indigenous People of Biafra had deployed a Special Squad in Lagos to cause mayhem, the pro-separatist group stated that the IPOB would never attack the Yoruba nation because it is a non-violent group seeking only the freedom of its people through a referendum. In a statement issued on Friday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel…