Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
N48m controversial land deal, judge urges out-of-court settlement
An Enugu state vacation judge, Justice Fidel Ngwu, sitting at Nsukka, has transferred to the regular courts, hearing on the enforcement of fundamental rights motion and counter motion before it. The suit number C/482M/2013 involves Engr. Okwor and Igwe Okoli (Applicants) and the Inspector-General of Police, (Respondents) in a N48million controversial land deal in Enugu.
13 days in kidnapper’s den: ‘Our miracle working prayers saved Ozekhome’
IVIUKWE is one of the communities in Agenebode clan, headquarters of the Wepa Wano Kingdom in Etsako East local government area of Edo State. An agrarian community, it was in a state of shock, fasting and prayers when Sunday Vanguard visited on 31 August, following the kidnapping of their illustrious son, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN).
The ‘dogs of war’ in Boko Haram enclave
Lance Corporal Adi of the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP) is one of the heroes of the war against the Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the North-east. A native of Pakistan, Adi’s platoon was singled out for commendation by the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azibuike Ihejirika, for executing an operation in Maiduguri, Borno State capital..
Murder at dusk: Police in Enugu commence investigation
The Enugu State command of the Nigeria Police Force has commenced a full investigation into the incident of an alleged murder that occurred in Ogbodo- Amukwa Village, Nsukka. It was gathered that last Wednesday, at about 9.30pm, the neighbourhood watch group of Amukwa village were holding meeting at their town hall during which an alleged fight broke out between one Ndubuisi Agbo and Innocent Ozioko who is a member of the neighbourhood watch group. Consequently, Agbo was shot on his stomach.
Sexual molestation of 10-yr – old girl in Lagos
The alleged sexual molestation of a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) at Abraham Adesanya estate, Ajah-Lagos, by a tanker driver simply identified as Edward, believed to be in his late 30s, is currently raising dust as the victim’s father has cried out against the ‘unsatisfactory’ manner the case was handled by the Police at the Ogombo Police station. He alledged he was being forced to drop the charges on the grounds that it was a “minor offence”, and that there was no “penetration in the course of molestation”.
