ARMY OFFICER ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY SUSPECTED CULTISTS

A military officer attached to the 16 Brigade, Yenagoa, Abbas Fatai, has been reportedly killed by suspected members of the Icelanders cult group.

Fatai was reportedly shot dead at about 09:12 p.m. in his neighbourhood on July 22, at lgbogene Junction in Yenagoa, Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The cult group led by one Confidence allegedly attacked and shot the officer who was subsequently rushed to the hospital where later confirmed dead.

Preliminary investigations by the army, said:
“Suspected members of lcelanders cult group led by one Mr. Confidence attacked and shot 08NA/61/2298 CPL Abbas Fatai of 16 Brigade at lgbogene Junction in Yenagoa LGA of Bayelsa State” the message read in part.

Military Sources disclosed that Mr Fatai’s body had been deposited at Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, as soldiers have also launched a manhunt for the suspects.

CIVIL SERVANT KILLS WIFE OVER BORROWED N1000

A 41 year-old resident of Jada Ward in Ganye Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Usman Hammawa, has allegedly beaten his 36 year old
wife to death.

According to a Source, trouble started when
the deceased, Rabiyatu Usman, a mother of five, asked her husband to give her back the N1,000 she borrowed him.

The Source disclosed that Usman, a Civil Servant of Ganye Local Government Area, picked offence and started to beat up his late wife and in the process, hit her head against a wall, then she fell down unconscious.

It was gathered that Rabiyatu, who has been married to Usman for 16 years, was confirmed dead upon being rushed to the hospital by neighbours.

Family members of the deceased subsequently incidented the matter at the police station in Ganye Local Government Area Police Command and the Suspect was arrested by operatives of the command.

The Adamawa State Police Spokesperson, DSP, Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the incident, adding that the Commissioner, Aliyu Adamu Alhaji, commended the Residents and police for exposing and making it impossible for the criminal to escape justice.

The Police Spokesperson added that the Police has commenced investigation into the matter.

COURT RULES THAT ORIGHOMISAN KAKA CAN STAND ALLEGED KIDNAPPING, MURDER TRIAL WITH PRINCE JOHNSON ATSELEGHE

A Benin High Court, Criminal Division, has dismissed a motion filed by Counsel to Prince Johnson Atseleghe, the Iyatsere of Warri, against standing alleged kidnapping and murder related trial with one Orighomisan Kaka.

Delivering ruling on argument earlier raised for and against adding Orighomisan Kaka, and ammending the charge, the presiding Judge, Hon. Justice mary Itsueli, held that the Attorney General was at liberty to do so.

The court also held that Section 211 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as ammended, described the powers of the AG is pre-eminent and incontestable, and as such, the power of the Prosecution to ammend a charge and substitute a Defendant is not in doubt.

Hon. Justice Itsueli, while granting the ammendment to add Orighomisan Kaka as the 9th Defendant, said Section 208 of the Edo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law did not prohibit joint prosecution of Defendant’s.

The court noted that granting the ammendment does not constitute injustice and an abuse of court process and will not prejudice the rights of the eight other Defendants.

The court also dismissed the motion filed by Counsel to the 1st to the 7th Defendants for lack of merit.

The Defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge after the Court Registrar read it out to them.

The Defendants were alleged to have on 7th May 2020, at Ologbo town, Benin City, allegedly conspired to murder one Sunny Etchie at Ologbo Town, Edo State.

Prince Johnson Atseleghe was alleged to have procured and counselled Nosa Omoregie and Orighomisan Kaka and others now at large to kidnap Sunny Etchie.

It was alleged that Nosa Omoregie and others now at large in January 2020, willfully destroyed the house of late Sunny Etchie.

The 1st to the 9th Defendants are; Oluwa Etsemaje, Ayokotse Robinson, Nosa Omoregie, Felicia Otikpere, Ayuwa Mofe, Benjamin Erewa, Prince Johnson Atseleghe and Orighomisan Kaka.

The matter was adjourned to 24th September 2021 for hearing.

GUNMEN KILLS POLICEMEN, SETS VEHICLE ABLAZE

Some Policemen have been allegedly shot and killed by gunmen at a police checkpoint along Obeagu Uno-Amodu Umueze Amechi road, in the Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.

According to Sources, the unknown gunmen engaged the Policemen in a gun duel which lasted about 30 minutes, overpowered and killed the Policemen, set their Hilux van ablaze and made away with their AK-47 riffles.

The Source who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the gunmen who came from Agbani axis of the road, had first encounter with the policemen at 4 Corner in Amagunze, Nkanu East Council headquarters shortly after Iyanba Bridge at about 7pm on Wednesday before going to attack the checkpoint at Enugu South.

Contacted for comments, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident but could not give details of casualties.

ASP Daniel Ndukwe, also disclosed that preliminary investigations have
commenced on the incident.

Meanwhile, Governor lfeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu
State, on Thursday, paid condolence visits to families of some of the slained Police officers.

The Governor, who
condoled with the families offered automatic employment to the wives
of the deceased, paid three months salaries of their late husbands including other cash donations.

Gov. Ugwuanyi announced that the condolence package is applicable to wives of other affected officers, adding that the spouses also have the option of scholarship of their children to secondary school level in place of automatic employment.

The Governor, who was led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID), ACP Fidelis Ogarabe, and a team of other senior Police Officers, prayed for the repose of the souls of the victims and assured that their deaths will not be in vain.

Amongst the slained Officers were; Inspectors Tion Timothy from Benue State and Emeka Nnaji from Enugu State.

TRAGIC SALAH AS GENERATOR FUMES KILLS FOUR

It was a tragic Salah at the Ojomu family compound in Sanmora, Irepodun local
government area of Kwara State when four persons who had come from Lagos for the Salah celebration, were suffocated to death by fumes emitting from a generating set.

It was gathered that the victims left the generating set running at the balcony while the celebration lasted Tuesday night, but later fell asleep without turning it off.

A Source disclosed that their lifeless bodies were discovered by an elderly woman that went to greet, Wednesday morning at about 7am who alerted other occupants of the house on the development.

The Source added that the neighbours came in only to discover the lifeless bodies of the head of the house, his wive and her companion and a friend to one of his children and two other unconscious were consequently taken the to the Offa General Hospital while the deceased remains were deposited in the hospital’s morgue.

Ajayi Okasanmi, the Police Public Relations Officer in charge of the Kwara State Command, Ajayi Okasanmi, has confirmed the death of four persons as a result of fumes from a generating set.

Okasanmi who comiserated with family of the deceased urged the people to prioritise safety in all of their actions, including during festivities.

“Yes, I just dispatched our officers to the location. The storey is true.” The PPRO stated.

HOW PILOT ESCAPED FROM BANDITS AFTER JET CRASH

Pilot of the Jet aircraft that was shot down by bandits on Sunday in Zamfara State, Flight Lieutenant, Abayomi Dairo has narrated his near-death encounter during the air crash and with bandits.

Dairo, who thanked God for sparing his life, said he had before the incident saw himself fighting in a dream and successfully evaded enemies, un-knowing it would play out in real-time war.

Dairo said: “Before Sunday I had been having dreams where I saw myself fighting and evading enemies like real-time war, day in day out, like
nightmares, so when my jet got shot with the explosives and my flight controls were destroyed and I had no choice than to eject, I just said God, finally, here we go.. As I was flanked by the bandits, I kept praying and I kept telling God to answer your prayers because I know you were all praying for me. I love you all.

“And I thank God for bestowing his love on me and saving me from death several times within that period…I will still share my testimonies but truly, God ordered my steps, the bandits, interested in capturing me than shooting me at (even at point blank range), eventually they got
neither..

“He gave me the strength to run and walk covering almost 30kms even with one strained leg. Having not had any food or water all day, I prayed for strength because I needed it, and he gave me.

l can spend hours talking of how I lost and regained hope multiple times throughout my adventure, but God is faithful. It’s now l’m feeling all the pains I suffered from the ejection (including a fracture in my neck and painful back and chest), but God didn’t allow those pains to slow me down for the bandits to capture me.

“NAF platforms overhead also helped me to deter them a lot by making some of them to pin down while I kept running, and when they got close to me, I was still able to evade them by
camouflaging (I was wearing green G suits – in the green forest) and concealing myself. I ran into plenty spiders and I laid down several times out of weakness not knowing if anything poisonous would sting or bite me.

“All glory is to God, all glory. I have not been your most righteous brother, but I felt God’s hands in everything, even in every decisions I took immediately I was shot, all the decisions worked
together to save my life.

Eg, removing my phone from my lap and putting it in my G-suit before pulling the ejection handle (l had to use the compass of the phone and AirNav Pro application to navigate), and making the decision to turn hard 90 degrees immediately the bandits lost sight of me on a sandy cliff where they couldn’t trace my footpath again (the CAS told me they got information that in turn, the bandits kept going straight in the direction I was initially going and they destroyed several villages and camps, killing plenty people, thinking those people harbored me).

So much more… “The village l eventually entered at night, I told God that the first person I see and call should favour me and that happened, he gave me clothes, pain-relieving drugs, food and water and even malt, and he organized for a bike to carry me to Dan Sadau early next morning (throughout the night I couldn’t sleep, I was praying that the bandits don’t attack the village because my right leg was already swollen and very painful so I couldn’t jump fences or run again, plus I didn’t want to bring death upon innocent people, and it may force the guy to give me out to the bandits..), they dropped me with their Emir who with pride and joy called the Army guys to come and meet me (they all had sleepless nights).

“NAF helicopters came to pick me up from there. There are so much to say.
All thanks to God, thank you so much

The NAF had on Monday confirmed that the Alpha Jet aircraft crashed in Zamfara State on Sunday at about 12.45 pm while returning from a successful Air interdiction mission between the boundaries of Zamfara and Kaduna states.

A statement by Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet. Director of Public Relations and Information said the crash was caused by intense enemy fire from armed bandits, adding that Dairo successful ejected from the
aircraft.

MAN HACKED TO DEATH BY WIFE’S SIBLINGS IN DELTA STATE

A man in his 50s identified as Oluchi has been allegedly murdered by his wife’s sibling following a domestic disagreement he had with his wife.

It was learnt the incident occurred at Ulogwe-lsumpe community of Utagbe-Unor in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State.

According to sources, as the quarrel was on, Oluchi’s wife while crying out loud, quickly took her phone and made a call to her siblings to come to her rescue informing them that her husband wanted to kill her.

The source revealed that as soon as he siblings rushed to the scene, descended on Oluchi in a physical fight, while one of them allegedly reached out for a kitchen knife and stabbed their brother in-law.

Before neighbours got to the scene to rush Oluchi who was groaning in pains in his pool of blood to the hospital, he gave up the ghost, source added.

Acting Public Relations Officer of Delta State Police Command, DSP, Bright Edafe confirmed the incident but couldn’t give further details.

“The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Kwale division has already detailed his men to investigate the incident.” Edafe said.

40 YEARS OLD WELDER REMANDED FOR RAPING 105 YEARS OLD LADY

A 40 year old Welder has been arrested for allegedly raping a 105 year old lady in her room at Sege in the West Ada District of the Greater, Accra Region.

The 40-year-old David Addo, was on July 10, 2021, allegedly caught raping the 105-year-old Lomokie Tanihu.

According to Agnes Zotorvi, the caregiver of the victim, who narrated the incident said, on Saturday, July 10, 2021, around midday, whilst the old lady was sleeping, she heard her (old lady) frail voice screaming and she decided to find out what was happening.

She entered her room only to see David Addo on top of the helpless old lady and raised an alarm.

Neighbours immediately rushed to the scene to apprehend the culprit and handed him over to the Sege police.

The centenarian, according to elatives, has on a number of occasions complained of someone having sexual affairs with her in the recent past, an assertion they attributed to old age and never took it seriously.

The old lady had bleeding issues months earlier which was treated on several occasions but “kept recurring without knowing the cause of an old lady who has nothing to do with menstruation bleeding”

The family members, therefore, believe that the culprit is responsible for the old lady’s bleeding in the past, owing to his eventual arrest.

David Addo was arraigned before the Sege Magistrate Court on Thursday and remanded in police custody to reappear at a later date.

Meanwhile, a relative disclosed that Lomokie Tanihu, is still on admission at the Battor Roman Catholic Hospital since the alleged sexual harassment, and may be discharged sometime today.

Investigations revealed that the suspect is synonymous with such acts as he was allegedly caught recently having sexual intimacy with a madwoman, making residents believe that he does that for money rituals.

Further investigations indicate that David Addo has been arrested a couple of times in connection with similar acts in the past.

“PASTOR” COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER ACCUSATION OF DEFILING NEIGHBOUR’S DAUGHTER

One 45 year Henry Jegbefume Oriagiege, popularly called pastor, has hanged himself after being accused of defiling a minor in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

The deceased, said to have hailed from an Esan community in Edo State and a dedicated usher in a branch of a new generation church, allegedly hung himself in his one room apartment.

The incident which occured at Iregwa Street, Off Ojeifo area, attracted occupants of the house and other neighbours to mill around the scene of the incident.

Sources told PRIMACY NEWS that the deceased was previously accused of allegedly having carnal knowledge of his neighbour’s underage daughter.

A neighbour disclosed that though it was sacrilegious for “Pastor” to have taken his life by hanging, he may have done so as he could no longer bear the shame of allegedly having carnal knowledge of his neighbour’s female child (minor), which was discussed at the community palace.

“He was somebody who was not free with people. We called him pastor because we felt he was one.

“But the news of him sleeping with the female child of his neighbour is what we do not understand and now he has ended his life out of shame” the neighbour stated.

Residents of Iregwa Street, off Ojeifoh Street and Upper Queern Lane reportedly woke up that fateful morning to discover the lifeless body of their neighbour dangling under the ceiling.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident, said the corpse of the deceased has been deposited at the Central, Hospital mortuary, Agbor, for autopsy by the policemen from Agbor Police Divisional Headquarters while further investigations are ongoing.

TIWA SAVAGE LOSES DAD

Nigerian songwriter and performer, Tiwa Savage has taken to her Instagram page to announce the death of her father, Mr. Balogun Savage.

Tiwa Savage wrote, “Early hours of this morning you made a peaceful transition. You fought till the very end, you really fought daddy, it’s been rough for you these past couple of years but you are resting now.”

“This is tough on me, I’m so numb, so weak. “Rest In Perfect Peace, my King.” Tiwa added.

Mr. Balogun Savage died in the early hours of Monday 19th July 2021.