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Gunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a 40-year-old man identified as Odion Ehiorobo Larry, in Benin City, Edo state    It was gathered that Ehiorobo was shot dead in front of his pregnant wife and children in his house located at Peanut Road along Sapele Road in Benin city about 2am on Thursday, February 18.    According to Standard Gazette crime correspondent, Festus Alenkhe, who visited the area, the gunmen scaled the fence into the compound and gained access into the apartment by forcing the door open. They went straight into his bedroom, dragged him to the lounge before shooting him in the head.   Ehiorobo was said to have pleaded with them with everything he had, including money and other belongings but they told him they came for his life.   The deceased's pregnant wife told Standard Gazette that her husband was killed in front of her and their children.    "Despite his appeal to the killers, they still went ahead and sho...

A 66-year-old woman, Alhaja Muslimot Morenikeji Salami, who was reportedly attacked by some suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ogun state has died.     It was gathered that Salami was attacked by the assailants while going to her site in the Oru-Awa Road in the Ijebu-North Local Government Area on Monday, January 11, 2021.   Alhaja Salami died on Tuesday, February 16 and was laid to rest the next day, Wednesday, February 17.      According to reports, Salami ran into some herds and attempted to make a quick reverse but was caught by the attackers.   The attackers numbering about eight reportedly emerged from the bush, cut off one of her fingers and shattered her jaw with bullets.   The victim was said to have been taken to a few hospitals including the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital but was rejected. She had to travel to the Lagos State Hospital, Ikeja, before she could get treatment.     Spokesperson of ...

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George has asked the Lagos State Government to prove that the son of an All Progressives Congress leader, Seyi Tinubu, does not own or control the Lekki tollgate.   In a statement titled “We Must Withdraw from the Brink” and released on Friday February 19, George also questioned the relationship between Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare and the Lekki Concession Company. He also wondered why tolls are being collected from Lagosians when the Lekki-Ikoyi Tollgate was ''built from scratch with taxpayers money.''   George said;    “We are demanding that the Lagos State Government through the Freedom of Information Act publishes the names of those who are managing the Toll Gates. “We do remember however that there was a buy-back several years ago returning the control and ownership of the Admiralty Tollgate to the Lagos State Government. The Lekki-Ikoyi Tollgate was built from scratch wit...

The female teenage student who was caught in school with a gun has confessed to being a cultist. She also said she got the gun from her boyfriend, Okon Effingham, who is married with six kids.   It was initially claimed that the girl, a student of Government Secondary School in Ikot Ewa, Cross River State, took the gun to school to shoot her teacher for asking her to cut her coloured hair.   However, following her arrest, police discovered she was taking the locally made double barrel pistol to a blacksmith.   She told journalists on Friday, Feb 19, while being paraded that her boyfriend, who she has been intimate with since August 2020, is the owner of the gun.   She added that the man helps her with a number of things but isn't responsible for paying her school fees.   She further stated that her mother allows the man sleep in her room.   Speaking at the Police Command Headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar, when she was paraded alongside her boy...

A 21-year-old psychiatric patient has been accused of killing two fellow patients and attacking two female nurses and a police officer at a German hospital.  The man who admitted himself to the psychiatric clinic in the northern town of Lüneburg, near Hamburg, on Thursday, February 18, allegedly attacked two older male patients, aged 54 and 56, on Friday night at 2am and murdered them.  He then attacked the nursing staff and injured two female nurses, aged 42 and 61, and a police officer, Lueneburg police spokesperson Antje Freudenberg said. According to local newspaper Die Lippische Landes-Zeitung, several police officers rushed to the Lüneburg Psychiatric Clinic and when they approached the suspect he allegedly threw objects at them, injuring one officer.  The police said they used pepper spray to subdue and arrest him.  Police say the suspect strangled the 54-year-old man to death while the older patient was rushed to hospital where he died as a result...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted the Chief Imam of Rigachikun Mosque, Kaduna, Sheikh Mohammed Saminu Adam, on his way to attend a wedding ceremony in Niger State.x According to Daily Trust, the Islamic scholar and other travellers were abducted on Thursday evening, February 18,  along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Highway.  It was gathered that the Imam was travelling in a commercial vehicle with other travellers when their vehicle came under attack. The secretary to the Council of Imams and Ulamas, Kaduna State branch, Ustaz Yusuf Al’rigassiyu, who confirmed the incident said the council was informed about the abduction. "Yes, we heard about it because he was our member and we are told that they bandits abducted him along Birnin Gwari area,” he said. A resident of Rigachikun, who didn’t want to be mentioned because he was not authorised to speak for the family, said the bandits contacted the family of the Imam on Friday but it was not clear if they made a ransom...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has said that he does not visit Abuja for solutions to insecurity challenges in his state.  Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday February 18, Bello averred that he acts on information he receives from security agencies and does not pay lip service to them.  He said “The Nigeria Police that are in the country today are the same in Kogi State. The Army in the country are the same in Kogi State. All the law enforcement agencies we have in the country today are exactly what I have in Kogi State. “So, when they provide such information, we act on it, we don’t pay lip service, we don’t pass buck, we don’t visit Abuja for solutions at all times. I don’t think there is any day I have ever visited Abuja for any solution. What I do is to sit down here and do my job." Bello who also stated that there is a need for governors to collaborate and implement policies that will put an end to the farmers-herders crisis affectin...