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Gunmen kill soldier, more than 14 people in Benue

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At least 15 people, including a military officer, were killed in a shooting by gunmen who are thought to be members of a herdsmen militia in Benue State’s Opaha community, Edikwu Ward 2, in Apa Local Government Area.

The slain soldier was the Commander of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) in that region, a resident of the community told news reporters in Makurdi.

The State Commissioner of Finance, David Olofu, resides in the village of Opaha.

Over 15 people, including an army officer, were killed, according to Olofu, who confirmed the incident.

“Yes, they simply went to my community and killed people without provocation; there were over 15 fatalities there, including the Commander of OPWS.

“As far as I know, there was no problem. That location borders the Gwer West LGA, and every community along that axis has experienced repeated attacks.

“The attackers arrived in this peaceful community around 4 pm; the residents don’t look for anyone’s trouble.” The entire community has been fired as I speak with you right now.

“There have been harvests of killings along that axis since the beginning of this year, and the locations are deserted. People are unable to do anything, including going to their farms. They continue to live there while you enter and kill 15 people in a single day, including the military personnel stationed there to protect the area.

What else can we do if we send the military and they are killed, who else are we going to send beyond the military, he asked. “If the military can just be killed like that, then what about the people.

He pointed out that Umuogidi community, where over 50 people were killed earlier this month, is 10 kilometers from Opaha village and said the military has been stationed there to maintain law and order.

The Finance Commissioner stated that the three levels of government need to come together and have a policy on the matter, “that you cannot just come and kill somebody and get away with it and nothing happens to anybody,” noting that the situation goes beyond an individual, the community, the LG, and the state.

“It is so heartbreaking that all of these things are taking place despite all of your efforts to do what you can to help the people. That’s sad.

The OPWS Commander had visited the attack site, according to Flight Lt Flogh Oquoh, the operation’s public relations officer.

Additionally, SP Catherine Anene, the State Police Command’s spokeswoman, confirmed the report but stated that she was awaiting more information.

 

Closed-Door Meeting at Defense House with Tinubu, Adamu, Others

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, met with President-elect Bola Tinubu on Wednesday at the Defence House in Abuja.

Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, APC National Publicity Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore, and former APC Presidential Campaign Council Secretary James Faleke were also present at the meeting, which was held in private.

The meeting’s specifics are still unknown, but APC National Chairman Adamu described it as a routine activity.

The meeting takes place just two days after Tinubu’s 35-day vacation in Paris, France, was over.

Tinubu has since relocated to the Defence Guest House in Abuja’s Maitama District.

This disclosure was made on Wednesday in a video post on Twitter by Bayo Onanuga, the director of Tinubu’s media and publicity.

Onanuga claims that Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect, and his superior will work out of the Defense Guest House up until Tinubu is sworn in as president on May 29, 2023.

He stated, “President-elect Bola Tinubu moves to Defence House, his official residence prior to 29 May,” with Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima.

 

Fire razes Bodija plank market, 1 injured, 50 stores destroys

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A fire incident at Bodija plank market in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Tuesday night resulted in at least 50 shops being destroyed and one person being reported injured.

At the moment, Ahmed Abdulwasiu, the injured victim, is receiving medical attention at Calvary Baptist Hospital in Bodija, Ibadan.
Abdulwasiu described how he was trying to put out the fire in his shop before becoming trapped and how, but for the quick action of the rescuers, he would have perished.

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A furniture trader and additional victim named Mutiu Olaoluwa stated: “I was outside my shop when i suddenly heard the fire upsurge. Before I could react, there were flames everywhere. Nothing would come out for me. My customer’s over 75 doors suffered burn damage. Also burned was my N120,000 plank.

“All of my equipment, a generator, and machines were burned in the fire, which cost me over N5 million. All the labor I had put in over the previous 30 to 40 years was burned.

Another victim, Adeniyi Ogunmola, said, “I was here yesterday around 4:30 pm. The fire started from a carpenter shop behind my shop, and I went there to see what was going on. On my way back to my shop to carry my equipment, the fire came to my shop in less than five minutes.”

“I just got back from the market where I loaded a full trailer of plank; I lost about N6 million worth of goods to the incident,” the man who pulled him out of the fire said.

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However, the victims pleaded with the government to help them.

Breaking: President of Appeal Court issues order moving Ebonyi election tribunal to Abuja

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The Ebonyi State Election Petitions Tribunal must move to Abuja right away, according to a directive from Monica Dongban-Mensem, the president of the Court of Appeal.

On Wednesday in Abakaliki, the tribunal’s secretary, Nyior Sekulla, made the announcement.

The tribunal office at the Ebonyi State Judiciary Headquarters in Abakaliki, according to him, has been closed as of Wednesday as a result of the directive.

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He stated that Abuja would serve as the location for the continuation of all tribunal-related proceedings.

“In accordance with the HPCA directives, the petitioners, counsel for parties, and the general public are hereby informed via this medium that the EPT sitting here in Abakaliki thereby cease to operate in Abakaliki as of 26-04-23; filings of processes, taking of proceedings, etc., shall thereafter continue at Abuja.”

When asked why Abuja was chosen as the new location for the tribunal, Mr. Henry responded that he was unable to comment on the matter.

The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal and that of another state were also impacted, he pointed out.

Ifeanyi Odii, of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Bernard Odoh, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance both rejected Francis Nwifuru’s declaration that he had won the 18 March election and was the new governor of Ebonyi State.

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Mr. Nwifuru, the APC candidate, had been Governor David Umahi’s top choice for replacement. The Ebonyi House of Assembly’s Speaker, he is.

The shifting of the election tribunal to Abuja has not yet elicited a response from the various political parties.

 

In honor of Buhari, Umahi names Ebonyi Airport Buhari

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The Ebonyi State government announced on Wednesday that it had received permission from the federal government to begin operating flights out of Onueke International Airport.

According to reports, President Muhammadu Buhari’s name has been given to the airport.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Aviation and Technology, Mrs. Obianuju Alo, stated that the inauguration will increase commercial activity in the state while speaking to reporters in Abakaliki.

She said, “There will be two flights landing at the airport, one from Lagos and the other from Abuja.

And as a result, two flights from Lagos and Abuja will land each week. What it really means is that Ebonyi state is now open for business with the opening of the airport.

“We want to entice investors and all Ebonyians to come to Ebonyi and conduct business. Now, Ebonyi will begin exporting agricultural goods everywhere.

International airlines will soon arrive in Ebonyi state, and when they do, she predicted that the local community will greatly benefit from it by way of employment opportunities.

Alo added that the state government has authorized six (6) individuals per Local Government Area to be scheduled to board the test flight from Abuja and Lagos, and that the State Government will pay for the cost of the tickets.

 

EFCC in Kaduna detains 48 ‘Yahoo boys’, 2 other people

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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, has detained 48 alleged fraudsters.

Precious Malachi Zidyep and Tina Patrick Omoyeme were also detained by the Commission during a sting operation in Kaduna at the Rosalux Blue Hotel in Agua, Kaduna South.

Williams Justice Gankon and AbdulWasiu Yunus, two ex-offenders who were previously detained on April 10, 2022, tried by Justice Nasiru Umar Sadiq of the Kaduna State High Court, and found guilty on August 31, 2022, are also among the suspects.

They were captured in Kaduna State at Yoruba Street and Yakowa Expressway.

Numerous mobile phone models and laptop computers were among the items recovered from them.

The anti-graft agency added that the suspects would be brought up in court as soon as the investigation was finished.

 

 

 

 

APC Chieftain in serious trouble as EFCC begins fresh proceedings against Tinubu campaigner

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced that it will begin a new prosecution of a former Minister of Aviation named Femi Fani-Kayode and three other individuals at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The former minister is being taken to court by the agency that combats graft because of allegations that he laundered money and misappropriated N4.6 billion.

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Fani-Kayode served as a minister in the government that was led by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but he is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a well-known supporter of Bola Tinubu, who will be the next president of the country.
On Tuesday, April 25, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), the attorney for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), told Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Lagos Federal High Court that it had become necessary for him to make such a move following the decision made by the appeal court in Lagos over the weekend that quashed the charges against the APC chieftain. Oyedepo argued that in light of the decision made by the court of appeal, all of the exhibits and documents that the prosecution had submitted ought to be made public. This would allow the commission to begin the matter anew in front of the Abuja federal high court.

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The judge then issued an order directing the return of all exhibits and documents that were presented to the court while the hearing was ongoing to the EFCC. Recall that Justice Mohammed Danjuma of the Court of Appeal rendered a decision on the appeal filed by one of Fani-Kayode’s co-defendants and a former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman, who contested the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Lagos to hear the matter.

Man found guilty of murder in Ekiti, to die by hanging

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Ismailia Mohammed Ojo was found guilty of murdering Kareem Adu in an argument over ownership of a Hajue motorcycle and was sentenced to death by hanging by a high court in the state of Ekiti.

The one-count charge of murder against Mohammed was upheld, and Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi found him guilty. Infractions of this law, which are punishable under section 319 of the Criminal Code Law Cap C16 Law of Ekiti State 2012, are in violation of section 316.

Inspector Arowosola Tunde, who was the Prosecution Witness1 (PW1), reported that one Mrs. Agnes Adu rushed to the station with the complaint that her husband had been killed at Odo-Uro by Mohammed over an ownership dispute and physical tussle in respect to a Hajue motorcycle. Mrs. Agnes Adu’s husband had been killed by Mohammed over an ownership dispute and physical tussle in respect to a Hajue motorcycle.

She asserted that the defendant was responsible for the decedent’s death by choking.

Given that the defendant came to the state C.I.D. to report himself in relation to the case, the incident was charged to court for prosecution upon the adduced evidence of the possible commission of the crime. This was done based on the evidence of the possible commission of the crime.

This information is in addition to the facts and figures that emerged from the preliminary investigations conducted by Inspectors Arowosola Tunde, Lasisi Bashiru, and Adewusi Adefisayo of the Police and the Criminal Investigation Department separately.

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According to the judgment, “the PW2, (i.e. Inspector Lasis Bashiru, A.P. Number 237442 of the state C.I.D., Ado Ekiti, Homicide Section), said: “the Defendant confessed to the crime, that on 13/5/2018, when he was taking his bath inside a bathroom, Kareem Adu, the deceased, came to carry a motorcycle which he parked in front of his house.”

“The Defendant added that after he took a bath, he went to the house of the deceased and found him sleeping. He then jerked him with his cloth on his neck until he passed out and then left the house.

The defendant, on the other hand, asserted that he neither intended nor caused the death of the deceased, stating that this was due to the fact that the two of them fought without the use of any weapons or hard objects.

In spite of this, the judge who presided over the case, Justice O.I.O. Ogunyemi, decided that the defendant should be executed by hanging after carefully considering and weighing the evidence presented in court by both the prosecution’s witnesses and the defendant’s own witnesses.

The judge stated his conclusion, “It is my finding that the defendant caused the death of the deceased by holding and pressing his neck and throat,” and went on to explain his reasoning.

“In general, I find the defendant guilty of the charges against them.

“The defendant is hereby sentenced to be hanged on the neck until the day that you die.”

 

Nigerian students trapped in Sudan are subject of FG action

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While the deadly fighting in the nation of Sudan continues, Nigerian students are still stranded there.

40 buses are reportedly on the ground and ready to transport students from Khartoum to Cairo as plans are being made to evacuate about 5,500 Nigerians who are stuck in Sudan via the Egyptian town of Luxor, according to reports that the Federal Government has made public.

In order to guarantee the safe transfer of the stranded Nigerians, the Nigerian government has asked Egypt for assistance.

In a letter dated April 23, 2023, and signed by the Charge d’Affaires, Haruna Garko, the Embassy of Nigeria in Sudan made a formal request for buses to transport students from Khartoum to Cairo on Tuesday at 6 am.

I am directed to request your 200-seater buses’ services to transport 3500 Nigerian students from Khartoum to Cairo, Egypt, on April 25, 2023, at 6 a.m.

This action is being taken as nationals of other foreign nations rush to leave Sudan amid the ongoing, deadly fighting between forces loyal to two opposing generals.

While millions of terrified residents have sought refuge inside their homes, many of whom are running low on basic necessities like water and food, many foreigners have fled the nation’s capital city of Khartoum in a lengthy United Nations convoy. Since April 15, army and paramilitary forces have been fighting fiercely in the streets of the five million-person city, leaving behind burned tanks, demolished structures, and looted stores.

We are still in Khartoum, a student who spoke with the Punch on Tuesday and begged to remain anonymous said. Time has been changed by the Embassy to 12 p.m. I’m worried that the Embassy will decide differently.

According to Umar Abubakar, president of the Jigawa State Students Association in Sudan, “we are yet to move.”

“Hello everyone,” was written in a message forwarded to the students and seen by our correspondent on Tuesday. Please be aware that the take up will be delayed due to some logistical issues.

“We will announce as soon as the arrangements are finished.

People should make an effort to do so in the interim by staying put. But rest assured that God’s grace is what keeps us moving.

I appreciate your understanding.

In one of the poorest countries in the world, the United Nations reported that thousands of people had been injured and over 420 people had died.

 

APC chieftain: The first two years of Tinubu’s health insurance will cover 87 million Nigerians

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In his first two years in office, President-elect Bola Tinubu hopes to provide health insurance for at least 87 million Nigerians.

Oyakhilome Bello, national youth leader for the APC in the United States in Abuja, made this announcement on Monday.

The APC youth leader noted that Mr. Tinubu planned to accomplish this expansion by increasing the financing available for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund and the Vulnerable Group Fund, which President Muhammadu Buhari recently established. Mr. Tinubu will make sure that 40% of Nigerians benefit by implementing the mandatory National Health Insurance Scheme, according to the APC youth leader.

The plan, he continued, was to protect the vulnerable Nigerian population’s health.

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In order to unify all Nigerians under a single, national program that would be run by the National Health Insurance Authority, Mr. Bello added that Mr. Tinubu planned to decentralize the social health insurance program.

The APC leader counseled Nigerians to regularly check their vital signs in order to live longer and in better health. In order to support the political pressure group Patriots in Defense of Democracy, Ade Omole, the director of diaspora for the disbanded APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), sponsored the medical outreach event that he provided the advice at.

For a healthy and long life, Mr. Bello emphasized the importance of vital signs monitoring because it “gives us a glimpse into our overall well-being and signal early signs of an infection as well as prevent a misdiagnosis.”

Since March 26, the group had been meeting for pre-inauguration hangouts every day at the Abuja Unity Fountain for Mr. Tinubu, who is widely thought to be suffering from an unspecified illness and occasionally presents as a bumbling, inarticulate figure.

The gathering, according to the group’s convener Tosin Adeyanju, was held in support of Mr. Tinubu’s election on February 25 by Nigerians. He explained that until May 29, when Mr. Tinubu would be sworn in, the hangout aimed to refocus the ongoing narratives about the presidential election and the emergence of their principal as the president-elect.

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