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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Corpse of 110-year-old woman missing from mortuary in Imo State |
on: 28-10-2012 09:59 PM
| Corpse of 110-year-old woman missing from mortuary in Imo State.
The corpse of a 110-year-old woman, Madam Victoria Oguzie from Umuomara in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, has been reported missing from the mortuary it was deposited by the family three weeks ago.
A family source told LEADESHIP SUNDAY that the members of the family had gone to retrieve the corpse from the mortuary at Ogbaku, Mbaitoli, but they were shocked when the attendants claimed that the corpse was missing.
The angry members of the family allegedly attempted to bring down the foundation of the hospital with dangerous weapons, prompting the workers to run away while the owner of the hospital went into hiding.
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that it was not the first time a corpse was missing from the hospital. Two years ago, the corpse of an aged man was reported missing in the facility.
Some members of the family alleged that the hospital might be using the bodies for ritual purposes, but an official of the hospital debunked the claim, saying it was just a case of misplacement of the corpse.
The owner of the hospital could not be reached as the building was deserted when LEADESHIP SUNDAY visited. The state Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Vitalis Onugu, said he was yet to be briefed on the matter.
http://dailypost.com.ng/2012/10/28/corpse-110-year-old-woman-missing-mortuary-imo-state/
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Top Delta State Female Government Worker Beaten And molestd By driver |
on: 28-10-2012 02:36 PM
| Top Delta State Female Government Worker Beaten And molestd By driver
It was a tragic experience for a Delta State top female government official, as she was attacked, beaten and allegedly molestd by three dare-devil men.
The incident happened at the victim’s (names withheld) residence in DDPA area of Asaba, the state capital.
It was gathered that the government’s appointee was left in coma after been attacked by a man believed to be her former driver and two others.
However, nemesis caught up with the culprits as they are now cooling their feet in police custody.
But DSP Charles Muka, the Public Relations Officer of the state’s police command maintained he is yet to be briefed on the ugly incident.
An unannounced visit to the victim’s three-bedroom apartment, revealed that the place had been deserted.
Giving an eye-witness account, a close source said, ”On the fateful day, the victim’s driver had reported to duty as usual.
He was soon joined by his predecessor, who had earlier been sacked by the madam. Nobody suspected anything was going on inside the house because of the high fence.
But at about 10 p.m., the two drivers drove out of the compound in the madam’s jeep with 50 litres of fuel and never came back.
Having regained consciousness at about 4 a.m, she struggled and managed to get to her neighbour’s gate to seek assistance. When she knocked at the gate, I peeped through a small hole and found out that she was the one, I opened the gate and discovered she had matchet cuts all over her body.
It was at that point we raised an alarm and rushed her to hospital,” he said. Continuing, he said there was blood stain on the walls in the victim’s apartment, adding that the blood on the floor had congealed.” They broke her head, molestd her and mutilated her body. The plot was to kill her, but God intervened.”
Another source who doubles as a neighbour said that the attackers might have carried out the dastardly act as their own pound of flesh to the victim as she has always been too hostile to her domestic staff.
“Nobody stays here with her. She lives alone. Whenever the driver comes to pick her, he is not allowed to go into the house. He always hangs around the gate. Sometimes, he would sit on that stone and doze off. Her house girl too had to run away because of the way madam maltreated her. There was a day she poured hot water on the girl because of early morning tea,” she said.
However, following a tip-off, security operatives of the state trailed the suspects to Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, where they had gone to dispose of the vehicle and were subsequently arrested
http://news.naij.com/12922.html | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Aides to Chime’s wife brutalise journalist |
on: 28-10-2012 02:04 AM
| Aides to Chime’s wife brutalise journalist
Security details attached to the wife of Enugu State governor, Mrs. Clara Chime, attacked a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Mike Agada, on Friday evening.
The mobile policemen attacked Agada at the burial of an in-law to one of the special advisers to the governor, at Amebota Village, Ukana, in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Agada was taking photographs at the funeral ceremony, with Mrs. Chime and other top government functionaries in attendance, when the mobile police officers seized his camera.
Our correspondent observed that in spite of the intervention from organisers of the funeral, the policemen smashed the camera into pieces and severally punched and kicked the photojournalist.
One of the police officers, Corporal Joshua Ethoti, corked his gun and threatened to shoot Agada.
It was gathered that the policemen beat up Agada on the suspicion that he took their picture while they were drinking.
A market survey by our correspondent showed that the smashed Nikon D300 professional camera and SB 800 flashgun currently sells for about N700, 000.
When contacted on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer of Enugu State Command, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed that the matter had been reported to his office.
He said, “Yes, I got a call from somebody in NAN who said he was manhandled by mobile policemen attached to the Governor’s wife. I told him that he should write a petition to the command and also send a copy of the petition to the Chief Security Officer to the Governor and the Chief Press Secretary, since the policemen involved are attached to Government House. You know that we don’t condone such things.”
Amaraizu said necessary action would be taken as soon as the command received the petitionhttp://www.punchng.com/news/aides-to-chimes-wife-brutalise-journalist/ | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Man, 4 children die after poisoned corn meal in Enugu |
on: 28-10-2012 02:00 AM
| A man identified as Mr. Charles Nnadi and his four children have been confirmed dead at Mbu Apochi community in Isiuzo local government area of Enugu State after taking a corn and cassava meal believed to have been poisoned.
The incident caused panic among residents of the community while members of the Nnadi family were thrown into mourning.
Sources said that Nnadi and six children became sick and unconscious after eating the mixture of cassava and corn flour and were rushed to St. Mark’s Hospital, Eha-Amufu by sympathizers but the family head and two of his children died few minutes later.
Following their death, four other members of the family, who were admitted along with them, were transferred to a trado-medical hospital at Enugu-Ezike, Igbo Eze North local government where two of the children later gave up the ghost.
The remaining two are now lying critically at the hospital and their condition is said to be precarious.
Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the death of the five persons in Enugu, yesterday, said that the operatives of the state command had already began full scale investigations with a view to unraveling the mystery and circumstances surrounding the alleged incident of food poisoning.
Meanwhile, some sympathizers and relations of the deceased persons have described the incident as tragic and shocking, urging law-enforcement agencies to ensure proper investigation of the matter to determine whether the food poisoning was masterminded by someone.
Such investigation, they said, was necessary to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to book, lamenting that such mysterious deaths had become very rampant within Nsukka area in recent times.http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/man-4-children-die-after-poisoned-corn-meal-in-enugu/ | | | | |
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Forum / Naijapals Base (Metro life) / Police Arrest Zaria ‘Boko-Haram’ Killer |
on: 27-10-2012 08:52 PM
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Police Arrest Zaria ‘Boko-Haram’ Killer by Wadeoye(m): 12:24pm
Written by Isa Sa’idu, Kaduna
Friday, 26 October 2012 05:00
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The Kaduna State Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Aminu Lawal, had confirmed the arrest to Daily Trust yesterday, saying that the suspect is now being interrogated at the police state headquarters.
“A complainant came to report to us that somebody has threatened him. He said the person has directed him to pay certain amount of money or he will be killed. Having received that information, we went in and napped the suspect at the point of collecting the money.
“Investigation is ongoing and this would help us to get more information on the activities of the suspect,” DSP Lawal said.
However, a source that is close to the suspect, who craved for anonymity, told Daily Trust that Owunna was arrested on Tuesday by the police following a tipoff. The source said Owunna was arrested at a joint in Zaria when he went to collect the ransom he demanded.
The source said luck ran out of Owunna when he called one Samuel, an Igbo man, of Sabon Gari, Zaria on phone and told him that his name was Ibrahim.
“The suspect told Samuel that his name is on the list of Igbos to be killed in Zaria, saying that ‘for your gesture to me when I was young, I will not execute the mission. For that reason, I want you to pay N50, 000 only to stay alive’ the suspect told Samuel on phone,” the source said.
The source further explained that Owunna had told Samuel that his gang was behind the killing of Dr Ago, a medical doctor at Zaria Railways Hospital, who was killed along two others in Zaria last month.
“Having heard that the suspect’s name was Ibrahim, Samuel became apprehensive, thinking that it was Boko Haram. What came to Samuel’s mind was that Boko Haram are after him. Our belief here in Zaria is that all the assassinations that took place in Zaria were done by the Boko Haram. This was why Samuel went to report to police and they were lucky to have apprehended the man when he came for the money he demanded,” our source said.
It would be recalled that Zaria had of late became notorious for killing of innocent people where members of the Boko Haram are always blamed for the act.
Just last month three people, including the Medical Director of Railways Hospital, Zaria, were killed at a beer parlour in Sabon Gari, Zaria. Before that, a Zaria businessman and a mobile policeman were also killed in the same month.
The frequent killings led to the restriction of movement of motorbikes to 9pm. Also, that made Igbo communities in Kaduna and Zaria to down tool for some days by locking their shops.
http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/179755-police-arrest-zaria-boko-haram-killer?device=iphone [/b] | | | | |
