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Dead body of woman found under a bridge in Abia State (Graphic Photo)

A woman was yesterday found dead under a bridge in Umuahia, Abia State.


Read the report according to Abia Breaking News after the cut....

Ritualists Behead Woman In Imo, Take Away Private Parts (Graphic Photo)

An atmosphere of fear is currently pervading Amanwaozuzu community and its environs in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, as suspected ritualists allegedly beheaded a young girl, and took away her private parts In the process.

The Punch learnt that the girl whose identity had yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report was reportedly in her early twenties.

Anambra mechanics beats pickpockets to stupor (photos)

A pickpocket, who came back to the spot he stole from last week in Anambra state, was apprehended by the mechanics (Car techinicians) at Ugah Road, Idemili Anambra State, and beaten mercilessly.



The pickpocket, who stole phone at the workshop, pointed out two accomplices when
nabbed, who also got same jungle justice meted out to the first.



Here's how an eyewitness, Uchenna Muoghalu narrated the story;

"The robber (on red t-shirt and necklace) was caught for a phone he stole at that place last week. He pointed two other accomplices.
"One of them was stabbed in the head and fainted immediately while broken bottles and stones were freely used on the second accused who is a northerner." 

More photos after the cut;

A member of a robbery gang, Uchechukwu Ukaegbu, who had been on the wanted list of the police, has been arrested by the Abia State Police Command.

Disclosing this during a press briefing, the state Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, said that the arrest was made possible through the synergy the state command had been having with other security agencies.



According to Oyebade, “on February 3, officers of the Nigerian Army, 144 Brigade Ohafia, at a check point in Aba, arrested Ukaegbu (22) of 17, Ugorji Street, Aba, and handed him over to the operatives of the Central Police Station, Aba.

He added that when the suspect was interrogated, he confessed to belonging to a notorious robbery gang which was smashed in 2016, with one of the members, Divine Nwadike a.k.a Chigbo remanded in prison after his arraignment in court.

Items recovered from Ukaegbu, according to the police commissioner, included a locally-made revolver pistol, a 9mm ammunition, a locally-made single-barrel shortgun, 38 AK-47 ammunition, 16 live cartridges and nine SIM cards of various networks.

He stated further that he would be arraigned in court as soon as investigations were completed.

In an interview with Metro, Ukaegbu said that he was into cultism and robbery, but said that he was not on a robbery mission the day he was arrested.

“I stay with a friend who sells phones at St Michaels Street, Aba. I started robbery two years ago through Divine Nwabuisi a.k.a.Chigbo. He is a cultist belonging to Vikings cult group. One day, he asked me to accompany him to the initiation ground and I got initiated. My cult name is High Sea.

“He usually called me on phone and has guns. The only place he took me to for robbery was a supermarket. We also attacked rival cult members belonging to Aye Confraternity on Okigwe Road,” Ukaegbu told Metro.

“On how he came about the gun recovered from him, the suspect said it was Divine who called him to accompany him to cult meeting.

“He was the number one man and he said he was using the gun and ammunition to defend his position so that he would not be unseated. We were there when the police came and we fled in different directions. They recovered the bag containing the arms and ammunition,” the suspect stated.

One of the victims of the suspect, Chibike (surname withheld) told Metro that Ukaegbu was one of those who attacked him and his mother one night.

“On January 13, while my sister and I were going home with my mother, a trader at St Michael’s Street, Aba, after closing from the shop, some boys emerged from the dark.

“One of them pointed a gun at me and I stopped. They collected our phones, wristwatches, wallets and cash. They were five in number and I saw their faces clearly. I can recognise them anytime I see them. If not for the gun they had, I would have challenged them,” Chibike said.

Metro learnt that two other members of Ukaegbu’s gang had also been arrested by the police. They were said to have robbed a lady of her valuables, including a phone, with the SIM card of the lady recovered from them. During interrogation, one of the suspected reportedly told the police that he acted on Ukaegbu’s directive to rob the lady.

Cross River Police Command has arrested one Anyanime Festus, 33, for killing his twin children, Emediong Festus and Mfoniso Festus, both 11 years old for allegedly being witches.




Presenting the suspects to newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday, the Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, alleged that the suspect killed his twins for confessing to being witches.
Inuwa said that the incident happened on Jan. 11, 2017 in Uyanga community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state.

A man identified as Ekezie was paraded naked and handed over to the police, after allegedly being exposed for using charms to kill several indigenes of Isiala Mbano in Imo state.



According Facebook user, Awurum Darlington, the accused in company of some youths and traditional headed to the shrine in Ebonyi State for confirmation, and they got to Ebonyi State and it was confirmed that Ekezie had written so many names cut across men and women in different businesses and crafts within the area and immediately he confessed, pleading with the people not to expose him at home.






According to eyewitnesses, over 50 chains locked with keys and nailed to the mighty Tree in Ebonyi State were uncovered with each placed with a name. So many of them dead already.

They forced him to unlock the keys in other to set the captives free which he did and made an open confession that nothing can be done about the dead ones.

One Godwin Elewana was weekend arraigned before a Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar for allegedly killing and burying a 22-year-old man, Douglas Ojugbo, whom he accused of having an affair with his daughter.

The prosecution counsel, Amaja Eneji, told the court that in March 2015, the accused chased the late Douglas upon sighting him from a distance of about a kilometer to the gate of the Cross River Basin Development Authority where he shot him on the leg and arm.




The prosecutor, who described the accused as ‘a dangerous man,’ added that after the victim died, Elewana took the corpse to the Federal Housing Police Station where he allegedly connived with the DPO to bury the deceased at the Goldie cemetery.

But the deceased’s father in a petition to the Zone 6 command of the Nigeria Police Force, argued that the late Douglas was not having an affair with the accused daughter.

The petition hinted that the deceased only wanted to collect the balance of his Mini laptop he had sold earlier to her.

Tendering evidence, the prosecutor showed the license of the double barreled gun used in shooting the deceased expired in 2013, about 2 years before the incident.

Also tendered in evidence were two expended cartridges, one machete, a double barreled gun and five pellets recovered from the body of the deceased following an autopsy carried out.

“No civilian has the right to take the life of another,” the prosecutor said, praying the Court to critically assess the matter with a view to delivering judgement.

However, Defense Counsel, Clement Ukaegbu, told the Court that the wife of the accused had filed for an out of court settlement.

In his ruling, Justice Ukpa Ebitham said the matter will not be allowed to proceed beyond 2 weeks as it was a case of alleged murder.

Judge Ebitham ordered that the accused, of River Basin Authority, 8 Miles Calabar, be remanded at the Afokang Prisons.

He adjourned the matter till February 27 for further hearing.

A 16-year-old secondary school boy named Ifeanyichukwu Ejeh, who lives with his parent in Ndiogodo Idoko village, Ishieke community in Ebonyi state, has been arrested for killing his father.






The SS2 student of Community Secondary School, Mbeke in the area, who had a misunderstanding with his father, over  N1,000 money given to him to buy things and cook for the family but which he used to settle financial requirements in his school instead, clubbed his father to death with a pestle while he was sleeping.


It was reported that Ifeanyi, who was arraigned before an Abakaliki Magistrate court, pleaded for mercy and blamed it all on a spirit.
According to him, he was reading his book in their compound when something suddenly came over him and asked him to kill his father. He went on to say he regained his senses after he committed the said act.

But wife of the deceased, Mrs Mary Ejeh a Cross River-based business woman, who admitted she was not around when the incident occurred, said the deceased had given N1000 to the suspect for cooking but he used it for his school expenses which annoyed the father, leading to a heated argument between the deceased and his son.

An igbo man named Tochukwu Nnadi was choked to death by police in South Africa on Thursday December 29th after he was arrested for allegedly selling drugs.



According to eyewitnesses, the man, popularly known as King Kingsley, was not struggling after he was arrested and handcuffed but one of the officers held onto his neck and squeezed tightly until blood started gushing out. His body was later removed. Can the Nigerian government look into this?



Photo credit: Michael Mathew

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IGBO KWENU !!!

The Imo State Police Command has launched hunt to nab the Police Inspector, Michael Edem, who allegedly shot and killed Friday Nduka a.k.a Eto, two days to his wedding.

The deceased, a 28-year-old Malaysian-based businessman from Egbuoma in Oguta Local Govt Area of imo state, was killed in front of his wife-to-be and younger brother at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mega filling station located along Owerri road, after a fight with one of the pump attendants who he accused of allegedly stealing his phone from his car dashboard.


According to eyewitness report, after the fight, the victim had entered into his car and was driving out of the petrol station when the inspector, who was attached to the filling station, came out from one of the offices and flagged him down and walked up to him and shot him severally on the chest at close range before escaping from the scene.

The State Police spokesman, Mr Andrew Enwerem, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told the Nation that the Inspector, who escaped from the scene after committing the dastardly act, was yet to turn himself in.

He said that the Commissioner of Police, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, had directed that he should be fished out to face the law.

"The Policeman, who shot and killed the victim has not reported or turned himself in. We are making efforts to apprehend him.

We have gone to his home but he is nowhere to be found. But we are not going to leave any stone unturned in making sure that he is arrested and brought to book," Mr Enwerem stated.

He, however, disclosed that the salary and other entitlements of the fleeing culprit had been stopped by the Commissioner of Police, who he said had assured the victim’s immediate family of justice.

"If he doesn’t turn himself in he will be declared a deserter but we are assuring the family that we are saddened by the action of the officer and we are certainly not going to sweep it under the carpet". 

The Command wishes to assure the general public that it will do everything humanly possible to ensure that justice is done and quickly too.


IGBO KWENU !!!