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Two persons have been confirmed dead with three others seriously injured following an ambush by suspected Boko Haram terrorists along Damaturu, Biu road Sunday afternoon. A military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the insurgents had buried IEDs along the highway. It was gathered that the travelers, who took off from Damaturu on their way to Biu, were ambushed some 60 kilometres to their destination. According to the source, the militants opened fire indiscriminately on the travelers and that in an attempt to escape, the IEDs went off killing two persons on the spot. Another report said three people injured from the attack were rushed to the Damaturu specialists' hospital by security forces on patrol along the road. According to a hospital source at the Accident and Emergency ward of the Damaturu Hospital, three people have been treated and referred to the Federal Medical Centre Gombe on their relative request. The Sunday attack has further added fear to ...

Arsenal fan slumps, dies in Imo as club concedes goal to Stoke City Tragedy struck in Anara, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday, when a man identified as Dominic Ejimba slumped and died before he could be rushed to the hospital. The incident happened as Ejimba was allegedly watching Arsenal vs. Stoke City match in the ongoing English Premier League season. Sources said the deceased, a die-hard Arsenal FC supporter, could not bear it when his team conceded a goal midway into the second half of the game. He was watching the encounter at a viewing centre on the Owerri-Okigwe expressway, the source said. A Liverpool fan, Chuks Amaku, said, "Dom is dead. He slumped immediately Stoke City scored a goal. Before my uncle, Hezekiah Amaku, could rush him to the hospital, he died. "It was unfortunate because all of us were exchanging jokes. Nobody was sensing any danger. We never knew that death was lurking. He had supported Arsenal for a very long time now. He ...

A man who punched and slammed is pregnant girlfriend's head to the ground and cut off her nipples with scissors following a dispute about the state of their relationship, has confessed to the crime and is facing 30 years in prison. A 45-year-old South Dakota man idenified as Tony Deval Ledbetter, has pleaded guilty Friday to eight counts of domestic assault after he cut off his girlfriend's nipples with a pair of scissors. According to a report by Dailymail, the suspect and his companion were reportedly having a dispute about the state of their relationship the evening of October 11, 2016, when police say Lebnetter 'punched and slammed' the woman's head to the ground. Ledbetter attempted to stop her from screaming and alarming neighbors of the matter by cutting off her airway with his forearm. When that was unsuccessful, he took a blanket, stuffed it in the her mouth and sat on top of her, then proceeded to cut off her nipples with the scissors. The victim was able ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested a couple, Chioma and Innocent Anozie, for allegedly torturing an 11-year-old girl, Oluchi, in Ebute, in the Ibafo area of Ogun State. The couple allegedly flogged the victim with ropes, starved her of food, and locked her up in a toilet for two days for wanting to play with other children in the neighbourhood. Some residents, who found her crying in the toilet, reportedly called the attention of some soldiers in the community. But reprieve did not come Oluchi's way until the intervention of our correspondent who alerted the Ogun State Police Command Headquarters. Some policemen from the Ibafo division, led by the Divisional Crime Officer, later arrived at the scene and rescued the victim. PUNCH Metro gathered that the primary four pupil started living with the couple about four years ago when she was brought from her hometown in Owerri, Imo State. However, she was said to have been subjected to different forms of inhuman treatment by the coupl...

The two suspects that were arrested in connection with the smuggling of consignments containing 140 different species of snakes and 660 other animals imported into Nigeria from Cameroon have disappeared from the custody of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services in Cross River State. The suspects, identified as Julius Novigana and Victor Agbor, were handed over to officials of the NAQS on July 26 by the Customs Area Comptroller in charge of Calabar Free Trade Zone, Cross River and Akwa Ibom Commands, Mrs. Nanbyen Burromvyat, following their interception. The state director in charge of the NAQS, Mr. Sunday Ukut, on Friday told the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jubril, that the two suspects had disappeared. "Just two persons were brought here and we have no clue where they have disappeared to," Ukut simply told Jubril on Friday. Jubril was on an official visit to the office in Calabar to hand over the reptiles to the University of Uyo for research. The minis...

In yet another case of domestic violence , a man has beaten his wife to death in Gboko , Benue state yesterday , August 20 th. According to reports by a Facebook User , Ocholi Ugbede - Ojo Hassan , the yet - to- be identified man , reportedly locked his wife inside a room and battered her to death at their residence in Adekaa part of Gboko Benue state , and fled away. Details are sketchy right now , but we will bring you more reports as they unfold .

Lagos Kidnapper Beaten Mercilessly After He was Caught Hiding a Little Boy in a Big Sack (Photos+Video) tori.ng Aug 20, 2017 1:00 PM An alleged kidnapper nearly lost his life yesterday after he was beaten to a pulp by an angry mob in Lagos state.   The alleged kidnapper was mercilessly beaten before he was saved by a lawmaker A suspected kidnapper was given the beating of his life after he was caught hiding a boy in a sack yesterday in Orile area of Lagos State. He was almost killed by mob before a lawmaker, Hon. Otunba Ishola Ibrahim Obanla intervened. According to reports, the suspected kidnapper wore 3 different cloths together with a black Toy Gun, 2 different ID CARDS, a yam & bread in a black sack.  The little boy was rescued from a big sack where he kept him. The online report revealed that residents of the Street named "OSHODI STREET" in Orile, Lagos State were alerted by passers-by when they noticed the suspicious movement of the alleged kidnapper. He was searche...

A young man in his early twenties identified as Ifeanyi Dike has been arrested and paraded by the Rivers state police Command for allegedly raping and killing an eight year old girl in Port Harcourt. Spokesman of the Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni while parading the suspect at the Command Headquarters in Port Harcourt said, Dike was arrested at Eliozu in Obio-Akpo Local Government area of the state. Omoni said Dike had allegedly raped, killed and removed vital parts of the girl's body before he was arrested by local security in the area, adding that there was a plan by the suspect to use his victim for ritual. According to him, "Today 19/8/2017 at about 0130hrs Men of the Okporo Police Station arrested one Ifeanyi Chukwu Maxwell Dike, 23yrs of Messiah Street Eliozu Port Harcourt, who yesterday abducted one Chikamso Victory, 8yrs of the same address. "The little girl was abducted, defiled and killed, while her vagina, eyes, tongue and breast were removed and put in a polythene ...

L AGOS— THERE was confusion when four gunmen, operating on two motorcycles, stormed,   Chunkies , an eatery located within the premises of a filling station at On-George Bus Stop, Ikotun-Egbeda Road, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, where a customer was shot. The gunmen, thereafter, invaded an estate located along LASU-Iba Expressway in Isheri, on same axis, robbing residents before fleeing with their loots. In a related development, a masquerade, called  Jegun Jeran  (eater of bone and meat) and his followers went on rampage yesterday morning, looting foodstuff at various markets around Isheri and Idimu area of Lagos. Eyewitness On the robbery, an eyewitness said: "Two armed men, operating on commercial motorcycles, popularly called  Okada , arrived at about  1.pm  at the eatery,  Chunkies , which was filled with customers, who come around to buy bread. "The men alighted from the  Okada , went inside while the riders waited outside. After dispossessing customers an...

BOMADI— THE right hand of a suspected cult member was, yesterday, chopped off, following a clash between two rival cult gangs at Tuomo community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. Meanwhile, five members of the gangs were arrested during a raid on their hideouts by security operatives from the State Vigilante Group, the Bomadi Police Division and military personnel attached to the 222 Battalion, Bomadi. Though the state's Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, could not be reached for details, an operative of the vigilante group said the clash occurred in the early hours of yesterday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, gave the names of the rival gangs as Vikings and Green Landers.

A 200-level student of the University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike, was last week, arrested for allegedly abducting and killing an 8-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso, for ritual purposes. Speaking with newsmen at the State Police Command on Saturday, the father of the slain girl, Ernest Nmezuwuba, said he was filled with grief after seeing the mutilated body of his daughter. He expressed shock that Dike could contemplate killing his daughter. "I am from Ochiogwa, Imo State. The man who killed my daughter is like my brother, someone very close to me, I can call him my cousin. He resides at Eliozu. When I returned home on Friday, and learnt that my daughter was missing, I immediately began a search. After the search became fruitless, I decided to report the matter to the police. This Ifeanyi (suspect) we are talking about is a habitual criminal. He committed a crime in a bank and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad caught him. Then the in-law went and bailed him. So, around 1.30am, the ...

In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo's promise to treat what he described as "hate speech" as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of Pointblank News said the following. "APC thrived on hate speech between 2014-2015. Today that seed they sowed is haunting them. They now say it's terrorism! Don't be deceived. APC came to power by hate speeches, divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines, sowed seeds of discord and blamed PDP! Hypocrites!" How apt and how courageous Mr. Ude's assertion is. I could not have put it better myself. President Muhammadu Buhari, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, National Chairman Chief John Odigie Oyegun and all the other leaders of the APC are indeed a bunch of self-serving deceivers and self-seeking hypocrites. Worst of all they are the architects of terror and the fathers of hate! Permit me to send a strong word and warning to them from here: YOURS ARE THE WAYS OF BULLIES AND FASCISTS! WE CANNOT BE INTIMIDA...