1-year-old child dies of kwashiorkor in IDP camp 6 weeks after mother’s abduction

 

By Aliyu Mohammed

A one-year-old child at Kafin-Koro, Paikoro LGA of Niger State, Christopher Yusuf, whose mother was kidnapped alongside dozens of others since March 14 in Adunu village has died from kwashiorkor, a sickness caused by malnutrition.
City & Crime reports that his death is coming at the time the internally displaced persons at the camp were lamenting the persistent hunger and malnutrition among children due to lack of food and other basic needs.
Ishieldpoint had reported how the mother of the suckling boy was asked to leave him behind when she was reportedly abducted by bandits  who invaded Adunu and adjoining communities on March 14.
Rev. Fr. Bahago Dauda Musa, Coordinator, Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), Catholic Diocese of Minna, confirmed that the boy died on Thursday after suffering from malnutrition since his mother was abducted as he couldn’t take solid foods.
“We lost him. We did our best but we couldn’t save his life. And the mother is still in captivity. He was born prematurely but had survived before his mother was kidnapped, leaving him without breast milk since March 14,” he said.

Server logs show INEC manipulated Presidential election results – Obi, LP

Obi

 By Fidelis Peter

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has said server logs and uploads show that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) manipulated the results of the February 25 presidential election against the party.
Obi and LP’s submission is contained in a further reply to the preliminary objection by INEC asking the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to dismiss their petition challenging the outcome of the election.

Outgoing gov, Akume, Suswam to get N138. 4m annually each

By Ezekiel Fabian

The governor-elect of Benue State, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, has raised alarm over a bill initiated by outgoing governor, Samuel Ortom, saying it seeks only the interest of the outgoing governor. A bill for a law seeking to place ex-governors of Benue State and their deputies on bogus gratuity, pension, and other benefits is raising dust, The bill titled: “A bill for a law to make provisions for the maintenance of former governors of Benue State and their deputies” has passed its first reading.

A copy of the draft bill indicates that section 2(a) (i) makes provision for the payment to the former governors of a monthly “stipend”, equivalent to the salary of a sitting governor, while section 2(a) (ii) makes provision for the payment to all former deputy governors of a monthly “stipend”, equivalent to the salary of a sitting deputy governor.

‘Cultists’ murder cyclist, pluck out eye, cut off wrist

 By Oloruntoba James

Suspected cultists on Monday morning struck at Abayawo area of Ilorin in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, murder a tri-cyclist in the process.
The victim, Abdulsamad Orija (23), who plies the Kwara Polytechnic route, was shot dead in front of Abayawo mosque and later macheted with some of his body parts removed.
A resident told our correspondent during a visit to the area that Abdulsamad was shot at close range with a double barrel in the stomach and later dragged to the road and butchered.
“After he was shot dead, they plucked out his left eye and cut off his left wrist before they butchered his head and body beyond recognition. It was gruesome,” he added.
A close friend of the deceased (name withheld), however, said “ he was killed after the cultists realised he was a wrong target but because he recognized them.”

Kidnappers invade FCT village, abducted 29

Sympathizers

The housewives that escaped from the kidnappers

By Shamsudeen Abdullahi

Kidnappers have abducted 29 residents, comprised of male adults, housewives and children at Yewuti village, hometown of the immediate past vice chairman of Kwali Area Council, Alhaji Zubairu Jibrin Yewuti.
Ishieldpoint gathered that two housewives, Mrs Zainab Umar and Mrs Aisha Zubairu, escaped from their abductors while being led into the bush.
Among those kidnapped were Idris Mohammed, Abdullahi Zubairu, Sani S. Magani, Peter Modu, Ibrahim Mamman, Yellow Abdulrasheed, Musa Suleiman, Simbiya Ishaku, Sumaiya Ibrahim, Muktari Yunusa and Mohammed Yeluwa and Rahmat Shagari.
Other victims included, Sumaiya Abubakar Yelwa, Mohammed Yelwa, Maimuna Muhammad, Hussaini Ya Nda Agyana, Hamza Ibrahim, Lantana Yunusa, Nabila Agyana, Rufai Salihu, Nafisa Aminu, Kasimu Adamu, Abako Adamu, Abdulyakin Aliyu, Lukman Aliyu, Rahina Audu, Abdulrazak Usman, Sadiya Usman, Darius Samuel and Japheth Osu.

Mob caught man with over 100 used baby diapers, cash escapes lynching

 

By Amos Omoluwabi
 
A mob caught man with over 100 pieces of used baby diapers and a huge sum of money on Monday morning as he attempted to lynch a middle-aged in Lagos.
The man was caught after the tricycle which he, along with three others were traveling in, had a head-on crash with a Toyota Camry car at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos.
 

The pushed tricycle influenced onto a fully loaded Mazda commercial bus that was leading to Iyana-Ipaja. Sympathizers who rushed to the scene to offer help discovered one of the bags to be filled with used diapers.
 

On inquiry, the rescuers discovered that the bag and its content belonged to one of the victims of the accident.Ishieldpoint sources said rescuers were angered by the fact that the middle-aged man could not give a satisfactory account of how he got the diapers and what he intended to do with them.
Shade Olojo, a trader at Iyana-Ipaja, said the crowd descended on the middle-aged man and gave him the beating of his life.

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Man killed over urinating point

 By Augustine Esther

A 39-year-old man, Orishagbemi Sunday, was reportedly stabbed to death in Zango Daji in Adavi LGA of Kogi State.
He was reportedly killed while trying to settle a quarrel between two persons, who were quarreling over where to urinate.
The incident was said to have occurred in the evening of Friday at the side of a building in Zango Daji, a settlement along Lokoja - Okene road.
It was reported that the deceased’s friend, who was pressed by nature, decided to ease himself in a nearby  building in the settlement, but the  son of the owner of the house saw his move  and rebuked him to desist  immediately.
Our correspondent gathered that a heated argument ensued thereafter, which made Sunday, who was standing by to move in to intervene, but he was stabbed to death by the house owner’s son.

I’ll ensure NYSC Act is Reviewed – Usman Gorau, Rep-Elect

 

Comrade Bashir Usman Gorau

Meet the Youngest Person who defeats Sokoto rep seeking fifth term. In a Facebook post on Sunday, April 16, 2023, Bashir thanked God for facilitating his victory at the polls. “Say to Allah, the sovereign of the Kingdom: You give the kingdom to whomever You will, and you remove the kingdom from whomever You want, and You honour whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. Your hand is good. Indeed, you are above all,” he wrote. Comrade Bashir Usman Gorau is a Member-elect, House of Representatives, representing Gada-Goronyo federal Constituency of Sokoto State. Gorau, a former Senate President and National Vice President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), SSA on Students Matters, and Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Sokoto State, defeated his All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, Musa Adar, who was seeking a fifth term in the Green Chamber. In this interview with Correspondent, 33-year-old ex-student activist speaks on his plans to empower Nigerian youths, among others. Excerpt:

What is your name Sir?
My name is Comrade Bashir Usman Gorau, Member Elect Federal House of Representatives Gada-Goronyo in the House of Representatives.

Let me congratulate you for defeating an incumbent, Musa Adar of the All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, who was seeking a fifth term in the House of Representatives, what is your reaction to this victory?
It is a very big story to narrate, but to cut it short, Alhamdullilah we thank God for this victory, it
is a very tough battle which we fought gallantly.
What plans do you have as member-elect, 

18-month-old child sold by her mother for N600,000 to pay bank loan

By Azeez Mustapha
 
33-year-old mother, Olaide Adekunle, who allegedly sold her 18 months old baby at the rate of N600,000 was arrested by Police Command in Ogun State on Monday.

The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen in Abeokuta that the suspect was arrested following a report at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, one Nureni Rasaq.

Oyeyemi quoted the husband to have reported that the wife left home for Lagos in March with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, but she returned home without the baby. 

The husband stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the whereabouts of the said baby. 

Police arrest 2 men, housewife for forcing almajiri to eat faeces

 By Shamsudeen Aliyu
 

Police Command in Kano has arrested three people, all of them residents of Ja’en Makera quarters in Sharada area of Kano metropolis, for allegedly forcing a 13-year-old Almajiri to eat human faeces that were dumped by an unknown person in the area.

The incident happened on Thursday after the father of the boy, Mallam Kabiru, from Kiru town, reported the matter to the police in Sharada, Kano.

According to him, his son cannot even sit by himself, as the people, after forcing him to eat the human waste, also bathed him in it.

Man arrested for beating sister

From Simon Evelyn, Makurdi
 
The police in Benue State have arrested a 59-year-old man who was caught beating his sister to stupor in a video that went viral.

Our correspondent reports that in the said video, the man, Kelvin Iorfa, was seen manhandling his younger sister, who is an adult.

He used what looked like a belt to whip the young woman outside the house until she fell to the ground, and he continued beating and also kicking her. He then used a travelling bag to hit her until she was motionless.

NSCDC parades 13 suspects in Ekiti over theft, cultism, cyberstalking

 From Israel Fidelis

 

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),  Ekiti State Command, has paraded  13 suspected criminals over alleged cultism, theft, cyberstalking, criminal conspiracy, assault and attempted murder.

 

The state commandant, Mr John Fayemi, while parading the suspects, said the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU)  of the command had been working assiduously to make sure that the state was free from security breaches.

 

According to him, the command will not allow young boys and girls, who are supposed to be our "leaders of tomorrow, destroy our heritage and relegate human dignity with impunity." 

kidnapper killed, victims rescued on ransom delivery point by police in Adamawa

From Isaac Bello 

Police in Adamawa State Command, in collaboration with hunters, killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued two victims in the Toungo Local Government Area of the state on Sunday.

Police spokesman, Suleiman Nguroje, stated in Yola on Monday that it was one of the successes of the police’s collaborative strategies to end kidnapping, robbery, cattle rustling, and unlawful possession of firearms.

“One kidnapper was neutralized when he and his gang arrived at a spot to receive N2million ransom demanded from relatives of the kidnapped victims.

FCTA demolishes illegal buildings at Jabi-Daki Biyu

 

Settlers packing their belongings  during the demolition at Jabi-Dakibiu in Abuja yesterday

 By Abdurahim Sufyan

Officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Thursday, removed illegal structures that were obstructing a road corridor at Jabi-Daki Biyu in the Jabi District of Abuja.
Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Ikharo Attah, led the cleanup team made up of Development Control, security services and Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB).

 Speaking to journalists at the scene, Attah decried the rate at which people encroached on road corridors in Abuja, saying the minister was very sad and would continue to reclaim the road corridors from the illegal squatters.

Traditional leader dies in car crash while searching for kidnapped wives

Late Oba Abdul Adetoyese Olakisan

 By Afolabi Abike

A traditionalist, Oba Abdul Adetoyese Olakisan, the Aare Ogboni Agbaye and Awise Iwase of Yorubaland, on Sunday died in a car accident while allegedly trailing gunmen that kidnapped his wives.

The police in Osun State have confirmed the death at Imesi-Ile in Obokun LGA.

He was known for his commitment to promoting Yoruba culture and tradition.

Though, on Sunday night, tragedy struck when gunmen invaded his residence in Imesile, Obokun local government area of Osun State, and abducted his two wives.

Living Faith pastor murdered by gunmen in Kogi

 

By Augustine Esther

A resident pastor of Living Faith Church, Aloko- Oganenigwu in Dekina LGA of Kogi State, Jacob Wodi Hulobu, was reportedly killed by the gunmen, who invaded the town on Sunday.
The pastor was said to have escaped with some of his members to a safer area when they struck during the early morning service.

According to one of his members, Samuel, the pastor went back to check the state of the church after the attack when the invaders shot and killed him.

Protesters walk to the street as FCTA set to demolish UTC complex in Abuja

By Mahmood Binta

Sellers in the UTC market at Area 10 area of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday staged a protest barricading the main entrance gates of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) and the FCTA secretariats, calling on the AMAC and FCT administrations not to go ahead with the planned demolition of the market. 

ishield Point report that the traders staged the protest after officials of the FCTA’s Department of Development Control stormed the market in the early hours of Tuesday and demolished its perimeter fence, preparatory to the demolition of the entire complex.

Chelsea coach, Graham Potter departed

Chelsea FC has announced that Graham Potter has departed the club. Graham has agreed to collaborate with the Club to facilitate a smooth transition. In his time with the club, Graham has taken us to the quarter final of the Champions League, where we will face Real Madrid. Chelsea would like to thank Graham for all his efforts and contribution and wish him well for the future. 

Bruno Saltor will take charge of the team as Interim Head Coach.

Co-controlling owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali said: 'On behalf of everyone at the club, we want to thank Graham sincerely for his contribution to Chelsea. We have the highest degree of respect for Graham as a coach and as a person. He has always conducted himself with professionalism and integrity and we are all disappointed in this outcome.

Is Game of Thrones the #1 most watched TV show ever?

It holds the record for most Emmy Awards (59) & most Emmy nominations (161). In just about every publication, GoT is ranked as one of the best shows of all time. Ironically, it was originally written to be “unfilmable.” In the late 1970s, George R.R. Martin quit his teaching job to try to become a full-time writer. Martin had some success selling science fiction short stories and novellas, but then in 1983, his novel “The Armageddon Rag” was such a commercial failure that it “essentially destroyed my career as a novelist.” Desperate for work, Martin went out to Hollywood and secured a job as a staff writer in television. 

The money was good but the work was frustrating. Later talking about what spurred him to write “A Game of Thrones”—the first book in his “Song of Ice and Fire” series—Martin said, “I worked in Hollywood for about 10 years, from the late ’80s to the ’90s.