Wike at Abuja building collapse site and declares that unapproved projects would fall

 

Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, was on hand on Thursday when a structure in Garki II, Abuja, fell.

A two-story structure with numerous business centers collapsed on Wednesday night at 10 p.m.

Speaking to reporters Thursday morning at the scene of the event, Wike restated his earlier statement that structures in the nation's capital without the required approval will be demolished.

"This is what we're saying: Any unapproved buildings will be demolished.

"Nobody is hated by us. All we are advocating is that the right thing be done, he said.

2 kidnappers, 14 others paraded by security police in Ekiti

 

From Abiodun Kolinti
 
The Ekiti State Police Command has paraded two notorious kidnappers, Abu Hassan and Abubakar Sodiq, who allegedly have been terrorising citizens of Iyemero, Oke-Ako, Irele and Ipao-Ekiti axes and 14 other suspected criminals.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Ogundare Dare, said that those paraded were suspected cultists, armed robbers, vandals, among others.
Mr Dare said the kidnappers’ were identified by some of their victims at the Atu Farm Settlement in Iyemero-Ekiti and at Oke-Ako.

Bishop raped, threatened me with madness – Assistant pastor

A 23-year-old assistant pastor yesterday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluwafeyiropo is standing trial on an amended three-count-charge bordering on rape and sexual assault, to which he pleaded not guilty.
The assistant pastor (name withheld) testified for the prosecution at the bishop’s trial.
She was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel, Mr Babajide Boye.
She told the court that she was an assistant pastor of 1 Reign Christian Ministry founded by the bishop.

7 dead after drinking tea at wedding in Kano

 From Hussaein Jibr

Seven people have been killed and several others hospitalised after drinking a tea suspected to have been made with a local leaf known as Zakami at a wedding ceremony in Kano.
Zakami contains a psychoactive substance.
A source that witnesses said it affected nearly 50 people and that some were still missing. The incident happened in Sheka area of Kumbotso Local Government of Kano metropolis.
One of the witnesses, Sanusi Yahaya, who is also an elder brother of the bride, said the tea was suspected to be made with different types of drugs apart from the local leaf.
He said it had become a norm for the young people in the area, especially drug addicts, to cook tea during ceremonies and that they hide under that to take drugs.

Judiciary staff strike stalls tribunal sitting in Calabar

 By Effiong Ajugu

The Judiciary Staff Union Congress of Nigeria (JUSUN) has blocked the Election Petitions Tribunal (EPT) from sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
They said they embarked on an indefinite strike since yesterday, and as a result, no judicial activities can be held in the state.
Secretary of the EPT, Akawu Bamber, had invited journalists for the sitting in Calabar which was to commence from May 3, 2023, to hear grievances arising from the last national and state house of assembly elections.
Officials of the EPT who arrived at the venue of the EPT sitting on Moore Road, Calabar, met all entrances locked up.
Chairman of JUSUN in Cross River State, Comrade Enya Egon Etorti, confirmed that they commenced an industrial action a day earlier.

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.