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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