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<strong>Lagos Transport Worker Stabs Colleague To Death</strong>

21Feb

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

Crime, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Transportation, Violence

Lagos Transport Worker Stabs Colleague To Death

Ibrahim Yahaya, a transport worker in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State has allegedly stabbed his colleague, Kabiru Abdullahi, to death during an argument that ensued at the Kanuri Motor Park. Yahaya and Kabiru were at the park when an argument ensued between them, Punch reports. The misunderstanding between the duo reportedly degenerated into a fight and in the process, Kabiru brought out a knife and allegedly stabbed Yahaya’s head. After being stabbed, Yahaya quickly left the scene and sought treatment for himself on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. After being treated, Yahaya, sought retaliation and paid Kabiru an unexpected visit to the park the next day when he allegedly stabbed Kabiru with a knife in the neck. Some persons who experienced the attack in a bid to res...

Soldiers Charged With Killing Nine Civilians In Cameroon

8Jun

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

Armed Forces, Cameroon, Crime, Human Rights, News, Security

Soldiers Charged With Killing Nine Civilians In Cameroon

The army in Cameroon has confirmed that soldiers have killed nine civilians, including an 18-month-old girl. An army spokesman said a group of soldiers opened fire when they encountered hostile villagers in Missong, in the country's North-West region, earlier this month. The spokesman described the use of weapons as "inappropriate and manifestly disproportionate". Cameroon's ministry of defence says four soldiers have been arrested following the shooting. Read Also: Drunk Soldiers Kill 15 in DR Congo An investigation has been launched into the killings. In the same region two years ago, 21 civilians including 13 children and a pregnant woman were killed by Cameroonian soldiers in the village of Ngarbuh. Two soldiers and a gendarme were later charged with murder, a...

How Native Doctors Aided Attack On My Home – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer

7Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Violence

How Native Doctors Aided Attack On My Home – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer

One year after the invasion of his house by security operatives, the lawyer to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Monday, demanded the release of his three staff members who are still being kept in detention. While describing June 6, 2021, as “Black Sunday”, he said the attackers on his house in Oraifite, Anambra State were “aided by two native doctors whose bodies were dotted with charms”. According to him, “the murderers in security uniforms” scaled through his fence and laid siege to his ancestral home from about 2:30am until past 3:30 am, during which time they fired sporadically in different directions and viciously expended live ammunition on his domestic staff. He said during the invasion, his chief driver, Felix Okonkwo, and two o...

Suspected Islamists Kill At Least 18 In East Congo Attack

6Jun

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

Armed Forces, Congo, News, Rwanda, Security, Terrorism, Uganda

Suspected Islamists Kill At Least 18 In East Congo Attack

Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in a village raid in eastern Congo on Sunday night, local sources said, while fighting resumed with the M23 rebel group in a neighbouring province. Fighters believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed residents and burned down houses in the village of Otomabere, in Irumu territory, Ituri province, said a witness, a local chief and a local human rights group. Congolese army spokesman Jules Ngongo confirmed the ADF attack without giving a death toll, and said Congolese forces were in pursuit of the assailants. The ADF is a Ugandan militia that moved to eastern Congo in the 1990s. The group carries out frequent attacks and killed more than 1,300 people between January 2021 and January 2022, according to a United ...

Slavery Still Exists In Mauritania – UN Envoy

15May

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

African Development, Child Abuse, Human Rights, News, Violence

Slavery Still Exists In Mauritania – UN Envoy

A UN human rights expert has called on the authorities in Mauritania to take urgent measures to implement an anti-slavery law which was passed in 2015. Following a visit to the West African country, Tomoya Obokata - the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery - said some progress had been made in abolishing the practice but warned much more needed to be done. He said people were still being born into slavery and people affected by the practice needed help to seek justice and achieve equality. Read Also: UN Watchdog Reports Continued Human Rights Abuses in Burundi Mr Obokata said people were now more willing to discuss the issue openly. But he said caste-based slavery and chattel slavery – where one person owns another – were still happening. He warned tha...

19Apr

By Chukwuebuka FestusNo Comments

Armed Forces, Congo, News, Security, Violence

Drunk Soldiers Kill 15 in DR Congo

Two soldiers have shot dead 15 people in separate attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the victims were almost all civilians. This comes after six people were wounded when soldiers threw a grenade into a crowd whilst trying to carry out an arrest. An official in South Kivu province said a drunk soldier on a boat on Lake Tanganyika killed eight passengers including children before he was arrested. Read also: Seven Die as Train Derails in DR Congo On Sunday another soldier shot dead a colonel, his bodyguard and five civilians in Ituri province. The killer, also said to have been drunk, was shot dead by a colleague as he fled. For more than two decades people across eastern DR Congo have endured frequent attacks by dozens of armed groups. President F...

Osinachi: Police Transfer Case, Minister, CAN Youths Demand Justice

12Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Violence

Osinachi: Police Transfer Case, Minister, CAN Youths Demand Justice

NPF The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has transferred the case of the late Dunamis Church lead singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department. Osinachi, 42, died on Friday in an undisclosed hospital where she was treated for days. Some friends and family members of the deceased had claimed that her husband, Peter Nwachukwu, beat her up before she died. The FCT police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, told PUNCH Metro that Peter was arrested on Sunday. She stated that the younger brother of the deceased reported the case to the police, adding that investigation was ongoing. However, a family source familiar with the matter disclosed on Monday that the matter had been moved to the SCIID. The source said, “The...

12 Soldiers Killed as Jihadists Attack a Military Base in Burkina Faso

11Apr

By Guest ContributorNo Comments

Armed Forces, Burkina Faso, News, Religion, Security, Terrorism, Violence

12 Soldiers Killed as Jihadists Attack a Military Base in Burkina Faso

Suspected jihadists have attacked a military base in Burkina Faso, killing at least 12 soldiers and four volunteers in the process. The military on Friday said 21 troops were also injured in the attack on the Namissiguima military detachment in the north. The assailants are reported to have first attacked the camp with shells. Then shooting followed. The military added that reinforcements have been deployed to secure the area. The attack comes at a time when the armed forces have launched an operation to "de-pollute" localities in the region. Islamist militants started carrying out raids in Burkina Faso from bases in neighbouring Mali in 2015. Since then 1.8 million people have been displaced by the violence. A military government seized power in January and ousted P...

Nigerians To Pay More For Bread As Russia-Ukraine War Rages

1Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Violence

Nigerians To Pay More For Bread As Russia-Ukraine War Rages

The price of bread, one of the most commonly eaten staples in most Nigerian homes is set to rise if the current Russian-Ukrainian war persists. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, accounting for more than 18 percent of international exports. The downside to the war is that if supply from Russia is distorted for whatever reason, Nigeria could be faced with further surging wheat prices in its local market as a result of the supply gap, which could lead to an increase in the price of some other by-products of wheat, such as bread, wheat meal amongst others. The price of bread was increased by more than 80 per cent between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN) had hinted at a 50 per cent increase in the price of b...

Geoffrey Onyeama In Closed-Door Meeting With Russian, Ukraine Ambassadors

26Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Violence

Geoffrey Onyeama In Closed-Door Meeting With Russian, Ukraine Ambassadors

Geoofrey Kwusike Jideofor Onyeama: Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria by Lord777. Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama is in a closed-door meeting with Russian and Ukrainian Ambassadors in Abuja.The Muhammadu Buhari-led government has been under pressure to declare its position on the conflict in Ukraine, with many saying the government is too weak to choose a side. It could not confirm what Onyeama is discussing with the Ambassadors at the time of filing this report on Friday.Also after pressure from Nigerians, the minister on Thursday announced a special flight operation to evacuate Nigerian citizens from Ukraine given the escalating tension between that country and Russia. Onyeama in an interview with NTA, said the Nigerian embassy in Kyiv had been cont...