Andrew Kumapayi, Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Anambra State, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the killing of Ekom, who was also a former Information Officer with Akun Local Government Area of the state, comes barely seven days after the killing of five people in the state.
Nansel Ramhan, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, made the vow while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lafia.
The old woman was killed after the gang stormed her residence, where she lived with her husband, Pa Olutokunbo, in Ikala Village of Ijebu Mushin, Ogun State and robbed them of N550,000 and three mobile phones.
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ebute Meta, Lagos State on Friday ordered that an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Oluwafemi Emmanuel, 42, who allegedly stabbed a Police Inspector to death, be remanded in a correctional facility.
The defendant, who resides at Kofar Ruwa Quarters in Kano, is standing trial for alleged culpable homicide.
The highly reputable news channel said although police authorities are yet to confirm the incident, the Chairman of Zango Kataf Local Government, Elias Manza, told it that suspected Fulani militias carried out the attack.
The Police Spokesman in the state, Haruna Mohammed, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Awka, noted that the suspect is 35 years old.
Alhaji Abubakar Mu’azu-Dakingari, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonnaya, confirmed the arrest of the woman, who was said to be in her early 70s, to the News Agency of Nigeria in Umuahia on Wednesday.
Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria through telephone on Wednesday, Alhaji Umar Muhammad, the late district head’s elder brother, said the incident occurred on Tuesday at about 6pm.
Usman Nagogo, State Commissioner of Police, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Gusau on Monday.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Olufemi Adetunji, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday at the NIS office, Agodi-Gate, Ibadan, while handing over the suspect to the Oyo State Police Command.
Recall the the people of Ekoli Edda in Ebonyi State and Biase in Cross River State have been at war over a palm plantation located at their mutual boundary.
The Hungarian is the wife of Gildas Tohouo-Tohouo, the Managing Director of Maersk Nigeria Limited.
Delivering judgment, Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay, held that the prosecution had proved its case with the elements of the offence of manslaughter and that strong circumstantial evidence was presented in court.
Bello, a student of Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Ibadan, was raped and stabbed to death by hoodlums in her father’s residence at Kara Akinyele area on Monday in Ibadan.
The Zone D of the National Association of Nigerian Students (South West) confirmed the incident as it put out a notice calling for justice in the case.
Gunmen have killed 15 people and injured five in Gonan Rogo village, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Channels Television is reporting.
A private security guard in Onitsha area of Anambra State, Ibuchi Nwoju, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing to death a 22-year-old, Cletus Chisom.