Abia State News

Two clergymen were abducted last night by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Isuikwuato Abia State The men were said to be coming back from service, and were abducted alongside a lady who was later released, but the the Whereabout of the clergymen remains unknown as at reporting time

Honorable Oracle Nwala Esq. The SDP candidate for Isiala Ngwa North and South Federal Constituency, Barr. Oracle Chukwudi Nwala, has described the burning of Isiala Ngwa South INEC office in Umuikaa, as an act of sabotage against Federal government’s determination to conduct free, fair and credi…

Former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Sabundu Badeh, is dead. Badeh, who rose to the rank of Air Chief Marshal in the Nigerian military, was shot dead on Tuesday. This was confirmed in a statement signed and made available to DAILY POST Tuesday night by Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Director o…

Muhammadu Buhari Abuja –  It was drama at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday when a suspected fraudster, who was being paraded, named top associates of President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, as part of her scam. During a press event to parade Amina Moh…

A combined team of operatives from the Abia State Police Command and the Zone 9 Police Headquarters in Umuahia has arrested one Pastor Prosper Akachukwu for allegedly killing one Pastor Blessed Iwuanyanwu and two of his church members. The police operatives, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Po…

The Department of State Services, DSS, on Tuesday detained Mr. Baba-Inna, who is the Aide De Camp, ADC, to the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari over an allegation of N2.5 billion fraud. Spokesman for the DSS, Mr. Nnochirionye Afunanya, told Punch that the case was handed over to the agen…

A 7-year-old girl in Lagos State has exposed two married men who had abused her severally by telling their wives that she had slept with their husbands in their compound. The incident happened at Sanusi Street in Shomolu area of Lagos where they resided. The suspects, Mr Osuntunbo Dare, 42 and…

A businessman got more than he bargained for after his lover fled with his Automated Teller Machine card and allegedly withdrew N1m from his bank account. It was learnt that the woman, Thelma Kimberly, who is based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, visited the man named Olugbenga at his residence…

•Victim rescued, guns recovered Soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion under the 14 Brigade headquarters of Nigerian Army in Ohafia, Abia State, have reportedly arrested three members of a kidnapping gang operating in Aba, the state’s commercial and its environs. The soldiers, our reporter gat…

Abia police command has arrested members of three suspected child trafficking syndicates, including 17-year-old Gift Daniel, who sold her two-day-old baby boy for N670, 000. The Police Commissioner, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, said this on Monday, while briefing newsmen in Umuahia on the activities of t…

The gang leader of the Offa bank robbery, Ayoade Akinnibosun a.k.a AY, was interrogated by some journalists at the force headquarters yesterday June 3rd. In an audio recording released by Dailytrust, the gang leader told journalists how he was allegedly contracted by the senate president while he …

Three women students of Obong University at Obong Nntak in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have been abducted by armed hoodlums. The abductors reportedly attacked the institution’s girls’ hostel and took the girls away. Police spokesman Odiko MacDon, a Deputy Superintendent of…

A teacher, Abimbola Olamide, has been arrested by policemen from the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing her husband, Dare Akinbobola, to death at their residence in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro  gathered that there was an argument between the couple on Wednesday, …

THE restoration of electricity in the early hours of Monday threw a man suspected to be in his late 30s off a high tension pole in his failed attempt to commit suicide. The unidentified man had climbed the high tension pole close to Jevinik Restaurant in New GRA, Port Harcourt at about 11pm on …

The Lagos State Government says it will prosecute a lawyer, Udeme Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Otike Odibi, to death. The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, who is also the Chairman of Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, said this on Monday…

A  rapist attacked Students of famous Ovim Girls Secondary Secondary in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State in the middle of the night. Eye witness informed us that some students were injured, but it was not confirmed if the rapist succeeded in raping any student as at the time of re…

The police in Lagos have arrested a 73-year-old man, Fola Olowoigbo, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old and impregnating her. The suspect was said to be a neighbour of the victim’s mother who lived on Fella Ahmed Street, Agric, Ikorodu, Lagos State. The police said the septuagenarian took adva…

THE police yesterday described the alleged killing of a lawyer, Sym Otike-Odibe, by his wife Udemeh, also a lawyer,  as premeditated. Commissioner of Police Imohimi Edgal said Mrs Otike-Odibe called her mother immediately after the act and complained that her husband had been sleeping around wi…

Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Ajah, Lagos State, was in turmoil on Thursday after a lawyer, Udeme Odibi, allegedly  stabbed her husband, Otike Odibi, to death. The suspect was also said to have cut off the private parts of the deceased, who was also a lawyer, and stabbed herself.  The 47-year-old…

Policemen from Akwa Ibom State Command have arrested two siblings, Akaninyene and Ime Enyeokpon, who allegedly conspired and murdered their brother, Friday Enyeokpon, over witchcraft allegation. The deceased, who lived at the same address as the suspects, was said to have gone into the bush to c…