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Former Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger has arrived in Liberia to receive the country's highest honour from president George Weah.

President Weah who was signed by the former Arsenal manager when he was coaching Monaco in 1988, is set to induct the Frenchman into his country's Order of Distinction and given the title of Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption.

The award not only conveys their personal connection, but also that he 'has contributed to sports in Africa and has given many Africans opportunities, according to information minister Eugene Nagbe.

Weah is the only African to have been named World Player of the Year, claiming the honour in 1995.

Wenger, who resigned from Arsenal in April after 22 years, coached many African stars during that period, and others from his previous managerial stints in France.

Wenger, who resigned from Arsenal in April after 22 years, coached many African stars during that period, and others from his previous managerial stints in France.

President Weah has said that Wenger “took care of me like his son” when he went to Monaco, adding that “besides God, I think that without Arsène, there was no way I would have made it in Europe”.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/arsene-wenger-arrives-liberia-to-receive-highest-honour-from-george-weah-photos.html

A Nigerian man has been alleged to have killed a fellow compatriot beyond the shores of the country after a disagreement. It was gathered the deceased Nigerian man identified  Elochukwu (48), a native of Enugu State was involved in a heated argument with another Nigerian man known as Chike, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

According to NewsmakersNG, the alleged killer, Chike had refused to comply with the terms of payment agreed upon whenever they make money from a business.

During the argument, Elochukwu pounced on Chike and promised not to let him go until he is paid, but Chike went straight into the nearest shop, grabbed a knife, and dashed back to stab Elochukwu to death.

According to reports, the knife pierced through one side of the victim’s neck to the other.

Elochukwu bled to death, even though he was immediately rushed to the hospital where he died. 

This incident occurred at the popular Galeria do Rock, a popular mall in Sao Paulo, where most Nigerians are having their business offices, shops and restaurants.

The representative of the Nigerian community in Sao Paulo, one Mr Nicolas, said that Elochukwu was married with four children.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/nigerian-man-stabbed-to-death-by-business-colleague-in-brazil-photo.html

Credit; Adeyinka Olaiya, Editor-at-Large, NewsmakersNG

Three persons were feared killed yesterday in Brass area of Bayelsa State. The violence occurred when supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clashed in the area.



One of those killed was identified as spokesman of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), even as both sides have given conflicting reasons for the attacks.

Some PDP supporters claimed that the death of the three persons occurred during a failed attempt on the life of the caretaker Chairman of Brass council, Mr. Victor Isaiah.

But APC supporters alleged that over 10 armed men, hired from a neighbouring community, were challenged by the indigenes of the community and some members of IYC, before they were attacked with machetes and guns. 

A post from one of the supporters of the PDP in Brass monitored on Victor Isaiah’s Facebook page indicated that the clash was allegedly due to provocation from some APC youths following an attack on the Special Adviser on Youths Matters to the council’s chairman.

“A few days ago, some suspected armed APC youths attacked the LGA chair’s aide and the PDP youths. Now they attempted to assassinate the caretaker chairman of the council,” the poster indicated.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/3-people-killed-as-apc-and-pdp-thugs-clash-in-bayelsa-state-graphic-photos.html

A suspected thief was apprehended while trying to sell a stolen ram at a market in Yola, Adamawa state capital. According to reports, the young man who is allegedly notorious for stealing - was trailed to the market yesterday where he was nabbed while attempting the sell the ram for the Sallah celebration today. 

He was humiliated by the mob who tied the stolen ram round his body after an alarm was raised before he was transported in a tricycle to the police station.

Here are pictures showing how it went down. 

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/thief-nabbed-while-trying-to-sell-stolen-ram-for-sallah-photos.html

A young girl who was kidnapped when she was two years old, has been found after four years. The girl identified as Onyinyechi Okpala was stolen on 30th November 2014, when she and her mother went for end of year party which was hosted by "Taribo" her uncle in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. 

They searched everywhere for the little girl all to no avail. The mother couldn't contain her sorrow as she came for the party with her little daughter and went home without her. 

Yesterday, 20th August 2018, the little girl was found by the Imo state police who busted a child trafficking syndicate. The girl was 2-years-old then and now she is 6. 

The Imo State Police Command arrested eight suspects in connection with child stealing and trafficking. The arrests were made between 24/07/2018 and 17/08/2018 at Agbor Park in Benin City Edo State and Imo State respectively.

A total of eleven (11) stolen children were recovered from the suspects some of whom have been identified by their parents. 

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/girl-who-was-kidnapped-at-a-party-in-port-harcourt-found-after-4-years-photo.html

A young man identified as Ifunanya, has been allegedly tortured to death by Nigeria police officers attached to B Division Warri, Delta State.

It was gathered that the deceased Ifunanya was fast asleep when officers attached to B Division broke into their apartment and surrounded everyone in the house with guns while in search for internet fraudsters otherwise known as 'Yahoo Boys'. 

They searched the house, found nothing and ordered Ifunanya and four others to enter their Hilux van before taking them to the station.

It was alleged that the officers tortured Ifunanya to get information but he couldn't make it like others as he passed away during the brutal process.

Ifunanya fainted and was rushed to General hospital where he was confirmed dead by the doctor.

The police hurriedly arraigned the other people arrested with Ifunanya and charged them for armed robbery.

According to reports, the other arrested victims are currently in Okere Prison.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/young-man-tortured-to-death-by-police-after-being-labelled-yahoo-boy-photos.html

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Another woman identified Mrs. Roona Ayomanor, the wife of former Community Liaison Officer an oil company in Sapele, Delta state, Mr. Churchill Ayomanor, has died after she slumped in a Church, just barely a month after another woman, a popular trader, was said to have collapsed in the same church and died..

According to reports, a witness who claimed to be in the church when the accident happened, “Mrs Ayomanor was one of the early arrivals in church and she was full of life and had a smile for everyone. The service was on when she suddenly slumped.”

Mrs Ayomanor was said to have been rushed to a private clinic in town, where she gave up the ghost before medical attention could reach her.

Shocked at the news of his wife’s death, the husband was said to have slumped too “and has been admitted at a private clinic in the Gana axis of the town.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/another-woman-slumps-and-dies-during-church-service-in-delta-photo.html

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The president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Denilson Bamidele, has been involved in a motor accident.

It was gathered that the comrade had the accident on Thursday, August 16th, while on his way for a condolence visit, at the Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi, Benue state, over the accident that happened the previous day.

The NANS president was rushed to the hospital after the accident and is said to be doing well. 

Some students died after being involved in an accident at the institution. The victims were on their way to the ICT centre on the campus before vehicle conveying them had an accident.

Two students in the front seat were said to have died instantly and four others seriously injured.

The incident was said to have triggered a crisis, as aggrieved students burned down the bus and allegedly vandalised some school property.

Following the incident, the school authority immediately shut down the school until further notice.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/nans-president-comrade-denilson-bamidele-involved-in-accident.html

Some Nigerians have taken to social media to condemn the cutting down of an old tree by a priest recently. According to reports, the priest decided to cut down the tree which has been there for decades - because "it was hindering the progress" of a family and also saw their "destinies buried".

The tree was taken down during a deliverance session by the priest who hails from Rivers state but based in Warri, Delta. 

The picture of the cut down tree has gone viral after it was posted online with many Nigerians condemning the action of the priest as they labelled it 'terrorism against nature'. 

See reactions below; 

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/outrage-sparked-as-priest-cuts-down-old-tree-for-hindering-progress-photos.html

It would have been a different sad story. A little baby was almost crushed by bags of cement at a shop in Lagos. According to Johnpaul Chukwunoyelum who witnessed the incident, a sales girl left her sleeping baby on a mat close to where bags of cement were packed in the shop.

The little baby later woke up and started crying as soon as the visitor (Johnpaul) entered the shop. The baby was pacified and laid down to sleep on the mat again before being carried.

Few minutes after the visitor carried the baby, about nine bags of cement fell on the mat where the baby was initially kept by the mother.

Read the full report by Johnpaul below; 

Something great took place on my way to Alaba international, was waiting for a bus under hot sun I decided to enter one cement shop bcus the sun was much.  Only God can do this no other! 

A sales girl's baby was laying down sleeping on a mat that is close to where d cements are parked, immediately I enter the shop the baby started crying, d mother carried her trying to make her go back to sleep. As soon as she slept n d mother wanted to lay her down on d mat d baby opened her eyes n started crying again pointing at me that I should carry her.

Then within four minutes i lifted her, 9 BAGS of cements fell on the mat where d baby was supposed to be lying on! CAN U IMAGINE WAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IF D BABY WAS STILL LYING ON DAT MAT SLEEPING!! IT IS ONLY GOD COULD DO SUCH MIRACLE. !!!!!

I thank God for the life of this baby Chikamso.
 

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/little-baby-almost-crushed-by-bags-of-cement-at-a-shop-in-lagos-photos.html

One of the two suspected armed robbers arrested by men of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police, Abeokuta, in the early hours of yesterday (Wednesday), has revealed that part of their strategies for successful car theft was to equip themselves with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol.

The reason for that, according to the suspect, Taiwo Raheem, was in case the targeted vehicle was short of the essential product, a result of which might stall their plan of doing away with the vehicle.

Raheem had invaded Oke-Odo community in Soyoye area of the ancient town of Abeokuta with five other members of the deadly gang, with Taoreed Adegbite, also a resident of the community, as leader, who later gave up the ghost following severe injuries inflicted on him by irate mob.

As put by Raheem, "whoever fails to plan, plans to fail. That is the essence of our going on operation with at least 10 liters of petrol. When we got to the area, with the late Adegbite as the leader and pointer, he fired a shot into the apartment through the window, a dangerous trend that sent shivers down the spines of the occupants and forced the owner of the car to throw the key to us, also through the window".

According to the 42-year old Raheem, the gang members went into the car and started the ignition, only to realize from the fuel guage that the fuel in it would not take them far and, as such, they filled the tank with the petrol they went with before escaping with it.

However, in their desperado intention to do away with the car at all costs, not minding that it was dawn, then about 5:00, the hoodlums initially abandoned the car on a street and joined Moslem faithful in the community in the early morning prayer, only to return to the car and ran into people's ambush.

The mob, who sighted their guns on the back seat of the car, succeeded in getting the two members, while the remaining four escaped.

The irate mob pounced on the duo of Raheem and Adegbite, beat them blue and black, and in the process, detectives from Lafenwa Police Station, who were on their trail, arrived at the scene and arrested them.

On the instruction of the state Commissioner of Police, Iliyasu Ahmed, the two suspects were handed over to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), with a further directive to smoke out the fleeing members of the gang.
 
Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/armed-robbers-reveal-why-they-go-for-operations-with-petrol-photos.html

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A 78-year-old woman, Benice Ikerionwu, is said to be stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. According to Iwuchukwu Benneth, a staff with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the woman arrived the airport on Monday, August 13th, and was left stranded by her son who was meant to pick her up.

A passenger who saw the woman crying profusely at the airport as she had no money or phone with her - notified the airport authorities who tried contacting her family without any positive response. 
 
Read the report shared by Iwuchukwu online; 

Please,this 78years woman Mrs Benice Ikerionwu arrived at Lagos Int Airport on Lufthansa airline on Monday 13/8/18 around 5pm and has been stranded there as she had no money,phone nor contact of Relation on her as at late nite that day.

She told us that her son Chimezie Ikerionwu was coming from Abuja to pick her on arrival but he was no where to be found as she was crying like a baby when one Bimpe kemi an arrived passenger noticed her and reported to Airport Security and was with her at Tango city and Servicom elderly lounge all through the nite and also gave her money to eat when leaving in the morning.

Yesterday her daughter chinwe Irabor nee ikerionwu was contacted thru her phone numbers got from the Airline as she booked her mothers ticket,but she refuse to cooperate with the Aviation security official who called her by not disclosing her two Brothers living at Ikeja and Ajegunle numbers to him instead she claimed that they had picked and that she slept at the sons house at Ajegunle.

please Isiala Mbano indigenes or anyone that knows Chinwe Irabor,Chimezie or any of the Ikerionwus should call them to come to Lagos international Airport and pick their mother who has been stranded.they should come to Tango City and pick her.
 
Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/78-year-old-woman-stranded-at-lagos-airport.html

The corpse of Nigerian man identified as Obinna, who died last year after suffering a heart attack, has arrived Nigeria eight months after his demise. The deceased was said to have fled to his friend's house to hide as Indonesian immigration officers were after him in December 2017.

He suffered a heart attack while he was seating on a chair. The immigration officers broke the door and found him dead on the chair.

His corpse which was since deposited in a morgue - left Jakarta, Indonesia for Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, August 12th ahead of his burial. 

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/corpse-of-nigerian-man-who-died-in-indonesia-arrives-lagos.html

Some Nigerians stormed the Abuja House in London yesterday to celebrate and show support for president Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The supporters under the auspices of the 'PMB Network' - were armed with placards and banners as they urged the president to continue his good works with the development of the country. 

They also showed solidarity for the president who is set to run again in the 2019 election. 

This is coming days after some Nigerians gathered in front of the Abuja House to protest against president Buhari who is on vacation in London.

The protesters said that the president should go back to his country and develop it because it’s only developed countries that have quality medical facilities..

The protesters also brought pictures showing the poor conditions of Nigerian health system which they presented in front of the Abuja House. They said the president should be using the local hospitals he is offering to other Nigerians.

They said, ‘Go back home and use everything you provided for Nigerians’.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/nigerians-storm-abuja-house-in-london-to-celebrate-president-buhari-photos.html

A police officer has been arrested in Imo state over alleged extortion. The policeman identified as Inspector Tom Edet of Nigeria Police Ihiagwa Division in Nekede, Imo State, was said to have collected N120,000 from an undercover official of Behind Bars Initiative. 

It was gathered that the police inspector and his colleagues refused to release a young man who travelled from Delta to Imo State, as they reportedly detained him for days.

His family contacted Behind Bars Defenders because they couldn't pay N400,000 demanded.

The officers were baited with the N120,000 bribe and they fell. 

The policeman is currently in custody and his accomplice Seargent Bassey and Charity, are said to be on the run.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/08/policeman-arrested-after-extorting-n120k-from-man-in-imo-state.html