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CAF move AFCON to every four years, launch new African Nations League - Patrice Motsepe

Patrice Motsepe speaks to media in Rabat on Saturday, announcing major changes to CAF's tournaments.

The Africa Cup of Nations will be played every four years from 2028, the Confederation of African Football have announced, with a new African Nations League taking place every year.

CAF president Dr Patrice Motsepe made the announcement in Morocco on Saturday, ahead of the 2025 edition of AFCON, which kicks off with Comoros taking on the hosts on Sunday.

Motsepe said that AFCON would still be played in 2027 and 2028, and after that would go to a four-year cycle, with the next edition in 2032. Prize money will increase from 7 million to 10 million US dollars for the winners.

He also said that the new ANL would be played in FIFA windows in September and October, with the finals in the November window every year. The teams will be split into four regions, with six teams in the North, and 16 in the other three.

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They are afraid of death.
People that speak the truth don't live long and if they do,they are never at ease with the world

Quest7777:
Max Respect to Fela.
These days, our musicians that should be singing to condemn Govt and societal ills, are more engrossed in singing about yansh and bobbi.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday received Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

While the official agenda of the meeting was not publicly disclosed, sources indicate to Vanguard thay discussion was highly likely connected to ongoing efforts to secure the release of the convicted leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The engagement follows Governor Otti’s recent high-profile visit to Kanu at the Sokoto prison facility, where the IPOB leader is serving a life sentence following his conviction on terrorism-related charges on November 20, 2025.


The Governor’s visit to Sokoto was part of a coordinated political and legal strategy aimed at resolving the long-running matter.

Otti was accompanied by a delegation including: Kanu’s younger brother, Emmanuel Kanu; The Abia State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ikechukwu Uwanna (SAN); His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma; and Officials of the Sokoto State Government were also present during the prison visit.

​Governor Otti has consistently maintained that resolving Nnamdi Kanu’s case remains a priority for his administration.

Following the prison visit, he reaffirmed his commitment to a pre-agreed strategy to secure Kanu’s freedom through legitimate means.

“While Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is free to appeal his conviction, I’m happy to inform you that I have activated, and will continue to work on, the already agreed strategy until his freedom is secured,” Governor Otti said through his media aide.

Source... Naija News.

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South African firefighters in Canada to fight wildfires


Under a scorching sun, 200 South African firefighters wrapped up a last round of training on Tuesday before flying out to help Canada battle unprecedented forest blazes there.

It is a rare offer of aid from a developing country battling its own crises.

They are a second batch of fighters flying out to the North American nation where nearly 17,800 square miles of forest have burned since the beginning of the year, well above previous averages, amid climate change.

The first group of more than 200 South African firefighters deployed to Canada’s province of Alberta early last week.

The deployment is in response to “an urgent request” from the Canadian forest fire agency, according to South Africa’s Ministry of Forest and Environmental Affairs.

In the last month fires have erupted in almost every province across Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged: “Our resources are stretched.”

As a consequence, Canada has had to juggle resources and call in reinforcements from abroad.

South Africa is just one of the nations coming to Canada’s aid, with Australia, the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, France, Spain and Portugal also among those sending firefighters.

Canada and South Africa 2019 signed a memorandum of understanding “to assist each other in case of emergency regarding veld and forest fires,” Peter van de Merwe, a forestry scientist who will be leading the group, told AFP in the eastern city of Mbombela, where the team has been preparing for its mission overseas.

The firefighters are from ‘Working on Fire’, an organisation funded by the country’s environmental ministry that recruits and trains unemployed people aged between 18 and 35.

Dubbed Mzanzi Hotshots-2 the “highly qualified” firefighters will leave for Edmonton, Canada on Wednesday.

They are “well prepared and excited” to go, remarks van de Merwe on the sidelines of the training.

Drawn from every corner of South Africa, many from impoverished backgrounds, fewer than 20 of the firefighters have ever been abroad.

“It will be a big pleasure to represent my country,” Pontsho Lefifi, 27, told AFP surrounded by bushes and greenery at the remote training camp, 300 kilometres northeast of Johannesburg.

Canada’s unemployment rises to 5.2%
It is “an opportunity for everyone to see that I’m… (one of) the 25 per cent of women” in the group gearing up to quell the raging fires in Canada, said the proud 27-year-old mother of one from the capital Pretoria.

Working on Fire currently has over 5,300 firefighters with more than a third being female, one of the highest percentage of women in any firefighting organisation in the world.

– ‘We will do it’ –

At a dam nearby, the exhilaration is palpable as a small group practises pumping water into a hose.

“Go Mbokodo!” a male member of the teak shouts, using a colloquial term for a young woman, as a female firefighter waves a hose into the bushes.

For many of the firefighters, this is more than just a job, in a country reeling under a 32,9 percent unemployment rate, one of the highest in the world.

This is an opportunity to help “put food on the table”, said one of the crew managers, Komane Sewetsi, 35, who has spent most of his adulthood jobless.

“Everybody is feeling grateful because of… the experience we are going to get there and knowledge we are going to gain,” added Sewetsi, father of two from the semi-rural town of Lebowakgomo in the northeast.

The group breaks into a song to encourage two firefighters as they begin to climb a combat wall.

Others practice rapidly coiling the fire hose back up, or run carrying twenty-kilogramme bags of equipment.

The lyrics, accompanied by synchronised steps by the team all dressed in blue-and-yellow, builds the team’s “morale” and “creates motivation”, Sewetsi said.

Singing “brings the team t

together,” despite their different languages and backgrounds and helps them remember that “it doesn’t matter if it’s hard, we will do it,” he explained.

Despite South Africa entering its own fire season which starts around mid-June and battling a crippling energy crisis, van de Merwe said the deployment was “important” and “will be good exposure for our firefighters”

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The Zamfara State
Governor, Bello
Matawalle, has
directed traditional
rulers to seek
permission before
bestowing titles on
people in the state,
IgbereTV reports.
The directive was
contained in a
statement on
Wednesday by the
governor’s
spokesman, Zailani
Bappa.
“All Emirs, Senior
District Heads and
District Heads in the
state are hereby
directed to officially
seek permission from
the State Government
before conferring
traditional titles to
anyone,” the
governor said.

A section of the
popular Bodija market
in Ibadan Oyo State
capital has been gutted
by fire.
The affected areas are
located at Ori-Igi,
Daleko, Iso Ẹlẹwà,
inside the popular
market.
One of the affected
traders, Ganiyu Asimiyu
said the fire came from
an unknown source as
early as 3am and burnt
down part of the
market.
Another affected trader
Isiaka Kafilat said she
lost goods worth about
2 million naira in the
incident.
The swift intervention
of the Oyo state fire
service was able to
stop the fire from
spreading to other
parts of the market.

•Escaped from prison
through toilet
•Suspect on our wanted
list with six others after
Owo jailbreak —Police

Oluwatosin Ikuhemeyin,
24, dropped out of school
and joined a cult group
known as “Aye” in
lgbokoda, in the oil rich
llaje council area of Ondo
state.
From being a member, he
rose to be the leader, and
was nicknamed “Number
One”. He later progressed
in his deadly mission and
was given another title,
“4G network” because of
his shooting skills.
Police authorities in the
state described the
suspect as a notorious
and murderous cultist.
In a supremacy battle in
the community, the cult
group he led was alleged
to have killed some
members of a rival cult
group.
However, nemesis caught
up with him during one of
his escapades, as he was
ambushed by the police
and was arrested and
arraigned in court for
cultism and murder.
He was then remanded at
Owo Correctional Centre
but escaped from custody
in March 2022 during a
jailbreak.
Consequently, he was put
on the wanted list of the
state police command
over his role in several
cult clashes in the state
which led to many deaths
of members of rival cult
groups.
After his escape, the
suspect relocated to Ogun
State, where he joined
another cult group and
resumed his nefarious
activities within the state
and other neighbouring
states.
He, however, sneaked
back to lgbokoda area of
the state on 4th of July,
2022 at about 7 pm,
unknown to him that he
was still under
surveillance. Police
detectives at the
Igbokoda police division
were then notified that
the notorious convict and
jailbreaker was back in
town.
Reports had it that the
police mobilised and
invaded his hideout only
to discover that he had
escaped again.
After a thorough search,
the suspect was
discovered to have hidden
inside a soakaway after
he got an inkling that
police detectives were
coming for him.
His confession
“l was a member of a cult
group called Aye and I
was the leader, the
number one, in Igbokoda
before I was arrested and
sentenced to correctional
center. Although, I am a
sharp shooter but I have
only killed three people
during cult clashes and
not several as claimed by
the police
“I was arrested in
Igbokoda, but I escaped
from Owo Prison in a
jailbreak with some six
other people after
spending two weeks in
the prison.
“I met with some people
in the prison led by one
Dada, who was planning
on how to escape from
the prison before I got
there and they co-opted
me into the plans and it
was successful. We
escaped through the
toilet and it took us some
days as we always filled
the toilet with water to
weaken the place.
“There was an Hausa guy
who understand the
techniques and eventually
we succeeded in escaping
from the prison. After the
escape, I headed straight
to Akure in my house to
change my cloth and left
the town for Ogun state
where I worked with
some people before
returning to Igbokoda to
work with the fishermen
on the sea.
“I only come to Igbokoda
to relax when the
policemen spotted me
and arrested me.
“It has been long I
involved myself in killing,
I have changed and I only
killed three people during
reprisal attack on a rival
cult group.
“I have handed over all
my guns to one Golu who
took over from me. After I
handed over the throne,
the other members have
all deserted me because
they no longer trust me
because I was arrested
and escaped from prison”
Speaking on the arrest of
the notorious criminal,
the police Command
spokesperson, Funmi
Odunlami said that acting
on security report, police
detectives including the
Divisional Police Officer
DPO, arrested the ex
convict inside a soakaway
in lgbokoda.
“He had been terrorizing
Igbokoda community, in
the state, before he was
arrested and sent to
prison.
Odunlami noted that the
suspect had been on the
wanted list of the
Command after he
escaped from prison with
six others during a
jailbreak in Owo.
According to her “the
suspect escaped from
Owo prison with six
others and has been on
the wanted list of the
command over his role in
several cult clashes in the
state which led to the
death of some members
of another cult group.
“He was a leader of Aye
cult group and was
arrested in a soakaway at
Igbokoda area of the
state.”
The police spokesperson
said that the suspect will
be arraigned in court
soon.

Two Boys Lure A Nursing Mother To A Hotel, Drug Her Yoghurt, Kill Her And Sell Her Baby For N150K


The Abia State Police Command has paraded two suspects involved in the gruesome murder of a young lady who was a nursing mother of an 11-month old baby boy and took away the baby, which they allegedly sold and got a N150, 000 naira reward.

It was gathered that the lady identified as Chihurumnaya Udeh was a native of Edda, Ebonyi State but a resident at No. 125 Umunkama Road by St. Dominic Ngwa Road, Aba.

She was killed by the two young boys after luring her to a hotel in the Ogbor Hill area of the commercial nerve centre of Abia state.

Disclosing the incident in a statement at the Police Command Headquarters, Umuahia, the Abia Commissioner of Police, CP Janet Agbede, said the incident occurred at Merry Home Hotels, Aba, on April 15, 2022.

According to her, she said on the said day, two suspects Chimaobi Anyim Kalu 25, of No. 44 Nwogu Street Ngwa Road Aba, and David Ogwo Orji 21, resident at Umukanma Roundabout, Ngwa Road, connived and killed Chihurumnaya Udeh while her baby boy of about 11 months was taking away by the suspects.

CP Agbede, revealed that on discovering the misnomer, the proprietor of Merry Home Hotels, Ogbor Hill, Aba, Felix Abengowe, reported to the Police that the corpse of an unidentified female with a sharp cut on her neck was found in one of the hotel rooms, a report that madet the Police swing into action.

On arrival at the scene of the heinous crime, it was discovered that the suspects escaped with the deceased’s baby boy after murdering the mother.

Further police investigations revealed the victim’s name, address as well as the name of the victim’s stolen son “Chimereobioma Silver” aged eleven months, CP Janet Agbede added.

The Commissioner of Police said the suspects were arrested between May 15th and 16th, 2022 upon credible information and upon their arrest, it was discovered that both suspects are motorcycle riders, popularity called “Okada” and both hails from Ugwueke in Bende LGA of Abia State.

She revealed that in their confessional statements, the suspects admitted to administering drug which was a mixture of yoghurt , which was spiked with 8 tablets of piriton tablets on their victim. After taking the yoghurt, she became dizzy, unconscious and slept off, before stabbing her on the neck with broken glass cup which led to instant death as they equally confessed to selling the baby for the Sum of one hundred and fifty thousand naira (N150, 000) only, which was shared equally by both suspects

The CP, Abia state Command equally told newsmen that plans are underway to arrest other fleeing suspects, a man and a lady, that could lead to the recovering of the 11 months Chimereobioma Silver who was purportedly sold .

Exhibits found with them included broken glass cup, black material soaked with oil paint and CCTV footage in a flash drive.

Real Madrid C. F. and AS
Monaco have reached
an agreement over the
transfer of Aurélien
Tchouaméni, who joins
the club on a six-year
deal.
Tchouaméni will be
unveiled on Tuesday
14 June at Real Madrid
City at 12:00 (CET)
following his medical.
Tchouaméni will then
be unveiled to the
media.
The deep-lying
playmaker had been
coverted by a host of
leading European clubs
this summer, including
French champions Paris
Saint-Germain and
Premier League outfit
Liverpool.
Instead though, the
France international
will make the move to
La Liga, to join the
European and Spanish
champions as Carlo
Ancelotti’s latest major
signing of the window.
Tchouameni will cost
Real Madrid €100
million (£85m/$107m)
overall, though that
will be split between
an initial transfer fee
and bonus payments.

Suspected kidnappers have abducted a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Engr. Michael Ogiasa.

The ugly development was confirmed in a statement by the spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, SP Asinim Butswat.

He said Ogiasa was abducted from his community, Otuabagi, in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Thursday, June 2, adding that efforts were being made to rescue him.

A source said Ogiasa had just finished a meeting in the community when gunmen numbering eight invaded his house just as he arrived from the meeting and whisked him away.

Ogiasa, who was a former cabinet member in the administration of former Bayelsa governor Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, is also the convener of Voice of the South-South, a socio-political group at the forefront of drafting Jonathan into the 2023 Presidency.

Sources said Ogiasa’s family kept the abduction under wraps, believing that the kidnappers would contact the family for a ransom to be paid quietly.

However close to 48 hours after his kidnap and no word from his abductors the family had to report the incident to the Police for investigation and possibly his rescue.

“He had actually planned to return to Yenagoa at the end of the meeting but some people prevailed on him to wait till the next morning. He was indoors when the gunmen arrived and abducted him,” the source added.

Andy Robertson has played in three Champions League finals for Liverpool, winning just one
The organisation of the Champions League final at the Stade de France in Paris was a "shambles", according to Liverpool defender Andy Robertson.

Uefa delayed kick-off by more than half an hour for "security reasons", adding the problem was thousands of fans trying to get in with fake tickets.

Robertson says he had given a ticket to a friend but he was denied entry for the game which Real Madrid won 1-0.

"One of my mates got told it was a fake which I assure you it wasn't," he said.

"It was a shambles really," the Scot told BBC Sport.

Pictures emerged of a huge amount of Liverpool fans in long queues outside the stadium.

The big screen in the ground said the game was delayed because of "the late arrival of fans" but some claimed they had been at the stadium hours before kick-off.

Police outside the ground fired tear gas as a small number of supporters tried to climb over security barriers.

'A miserable night on every level imaginable'
Liverpool will come again after final loss - Klopp
Liverpool have called for an investigation into the "unacceptable issues" faced by fans - with some not making it into the ground until the second half.

Robertson added: "To be honest people were just making it up at times and panicking. Tear gas getting thrown at people was unacceptable.

"It was horrendous for our fans and all families that have been through it as well. It wasn't a nice experience, not a nice final to come to. The Champions League should be a celebration but it wasn't that.

"Obviously the final wasn't meant to be here and whether the preparations were not as good as maybe they should have been but I am sure in the coming days an inquest will go into that."

Real Madrid were crowned Champions of Europe for the 14th time after beating Liverpool 1-0 at the Stade de France. An eighth successive UEFA Champions League (UCL) final victory means the Spaniards have won Europe’s premier competition twice as many times as any other club.

While the atmosphere was reaching fever pitch inside the stadium, a scene of carnage was developing outside, as a huge number of fans struggled to gain entry into the stadium. The subsequent 37-minute delay to kick-off did little to stifle the ‘Reds’ though, as they took complete control of the match, aiming to gain revenge for defeat in this fixture in the 2018 final. Carlo Ancelotti’s men have been the masters of survival in this UCL run, and those skills were being put to the test as the Liverpool barrage intensified, with both Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané testing Thibaut Courtois early on. The Senegal international had his side’s best opening, as he brilliantly evaded the challenge of Eder Militão before firing at goal, only for Courtois to tip his effort against the post.

Real had to wait until the brink of HT to find an opening at the other end. Unsurprisingly, it was Karim Benzema at the heart of the action, as he ran in behind before making a mess of his shot, only for the ball to rebound off Fabinho, back to the Frenchman to slot home. Controversially, the goal was ruled out for offside after a lengthy VAR review, but the scare provided a timely reminder of the threat that the Spanish champions possess.

‘Los Blancos’ began to grow into the game after the break, with the energy of Federico Valverde causing problems on the right. After withstanding the first-half onslaught, it would be Real to open the scoring on the hour mark. Valverde’s driven cross caught Trent Alexander-Arnold napping at the far post, allowing Vinícius Júnior to tap-in from point-blank range. The Brazilian’s 22nd goal of the season put his side in unfamiliar territory, defending a lead in the closing stages rather than chasing another miraculous comeback.

Liverpool are no strangers to mounting fightbacks on big European nights, and they needed all of their experience to break down a stubborn Real rearguard. Salah had been starved of service since HT, but he remained capable of magical moments, as he cut inside from the right before curling a shot towards the far corner, only for Courtois to meet it with a strong hand to beat it away.

Salah appeared determined to make an impact after injury ended his last meeting with Real, but Courtois stood firm, making another remarkable save to deny the Egyptian late on. Despite their best efforts, Liverpool were unable to find a way through, falling at the final UCL hurdle for the second time in five years to the same opponent. A fourth European crown as a manager for Ancelotti is an all-time record, overseeing one of the great UCL campaigns. Seeing off Inter Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, and Liverpool on the way, Real earned their third trophy of an historic season.

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The World's Best club coach of the year award is one of the most prestigious football award that is specifically given to football coaches every year. The award is been voted by the IFFHS (International Federations of Football History and Statistics) as well as experts from eighty-nine spanning six continents, and the most outstanding coach that gets the highest votes is been rewarded with the award. Known to be awarded since 1996, the World's Best Club Coach of the year award has been won by many coaches, and these coaches are famous and also one of the greatest football coaches in the history of the football game.

However, in line with this article, we are going to be looking at these football coaches who have succeeded in winning the award since the year 1996 to 2021.

1. M. Lippi won the award in 1996.

2. O. Hitzfeld won the award in 1997.

3. M. Lippi won the award in 1998.

4. Sir Alex Ferguson won the award in 1999.





5. C. Bianchi was the winner of the award in 2000.

6. O. Hitzfeld won the award in 2001.

7. D. Bosque won the award in 2002.

8. C. Bianchi won the award in 2003.





9. Jose Mourinho won the award in 2004.

10. Jose Mourinho won the award again in 2005.

11. Frank Rijkaard won the award in 2006.

12. C. Ancelotti won the award in 2007.





13. Sir Alex Ferguson won the award in 2008.

14. P. Guardiola won the award in 2009.

15. Jose Mourinho won the award in 2010.

16. P. Guardiola won the award in 2011.





17. Jose Mourinho became the winner of the award in 2012.

18. J. Heynckes won the award in 2013.

19. C. Ancelotti won the award in 2014.

20. Luis Enrique won the award in 2015.





21. Claudio Ranieri won the award in 2016.

22. Z. Zidane won the award in 2017.

23. Z. Zidane won the award in 2018.

24. Jurgen Klopp won the award in 2019.





25. Jurgen Klopp won the award again in 2020.

26. Thomas Tuchel is the current winner of the award as he succeeded in winning the award in 2021.





So friends, Who do you think will win the Best Club Coach of the year award in 2022?

Fire Service Rescues 4-year-old Boy From Well In Lagos


A 4-year-old boy has been rescued by men of the Lagos Fire Service after he fell inside a well at No 11, Odushola Street, Off Lagos -Abeokuta Expressway, Ojokoro.

This was disclosed in a statement released by the Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Mrs Margaret Adeseye.

She said:

“The child who was reportedly playing around before falling into a well of about 120 feet depth around 17:28 hours on Wednesday within the storey building was rescued alive by the Firefighters from Agege Fire Station.”

“The boy is recuperating in a nearby Hospital and he is in a stable condition.”

Manchester United footballer and MBE recipient Marcus Rashford is now set to marry his childhood sweetheart after proposing while on a postseason getaway in California.

The Premier League striker got down on one knee for long-time girlfriend Lucia Loi yesterday, less than a week after United ended their season in defeat to Crystal Palace.

The pair, both aged 24, have been dating since the age of 15 when they were pupils at Ashton on Mersey school in Greater Manchester.

Rashford had been planning the proposal for weeks and popped the question to Lucia at a lavish villa after they shared a romantic meal at celebrity seafood restaurant Catch LA, a source told The Sun.

‘They went out in LA for a romantic night together on Tuesday and he proposed. It was extremely romantic.

‘They celebrated afterwards with a group of close friends — including his United teammate Jesse Lingard,’ the source said.

Rashford shared news of the engagement on Instagram, posting an image of the pair embracing as they stood atop a bed of white roses in front of a heart-shaped archway.

Another source said: ‘All involved are thrilled at the recent news of the engagement,’ and spoke of Lucia’s influence on the Premier League star, who has received plaudits for his charitable work off the field but has struggled to perform on it since having shoulder surgery.

‘Lucia has been a big part of Marcus’ life… offering stability, a sense of belonging and assurance that can be rare to find,’ the source told The Sun.

The high school sweethearts had been together for eight years when difficulties associated with the Covid pandemic triggered a split.

But the pair confirmed they had reunited in January of this year.

News of the engagement comes just days after Rashford claimed the book of the year prize at the British Book Awards for his non-fiction debut.

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A 27-year-old man identified as John Aipoh is in police net for allegedly killing his 24-year-old lover, Precious Ikpikhumi.

Police statement revealed that John killed precious, a final year student of the Institute of Health Technology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital after she called off their four-year relationship.

It was gathered that Precious was declared missing by her family on May 1 after she went to church and failed to return.

“The suspect confessed to having ambushed Precious while she was on her way to church on May 1, police statement said, adding that he took her to an uncompleted building where he murdered her, and then moved to an unknown destination.

It was discovered that Precious and John have been at loggerheads over some issues. It got so bad that Precious even sent a voice note to a friend of hers in which she expressed fears that John might kill her for calling off their relationship.

She said;

”What I want to let you know is that it is not those two boys that are making me to do all these things. It has been long I have been telling John. John said I cannot tell him that I am tired of the relationship as he was the one who approached me and he is the one who can decide when it will end. I told him even if you force me to date you, hope you know you cannot force me to marry you. It is better we have a broken relationship now than a broken marriage.

I can’t please. I cannot die. If it happens that truly he harms me or kills because I refused to continue dating him, I know it shall never be well with him. My blood will always cry over his head.

I have made up my mind. If is that I will die in this relationship, a fly that fails to hear word is one that follows the corpse into the grave. Since I don’t listen anything John does to me I will bear it.”

Precious is said to have gone underground after calling off their relationship but was unfortunately found by John.

On May 1st, 2022, a disgruntled John decided to carry out his threat to ”end her” when he dragged her to an uncompleted building and killed her by using her scarf to strangle her. He then escaped to an unknown destination.

Following his arrest, John took the police to the uncompleted building where he dumped Precious’s lifeless body.

When interrogated, John who was found with the phones of the deceased, said he killed Precious in anger after she called off their 4-year relationship.

Precious’s body has been deposited in the morgue while the suspect is now in police custody and will be charged to court as soon as possible.

A People’s Democratic Party, PDP chairman in Edo state has been shot dead by yet-to-be identified gunmen.

Salemgists gathered that the deceased identified as Tunde igbinoba was PDP chairman in Ward 5 Oredo Local Government Area of the state.

It was learnt that he was shot dead by the gunmen who invaded the venue of the party’s primaries and started shooting sporadically.

The ugly incident took place today, May 23 during the party’s primaries in the state.

Nice one,any Chairman who wins an election on his own can no longer be a puppet to any Governor

Men of the Kaduna State Hisbah Board has secured the release of a teenage girl identified as Sadiya Musa, who was abducted by a man claiming to be her suitor in Rigasa area of the state.

The victim was declared missing on Thursday, May 19, 2022, when her mother sent her to buy ingredients to make henna at around 7-8pm.

The victim who is said to be between 13-16 years old was abducted by the suitor (name withheld) and locked her at undisclosed place.

A Hisbah personnel, Abu Tukur Batagaraws, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday said:

“Sadiya managed to escaped after spending a day at his captivity and was later found by Hisbah (SCSN) personnels who took her back to her family at Yan kifi Rigasa, Kaduna after investigation had been made about her whereabout.”

The Hisbah (SCSN) Commander incharge of U/Sanusi Kaduna metropolitan, Alasan Abdullah Abubakar, said efforts are being made to arrest the suspect.

“One of her family members (an elderly woman) disclosed that they couldn’t eat the whole day and have a sleepless night after Sadiya didn’t return home that day. The culprit is on the run but the security forces are taking their part towards bringing him to justice.”

Unknown to many, the insecurity in the southeast is not caused just by the Indigenous People of Biafra There appear to be other groups perpetrating unrest in the region according to a recent detailed report on the insecurity in the southeast Security experts say many southeast states are still paying the price as evidenced by the new level of strange and audacious criminality in the region.
A report by the New Telegraph newspaper has revealed that the unknown gunmen terrorising the southeast region are known as the Fallen Angels or Auto Pilot group. According to the report, the group is made up of dissidents in the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The report named Finland-based Simon Ekpa as the man behind the unknown gunmen terrorising the southeast. “In closed circles, they call them ‘the Fallen Angels’ and in more common parlance, they are known as ‘the Auto-Pilot group’. “The name ‘Fallen Angels’ came up in the course of investigations to figure out the real identity of the group defying the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu and undermining the command and control structure of IPOB while claiming to fight for the release of Kanu and emancipation of the Igbo nation.” The report noted that the Fallen Angels are largely made up of former members of IPOB – some expelled members, some disgruntled members, and others who could not endure the discipline (and sometimes, highhandedness) embodied in the command and control structure of IPOB. Also among this group are a few others co-opted into the dissident group from external groups and gangs whose interests are not defined. A source quoted in the report said: “Most of these men are largely loyal to themselves or whatever they find convenient.“It is the Fallen Angels and some other small splinter groups within the IPOB family that are fast being rolled into one violent body under the Auto-Pilot group. The Auto-Pilot group has a known leader in the person of Simon Ekpa. “While claiming that their loyalty is to Nnamdi Kanu alone and that their struggle is to free him from incarceration, the Auto-Pilot group has repeatedly defied and denounced the leadership of the Directorate of State, the highest governing body in IPOB set up by Nnamdi Kanu himself.”

A suspected gunrunner who specializes in supplying arms and ammunition to bandits terrorizing kaduna state have been arrested by security operatives.

The arrest was confirmed in a statement released by the spokespersson of the command, ASP Mohammed Jalige.

He said the suspect identified as Rilwanu Abdullahi was arrested by operatives attached to the Zaria command, acting on a tip-off.

According to him, an AK 47 rifle and 600 rounds of 7.62 X 39mm live concealed inside the fuel tank of Volkswagen with number plate AX 973 LGA as well as two vehicles used in conveying weapons to bandits were recovered from the suspects.

He said in a statement:

“On May 17, 2022, the operatives of the Kaduna Police Command attached to Zaria Area Command, acted on credible intelligence and succeeded in arresting one Rilwanu Abdullahi ‘M’ of Damari village, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area, Kaduna State, with an AK47 rifle with six hundred (600) rounds of 7.62 X 39mm live ammunition.”

“The aforementioned suspect was seen in a suspicious manner around Madachi area of Zaria city and on sighting the operatives, the suspect attempted to escape but was chased and apprehended. A search carried out on the Volkswagen vehicle with Reg. no KNC 816 XC led to the recovery of the said rifle

“Upon further interrogation, the suspect led detectives to another location where an additional Volkswagen car with Reg.No AX 973 LGA was recovered with the said number of live ammunitions carefully concealed inside the fuel tank aimed at evading the eagle eyes of security operatives.”