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elantraceey:
Why?

PUNCH Metro learnt that 38-year-old Ekwekuba, an indigene of Imo State, attacked the victim with a stick before chasing him into the path of a speeding vehicle after he saw him (Wisdom) in his girlfriend’s house.

A 26-year-old man, Wisdom Okafor, has been killed after a scuffle with a car wash attendant, Monday Ekwekuba, in the Ojokoro area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that 38-year-old Ekwekuba, an indigene of Imo State, attacked the victim with a stick before chasing him into the path of a speeding vehicle after he saw him (Wisdom) in his girlfriend’s house.

Wisdom was reportedly crushed to death.

The incident happened on Clem Street in the Ijaiye Ojokoro area.

Our correspondent was told that Wisdom was a casual friend of Ekwekuba’s girlfriend, and was preparing for JAMB examination when he was killed.

The police from the Ojokoro division were said to have arrested the suspect, while the corpse of the deceased was taken to a mortuary in the area.

The victim’s elder brother, Celestine, told PUNCH Metro that the police had earlier arrested him accusing Wisdom of being involved in a fight.

He said, “On Sunday, March 22, around 10.30pm, the police came with a lady to my house and asked for my brother. They said he was involved in a fight and had injured a man named Monday (Ekwekuba), who had been hospitalised.

“I told them my brother went out to see a friend and had yet to return to the house. They said they would arrest me until I was able to produce my brother.

“I was detained and later they asked me to pay N10, 000 for Monday’s treatment, which I did.

“They then asked how I would produce my brother, and I decided to call him in their presence. His phone started ringing in the pocket of one of the policemen. The officer said the phone belonged to the man in the hospital, who had just died.”

Celestine said the police took him to the morgue where he identified the corpse of his brother.

He said that was when the suspect’s girlfriend opened up to the police that Wisdom had visited her on the day her boyfriend came, and accused her of dating him.

It was learnt that Ekwekuba began to quarrel with his girlfriend and was fighting with her when Wisdom intervened.

Celestine said, “The man then decided to go downstairs and wait for my brother. When my brother came down, he picked a stick and hit him on the head.

“As my brother ran, he pursued him into the mouth of a speeding vehicle and he was crushed to death.”

The suspect was said to have fled the area.

However, the police reportedly arrested his boss, who then produced him after some time.

Celestine appealed to the police to release his brother’s corpse, saying his job had been adversely affected by the incident.

“Our mother is late and our father is in the village in Enugu. He is sick, and I cannot inform him of the death of our brother because I don’t know what can happen to him. My job has been at a standstill and they should please release the corpse to us so I can go and bury him and move on,” he added.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the police wanted to obtain the autopsy report before releasing the corpse to the family.

The deceased’s younger brother, Daniel, while expressing his sadness urged the police to give the family justice.

He said, “It was after he mistakenly dialled her phone number and they spoke that she invited him to her apartment and that was how they met.

“He later saw her in a nylon company where he was working to raise money for his exams. She was also working there. She was older than my brother and there was no way they could be dating,” he added.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted, did not pick his call.

He had also yet to reply to a text message on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

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racist

Vickybee:
Cutoff his penis.

mirexxx:
lol aii

mirexxx:
something was about happening
the intention was made!

But the problem I have now is that our landlord has enlisted me and my flat-mate to monitor his wife and report back to him. He has promised to write off our outstanding rents if we come up with reports of his younger wife’s illicit affair with the tenant.

Dyt:
Orisirisi

elantraceey:
Maybe I don't.

elantraceey:
Like what?

stonecoldcafe:
Yeahhhhhhhh! I sabi am.

temitemi1:
GEJ my HERO! FAYOSE is my role MODEL!!

elantraceey:
of course, its an interesting game

elantraceey:
Na , haven't had anyone to play with .

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted on using the card reader for the April 11 gubernatorial elections, assuring Nigerians that the card readers would function properly

“I have seen pictures of underage voters, but unlike the case of the thumb printing where the polling units were mentioned, I find it difficult to place, to know the polling units where underage voters were allowed to vote.

elantraceey:
I played it up to ss3

flyca:
Wow. This game made me study the world map thoroughly to find names of new places. If I remember properly, when two people write the same place on the same alphabet, the full marks will be divided. So I was always digging the map to find hidden new places.
That reminds me of once, I wrote Nankai (a district in China) and my elder bro thought I wanted to write Nanka (a town in Anambra) so he could divide my score with my younger sister who wrote Nanka too. I proved them wrong by showing them the place on the map. Lol. Never did I dream I was going to live in Nankai district someday in life!

alterswerve:
So why can't she agree to divorce without going to court? Why can't she just leave him alone?

He told the court that Nkechinyere threatened to stab him with a knife in 2010 when he attempted to have sex with her

Dimples192:
It's all crazy but I'm still stuck on the fact that he admitted to forcing himself on her.

He said that he was ready for divorce because he was fed up with the sexual starvation.

Dimples192:
The children were conceived via rape

She don't wanna give it up, Yet she won't let him remarry

I dnt gerrit

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, lamented that except the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidates regain their mandates that was stolen by the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Igbo might have lost their chance of producing the next Senate President.

The Governor, who blamed Igbo leaders in the South-east zone for the unfortunate situation, regretted that their selfishness and lack of vision have kept Ndigbo in the backseat of the nation’s politics, despite their contributions to the overall development of the country.

Speaking while addressing South-east APC leaders and supporters at the Imo International Convention Centre, in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Okorocha said, “It is very painful for the Igbo to lose the position of the Senate President after been denied any leading position in the country for a long time because our political leaders and office holders used their position to rig out APC candidates in the election.

“We saw it coming and we told the political leaders why Ndigbo should embrace the APC but they could not believe us but today the story has changed and the PDP they have been following all these years with nothing to show for it is now an opposition party.”

The Governor however assured the APC supporters that the hope of Igbo man becoming the Senate President was not totally lost, as he vowed that the party would reclaim its mandates that were freely given to it by those who were desirous of change.

His words, “There was no election in the entire South-east on March 28. The PDP leaders with the aid of the military and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) intimidated and harassed our people and thereafter wrote the results in their homes but I assure you that all hope is not lost because we are going to recover our stolen mandate.”

Okorocha further accused security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of influencing the outcome of the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections results in favour of the PDP in the state.

While insisting that the APC won the March 28 presidential and National Assembly polls in the state, he categorically accused the military of intimidating the voters, stating that the people of the state are battle ready to confront the security agencies if the alleged harassment is repeated again.

The opposition Governor, however commended President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding victory to the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and advised him not to kowtow to the advice of some members of his party to contest the outcome of the elections in court.

Also speaking at the event, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, noted that the way politics is played will change considerably with the emergence of the APC in 2015.

Observing that for the first time in the history of Nigeria, power would be transferred from one political party to another, adding that “Nigeria is moving forward and the South-east must not be left behind.”

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Onu went on to emphasize that “for too long in the past, the people of the South-east put all their political eggs in one basket. They were taken for granted. The things that were of great importance to them were left undone. They gave their very best to the PDP but got little or nothing to show for it. The people of the Southeast should embrace the APC and make it the number one party in the zone.”

Residents of the Adekile, Orita Aperin area of Ibadan, Oyo State have razed a suspected kidnappers’ den in the area.

During the violence which started on Wednesday and continued on Thursday, a Divisional Police Officer and two civilians were killed.

The DPO, who was killed on Wednesday was said to be from the Agugu Police Division, while the two civilians, whose names could not be ascertained, were residents of the area.

When PUNCH Metro visited the area on Thursday, the suspected kidnappers’ den, which is an uncompleted building with an underground section, had been looted and razed by the mob.

Our correspondents observed that two structures beside the uncompleted structure were also burnt as youths alleged that the occupants of the buildings were accomplices.

Youths in the area picked up objects and tried to demolish the walls and gain entrance into the underground section of the suspected kidnappers’ den, claiming that there were “some skeletons in the place.”

Our correspondents had earlier observed a police van with officers on Orita Aperin Road, trying to restrict movement into the building, but to no avail.

A resident, Mr. Bayo Alani, told PUNCH Metro that the mayhem started at about 4pm on Wednesday when an elderly, suspected to be a kidnapper, abducted a girl in the area.

He said, “A woman in the neighbourhood, who was bathing for her child, had gone in to do something, only to return and not meet the child.

“When she raised the alarm, neighbours told her that they saw a man with the child going into an uncompleted building.

“When the residents saw the man, they asked him to produce the child, but he denied walking away with her.

“The people searched the building and found lots of strange things, including bags, cutlasses and knives.

“The building has remained uncompleted for about eight years now.

“That was how the confusion started. When the police arrived, they did not search the place, but started to chase the people away. In the process, one of them misfired, and two persons were killed.

“That was how the residents also attacked the policemen and hit the DPO with a hard object on the head.

“They never knew he was a police boss. He died later in the evening.”

Efforts by our correspondents to get the woman or see the abducted child were not successful as no one could offer information about their whereabouts.

Another resident, who gave her name simply as Fatimat, said the mayhem escalated because some hoodlums hijacked the search of the building by residents and insisted on burning it.

She said, “What I heard was that a little girl, who was missing for days, was seen with an old man.

“When people started asking questions, the owner of the house was said to have invited the police to stop the mob action.

“When the policemen arrived, they began to harass youths in the area. One of the policemen accidentally killed two persons. That was when the youths attacked the policemen.”

When our correspondents left the area around 2pm, the confusion was still on as more people arrived at the area to feed their curiousities.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Katsina, and his teams were scheduled to visit the area to assess the situation.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said the police had not discovered the place to be a kidnappers’ den, adding that the CP would give comprehensive details of the matter later.

He said, “No, Investigations have shown that it is not a kidnappers’ den. The CP will give us further details on the matter.”

On the death of a DPO of the command, the PPRO promised to get back to our correspondents, but had yet to do so as of press time.