₦airaland Forum

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu state has ordered the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID) Enugu to thoroughly investigate the case of alleged conspiracy and murder of a newborn male child (infanticide), by the mother of the child, one Ada Joy Okonkwo aged 18, and her mother, one Christiana Okonkwo of about 60 years old, at Olocha-Adogba in Awgu community of Awgu L.G.A., on November 7.

A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, says preliminary investigation shows that the said mother of the newborn child used a kitchen knife to stab the child to death, following the counseling of her mother, moments after she was delivered of the baby at home.

Ndukwe said the child was taken to the hospital and confirmed dead by the doctors on duty, while the corpse was deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.

The police PRO mentioned that the state Commissioner of police has called on citizens of the community, particularly the women who carried out a peaceful demonstration to express their disgust over the act, to maintain peace, and avoid acts that could lead to the breakdown of law and order in the community.

A court in Pennsylvania, U.S. has sentenced a 24-year-old Syrian American, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, to 208 months — over 17 years — in federal prison over his support for the dreaded terror group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and plot to bomb a Nigerian church in Pittsburgh.

The US Department of Justice said Alowemer, who moved to the U.S. in 2016 as a refugee from Syria, pleaded guilty in the Western District of Pennsylvania on September 16, 2021, to one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS in connection with his plan to attack the Nigerian church in Pittsburgh identified as "Nigerian Christian Church".

The Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, Matthew G. Olsen, in a statement said that "Alowemer admitted to planning a deadly bombing of a Pittsburgh church in the name of ISIS".

He said, "The National Security Division was created to protect the nation from terrorist threats and we remain vigilant against those who would plot violent attacks on U.S. soil in furtherance of an extreme ideology."

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Cindy K. Chung said, "The defendant’s plan to bomb a Pittsburgh church and risk death or injury to residents in the area in the name of ISIS was thwarted by the extraordinary work of the Pittsburgh Joint Terrorism Task Force," noting that "Our office will continue to hold accountable individuals who threaten the safety of our communities.

Court documents showed that Alowemer plotted to bomb the Nigerian church located on the North side of Pittsburgh using an explosive device.

The US Justice Department in a statement said Alowemer’s motivation to conduct such an attack was to support the cause of ISIS and to inspire other ISIS supporters in the US to join together and commit similar acts in the name of ISIS.

Alowemer also targeted the church to "take revenge for our [ISIS] brothers in Nigeria."

The statement noted that in furtherance of the plot to bomb the church, Alowemer in May 2019 distributed multiple instructional documents related to the construction and use of explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to an individual he believed to be a fellow ISIS supporter, but who was, in fact, an FBI employee.

He distributed the documents with the intent that the information would be used in the assembly of a destructive device and in furtherance of conducting an attack in support of ISIS around June 2019.

He purchased several items including nails and acetone (nail polish remover), with the belief that they were necessary to assemble a destructive device and with the intention they would be used to construct the explosives that would be detonated in the vicinity of the church.

The statement further explained that between April 16 and June 11, Alowemer met four times in person with an FBI Undercover Employee (UCE) and/or an FBI Confidential Human Source (CHS).

"At the June 11 meeting with the UCE and CHS, Alowemer provided additional details about the bomb plot and provided the materials, including boxes of nails, he had purchased for construction of the device. Alowemer provided printed copies of detailed Google satellite maps, which included hand-written markings identifying the church and routes of arrival and escape.

"Alowemer also wrote and provided a 10-point handwritten plan outlining details related to his plot to personally deliver explosives in a backpack. Alowemer expressed a desire to meet one more time to conduct planning and coordination prior to carrying out the attempted bombing in July 2019. That meeting was later scheduled for June 19 in the Pittsburgh area, at which time Alowemer was arrested," the statement added.

Alowemer’s case was prosecuted on behalf of the government by Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Soo C. Song and Trial Attorneys of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section, Brenda Sue Thornton and S. Elisa Poteat.

Biggeststar01:
Aswear Yoruba people no get sense at all... tufiakwa...I never this kind senseless people in forever, go and research your own and get the truth from horse's mouth....as for me I don't have anything against tinubu, but the fact that he is tribalistic, that is why I cannot vote for him...how can you be conducting a campaign to be president of Nigeria that has over 444 languages and you are speaking only yoruba....plus the fact that all his speeches and manifestos seems to intruigue only the average Yoruba man who thinks all igbos are ipob....that fact is another reason why I cannot vote for him

Sammy5413:
All your generation is and will remain a Wasted Generation

StoneLucifer:
Abeg go and sit down, dullard..Your comment is irrelevant.

quentin06:
He ain't short.

israel90:
And biadra will be better than these shithole where cows are more valuable than human beings.A place where drug lords aspires to be president.A place where tout controls there transport system line.

Sammy5413:
Tribeless fool

OdefaGirl:
He's lucky it wasn't a death sentence.... Make una dey use una sense ooo

Sammy5413:
Mumu e no pain me, it just made me realize how stupid and foolish some people can be. Never imagined there are still people in this century that can't still reason properly. In other words I see you as a clown without proper home training and formal education

ChristineC:
typing from behind your wife's skirt.
nobody takes clownish statements seriously anymore.

ChristineC:
common chatap. same empty talk before the Lekki rally.
loud noise all day hiding behind your wife's skirt.

A Nigerian man identified as Chinedu Ogugua Bosah, has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for smuggling into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).


In March 2022, Chinedu Ogugua Bosah and Ameer Hussain were arrested in connection with the 1 kilo of cocaine seized during the White Wolf operation in Minarelikoy.


Chinedu was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
President Fad?l Aksun, who read the decision, on Wednesday said: "The legislator prescribes a prison sentence of up to 18 years for the most severe type of case in which the accused is convicted."

Aksun explained that the drugs imported by the accused are cocaine type and are among the dangerous drugs in Class A.
He said Chinedu was just a courier hence the lighter sentence.


Asun said: "The role of the accused before us is that of a courier. As a requirement of this role, the accused is the person who imports the drug subject to the lawsuit himself. Its role should be regarded as primary in terms of import crime.
When evaluating the issue in terms of the crime of saving, we see that the role of the accused is one degree less than those who will earn money from the sale of drugs, and we consider this issue in favor of it."

Aksun stated that the accused had been wandering around the country like a ghost for almost 7 years without any record.


"The adventure of the accused, which started as a university student in our country, ended in prison after he committed a crime, the accused who has not renewed his university registration since 2015, has not been identified.

"It is understood that the state authority is surprised about basic issues such as how the accused lives in our country, how he earns money, where he stays, and it is only detected by the police after he committed this crime."