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Dallas, Texas: Nigerian car dealer, William Dikeocha, found murdered
By PAM HARRIS

obbery may have been the motive to the weekend killing of a car salesman found inside his place of business over the weekend.


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Pleasant Grove business owner William Dikeocha was found murdered early Sunday morning.
PHOTO: Texas Dept. of Public Safety




William Dikeocha moved to North Texas 15 years ago from Nigeria. He owned the Winds Group Auto Sales car dealership in Pleasant Grove and was also an accountant during tax season.

"It's very devastating to all of us," one friend said.

Monday family and friends gathered to mourn the loss of the devoted husband, father, and friend.

"He's a family man," his cousin Ben Ndukwa explained. "He comes back in time to be with the five kids. He has five kids, four girls and one boy, the oldest is just 12."

But the 45-year-old's life was cut short this past weekend. His body was found inside the car dealership he owned in Pleasant Grove.

Police were called by a babysitter after Dikeocha didn't pick up one of his children. That's when they discovered his body Sunday Morning.

Police say Dikeocha had been tied up in a bloody bathroom and there was broken furniture and glass throughout the business.

The murder has Dikeochas' family and friends wondering who could be responsible for killing someone who was well known and well liked in the Nigerian community.

"I have never heard him say that somebody's upset with him," family friend Joe Opurum said. "So, that's why it is very hard and difficult for us to understand what went wrong."

Officials at the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office say Dikeocha was smothered to death.

A 2002 Jaguar, owned by Dikeocha, was stolen the night he was murdered. Police recovered it less than a mile away from his business Sunday night.

Anyone with information about the murder is asked to contact Dallas police detectives at (214) 671-3661.

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Housemaid found hanging on a pole

By Kunle Adeyemi

Policemen in Lagos said on Monday that they were trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of a housemaid.




The teenage maid, identified simply as Promise, was living with one Unegbu Apollus of 138B, Association Avenue, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi, where the incident happened.

Although the girl was said to have hanged herself, the police said investigation would reveal what actually went wrong.

It was learnt that the dangling body of the maid was found at about 7.30pm on Sunday where she allegedly hanged herself to a pole in the compound.

When the incident was brought to the attention of Apollus, a report was lodged with the police at the Ikoyi Police Station from where the case was referred to the state Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.

Some policemen visited the scene and after asking preliminary questions from the residents, the body was removed and taken to a public mortuary.

An investigation by our correspondent showed that the maid did not leave any suicide note before the alleged act.

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Frank Mba, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on Monday.

Mba said the police had invited Apollus for interrogation and were still investigating the case.

According to him, in their determination to get to the root of the matter, the police might invite other neighbours in Apollus' compound for interrogation.

He said, "This is a very serious case. What we were told was that the maid committed suicide, and indeed, our men found her hanging."

"But we need to establish certain facts about the girl in question before we come to a conclusion.

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Why Dele Giwa's killers were not found - IBB
By Daniel Kanu and Olisemeka Obeche, Lagos

The murder of Dele Giwa, former Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, will for ever remain a riddle, going by the word of former military President, Ibrahim Babangida, who acknowledged that people have accused him of snuffing out the life of the muck-raking journalist on October 19, 1986.






Babangida bared his mind on Monday on Africa Independent Television (AIT) programme, Focus Nigeria, where he also explained why he did not appear before the Oputa Panel.

He spoke on other matters too, including the power sector, his take on President Umaru Yar'Ardua, his own Presidential ambition, and the need to immortalise Moshood Abiola, the man whose Presidential election he annulled in 1993.

Babangida said he shunned the Oputa Panel because he felt he would not get justice.

"Remember I was accused of killing Dele Giwa. My voice would have been drowned. I feel really pained that the cold hands of death snatched him, a man that I know, a man I interacted with and one I have always respected.

"The killers of Dele Giwa were not found because Nigerians had already made up their minds on who the killers were, and they were not ready to come out and give evidence.

"It was that initial suspicion by Nigerians of the government's involvement in the killing that made it difficult for the security operatives to go after the killers. Nigerians did not co-operate with the government, that is why it has proved difficult to apprehend the killers of Dele Giwa," he stressed.

"You (the press) and the people were not interested in what happened. Honestly, at that time I did not think I would get the true justice if I had appeared there. And because I didn't want to be seen as recalcitrant former President, I went to court to help me make a decision. I went to the Supreme Court and they said I was right.

"You want the country to benefit from the participants, the principal actors, but people were not interested in that. A lot of lives have been murdered and there was so much hysteria."

Babangida said he would support any effort to immortalise Abiola, whom he saw "as a brother, friend; not as a politician, but as someone who was passionate. Before he went into politics, he used his wealth for the betterment of the downtrodden masses.

"Whatever he got he tried to share with the less privileged. So there was a lot going for him - his community development efforts and establishment of training institutions, educational institutions, fighting for Nigeria and fighting for the black people in the Diaspora. I think he deserved to be immortalised."

Babangida noted that the huge sums invested in the power sector should have gone a long way, "and maybe we would have gotten there by now. There has to be a lot of planning. Quite frankly, we should go nuclear."

He said he supported former President Olusegun Obasanjo because "we needed somebody who believes passionately in the concept of one Nigeria.

"He believes in it, nothing will deter him, and we needed somebody who will continue to work despite assault, pressure by the press - and if you put them on the scale - he was better qualified."

Babangida explained that Yar'Adua is not slow because he needs to study problems.

"People should give him enough time to study, analyse the situation and come out with his plans."

He declared his readiness to disclose how his government spent the $12.4 billion oil windfall that accrued to Nigeria during the 1991 Gulf war.

"I can give you documentary evidence of how we spent the money and you can verify it. We kept records of what accrued to us in the Federation Account and how we spent it, not only for the oil windfall but from August 1985 to September 1992. We kept our records because I know that such a thing will happen and I was prepared to defend myself at any time."

Babangida ruled from August 1985 to August 1993.

Human rights lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, had in 1992 sued him and senior members of his administration over the Gulf war oil wind fall, much of which was alleged to have been stolen.

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Some of the stories posted above never happened.

afp?

inquisitiv:
someone alert CNN and BBC on this fast

even when he is guilty as charged?