A tragic incident has occurred in the Aji community of Enugu-Ezike, located in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State.
A woman, whose identity remains unknown, is alleged to have killed her younger sister using a cutlass.
Reports also indicate that she attempted to harm both her mother and her younger sister's child.
While the exact timing of the event remains unclear, eyewitnesses in a widely circulated video suggest that the suspect may have been under some form of influence.
Witnesses reported that the woman admitted to being possessed by an unusual entity. In a video shared on Facebook by Anyika TV, she stated, "I was possessed by a strange being; it was not me that did it."
The video captured the suspect's confession, showing her in a visibly distressed state. She asserted that her actions were beyond her control, claiming to have been driven by an unseen force.
"I don't know what came over me; I just saw myself with the cutlass and I started attacking them," she said.
The suspect's family is still trying to come to terms with the incident. Her mother and niece, who were also attacked, have been rushed to Bishop Shanahan Hospital in Nsukka, where they are currently battling for their lives.
"We are shocked and devastated by this incident; we don't know what could have led her to do such a thing," a family member said.
Attempts by SaharaReporters to reach the Enugu State Police Command were unsuccessful, as the Command's spokesperson, SP Daniel Ndukwe, was unavailable at the time of filing this report.
However, sources indicate that the police in Igbo-Eze North have launched an investigation to uncover the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident.
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago rose Thursday to 3,085 as search and rescue teams found more bodies, the military-led government said, and humanitarian aid groups scrambled to provide survivors medical care and shelter.
In a short statement, the military said another 4,715 people have been injured and 341 are missing.
The epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake was near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city. It brought down thousands of buildings, buckled roads and destroyed bridges in multiple regions.
Local media reports of casualties have been much higher than the official figures and with telecommunications widely out and many places difficult to reach, it’s thought the numbers could rise sharply as more details come in.
The World Health Organization said that according to its initial assessment, four hospitals and one health center had been completely destroyed while another 32 hospitals and 18 health centers had been partially damaged.
“With infrastructure compromised and patient numbers surging, access to health care has become nearly impossible in many of the worst-hit areas,” the U.N. said. “Thousands of people are in urgent need of trauma care, surgical interventions and treatment for disease outbreaks.”
A mobile hospital from India and a joint Russian-Belarusian hospital also were now operating in Mandalay.
Nigeria’s Net Foreign Exchange Reserve (NFER) has surged to $23.11 billion as of the end of 2024, reaching its highest level in over three years.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) attributed this increase to “strategic policy measures aimed at improving external liquidity, reducing short-term obligations, and restoring investor confidence.”
This means the increase in Nigeria’s Net Foreign Exchange Reserves (NFER) has helped improve the country’s ability to handle international financial transactions, reduced the amount of money it owes in the short term, and made investors more confident in the economy.
According to the CBN, the NFER represents a significant rise from $3.99 billion at the close of 2023, $8.19 billion in 2022, and $14.59 billion in 2021.
The NEFR adjusts gross reserves by accounting for near-term liabilities such as foreign exchange (FX) swaps and forward contracts, and it is considered a more precise measure of Nigeria’s ability to meet immediate external obligations.
In addition to the increase in net reserves, Nigeria’s gross external reserves also expanded to $40.19 billion by the end of 2024, compared to $33.22 billion recorded at the end of the previous year.
This development, the apex bank, said reflects a combination of strategic actions undertaken by the CBN, including a substantial reduction in short-term FX liabilities, particularly swaps and forward contracts.
The apex bank attributed the improved reserve position to policy interventions designed to stabilize the FX market, strengthen confidence, and enhance external liquidity. These measures, combined with rising foreign exchange inflows—particularly from non-oil sources—have contributed to a more robust reserve framework.
The CBN noted that these efforts have led to a stronger and more transparent reserve position, equipping Nigeria to better withstand external economic shocks. Despite the ongoing reduction in short-term liabilities, the overall reserve quality has continued to improve.
CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso stated that the surge in net reserves was the result of “deliberate policy actions aimed at rebuilding confidence, reducing economic vulnerabilities, and establishing a foundation for long-term stability.” He reiterated the bank’s commitment to sustaining these gains through transparent operations, fiscal discipline, and market-driven reforms.
The statement said reserves have continued to strengthen in 2025. “While first-quarter figures reflected seasonal and transitional adjustments, including significant interest payments on foreign-denominated debt, the underlying fundamentals remain stable” it read.
The CBN projects a continued increase in reserves throughout the second quarter, supported by improved oil production and a favorable export growth environment that is expected to strengthen non-oil foreign exchange earnings.
Looking ahead, the CBN said it “remains focused on prudent reserve management, transparent financial reporting, and macroeconomic policies that promote exchange rate stability, attract investment, and enhance long-term economic resilience.”
A devastating trail of destruction and displacement has been left in the wake of relentless attacks by assailants suspected to be herdsmen on farm settlements in Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, for years.
No fewer than 44 farm settlements, known as 'Ndiagu', have been overrun, with residents forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in neighbouring communities. The affected communities include Abor Ishala, Mgbuji, Agu-Amede, Eha-Agu, and Umuhu.
The latest and most populated farm settlement to come under attack by marauding herdsmen was Ndiagu Amofia village in Umuhu Eha-Amufu autonomous community on February 28. Residents were forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in neighbouring communities.
In Abor, no fewer than nine farm settlements were overrun by the militias, who sacked the residents and took over their homes with their families.
The affected settlements in Abor are Ogomungo, Ngele-Akpankpa, Okwum, Agerie, Ezegwu-Abor, Ashinu, Ovokpo, Mgbede-Abor, and Ngele-Acho. In Umujoovu village, four farm settlements were sacked: Mgbede, Edu, Nditsion, and Onuashinu.
In Agu-Amede autonomous community, nine farm settlements were overrun and taken over by the assailants. The settlements are Okpokwu, Uzamuado, Oduba-uzame, Onuchukwu, Efuakpa, Ogeriaba, Okpurugwu, Iyiasa, and Ikpakpara.
In the Eha-Agu autonomous community, three farm settlements were sacked, with residents completely displaced and denied access to their homes and palm plantations. The settlements are Odenigbo, Ashinu, and Isu.
In the Mgbuji autonomous community, 18 farm settlements were sacked, with residents seeking shelter in the Enugu metropolis and with family relations in other safe communities. The community settlements are completely occupied by marauding herdsmen.
The community settlements are completely occupied by marauding herdsmen are - "Okpokwu, Okpurugwu, Obodomba, Uloumuorgirie, Ugwuoka, Ngele-Aguiyi, Ogbete-Obibi, Ogbete-Umulo, Agerie, Unuanu, Obodo-Ede, Ukwuakwa, Unomgbede, Iyiasa, Onu-Ashinu, Ubi, Ezegwu, Omulo."
In Umuhu Eha-Amufu autonomous community, the last farm settlement sacked is "Ndiagu Amofia".
According to SaharaReporters' investigation, the attacks on the communities, which share boundaries with communities in Benue State, started in 2002. However, the vicious attacks and land-grabbing intensified in 2020 during President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.
Chief Obeagu Odoh, a kinsman of the Chairman of Isi-Uzu LGA, told SaharaReporters that the residents were sacked from their homes and have not been resettled.
"Some are living in Enugu, some hired houses in the camp, while some are squatting with relations.
"All the farm settlements in our community, nobody goes there. If you dare, it is either you are killed or kidnapped for ransom or you escape with injuries," another resident, Chigbo Okibe, told SaharaReporters.
He observed that December 2024 marked the first time Christmas had been celebrated in Eha-Ohala since 2021.
"Getting to a year now, three people from Abor who went to harvest their crops at the farm settlements have not been found," he revealed, adding that the matter was promptly reported to the Enugu State Police Command. "Yet as we speak, nobody has been has been held accountable. The herdsmen are currently occupying abandoned homes, and the security agencies are not doing anything to return the people to their homes."
Regarding government intervention, he said, "There's none." For our own side of Abor and Umujoovu, I have not seen any government intervention. The interventions we have received so far were primarily during the Mgbuji crisis when it was at its peak. At the end of the day, the government came and started building roads leading to some of their settlements.”
"There was a time the government sited Army barracks in the same Mgbuji when they deployed soldiers to Ogbete Mgbuji, but unfortunately, the soldiers have been withdrawn. Again, from that location to Abor is very far away," Okibe narrated.
According to him, there's no presence of government in the Eha-Ohala autonomous community, which comprises - Abor and Umujoovu.
If you follow that vast portion of land, you will arrive in Benue State. So we only have a boundary with Benue State. I don't know the reason why the Fulani people have refused to go. Instead of leaving that area, they invite more people to come," he said.
Lamenting the development, a woman leader, Mrs Chinyere Odoebe, said that none of the affected communities knew what to do again.
She said, “These are the challenges we have been facing all this while because none of our communities know what to do again. We are not equipped with such weapons they're carrying, so how can we combat people with AK-47 rifles? It is only the hunters and local vigilantes that are securing the community. What they have are Dane guns. And when the security agencies see you with Dane guns, you are accused of carrying weapons, but when Fulani herdsmen attack, you will not see them."
Showing SaharaReporters some houses lying desolate that occupants and their family members had been killed, Mrs Odoebe lamented: "The security agents only surface to carry corpses after attacks.”
"The dangerous thing is that the Fulani people are planning to come and take over the entire Eha-Amufu especially - Agu-made, Eha-Ohala comprising Abor Ishala and Mgbuji autonomous communities, Eha-Agu and some parts of Umuhu autonomous communities," she said, adding that the implications will be dire. "As I am talking to you now, Abor people are on the run, and Umujoovu have started running their own too; likewise, Mgbuji, the entire Eha-Amufu is gone.”
Unfortunately, she said, because of politics, some people go to the media to report that nothing is happening.
"But that is not the truth. It is not only because of fear. If you watched what happened in Nkalaha Community in Ebonyi State, which is our neighbouring community, that incident aggravated our people's fear because they wouldn't know when they would come," she explained.
Mrs. Angela Ogenyi informed SaharaReporters that the death toll exceeded 180 before the recent killings. She highlighted the persistent danger, noting that individuals are still being killed or injured while working on their farms, even when it seems that peace has been restored.
She said, "Last time we went to the State CID and reported that two of our people were missing, and up till now, they have not returned. We have pictures of all these things, but in the end, some people will say that nothing is happening. That everywhere is calm.
“I don't know whether they're deceiving themselves or they're deceiving the government so that government will not come and to help. Those who are supposed to be reporting what is going on are the ones saying that nothing is happening. Now, you did not place anything on the ground, then you are telling people to return.
"When they brought police to the community, the operatives refused to go to the places where the invaders have sacked the people from their homes in the settlements. The school in Ogbete where I schooled, which former Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi through Chijioke Edeoga reconstructed, these Fulani marauders still came and burned it.
“That school is where Mgbuji people from farm settlements, Abor people from farm settlements, and Umujoovu people from farm settlements come to school.
"Fulani herdsmen have sacked everybody in those places, yet they still pursued us to Ndiuno Eha-Amufu homes. Hunger is killing people. Before, it was easy; you would be in the town, and your parents were at home farming, and you would be sending them some money to support them, but now they are not doing anything, you have to cater for their needs - you send money for food and everything and the worst thing is that they don't allow them to even stay in their place.
"Then where do they run to? Every time, they claim that their cows were killed, but when you cultivate crops, they will come and destroy everything. If you cultivate cassava, they will come, uproot and drop for their cows to feed on; the same thing happens if you cultivate yam.
“If it is rice you cultivate, that one is rice and salad for them. There is trouble. It is a serious issue on our side!"
Chibuzo Olinya, one of the affected residents in the farm settlements, revealed how herdsmen have systematically dismantled and occupied their area.
Olinya said, " The Fulani herdsmen have either burned down all the houses in those areas or removed their roofing sheets. They stripped the roof off the Catholic Church in those settlements, as well as the roofs of the primary schools and most of the houses in the area.
"They are living in some of the houses that they didn't destroy. So their strategy is to ensure that the person didn't come back. Some of our people who gathered the courage to go there saw Fulani women already occupying their homes, and when they told them that the houses belonged to them, those women ran and alerted their men. In seconds, they surrounded those our people with AK-47 rifles when we thought that peace had returned.
“It is the Fulani herdsmen that are pursuing people; there's no other thing. I don't know whether it is a planned deal with the Benue people because I don't know the reason for all these things because we don't have boundaries with Fulani people; only the Benue people have boundaries.
"I don't know the reason Fulani people will be coming to kill our people. When we were young, Fulani herdsmen came to graze in our place, but those ones were peaceful, and they didn't destroy people's things. If they met you where you were farming, they would ask for water, and if you had, you give them. But I don’t know where this crop of Fulani herders came from?"
Attempts by SaharaReporters to obtain a response from the Enugu State Police Command regarding the reported sacking of farm settlements in Eha-Amufu by marauding herdsmen were unsuccessful. The Command's spokesperson, SP Daniel Ndukwe, neither answered calls nor responded to a text message seeking his comment.
Similarly, the state government remained silent on the incident, as efforts to reach Governor Peter Mbah were unsuccessful, with his media office declining to comment.
aviara: Vile words or opposition against a person's political aspirations because he is not an indigene won't stand so long the constitution gives such non indigene the right to contest for any position. Just like Rhodes Vivour was insulted and demonised because his mother is non indigene is a shameless act that divides us than unite us.
Stop trying to gaslight. GRV was demonized becuase he insulted Yorubas and used tribal slurs on the people he wanted to govern. Gov Adeleke's mother is Igbo and he wasn't demonized.
iLoveYouToo: In America you only need a green card, no one cares about the rest, likewise the other two countries you quoted, just have a local passport.
Their are reservations in America. In reservations, you pay less tax. Aboriginal Americans aka Red Indians also get access to more bursary than a regular white American settler.
In fact, in American reservations, aboriginals do not pay state tax on income.
flokii: No.. that can't work in a multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria. It could lead to Rwanda kind of blo0dshed cum ethnic cleansing.
Read the article again, you'd see why such must never be allowed.. there are some cultural practices that strangers can't go near e.g. oro etc..
We can see through their shenanigans. It's all in the bid for them to have access to contest Governorship in States like Lagos while they lock their own region and prevent others from getting political offices in the zone.. a Hausa-Fulani man once contested for ward councilor in one of the SE States, you need to see the insults and vile words they used on the Hausa man, yet same people are in Lagos, Abuja, Katsina etc. contesting elections and dragging elective offices with indigenes.
The current constitution actually allows them. That's why you can see an Attah winning election in Eti Osa or Igbos contesting for election in Ibadan or Akure. However, it's up to the locals to vote for them.
aviara: The bill has good intentions and should be modified to give resident rights to contest for political positions in the state so long they have maintained a good record and have contributed to the development of the state
The likes of Barrack Obama, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak etc rose to high political positions and contributed their quota to development despite being settlers or children of settlers.
However, these rights shouldn't extend to traditional positions.
The current constitution allows them to contest. But aboriginals know themselves; hence, politics is local.
If you come to my LGA in Ifako ijaiye, Lagos, we can even trace our origin to either Yewa or Egba. A Lagos Islander can contest in Ifako Ijaiye, but we won't vote for him and that's our choice.
aviara: The bill is good and should give people who have resided in a state for 10 years the right to contest any political positions in the state. After all, such a resident have been paying taxes to the state and contributing to the development of the state.
The current constitution allows them to contest. But aboriginals know themselves; hence, politics is local.
If you come to my LGA in Ifako ijaiye, Lagos, we can even trace our origin to either Yewa or Egba. A Lagos Islander can contest in Ifako Ijaiye, but we won't vote for him and that's our choice.
Ojemedad: These are the same Yoruba that are litered all over UK seeking for residence permit and citizenship, even to the extend of becoming an elected member
iLoveYouToo: Same people will live in Europe and Americas and seek naturalization. We’re the dark continent for a reason.
Sometimes I wonder what this our foolishness really helped us to achieve
being: Exactly people would go to america and want to become a citizen by residency or marriage
Citizenship is different from indigeneity. If you like, live in America or Europe for 200 years, you can never become an indigene.
Two Canadian prime minister below. They are citizens by settlement but are not indigenous to Canada.
Then we have to decide if we wanna have democracy or ethnocracy, I am totally in support of Ethnocracy based on Meritocracy, since democracy has been a very nepotistic experiment that has no hope of being useful in a multi-ethnic setting.
I think Democracy is for immigrant populated states like America and Canada.
The way minority aboriginal Americans and Canadians were slaughtered and almost wiped off by majority white settlers from Europe is a good example why this bill is foolish. It will consume lands of the minorities.
Anatolia: If this bill, does not fly through, we deserve to go out separate ways. We should stop deceiving ourselves that we are one Nigeria. If people from other parts of Nigeria can benefit from the wealth of the South South, I don’t see why citizenship should not fly.
No South south person or any minority tribe from the middle belt or even the north, would support this bill. Only the Fulanis and of course some naive Igbos would love this bill.
SE politicians do not think at all. That was how they started the unitary system via Ironsi thinking it would favour them, till the Northerners hijacked it, fine-tuned it, and used it as a weapon.
Same is going to happen with this as well. Fulanis would love this bill very much, and as expected, they have the SE (Igbos) to do the dirty leg work.
Bluntemperor: Dictator don't like to die alone. He is Power intoxicated but the Americans will Checkmate him! He has 4 yrs, starting from 2024,then, he hand over to someone else - which will not likely to be a Republican and that will seal his Chances. Let's hope he is joking 😃
That's how Canada and Denmark thought he was joking.
ValarDoharis: What happened in 2023 elections in Lagos? Some Yorubas wanted to stop Igbos from voting, the stopped everybody thats not Yoruba and even Yorubas that looks like Igbos were also stopped
And there videos all over twitter on hiw ibis were shooting and killing people not voting peter obi in the SE.
Politics › Enugu: Woman Kills Sister With Cutlass, Leaves Mother, Niece Fighting For Lives by Slytiger(op): 2:58pm On Apr 03, 2025
?.....she has not seen that on him before, so she was surprised seeing it...