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18-year-old Katsina student narrates his escape from bandits

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An 18-year-old student of Government Science School, Kankara, in Katsina State, Osama Aminu Maale, has narrated how he escaped from bandits who kidnapped hundreds of his colleagues last Friday.

About 520 students, he said, were abducted when the armed bandits invaded the school Friday night.

He told AFP on the telephone, “There were a total of 520 of us that were taken by the gunmen from the school.”

“After they took us away we stopped inside the bus where they made the older students take a headcount. We counted 520,” he said.

The hostages were split into groups before Maale and four others escaped.

“One of the gunmen hit me repeatedly when I failed to keep up with the rest of the group due to my failing health before he let me trail behind, giving me the chance to escape,” he added.

Although the Federal Government says it is making efforts to rescue the students abducted by armed men who raided their hostels, UNICEF condemned the assault on the school, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, who visited the school on Saturday, said soldiers were working to locate and free the hostages.

“Soldiers are currently in the bushes fighting the bandits. We will do all we can to ensure all the abducted children are reclaimed,” he said.

Masari said it was still not clear how many students were “in the hands of the bandits” and how many had managed to escape.

“The school has a population of 839 and so far, we are yet to account for 333 students,” Masari told an FG delegation on Sunday.

“We are still counting because more are still coming out of the forest,” said the governor.

“Up till this moment, no one can give a precise figure of the children abducted,” he stated, adding that students who escaped confirmed some of their peers were taken.

Since the attack, all secondary schools in the state have been shut.

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Police arrest sponsor of naked women protest in Anambra

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Commissioner of Police Anambra State, CP Aderemi Adeoye

Police arrest sponsor of naked women protest in Anambra

The Anambra State Police Command says it has arrested one Ozo Nweke, who allegedly sponsored a naked women protest in Awka.

Last week, men and women from Enugwu-Agidi in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, protested in Awka against incessant cult-related killings in their community. During the protest, they accused two police officers of aiding and abetting criminals in the area.

Some of the women stripped, exposing themselves from the waist upwards.

However, three days after, another group from the community, in a counter-protest round the police headquarters in Awka, accused Nweke, of land grabbing, intimidation, harassment, and rape.

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The state Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, told journalists on Monday, Nov. 27, that Nweke was arrested in Abuja.

He said, “We arrested him to face prosecution.  Nweke and operatives of his company have been charged to court in three different cases, one at the Federal High Court and two at the State High Court.

“He has two cases at the Federal High Court and one at the Magistrates’ Court. So, we arrested him to answer his charges.

“These are the background details to his current media campaign of blackmail against DCP Akin Fakorede and the State CID, Awka whom he is accusing of corruption ostensibly for not siding with his criminal escapades.”

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Army convoy rams into protesters in Nasarawa

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Army convoy rams into protesters in Nasarawa

A team of armed military personnel from Nigerian Army ‘4’ Special Forces Command Doma, in four Hilux vans, on Monday allegedly rammed into over 500 women during a peaceful protest in Lafia, Nasarawa State, leaving many wounded.

The incident happened at the stadium junction, where the protesters gathered to pray after their protest for the day.

The first Hilux van conveying the officers was said to be on high speed, before it ran into the protesters and crushed some of them.

Although no life was lost, the protesters were allegedly manhandled and beaten before being rushed to the hospital.

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Leader of the group, James Alu, said the protesters who were mainly widows and older women embarked on a peaceful protest when the incident occurred.

“We did nothing wrong by embarking on a peaceful protest over what we feel is a miscarriage of justice. Democracy allows protest. This protest will last for the next twenty days. We are peaceful and will remain peaceful,” Alu said.

One of the women allegedly beaten told The Guardian that she is a widow with four children with no job. She called on the army leadership to caution its men who carried out the act.

The spokesperson of the group, Mr. Kefas Tiga, also lamented the attack on women protesters, describing it as undemocratic. He called on the army authority to investigate and punish those who carried out the act.

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Man to die by hanging for killing neighbour in Ondo

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Man to die by hanging for killing neighbour in Ondo

Abayomi Joseph was sentenced to death by an Ondo State High Court in Akure, the state capital, for the murder of his neighbour.

Joseph was condemned after being found guilty of cutting to death his neighbor, Thomas Oluwole, with a machete in 2021 in Akure’s Ijoka district, following an allegation of well water poisoning leveled against the deceased’s daughter by the prisoner.

During the heated altercation, Joseph is reported to have assaulted the 63-year-old bricklayer with a machete and chopped at his neck and other portions of his body, killing him. Later, he was arrested by police and charged in court.

He was also arraigned in court on one count of murder, based on information filed by an Assistant Chief Legal Officer from the Ondo State Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Omotola Ologun.

During the proceedings, the convict was said to have claimed to be insane while committing the crime.

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After a series of arguments from both counsel from the prosecution and defence, the court found Joseph guilty.

While delivering the judgment, the trial judge, Justice O.S. Kuteyi, stated that since the defendant had deliberately attacked the deceased by hitting him with wood on his head and cutting his head with a cutlass, he could not be excused from the death he caused to the man by his actions.

While holding that the prosecution had proved the case of murder against the accused person beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Kuteyi sentenced him to death by hanging.

The court held, “His feeble attempt to raise insanity or insane delusion was only a ploy to cover the face of the court from seeing the truth of the killing of the deceased on the fateful morning of March 17, 2021.

“The evidence of the defendant that he ran to a mountaintop and saw a pastor who advised him to report his fears to the chairman of the street is a failed ploy to rely on insane delusion.”

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