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The family of Abubakar Yaqub, Chief Imam of the Kuchibuyi community in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has been plunged into mourning following the alleged fatal shooting of his son, Attahiru Abubakar, by police officers during a land dispute on Saturday. According to findings by PUNCH Metro , Attahiru reportedly died on the spot after being struck by a police bullet. His elder brother, Abass Abubakar, sustained gunshot wounds and is currently receiving treatment in a hospital. Their father, the Chief Imam himself, was also allegedly shot during the chaos. FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, issued a statement on Saturday claiming that officers were deployed in response to civil unrest related to a land conflict in Kuchibuyi, under the Byazin Division. Her statement read: “The FCT Police Command received a distress call regarding a civil unrest incident stemming from a land dispute in the Kuchibuyi community. The Divisional Police Officers of Bya...

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M any soldiers have been killed while others are missing following an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on a Nigerian Army's convoy in Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State, local sources said. The incident happened Wednesday on the highway between Gubio and Magumeri at 4:15 pm.

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A 42-year-old man, identified as Edidiong Joseph Effiong was, on Wednesday, murdered in cold blood over a lingering land dispute between two families in Ibiaku Itam in Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State.   DAILY POST gathered that the deceased was severally cut around his neck region by his suspected assailant, Ambrose Bassey Jeremiah, before he gave up the ghost. According to the father of the deceased, Chief Joseph Effiong, who is also the family head of the greater Ikamaenyin family of Ikot Efaha Itong community, “The land belonged to my late father since the 30’s and when I grew up I inherited the land at his death. Part of the land is where I am building this house and shops here as you can see. “But along the line, precisely in 2010, this boy of over 35 years old started laying claim to the land, saying someone in the community showed him the plot as belonging to them. “The matter has been in court since 2010 and the case was to be decided on August 8, when...

A notorious criminal and serial killer, Umar Yakubu, has been sentenced to death by a Kano State High Court.    The High Court found Umar Yakubu, alias Baban Mage of Tukuntawa quarters guilty in the case of culpable homicide and adjudicated death sentence on him. The Kano High Court Presiding Judge, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, sentenced Baban Mage to death by hanging for killing one Ibrahim Adamu with a pair of scissors. The prosecution counsel, Lamido Soron Dinki told the court that Baban Mage fatally stabbed Ibrahim Adamu on June 29, 2018. Mr Soron Dinki presented six witnesses before the court while the accused Baban Mage said he was not guilty in the case. The accused Person, however, did not say whether he will appeal the judgment or not as he shunned the media after he was sentenced.

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has come under attack over its call on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the airing of Big Brother Naija reality TV show.     MURIC had, in a statement sent to DAILY POST, attacked the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the BBNaija show to go on. The Islamic group labelled the show being aired on national television as immoral, dangerous and Bohemian. However, Nigerians on social media have opposed MURIC’s call for the banning of the reality show, arguing that the show is rated 18. Here are some reactions gathered by DAILY POST from Twitter:

Ex-BBA housemate, Akintayo Faniran has blasted South African musician, Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, alias AKA, over his comments on Bafana Bafana defeat at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final match played on Wednesday.     DAILYPOST recalls that AKA reacted to Nigeria’s 2-1 victory over Bafana Bafana AKA, who was angry over the outcome, took to his Twitter account to express sadness over South Africa’s defeat to the three-time African champion, asking why his country always lost against Nigeria at everything.

T he family of a four-year-old girl, Aisha Taiwo, has become distraught after she went missing during the monthly thanksgiving service at the national headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Ebute Meta, Lagos. PUNCH Metro gathered that Aisha and her nine-year-old brother, Malik, accompanied their 60-year-old blind grandma to the church. According to Aisha’s uncle, Abdulwasiu Esuola, the church had a combined thanksgiving service in the main auditorium.

O peratives of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office, have arrested seventeen suspected internet fraudsters at their hotel hideout in Warri, Delta State. A statement by EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, said they were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation. The suspects are: Jolomi Jemide; Suo Ajorbuku; Wilson Chukwuma; Faith Umukoro; Felix Fimber; Isaac Boro; Emmanuel Etanoma; Aghogho Ovuakporaye; Tokoma Mbabov; Tom Wisdom; Elvis Imannivwie; Chinedu Chukwu; Okojikoko Presley; Nyore Arkoro; Godwin Etanoma; Morris Victor and Elvis Okorare. Their arrest followed series of intelligence report linking them with alleged fraudulent activities ranging from love scam on numerous dating sites, obtaining money by false pretences and other fraud still being investigated.

In a statement by Mr. Sam Adurogboye, spokesperson for the NCAA, the helicopter with registration number 5N – BVQ and aircraft type AW139, is owned by Tropical Arctic Logistics Ltd. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has identified the owner of the helicopter that landed on the Benin-Ore road to pick somebody.

A 55-year-old father, Eze Chukwuma, was on Monday arraigned before the Lagos State Special Offences Court for allegedly molesting his two daughters. He was arraigned on two counts bordering on defilement contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law CH. C17. Vol 3, Law of Lagos of State, 2015.   It was gathered that the father molested his daughters, aged 16 and 17, between 2008 and 2017, at No 2 Agbeke Close, Iyana-Era, Coker bus stop, Ijanikin, Lagos.

A Gudu Grade I Area Court in Abuja has ordered a divorce-seeking housewife, Amina Abdulsalam to pay her estranged husband, Sani Abdulraman, N20,000 as a condition for divorce. The petitioner, who filed a case against Abdulrahman, told the court that she could no longer tolerate her husband of 13 years and wished to divorce him.

   The Court of Appeal Abuja division on Monday ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to respond within five days to the appeal filed against his qualification for the 2019 presidential election. The court also ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to within five respond to all issues raised on the educational qualification of the president in the election. Justice Datti Yayaya who issued the order, also directed that Buhari’s counsel, Mr Abdullahi Abubakar, to within the period file necessary processes in relation to the appeal. The appeal was filed by Agu Kalu, Labaran Ismail and Hassy El-Kuris.

Seven Chadian soldiers and a local guard were killed in a Boko Haram jihadist ambush in Lake Chad, the latest in a surge of attacks in the region, security sources said on Sunday. Boko Haram militants have been waging a decade-long insurgency in northwest Nigeria, but the conflict has spilt into Lake Chad where Nigeria borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Security sources said the seven Chadian soldiers and the guard were killed in an ambush on Friday in Mbomouga in Chad’s Ngouboua area, and another 13 people were wounded.   “The Boko Haram forces lost six of their people and left behind two weapons,” one security source said.

Some of the politicians Ijogbon had allegedly worked for include Governor Yahaya Bello; Ibrahim Idris, ex-Governor of Kogi State; Ahmed Ogembe, a former senator from Kogi State, Mohammed (Ogembele) former Okene Local Government Area chairma Abdulkareem Abubakar, a suspected murderer and big-time thug widely known as  Ijogbon  (trouble) was part of those engaged to facilitate the victory of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections in the country. Ijogbon , 39, who described himself as a “political thug”, was part of the youths paid by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State to do the dirty works of politics and help silence the opposition in the state.

The deceased was said to have been taken to the cleric, who reportedly has more than 10 wives for spiritual deliverance by her mother.     Lagos State Police have reportedly arrested a 72-year-old prophet of Celestial Church of Christ, Jacob Adegboyega for allegedly killing a female university drop out he impregnated. According to TheNation, the deceased, identified as Bunmi died during childbirth and the prophet reportedly buried her in the church premises without informing her parents. Following her rustication at Babcock University in Ilisan Remo, Ogun State in 2014, when she was in 200L, Bunmi was said to have been taken by her father to live with her mother. The deceased’s mother Derayo Omisipi, thereafter took her to Prophet Jacob for spiritual deliverance and protection, TheNation reports.   

If the ministerial list is not ready before the National Assembly goes on recess in July, Nigerians may have to wait till end of September to know Buhari's ministers.   Almost a month after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in for second term, he hasn’t sent his ministerial to the Senate, but there are indications that the list would be ready by July. According to Punch, the ministerial list may soon be ready and the president would send it to the Senate in July for consideration and confirmation.

Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), the Ponzi scheme which dashed the hope of over three million Nigerians in 2017, is back but not with a bang. This time dubbed MMM Cooperation , the scheme promises as much as 50 percent return on any amount invested in it — 20 percent more than what the extinct version offered. Just like the previous version, participants are to register, invest a particular amount in the form of “providing help” and “get help” with their investment and interest back after 30 days. And some Nigerians are falling for it yet again!

It said anyone suspected to be showing symptoms of the haemorrhagic fever should be immediately tested in line with the global practice on disease emergency control and prevention. Amidst fears of a possible Ebola virus outbreak in Nigeria, the federal government has charged all Port Health Service officials and health agencies to tighten their screening of people coming into the country.