Three Boko Haram terrorists were killed in an ambush near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, by hunters assigned to Operation Hadin Kai.
According to reports, on Monday night, the hunters apprehended insurgents on a looting mission in Wanori village in Borno State’s Konduga Local Government Area.
The hunters ambushed the terrorists, killing two instantly while others escaped with bullet wounds, according to a hunter who requested anonymity.
According to the source, after pursuing the wounded terrorists down their escape route, it was discovered that one more had died as a result of his life-threatening injuries.
“We also recovered 11 wheelbarrows used by the terrorists in looting food,” the source added.
Two people were killed early Tuesday near Slaab and Amolasho, according to a security source.
As rival cult groups ‘overran’ the State capital on Tuesday morning, one person was killed in front of a filling station in the Ijaye area of the metropolis.
The bodies have been removed and deposited in the mortuary, according to the source.
The Ogun State police command sent its men to the affected areas in an attempt to restore normalcy, but the cultists allegedly engaged the police in a gun battle.
Residents and motorists took cover as the incident halted commercial activity around Ijaye and Iyana Mortuary.
Six men belonging to the Eiye and Aiye confraternities have been arrested in Abeokuta, according to the Ogun State police spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
Kazeem Ogundairo (a.k.a. NEPA), Ayo Joshua (a.k.a. Terry G), Nasiru Idris (a.k.a. Aloma), Bisiriyu Ibrahim Owoyele, Damilare Shogbamu (a.k.a. Dhray), and Labulo Jamiu were the suspects, according to Oyeyemi (a.k.a Jay boy).
Residents of Ijaye contacted the police to report “cultists running riot in the area,” he said, and they were arrested.
According to him, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, dispatched a special squad led by ACP Bolanle Muritala to the scene in order to bring the situation under control.
Senatorial primary election for the Ife East (Ife-Ijesa) Senatorial District has been postponed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to a party source, the primaries were postponed due to a bitter feud between Senator Francis Adenigba Fadahunsi’s and Gbenga Onigbogi’s camps in the party’s Ife East Senatorial District.
The incumbent Senator, Fadahunsi, was reportedly coasting to victory at the Ile-Ife venue of the senatorial primary election when trouble broke out.
“Trouble began when former Osun State PDP caretaker Chairman, Hon Sunday Bisi, and Diran Odeyemi, accompanied by Onigbogi, entered the election grounds.” To scare the delegates away, the thugs in their entourage began firing gun shots.
“Onigbogi unexpectedly entered the hall, sensing his electoral defeat and claiming that the gunshot from his entourage had scared away all of his delegates.”
They also claimed that the electoral officer declared the election indefinitely postponed due to the chaotic scenes at the primary election site.
According to the source, Sunday Bisi, who made several calls in front of all the contestants, ordered the postponement.
“Moreover, the three candidates, Senator Francis Adenigba Fadahunsi, Prince Mayowa Aluko, and Chief Gbenga Onigbogi, as well as security agents, INEC officers, and party leaders, met briefly before the postponement, with Senator Francis and Prince Mayowa Aluko agreeing that the election should go on.”
“Hon Gbenga Onigbogi and Sunday Bisi were adamant about the delay.”
“To our dismay, the electoral umpire adjourned the election indefinitely for no apparent reason,” the source said.
Senator Fadahunsi and his supporters, according to a source in Onigbogi’s camp, were responsible for the violence.
Senator Fadahunsi was urged to remain calm and submit to the party’s democratic principles.
“Fadahunsi should realise that the new laws governing the conduct of party primaries are unlike anything he’s ever seen before. The delegates are difficult to push through the gun and machete barrels.
“As it is, the good people of Osun East, particularly the party’s delegates, have decided to embrace Hon Gbenga Onigbogi as their face this time around at the 10th Assembly,” he claimed.
The Osun State Police Command also confirmed that its officers recovered dangerous weapons from some political thugs on Monday at the Ile-Ife venue of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Osun East Senatorial primaries (PDP).
The weapons, which included a gun, axes, and other items, were recovered, according to Yemisi Opalola, a police public relations officer.
“One of the senior police officers on the scene noticed a man chasing another partygoer with dangerous weapons, so he chased him down and recovered a bag he was carrying.”
“A gun, axes, and other dangerous weapons” were discovered inside the bag, according to Opalola.
During the violence, Mr Martins, the Divisional Police Officer, A Division, Ilesa, was also assaulted.
On Wednesday, hoodlums and sporadic gunshots from police operatives put an end to an ongoing protest by disgruntled members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, alleging denial of participation in a phoney screening exercise for State House of Assembly aspirants.
Members of the placard, mostly supporters of Senator Magnus Abe, accused Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the former Minister of Transportation and Presidential aspirant, of attempting to sway the screening process for his preferred candidates.
The peaceful protest began around 9 a.m. at the party’s state security headquarters on Woji Road in GRA, Port Harcourt, when aggrieved members demanded that the gate to the secretariat halls be opened and a gunshot was fired from within the premises.
Even though security operatives were present to ensure the peaceful conduct of the protest, aggrieved party members could not help but throw stones at the premises to express their displeasure with the gunshots fired by undisclosed security personnel from the party premises.
Following the tumultuous situation that senior police officers were attempting to calm and maintain a peaceful environment, hoodlums suspected of being cultists descended on the scene and began attacking anyone seen in front of the secretariat.
The hoodlums’ actions drew the reinforcement of more tactical security operatives, and there were sporadic gunshots, which caused journalists covering the protest, as well as aggrieved members of the party, including suspected cultists, to flee for their lives.
As of the time of filing this report, the hoodlums injured many people and stole their belongings, no one was killed.
Uloma Onyeche, a female aspirant for the Etche Constituency I seat in the state House of Assembly, had earlier complained that she was denied access to the screening after purchasing her nomination form.
“We’ve come to see a Congress that I don’t understand.” Dr. Adoje Omale, the chairman, has been compromised, and when one of us got his phone number and called him, he was furious. A man who is supposed to be impartial when it comes to conducting congresses.
“The chairman has moved the materials, according to reliable sources.” How come the man who is supposed to be unbiased is biassed? We saw him with Mr. Asita O. Asita, a Senatorial candidate.
“We are Rivers people, and they are doing their master’s bidding; we have had enough suffering.” I am a woman who worked hard to earn the money you took the last time with no results, and now we have paid our money to the APC, and Amaechi thinks that instead of building Rivers State, he should tear it down.”
“We heard that one man named Victor Giadom, under the directive of former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has asked him to hijack the chairman and secretary that is supposed to be here to attend and address us and tell us their modus operandi and how the elections are supposed to be but until now we have not seen any sign,” said Chikwe Orlu, Obio/Akpor Constituency 2.
Dr. Anosike Oduwa Joseph, a state Assembly candidate, bemoaned the fact that he had to spend money on the forms. “Our party’s national chairman should behave differently than other chairmen, without fear or favour.” APC is a party for all people, not a private property.
“I will resist any injustice, and we will resist it, because I spent my hard-earned money to purchase this form.” You cannot defraud us and take away our rights. We will resist impunity, every power that wants to prevent the majority from contesting elections, and we will resist any power that wants to want.”
Meanwhile, the state APC leadership has stated that they are still trying to figure out who is protesting and why they are protesting at the state party secretariat.
Chris Finebone, the APC’s State Publicity Secretary, said that the party congress is taking place in various wards and local government areas across the state, rather than at the secretariat.
FINEBONE said that materials for the congresses have been sent to the various wards and local government areas where the exercise will be held, but that the party executive will address those gathered at the party secretariat once their leaders have been identified.
“The screening is scheduled for 2 p.m. and is only for State Assembly candidates.” It’s unrelated to the ward or the Local Government Area Congress.
“We were supposed to hold a stakeholders meeting at 2 p.m., which we will do.” The world will not end if they make it impossible for stakeholders meetings to take place.
“If they want to discuss the ward congresses, they will not be held here; materials have been distributed to all 319 wards, and exercise may have begun in some of them as we speak.”
“They have no business with screening, which is a completely different matter.” Many of them have no idea why they’re here because they were hired to come disrupt something here, just like they did in 2018, 2019,” Finebone continued.
IPOB, the Indigenous People of Biafra, called on Pastor Williams Kumuyi of Deeper Life Bible Church to cancel his planned crusade in Abia State on Thursday.
Due to the security situation in the Southeast, IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful warned Kumuyi to call off the planned crusade.
Powerful emphasised that IPOB would not allow anyone to die, and that any deaths incurred during the crusade would be blamed on the organisation.
“We, the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU, wish to advise Pastor Kumuyi of Deeper Life Ministry to take note of the security situation in the South East as he travels to Aba for his gospel crusade,” Powerful said.
“Let him and the crusade organisers make sure nothing happens.” Because of the political and criminal activities in this region, we advise him to call a halt to this crusade for security reasons.”
“IPOB will not allow anyone to die as a result of the upcoming crusade in Aba. The number of criminals infiltrating events as unknown gunmen is high, and they will blame it on IPOB.”
“If he is able, we ask him to pray for an end to the insecurity in Biafra land.” We call on Christians and men of God in Biafra land to pray fervently to God to expose all those responsible for the insecurity in our land.”
“Kumuyi should also pray for evil leaders and saboteurs in Biafra and Nigeria.” They are the people’s real problems. Allow him to use his church in Lagos to pray against the powers holding people captive in Nigeria.”
Uche Odoputa, a Nigerian actor, has appealed for assistance following the kidnapping of his father, Kenneth Odoputa.
The Nollywood celebrity revealed in an Instagram post on Monday that his father has been held captive for two weeks.
He encouraged his colleagues and admirers to join him in praying for his father’s safe return by sharing a photo of him.
“Friends, please join me in praying for my father’s safe return from the hands of kidnappers who have held him captive for almost two weeks now,” Uche wrote on Instagram. Kenneth Odoputa, Mr.”
Following his declaration, Nollywood stars such as Mary Lazarus, Chidi Mokeme, and others flocked to social media to pray for the actor’s father’s safety.
“The Lord will bring him back in one piece,” Lazarus wrote. “My thoughts are with you.”
“The Lord will bring him safely back and offer you and your family strength in these tough times,” Mokeme wrote.
Actress Chizzy Alichi prayed, “He will return safely, Amen.”
The secretariat of the Idemili North Local Government in Ogidi and a magistrate’s court nearby were both set on fire by unknown assailants.
The arsonists are said to have broken into the secretariat on Sunday night and set fire to everything inside, including the building itself.
The destruction of the local government secretariat and the destruction of vehicles parked inside were both documented in videos and photos that quickly went viral on the internet.
Unidentified arsonists have been blamed for the development, according to the state’s police command.
It was confirmed, and our men were there to bring things back to normal,” DSP Toochukwu Ikenga said in a statement.
According to Ikenga, “The fire has been extinguished and calm has been restored to the area.”
Students at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, where Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student, was lynched, have been given the green light by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to stage a peaceful protest in the country’s capital.
According to the report, tensions have risen across the country as a result of the horrific murder of a Christian student who was set afire for allegedly insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammed.
On Saturday, Muslim men protesting the arrest of the alleged killers of Deborah sparked pandemonium in some parts of Sokoto State.
Some churches, shops, and other Christian-owned properties were demolished by protesters demanding the immediate release of the suspects.
On Saturday night, CAN’s General Secretary Joseph Daramola released a circular that stated that churches across the country would organize a protest to demand justice for those who were killed in the attack.
At 3pm on 22 May 2022, the protest will take place at every CAN secretariat across Nigeria, rather than on the streets. This is in order to avoid further loss of life.”
If you can, please use traditional and social media to spread the word and educate people all over the world. In addition, we urge Nigerian Christians living abroad to join us by contacting one of our embassies in their country of residence.
Deborah’s family and friends, as well as her country, the Church and godly political leaders in this year’s general election, can be prayed for during this time.” The Church organization thanked everyone and wished them well.
“We demand justice for Deborah; Christians are not second-class citizens; no more killing in God’s name; ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, POLICE, STOP UNPROVOKED KILLINGS IN NIGERIA,” the circular read.
