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JUST IN: Akure Pastor Shot By Gunmen On Ilesha-Ibadan Road Is Dead. A senior Pastor at CAC , Glory of God , FUTA Akure , Dr Amos Arijesuyo who was allegedly shot on Saturday by suspected herdsmen has died. The Clergyman and his driver were attacked by suspected herdsmen on the Akure Ilesha Road Saturday between five and six o clock in the evening while retuning from Ibadan, Oyo State. Pastor Arijesuyo who sustained bullet wounds from the attack had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Akure before passing away on Sunday night. Some of the church members confirmed this to Positive Fm Meanwhile the mood at , CAC Glory of God FUTA Akure, was pensive when reporters visited the church this evening as members were seeing lamenting the untimely death of Pastor Arijesuyo and the growing spate of insecurity in the country. from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/38R6aNF via EDUPEDIA

IYC members demonstrating Ijaw youths from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have announced to put on hold their planned protest and shutdown of the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).  According to the youths under the aegis of Ijaw Youths Council, the decision to put on hold the planned action was reached following consultations with critical stakeholders, leaders of thoughts within the region and critical organs of the council to allow the Sole Administrator superintend over the conclusion of the forensic audit as alluded by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio.  IYC members demonstrating IYC Worldwide The spokesman for the umbrella body of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe, while speaking on Saturday in Yenagoa, noted that despite the pressure and compromising stance of a few, the agitation resulted in breaking the silence of Akpabio on a new timeline for the appointment of a substa...

File photo used to illustrate story. Bandits have killed an 80-year-old woman, Hauwwa Umaru, and the Ward Head of Konti, Samaila Yohanna, in Kaduna State. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. File photo used to illustrate story. Aruwan said the armed bandits invaded Sharu and Konti villages, raiding several homes. He added that two other persons, Alhaji Sani and Malam Rabiu, were killed at Dande village while an unidentified woman was shot dead when the gunmen opened fire on commuters plying the Fatika/Kidandan Road. The statement read, “Security agencies have reported the killing of an aged woman in Sharu village, Igabi Local Government Area. “According to the report, armed bandits invaded the village and raided several homes. As they shot sporadically, Hauwwa Umaru, 80, was hit by a bullet and died instantly. “In another incident, unknown gunmen killed one Samaila Yohanna, the Ward Head of ...

Three persons were reportedly killed at the weekend at Dyom village near Senga community in the Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, when armed men in military camouflage said to be loyalists of the late militia leader, Terwase Agwaza, also known as Gana, invaded the community, Vanguard reports. However, two of the armed men, who also razed several houses in the community, met their waterloo when men of the joint security operation in the state, also called Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, in a counter-operation, apprehended them and recovered their weapons. Vanguard According to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Col. Paul Hembe (retd.), the timely intervention of the OPWS personnel prevented what could have been a major bloodbath in the town. He said: “These were armed men in military camouflage said to be loyalists of the late Gana. They stormed the area, killed three persons and also burnt down houses in the community. Luckily, while this was goin...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said it won’t support a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction. IPOB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, alleged that all the people being prepared for the position are stooges that will be used against the interest of Ndigbo, Biafrans and the group. Powerful added that the people at the forefront of the agitation were people who openly worked against the late Dr Alex Ekwueme at the Jos Peoples Democratic Party convention for the candidature of the President of Nigeria under the PDP in 1999. He said what such people did to the late Ekwueme was similarly done by their likes to Peter Obi, in 2019 when he contested with Alhaji Abubakar Atiku as his running mate, alleging that they conspired and did not support or campaign for Obi despite being in the same political party, PDP, with him. The statement read, “We cannot support any person that will kill us; that will mea...