Youths protest over the murder of an only son

Youths of Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of Anambra State have gone on rampage following the death of one of their colleagues on Wednesday night.

They burnt fires at the old Onitsha -Enugu road, alleging Policemen killed their colleague while trying to enforce the curfew order.

The protest forced commuters to avoid the route as the State Police Command deployed its men to quell the situation.

The Enugwu-Ukwu axis of Ezi Elias was blocked by the angry youths in their numbers, stretching to Nimo community axis in the same Council Area.

The youths overwhelmed the policemen, which forced them to shooting sporadically in the air to disperse the adamant crowd.

The Nation gathered the victim was a barbing apprentice and an only son from Adagbe Avomimi village of Enugwu-Ukwu.

A source, who spoke with The Nation, said the young man was heading home from work around few minutes after 8pm when he was killed. According to him:

”As he was walking along Nimo road, he saw some policemen from Nimo station running after him to arrest him and he took to his heels.

In the cause of the drama, an oncoming shuttle bus knocked him down and instead of the police to rush him to the hospital, they took him to the station where he died.

We have lost about three youths in Anambra State in the name of enforcing lockdown and it’s related policies.

Officially, we have not recorded any coronavirus related death in Anambra State but we have had about three deaths from police enforcement concerning lockdown and Curfew directives in the state,” the source lamented

The Police Public Relations officer, Mohammed Haruna, confirmed the death. However, he said it was a case of fatal accident involving an old man, who according to him, was trying to run away from the presence of police because of the curfew but unfortunately ran into a moving vehicle.

He said not only the Command had deployed its men to maintain peace and order.

"We have uncovered plots to impose emergency rule on Rivers" - State Government

On Wednesday, the Rivers State Government said it uncovered plots by some ''disgruntled elements'' to impose an emergency rule on the state.

The government said some citizens of the state residing in Abuja were planning to cause a breakdown of law and order in the state to force the declaration of a state of emergency.

The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, in a statement released today May 20, said such persons started making such attempts from 2015.

Read the statement below:

“The Rivers State Government has uncovered plans by some citizens of the State who reside in Abuja to cause a breakdown of law and order in order to declare a State of Emergency. These persons whose attempts to declare State of Emergency in the State since 2015 have never succeeded because of God's intervention.

They did everything within their powers to ensure that the 2019 Governorship Election results were not announced but also failed. As the build up for the 2023 elections and jostle for Presidential and Vice-Presidential tickets is gathering momentum, they want to use COVID-19 to create a crisis as if the State is at war with the Federal Government.

They have decided to create unnecessary tension as if indigenes of Ahoada, Eleme and Port Harcourt are fighting with Northerners not to carry out their legitimate businesses".

Gregory Tyree Boyce and girlfriend used cocaine and meth to their death - Police

Twilight actor, Gregory Tyree Boyce who was known to use “cocaine and meth,” as a “white powder” was found at the death scene, police has claimed.

The American actor, 30, and his Nigerian girlfriend, Natalie Adepoju, 28, were “deceased for some time” when their roommate found them “beyond help” in the bedroom of their Las Vegas condo on May 13, a police report exclusively obtained by The Sun revealed.

According to the police report, officers found an unknown white powder substance on a nightstand, in addition to a straw and a plastic card next to their bodies.

The report continued that there was "no obvious signs of trauma to either subject” and that the bedroom was “not disturbed.”

According to the report, both Gregory and Natalie who were found lying naked on their backs in bed were "known to do harder drugs,” such as “cocaine and meth,” their roommate and Gregory’s mom told police.

Investigators said each body showed signs of rigor mortis and blood pooling.

The Public Information Officer for the Las Vegas Police Department told The Sun that there is no criminal investigation, but the Coroner’s Office will officially determine the cause and manner of death.

Sister of LUTH patient drags hospital for fraud

LUTH has reacted to allegations from a female relative of a patient who claimed that staff of the hospital conspired with her brother's lover to hide him in the hospital so they can loot his money.

The woman, named Mrs. Ngozi Adenuga, earlier claimed that some medical and social workers at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) connived with her mentally unwell brother’s lover to hide him while withdrawing millions from his accounts.

Mrs. Adenuga, in a petition to the Area C Command, Surulere, alleged that all efforts by the family to take their brother, Solomon Akukwe, a former staff of Chevron, out of the hospital for proper medical attention has been met with resistance because his handlers only take instructions from his lover, Mariam Saidu, 28.

Mrs Adenuga claimed that one of Akukwe’s aides alleged that his lover moved the man to an unknown destination and was making plans to move his properties, including his cars.

She said the informant told her Saidu was also using the man’s Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) card to make alleged suspicious transactions while still at his residence in Lagos.

Adenuga alleged that her brother suffered periodic mental illness, which made them move him to a rehabilitation centre in Abuja for treatment where he met Saidu before they eloped to Lagos. Mrs Adenuga said that once in Lagos, Saidu connived with hospital staff to hide her brother and loot his property.

She said those involved in the alleged plot were her brother’s lover, Saidu, a doctor at LUTH, Prof. Adeyemi, Matron, Alhaja Lateef and the hospital’s social worker Ms. Tade.

Bauchi government suspends lockdown, lifts ban on religious gatherings

The governor while announcing this at stakeholders’ meeting held at the Command Guest House in Bauchi, said the suspension will take effect from Thursday, May 21, 2020.

The governor said the development became necessary following the success recorded in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. He said,

“This decision will be taken by you because the total decision of the lockdown was taken by you. We are just suggesting as a government and on behalf of the government, I am suggesting that as from Thursday, we should lift the lockdown, even the one in Katagum, because it has been 10 days and of course the whole state.

People will go about their normal businesses, pray on Friday and Eid if we agree on context and character so that people will go to Eid, but we will need the support of our royal fathers so that there will be no such celebrations."

Governor Mohammed also commended the religious leaders and traditional rulers for their support and cooperation while the lockdown lasted.

Nigerian Paralympic champion receives 4-year doping ban, loses medal

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Nigerian Para power-lifter and Paralympic gold medalist, Esther Oyema, has been banned for four years after she committed an anti-doping rule violation. 

A prohibited substance named 19-norandrosterone, was found in a urine sample she provided on January 28, 2019, after the Lagos 2019 International Para Powerlifting Competition in Nigeria.

Oyema, who won the gold at London 2012 in the women's 48kg, will now be ineligible for competition for four years from May 3, 2019 to May 2, 2023, thus missing the opportunity of Tokyo 2020.

She has also been stripped of the gold medal which she won in the women's 55kg competition in Lagos, together with any points and prizes.

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