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Gunmen reportedly kill APC councillorship candidate in Ogun

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Gunmen reportedly killed a councilorship candidate in Ogun State, Adeyinka Adeleke on Saturday.

The deceased was the All Progressives Congress (APC) councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South local government area in the November 16 elections in the state.

He was also a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the Panseke area of Abeokuta before his death.

READ ALSO: Ogun PDP condemns arrest of lawmaker, blames APC for Sagamu killings

Eyewitnesses told journalists the attackers stormed the Jide Jones area of the state capital in a tinted car and started shooting sporadically to scare away the residents.

They later shot the politician and quickly drove away from the scene.

However, the state police command has not confirmed the incident at the time of filling this report.

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Gunmen storm Kogi community, murder three, cart away motorbikes, foodstuffs

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Some gunmen grasp launched an assault on the Ajokpachi Odo community in Omala Local Authorities Space of Kogi Tell.

The assault on the community took station on Tuesday, barely a month after a neighbouring community of Agojeju Odo became once attacked, with 27 of us killed.

The locals reported that the gunmen laid ambush on a community of childhood within the gap who were on surveillance missions and killed three of them.

The gunmen reportedly entered the metropolis and began shooting sporadically to dismay of us away whereas they carted away motorbikes, foodstuffs and diversified valuables.

The sources explained that the assailants were herders who were fleeing from violence on the border community of Agatu in Benue declare.

The Caretaker Committee chairman of Omala Local Authorities Space, Hon Marknoble Peter Edibo, confirmed the incident. He lamented the jam of his of us within the hands of the alleged herdsmen and Agatu militia in Benue and Nasarawa states.

“The magnitude of the disaster is too weighty for simplest the  council to undergo, even because the declare authorities has no longer relented in its efforts todiscoveringlasting alternatives to the disaster”, he acknowledged

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Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers Remark acknowledged the whisper govt will continue to pork up the Nigerian Navy to attain its mandate of battling criminalities within the waterways, and oil theft.

Governor Fubara acknowledged this in a assembly with the Chief of Naval Workers, Emmanuel Ogalla, and a form of high naval officers on the Government Home in Port Harcourt, the whisper capital, on Thursday.

Right here is contained in a whisper sent to PREMIUM TIMES by Nelson Chukwudi, the manager press secretary to Governor Fubara.

The governor suggested the visiting delegation that the nation become going via myriads of challenges, including insecurity and criminal activities that threaten the nationwide economy, which ought to mute no longer be no longer notorious.

The success of the Nigerian Navy in our Remark, within the areas of oil theft, is for the explanation that Remark Government has given you the total indispensable pork up.

“We gain now furthermore maintained correct relationships with the communities to fabricate particular whatever it is miles that is required for these operations to be triumphant in success had been granted. I am cosy to be associated to these very laudable achievements.”

“So, I want to teach that I am cosy that the Chief of Naval Workers, on the present time, is commending the success of the declare. He’s commending the doggedness of the men in battling oil theft, no longer merely within the Niger Delta, but particularly in our Remark.

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Gunmen assassinate pastor, 5 others in Nasarawa community

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In step with document, three folk, along side a clergyman, Kingsley Orshase, had been killed in the Tse-Abir Azer community in Kadarko final Friday, while three others had been shot boring on Sunday morning.

The chairman of the United Farmers Association of Kadarko, UFAK, Denis United states, who confirmed the assault to newsmen on Monday, acknowledged the gunmen attacked the location at around 4 p.m. on Friday, killing two folk on the jam.

He acknowledged the third sufferer, Mr Orshase, died in the sanatorium on Saturday.

Mr United states added that many various victims sustained varied levels of gunshot injuries.

Narrating what transpired, Mr United states acknowledged the victims had long previous fishing at a close by river in the Tse-Abir Azer location when the gunmen attacked them.

He additionally disclosed that a Fulani pastoralist used to be killed in a reprisal assault.

On March twenty 2nd, at about 4 pm, Tiv farmers in the Tse-Abir Azer location of Kadarko went fishing, and gunmen attacked them by the river, ensuing in the deaths of two farmers and one Fulani in a reprisal.

The gunmen had invaded the IDPs rebuilt settlements, and dozens of them savor fled again to Kadarko and Giza for refuge. Many of the IDP farmers had been injured.

Three Eggon farmers had been killed on Sunday, bringing the death toll to six within two days, he advised Each day Have confidence Newspaper.

There used to be no unswerving confirmation of the incident by each and each the inform authorities and security agencies as on the time of submitting this document.