A Nigerian lady, Amanda Jay has in a TikTok video revealed the reason why she married her sister’s husband.

It was gathered that her sister died during child birth three months ago. According to her, she married her sister’s husband to fulfill her last wish.

According to her, her sister died during childbirth, and before she passed away, she asked that she marry her husband.

“I’m getting married to my late sister’s ex-husband. She passed away three months ago at child birth. This was her last wish. I am doing this for her. I barely know this man”. The lady wrote.

Following social media backlash, she claimed that she was merely acting.

By Clement Chinedu

Two people have been confirmed dead in a septic tank in Rumuekini community in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The two people believed to be “father and son” died on Saturday, while trying to manually evacuate the content of the septic tank.

They were said to have been choked to death with the odour from the septic tank.

Eyewitnesses said the man started choking while inside the tank before his son went in to rescue him but they both died in the process when help failed to come.

The eye witnesses said the smell of kerosene from the tank may have caused the death.

In the meantime, some police personnel from the Choba police divisional headquarters have evacuated the corpses from the area while the state police command is yet to issue a statement on the incident.

No fewer than five persons have been killed in a crisis that erupted between farmers and herdsmen in Idofa area of Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State.

It was gathered that the herdsmen and some Ohori farmers engaged themselves in a clash at Idofa village, leading to loss of lives and properties worth millions of naira and that the people of Aworo community in Yewa North Local Government area of the state, had chased the herdsmen from their village to Idofa in Imeko, killing three of them and their cows.

Aworo people were said to have accused the herders of destroying their farms and water sources through open grazing of cows; a practice the Ogun State government had banned, long ago.

A community leader, who spoke under the condition of anonymity said, “after the Aworo people killed three herdsmen in Idofa, there was a reprisal attack on Thursday, leading to the death of two natives, one of whom was burnt beyond recognition”.He said, adding that many houses, four maize barns, motorcycles and other valuables were reportedly set ablaze by the attackers.

He explained that the people of Aworo chased the herders from Yewa North to Idofa in Imeko and killed three of them alongside their cows and that they returned on Thursday in the dead of the night and launched an attack, killing two persons and setting many houses and other properties on fire.”One of those killed was burnt in a house beyond recognition” said the source who added that it took the intervention of the police and the Amotekun corps to calm the situation.

Sgt. Agube and wife

By Obio Monday

A police sergeant, Francis Agube has been 'accidentally' shot dead by his colleague, identified as Sergeant Ubi Arikpo, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, GRASSROOT REPORTERS has gathered.

The tragic incident took place at Atakpa Police Station in Calabar South Local Government Area.

GRASSROOT REPORTERS learnt that Sergeant Agube was accidentally shot dead in front of the police station when a pick-up van conveying policemen passed through the gate of the station.

It was gathered that the deceased policeman who is from Abi Local Government Area of the state, just got married on the 20th of November, 2021 to his long time girlfriend.

A source who spoke with the Vanguard said:

“The team was from the State CID unit at the Police headquarters on Diamond Hill.

“They were on patrol duty and they were passing through this road (Calabar Road, Watt Market).

“They were driving from Effigy Roundabout, towards the station. When they got in front of the station Sergeant Ubi wanted to adjust his gun.

“It discharged accidentally and shot Sergeant Agube, who was sitting directly opposite him,” he narrated.

According to the source, the shot hit Agube right on his neck shattering his gullet and face, killing him on the spot.

“That spot where they covered with sand on the road in front of the station was where Agube was pulled to the ground from the van by the impact of the shot,” he added.

Another source said:

“Both of them are from Cross River State. Arikpo has been arrested and is on detention here at the headquarters, while Agube’s body is in the mortuary,” he added.

Ms Irene Ugbo, the Cross River Police Command spokesman, when contacted said:

“The tragedy is being investigated to unravel the cause."

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The couple

Kehinde Longe and his wife, Yetunde Longe, have both been decorated Commissioners of Police by the Inspector General of Police Usman Baba Alkali.

The couple were among those promoted by the Police Service Commission (PSC) recently along with 15 other Commissioners of Police.

It was gathered that husband and wife were course mates and joined the Nigeria Police Force on the same day.

The IGP also doctorated 22 other senior Police officers, among which were two Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIGs).

While DIG Zaki was promoted to cover the vacant duty post that was created as a result of the retirement of DIG Tijjani Baba who retired on October 6, 2021, DIG Kokumo will be filling the gap left by DIG David Oyebanji Folawiyo who retired on November 21 2021.

The total number of those decorated with their new ranks include two DIGs, six assistant inspectors-generals (AIGs) and 16 commissioners of police (CPs).

Police in Ebonyi State say they have rescued over 32 teenagers (male and female), from traffickers who allegedly dumped them in a two-room apartment located at Okposi Umuaghara, Ezza North Local Government Area of the state.

The Commissioner of Police, CP. Aliyu Garba, who made this known on Friday while parading three suspected traffickers, said the victims were between the ages of 16 to 17 years.

At the B Division of the Nigeria Police Force which is located within the Kpiri-Kpiri area of Abakaliki, CP Garba who was represented by the state police spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah, explained that the traffickers pick the children from different parts of the country and engage them in forced labour, leaving others exploited sexually.

DSP Odah said the young girls and boys were rescued following a case of a missing minor that was reported to the police by one Mrs Nwankwo Ijioma who hails from Uterufie village in Ebonyi LGA, who said her daughter, one Miss Nwankwo Childera, aged 14, who left their house in August 2021 had not been seen since.

She further explained that “in the course of investigations, a company’s advertisement sheet captioned ‘NEO life’ containing a certain phone number was found in the missing girl’s room. The owner of the phone, who was later identified as Christian Nwankwo (19 yrs old), was trailed and arrested.”

2 The commissioner’s representative also asserted that the suspects; One Nwagboduhu Ekene (20 years old), and Nwaoko Godwin (24 years old) and one other was arrested, while the 32 trafficked under-aged children were rescued at the traffickers’ den within Okposi Umuaghara.

According to DSP Odah, the rescued children hail from Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Anambra, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Benue, Abia and Rivers states.

There was an even split in the number of children, 16 females and 16 males.

The police say investigations are still ongoing and the suspected traffickers will be prosecuted in accordance with the law.

The Bauchi State Sector of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that seven persons died on Thursday afternoon in a fatal accident, while two others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash that occurred at Haka Yafi village on the Bauchi-Jos highway.

Confirming that accident to journalists in Bauchi, the Sector Commander, Yusuf Abdullahi, explained that two commercial vehicles, a Sharon mini bus, with the registration number: YLA 88 ZY and a Toyota Hiace, with the registration number: KUJ 182 TU, were involved in the accident, which occurred at about 12.30pm.

According to Abdullahi, the two vehicles were in opposite directions when the accident occurred and attributed it to over-speeding by the two drivers.

The sector commander informed that one Mustapha Adamu drove the Sharon mini bus, while the name of the other driver, the Toyota Hiace could not be ascertained immediately during the rescue operation by personnel of the FRSC.

He informed that the corps was notified of the crash at about 12:35, adding that personnel were deployed to the accident scene immediately for rescue operation.

The sector commander further disclosed that the two injured persons in the accident were taken to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi for treatment, while the remains of the seven deceased were deposited at the hospital’s mortuary.

Abdullahi added that items recovered from the scene of the accident included six various mobile phones and the sum of N109,090 cash.

Unspecific number of people have died after a building housing Salvation Ministry, Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State reportedly collapsed.

As at the time of this report, it is gathered that over 10 worshippers have d!ed so far.

The building which is being used for the first time, reportedly collapsed at about 5:55pm during Tuesday evening service.

It is gathered that about eight persons have been rescued unhurt, while four persons have been rushed to the Asaba Specialist Hospital for medical attention.

Reports says worshippers, family members and sympathizers were crying as efforts were on to rescue other victims.

As at the time of filing this report, Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Chief Patrick Ukah, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ononye Mordi, team of Red Cross officers, and fire fighters were on ground on a rescue mission.

Thirty-two-year-old Afeez Olalere has confessed to the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command that his mother encouraged him to kill his kid brother for money rituals shocked

He made the shocking confession when he was arrested saying “my mother took me to an herbalist who told me if i want to be successful in the yahoo business I will have to sacrifice one life and that person must be a sibling to me.

“The things he would need to prepare a concoction with are his thumbs, his hair, fingers and a passport photograph.

“So, we went back home and thought about it, then my mother suggested tha we use my younger brother since he is just 21years old.

“She also brought the poison which we gave him to eat. He died within 20minutes after consuming the food. I was the one who cut out the body parts needed. We then wrapped his dead body and headed to the mortuary.”

Nemesis caught up with them during a stop and search operation along Itamaga Ikorodu Road in Lagos.

Steve Thompson, the estranged husband of Sandra Iheuwa, one of Ubi Franklin's baby mamas, has revealed why his marriage to Sandra ended after just 5 months, IgbereTV reports.

Steve said he wasted 45 million Naira to marry Sandra only to discover that Sandra "married for social media, not for the home."

He added that Sandra fights everyone, including his family members and constantly reminds him that she's an American and tells him that he married her to get "Green card".

He said his marriage can no longer work because of Sandra's "too much use of social media."

He also said that no man can marry Sandra.

He added that she threatened that she knows bloggers and will tarnish his image on blogs if he ends things.

He also alleged that "she leaves the whole place dirty".

This is Steve Thompson's second marriage to crash and he has revealed that he will now focus on his business.

Sandra is heavily pregnant with the couple's first child. Sandra also has other kids with other men, including a daughter she shares with Ubi Franklin.

He wrote on Instagram:

I have to make a statement and this will be the first and the last ,

My marriage with Sandra can not work again because of her too much use of Social Media , She doesn't care about the home , She is bragging how she has cooked 3

Truth is , I will not let anyone tarnish my good image , i married a wrong woman that knows how to fight , She is fighting everyone, She even lied that I gave her std, i have been my own for 4 YEARS 00000, NOW JUST 5 MONTHS WAHALA WANT TO KILL MESS eeeee

SHE SAID SHE DEALT WITH HER EX VIA BLOG , THAT SHE WILL DEAL WITH ME TO0041414,

I moved her things my self immediately she left for the village, her stuff is at my Sister's place in Phase 1, SHE DID NOT MOVE OUT, I MOVED HER BEFORE HER WAHALA KILLS ME AND TOLD THE ESTATE GATE NOT TO LET HER IN

Enjoy your Sunday ®eeeee View all 467 comments iam_nekkyb But u told us u have found love? bitcoin_chief This was too sudden

I wasted N45 million Marrying someone I dont even know

Everyday i will not hear word , I'm an American I'm an American • • • • • I know you married me for Green card bla bla bla , Do You need Green card to live in Lekki Please give it to your next Husband and I don't want

This is my Second marriage , right now I will focus on business

A family in Ebonyi State is in confusion after the disappearance of the corpse of their 80-year-old matriarch, Madam Grace Okoro, from a mortuary in Owutu Edda community, in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of the state.

The brother of the deceased, Pastor Fred Okoro, said he got the shock of his life when family members went to collect the remains of their sister on the burial day, only to discover that a different corpse was kept in the morgue for them.

Madam Grace died on July 2, 2021, and her remains were deposited same day in the mortuary, said to be on the premises of the General Hospital, Owutu Edda.

With the burial date fixed for December 28, 2021, sympathisers and relations gathered under various canopies at the deceased’s compound, singing and chanting, only for news to filter in that the corpse was missing from the mortuary.

Fred said the family sensed something was amiss a month after the deposit was made, as several efforts by members to see the condition of the corpse were frustrated by the morticians, who claimed that the morgue was being fumigated.

He said it dawned on them when the family members went to the mortuary to get the corpse for lying-in-state and burial only for a strange corpse to be presented to them.

The cleric said, “The corpse presented to us was not ours because my sister is tall, about six feet tall, and we discovered that the person was short. Not only that, my sister had plaited hair at the time of death, but that one had low-cut hair.

“I suspected foul play when those alleged to have mistaken my sister’s corpse for theirs refuted the allegation. It was discovered that those people deposited their relative in May, whereas my sister was deposited on July 2nd.”

A daughter of the deceased, Welsie Okoro, a naval rating, described the development as incredible, adding that when they dragged the morticians to the Owutu Police Station, they claimed that they mistakenly handed the corpse to another family for burial.

“The mortuary attendant, Mr Felix, said one of his colleagues said he knew the person he gave my mother’s corpse to,” she added.

The manager of the mortuary, Mr Vincent Ude, said he was doing everything possible to recover the body.

He said, “Investigations are still on; I am sure we are going to recover the corpse.”

It was gathered that mourners who had gathered for the burial went home disappointed, abandoning all that was prepared for the event.

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A mother of three, Olamide Lawal, on Friday pleaded with a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan to grant her divorce on grounds that her husband, Saheed Lawal, engages her with too much sex.

In her petition, Olamide who lives in Ibadan also accused her husband of being a drunk.

“Lawal and I have been married for 14 years now. He is an unrepentant drunk who has no human kindness in him.

“He devotes his time to beer consumption, beating and forcing me to have sex with him. He does not provide for my children.

“I cannot stand him anymore,” she said.

She further pleaded with the court to restrain her husband from calling her mobile phone or visiting her apartment.

Lawal, however, prayed the court to pacify his wife to remain with him.

“I am remorseful and turned my life around. I have stopped drinking alcohol. I am ready to start giving the

children feeding money,” Lawal, a fashion designer said.

The President of the Court, S.M. Akintayo, who adjourned the matter until March 1 for judgment, advised the couple to maintain peace.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two fleeing suspects, Farouk Mohammed and Jamiu Kasali, who murdered Pastor Babatunde Dada of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG on 6th Avenue, Festac Town.

The suspects, who claimed to be upcoming musicians, stabbed the 46-year-old pastor to death on December 2, 2021, and fled with his bag containing some money.

It was gathered that the suspects had approached the unsuspecting pastor on the pretext of being strangers in Lagos who had no place to stay.

The deceased lodged them in a room in the church which also served as his residence only to be attacked at about 12 noon the next day and abandoned in the pool of his blood to die.

It was further gathered that the suspects attended church service the Sunday before the incident, and also came out during an altar call to 'surrender their lives to Jesus'

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, AIG Hakeem Odumosu, who confirmed the arrest, disclosed that Mohammed was tracked to Ilorin, Kwara State, while his partner in crime, Kasali, was apprehended in Festac Town, Lagos.

In an interview published by Vanguard, Kasali, said, “On the day we struck, the Pastor came to Church in morning, gave us money for food and left. Later, he came in with a bag containing money,"

"Few hours before then, Farouk got a telephone call from his mother, urging him to come home quickly that she was sick. We were contemplating on how he would get money to take his mother to the hospital when the Pastor walked in with the bag containing money.

"We followed him upstairs, hit him with a plank, before stabbing him with a broken bottle in the neck. He fell down. We grabbed the bag and left the house.

On his part, Mohammed, 15, said he lied to his parents that he was coming to Lagos for a show, being an incoming Musician.

"I lied to my mother that I would get at least, N200,000 from the show. We are upcoming musicians. We have been in the industry for three years. When things were not going on as planned, we decided to do something else , in order to invest in our music industry. My stage name is Zealight while Kasali’s J Fresh," he said.

"Our mission in Lagos was to look for where to perform. But that plan changed immediately we saw Pastor with the bag containing money." he added.

Meanwhile, Odumosu said the exhibits used to commit the act have been recovered, adding that the suspects would be charged to court.

Catholic priest, and spiritual director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka has denied asking anyone to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections.

He claimed that he only declared a revelation he received, about Buhari becoming President in 2015.

Mbaka who said this in his 2022 new year message also raised an alarm of a plot to kill him after a row with the Catholic Diocese of Enugu in May last year.

This came after the Catholic Priest who was known as an ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, asked the President to resign or be impeached for “bad governance”.

In response, the Presidency alleged that Mbaka was angry because his request for government contracts was rebuffed.

Giving his new year message, Mbaka recounted how he was asked to shut down his Adoration ministry in Enugu for one-month and embark on a retreat by Catholic Bishop of the Enugu Diocese, Callistus Onaga who cautioned him against meddling in politics.

Addressing his followers on New Year Day, Mbaka said;

You know they gave me order (at the time) not to come here (Adoration Ground) again till 30 days. Somebody that was summoned to a meeting,” he said.

“It was the meeting I went for, but I didn’t know it was a panel. It was in that panel that they gave me an order not to conduct adoration again until 30 days and that I won’t enter my house until 30 days.

“I was asked to just move somewhere else other than Adoration ground or my house."

He claimed that he obeyed the Bishop’s order, but that the Holy Spirit ministered to him that he should not park “anywhere”.

Mbaka added;

“I didn’t know I was being tracked that night. Before the next day you people started searching for me.

“Their plan was to capture me that night and drag me to Cubana (Hotel) and take me to Mobil where prostitutes stay and then take me around (there) and then, show video of me in the place (Brothel) so that people would ask what Mbaka was searching for in brothel.

“Then, they will again, drag me to Igboeze, another spot for Prostitutes. That’s where they planned to naked themselves, not me. So, then people would begin to ask what I am doing naked in prostitutes’ spot. Then, they will take me to Abuja and the story will be much, they will kill themselves, not me.”

Speaking further, Mbaka said he has reviewed his initial apology to the church leadership and realised it was people who treated him badly that ought to apologise to him.

The Catholic Priest warned people fighting his ministry to steer clear of it.

Mbaka who also maintained that he has never spoken ill of the Bishop in the Adoration ground, stated that he takes him as a father and should also be taken as a son.

Speaking on Buhari's presidency, Mbaka said;

“When I was saying that Buhari would be President, there was nobody I told to vote Buhari.

“People were quoting me out of context. I said it was revealed to me that Buhari would be President (in 2015), does that mean I said you should vote him? It is vision, but I said if he begins to mess up, that I will attack him. It is in the tape. And he messed up and I started attacking him."

Unyie Afor

"She was taken to her Aunty where she spend almost half of her life selling KPOMO (Cow skin) for her Aunt.

"She left her village (Wula) for Lagos continue to work as house/shop help.

"She is a kind and nice girl. From our deduction, she boarded a vehicle at a park probably one of those vehicles that go to Ogoja to carry goods for a lesser fare.

"She was contacted and disclosed that they slept at Onitsha because the vehicle was bad. The next day, she was contacted again and she said she was like an hour to Ogoja, this was the last time  anyone spoke with her before her phone went off."

"After about 5 days or thereabouts, a call was place to her line and it rang and went off. Till date her phone can't be reached and she is not in the village."

Meanwhile, friends and family members of the young lady has called on Nigerians to join the search for her.