Crime
Vietnam returnee k!lled in Abia communal clash
A Vietnam–based Nigerian, Samson Nwaubani, has been k!lled in a communal clash between the Okwu and Umuajata communities in Umuahia, Abia State.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday, August 27, during the annual New Yam festival held in Olokoro after a confrontation between a resident of Umuajata and another from Okwu degenerated into a fight.
According to Punch, the crisis escalated when youths from Okwu allegedly stormed the Umuajata community and destroyed some properties.
On the day of the New Yam festival, Samson and some Okwu youths were said to have passed through Umuajata while en route to the celebration grounds.
A source privy to the incident told the publication on Sunday that they were ambushed by suspected Umuajata youths, thereby resulting in a violent clash.
The source said Samson was stabbed in the process, after which he slumped and d!ed on the spot.
“The New Yam festival holds in phases, and the one held last Tuesday was ongoing when a fight broke out between youths around the Umuajata area. We were later told that Samson and some men from Okwu were heading to the festival when some members of Umuajata attacked them. It was during the fight that he was st@bbed in the neck and also macheted in his arm before he bled to d3ath,” the source narrated.
Another source privy to the incident said that some elders had intervened earlier when the crisis began.
“What happened was as a result of a lingering dispute between the Okwu Olokoro and Umuajata Olokoro communities. When the problem started, the elders reached out to them to settle their differences. They also warned them against engaging in an act that could escalate the matter. Aside from the person who was k!lled, some people were also injured during the ambush,” the source narrated.
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The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a girlfriend of an armed robbery suspect and recovered one locally made pistol, six rounds of live ammunition, and the sum of N2.04 million.
The spokesman of the command and a Superintendent of Police, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, made the disclosure to newsmen in a statement on Thursday.
The suspect’s girlfriend, aged 23, was reportedly arrested in a hotel in Okene Local Government Area by operatives of the Okene Police Division.
Ovye-Aya said: “This is consequent upon intelligence tip off that a suspected criminal was sighted in Yuwander lodge, alleged to be a suspected criminal hideout at Oguda village, Okene.
“Immediately, the police swung into action and raided the lodge.
“Upon the search of one of the rooms, which was booked by one Christopher Christopher-Kadiri, a lady named Charity Williams, aged 23 years, was arrested.”
Ovye-Aya said during the raid, the police recovered one locally made Beretta pistol, a sum of N2,047,300, six rounds of 9mm live ammunition, hard drugs, axe, and four phones.
According to him, efforts are on to apprehend the suspect, Christopher-Kadiri, now at large, as investigation is ongoing.
He further disclosed that in another development, the operatives attached to Ofu Division recovered one locally made gun at Ogbakpedo village on the Itobe-Ayingba Road.
Ovye-Aya said that the recovery followed a tip off that some persons suspected to be kidnappers were sighted in the bush.
He added: “On getting the tip, the patrol team immediately moved to the scene.
“The suspects, on sighting the police, ran away.
“A search of the area led to the recovery of one locally made barrel gun, cutlass, Techno phone among others.”
Ovye-Aya quoted the command’s Commissioner, CP Miller Dantawaye, as commending the officers for their dedication to duty.
The CP reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to the fight against criminality in the state.
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Crime
Old tweets shared by man emerges after he killed his ex-girlfriend one year after they broke up
Old tweets shared by Lintex Ogale, the man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in Lagos, are receiving attention after news of his actions spread.
Lintex Ogale, from Benue State, is accused of killing Deborah Moses, an interior decorator, at her home in Lagos after refusing to move on one year after their break up.
He reportedly disguised as a dispatch rider to gain access into Deborah’s estate. He is also alleged to have cut her gas pipe, hoping that she would experience a gas explosion, according to allegations.
When that failed, he is alleged to have gone into Deborah’s house where he stabbed her to death.
According to Deborah’s sister, Ogale refused to more on more than a year after Deborah ended the relationship due to violence on his part.
Before he stabbed her, Ogale allegedly said “if I can’t have you, no man would”.
After the report of the Ogale’s arrest went viral, Nigerians began sharing old tweets he made months ago.
In one, he wrote: “na who know person go kill am normal”.
Another tweet shows him reacting to the interview gospel singer Timileyin Ajayi granted in January 2025 after he was caught with the severed head of a female corps member, Salome Adaidu.
At the time, Timileyin, who has now been sentenced to de@th, claimed that Salome was his girlfriend and she cheated on him which is why he k!lled her.
Reacting, Ogale wrote at the time: “The guy na just mumu. If everybody start kpai women base on cheating,I’m not sure 10% of them will be left.”
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