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 Gunmen kill eight, injure three in Imo community A devastating attack by unknown gunmen on Saturday evening left eight people dead in the Umuchoke Okwe community of the Onuimo Local Government Area (LGA) in Imo State. The victims were attending a village meeting when the hoodlums stormed the location and opened fire, killing everyone in sight. “It is true. Some gunmen attacked Umuchoke Okwe today and killed over eight people. They stormed a meeting involving the president-general of the community and some community heads and shot everyone,” a resident of the community said. The state police spokesman, Henry Okoye, confirmed the incident to The Nation on Sunday, August 4, stating, “Yes, it is true. The hoodlums, suspected to be members of IPOB, stormed the meeting venue at about 17:00 hours on motorbikes, fully armed. They opened fire and killed eight on the spot, while three others were wounded and rushed to the hospital for treatment.” Okoye added that the police commissioner, Ab...

 Ladoja: No Obstacle Can Stop Me, I Listened To Ibadan People The Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja has declared that he will become Olubadan of Ibadanland by the grace of God. Ladoja made this declaration on Sunday while speaking at a live radio programme on Fresh 105.9 FM, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Ladoja, who spoke during the programme titled “Agbami Oselu” around 8.55am on Sunday, insisted that no obstacle put against him will prevent him to become Olubadan if God want him to become Olubadan. Responding to the questions during the live radio programme, Ladoja added that he will do what the people of Ibadan want. He said that there are many people who become Balogun or Otun Olubadan but do not become Olubadan because those people were not destined to become Olubadan. Ladoja said, “By the grace of God, I will become Olubadan. God has been merciful to me. My blood pressure has been stable. “Anyone God destined to become Olubadan will become Olubada...

 Abia community nabs inter-state fraudsters Two suspected fraudsters who specialised in duping their victims of huge sums of money have been nabbed in Okwu Olokoro, Umuahia South LGA of Abia, while attempting to dupe another victim. The suspects, who claimed to be indigenes of Ntigha, Isiala Ngwa North LGA of Abia State, were apprehended by Okwu community youths in Olokoro and their operational motorcycle was also seized. The two men, Uche Harrison, 42, and Lucky Nwohu, who refused to disclose his age, were apprehended by youths of Okwu who were carrying out an environmental sanitation exercise at the village’s market square on Saturday when the suspects rode into the community on their bike. An indigene of Okwu who spoke to DAILY POST about the incident said: “On sighting the strange faces moving around the village, some villagers indicated interest in knowing who they were, but they took to their heels, making the youths raise an alarm that evil men have entered the community. ”B...

 It’s time to probe ourselves as northerners, after blaming other regions – Shehu Sani Former Senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has said it’s time for northerners to look at themselves instead of blaming other regions. Sani, who wrote on his verified Facebook page on Sunday, lamented that most public schools are free, yet our young ones still don’t want to go to school. He said, “Many of us don’t want our spouses to work or use their skills or talents to earn a living or contribute to the family. When we die, we leave them as helpless widows at the mercy of a hostile society. “Most young people don’t want to serve as apprentices in workshops or retail outlets because they lack the heart and patience to serve. “Many parents in rural areas hand over their children to a religious teacher in the city, who depends on the children to beg or steal in order to feed himself and his family. For ethnic, religious, and sectional reasons, we have protected, defe...

 Group asks Abuja youths to suspend protest, key into Wike’s economic support programmes A northern group, Arewa Youths for Peaceful Coexistence, has called on youths and other residents in Abuja to end all forms of protests and hostilities, and key into the economic support programmes put in place by the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike. The group, in an appeal message made available to journalists at the weekend, noted that the youths have a brighter future under the Wike-led FCT administration, with the recent establishment of a youth secretariat in the FCT. According to the appeal message signed by its national chairman, Hon. Haruna Bature, the laudable youths-oriented programmes initiated by the Minister of the FCT cannot be achieved in an atmosphere of strife and pandemonium. “With the view of fostering constructive engagements to proffer immediate, short term and long-term solutions to the economic hardships experienced by Youths and Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...

 HARD TIMES: UNDER-AGED GIRLS IN NASARAWA RESORT TO HOOKUPS TO SURVIVE 4th August, 2024      The hard times are taking a starkly different toll on people in Nasarawa State, where young females, some as young as 15, are being sucked into immoral transactional relationships, to survive the worsening economic situation unleashed on the nation by the policies of the President Bola Tinubu administration. The desperation is palpable, with some women engaging in these encounters for as little as N3,000 and a plate of food. This practice is most prevalent in areas where students reside and there are drinking joints; other locations are where groups of young women can be seen mingling with potential clients. Traditional decorum appears to have been eroded in these settings. Girls have lost common respect; it is men who now try to maintain some semblance of it. This shift is indicative of the severe economic pressures forcing young women to make difficult choices to survive. W...

  Israeli Strikes Kill 15 Palestinians In Gaza School An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians on Saturday, hours after two strikes in the occupied West Bank killed nine militants including a local Hamas commander, Hamas said. The Israeli military said the first of two West Bank airstrikes hit a vehicle in a town near the city of Tulkarm, targeting a militant cell it said was on its way to carry out an attack. A Hamas statement said one of those killed was a commander of its Tulkarm brigades. Hours later, a second airstrike in the area targeted another group of militants who had fired on troops, Israel’s military said, during what it described as a counter-terrorism operation in Tulkarm. Palestinian news agency WAFA said four people had died in that strike, and Hamas said all nine of those killed in the two Israeli attacks in the West Bank were fighters. Violence in the West Bank was on the rise before the Israel-Ham...