Crime
Suspected IPOB fighters kill soldier who sneaked out to attend strippers party
A Nigerian Army soldier attached to Operation Udoka has been killed by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra after sneaking out of his duty post to attend a party in Anambra State.
The incident was said to have occurred on the evening of Saturday, May 18, 2025, at the Forward Operating Base in Uli.
It was gathered that the soldier had attended the event — a strippers’ party titled “Ladies’ Jamboree” — while wearing his military camouflage uniform.
According to reports, the soldier was discovered missing during a tactical operation.
The report said, “It was during a tactical operation that it was discovered the soldier was missing.
He was later found to have sneaked out of the base without permission to attend a strippers’ party at a nearby hotel, in uniform. It was there that he was accosted and fatally shot by suspected IPOB/ESN fighters.
His lifeless body, along with that of a baby, was later recovered at the scene by troops.
“His weapon has been retrieved and is currently in military custody.
”Operation Udoka is a Defence Headquarters-led operation and efforts to reach the Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Markus Kangye, were unsuccessful.
His phone number was switched off, and he had yet to respond to a message sent to him as of the time of filing this report.
The killing is the latest in a series of targeted attacks on security personnel in the South-East region, where IPOB and ESN have been accused of carrying out violent campaigns against state forces.
After 13 days in captivity, Justice Ebiyerin Omukoro, a Bayelsa State High Court Judge, who was kidnapped by gunmen, has been released.
The judge was abducted on June 21, 2025, around 7pm by gunmen dressed in combat fatigue in front of a popular eatery at the Ekeki suburb of Yenagoa.
It was gathered that Justice Omukoro was released on Thursday evening and is still with security operatives.
The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC, also known as KAI, has arrested and arraigned eight persons over offences related to public urination and disturbance of public peace in the Yaba area of Lagos.
This was disclosed by the Corps Marshal of the agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd), during a media briefing held at the command headquarters in Bolade, Oshodi.
“As the premier enforcement Agency in the State with operatives situated across 21 Divisions in the State, we must not allow public indecency such as open urination and defecation to fester undeterred and this daily monitoring of Lagos environs lead to the arraignment and prosecution of 8 offenders in the same vein and we remain unshaken,” he stated.
Major Cole confirmed that the eight suspects were brought before Magistrate Oshikoya of the Special Offences (Mobile Court) in Oshodi, where they were charged with offences under Section 168(1)(d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015, which addresses breach of public peace, and Section 5(1) of the Lagos State Public Health Law, 2015, which prohibits open urination.
The Corps Marshal further explained that the court sentenced the offenders to one month in prison.
He emphasized that the ruling serves as a strong deterrent to others who may consider engaging in similar acts of public indecency.
Crime
Salome Adaidu: Court Sentences her Killer to death by hanging
Salome, 24-year-old, was a serving corps member recently murdered by the 31-year-old convict when she visited him at his residence…
Gospel singer Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, the killer of Salome Adaidu, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
Salome, 24-year-old, was a serving corps member recently murdered by the 31-year-old convict when she visited him at his residence in Papaladna village of Karshi Development Area, under the Karu Local Government Area of the state.
A Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Lafia,delivered the judgement, the previous day.
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In the judgment, trial judge, Justice Simon Aboki said that the prosecuting counsel proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt that the convict killed the victim at his residence.
The judge held that the defendant claimed that he became unconscious after having a good time with his girlfriend, and was unconscious when he wrote his confessional statement, which does not hold water.
The court found Ajayi guilty of the offence after several months of trial.
Justice Aboki stated that Ajayi was convicted under Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, which prescribes the death penalty for persons guilty of such an offence.
“The law is clear on this, and the punishment is death.
Therefore, the accused is hereby sentenced to death by hanging,” Justice Aboki ruled.
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