Ogga community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State has been attacked by some suspected Fulani herdsmen, killing one person. According to a source in the community, a farmer, Mr. Ariyo Aina, 35, was allegedly killed by the Fulani herdsmen on his way to the farm on May 18. Also, the National President of Ogga Progressive Union (OPU), Mr. Bamidele Olure, while speaking with journalists on phone yesterday in Lokoja, Aina was murdered on his way to his farm at about 9a.m. last Saturday. He said the herdsmen victim left his home for the farm at about 9a.m. last Saturday, but to was his slain body that was found by other farmers who were going to the their farms thereafter. Olure said: “There were several machete cuts on his head and body, and we believe it is the handiwork of the Fulani herdsmen, because they are known for such record of killings in the area. That was when the police arrested the Fulani herdsmen and they were made to pay compensation to t...

Social media has gone ablaze after reports that wife of Ghanaian movie actor,  Chris Attoh ’s wife,  Bettie Jenifer  was shot dead in the United States. Bettie Jenifer of Bowie(44) was shot in the head by an unknown gunman at the parking lot of her office building in Maryland on Friday evening, NBC Washington reports. “Police were searching for a gunman who fatally shot a woman in the head in the parking lot of a Maryland office building Friday,” said the news outlet.“The woman, identified as 44-year-old Bettie Jenifer of Bowie, had left the office in the 6300 blocks of Ivy Lane and was walking to her car when a man armed with a handgun approached her, the Greenbelt police department said.” Bettie reportedly tried to run away, but the gunman followed her firing at her multiple times, with at least one shot fatally hitting her. The actor’s wife was pronounced dead before police arrived at the scene of the crime. The shooter reportedly this build man, fled the...

Retired  Deputy Controller General of Prisons, Dr Adewale Oloyede, has been murdered alongside his orderly, Dauda Yusuf Michael, a Senior Inspector of Prisons, SIP, by yet to be identified gunmen near Osara town in Kogi State. Spokesman of the Nigerian Prisons Service, DCP Francis Enobore, told newsmen yesterday, in Abuja that the retired officer was travelling to Lagos in his private car when they were attacked at about 3 pm last Friday.  Prison He said:  “A medical doctor by profession, the late officer headed the Directorate of Health and Social Welfare for several years before retiring in 2007. “Until his demise, Oloyede was a member of the National Stakeholders Committee on Prisons Reform and De-congestion under the chairmanship of the Federal Capital Territory Chief Judge, Honorable Justice Ishaq Bello. “As relevant authorities progress in their investigation, it is our collective prayers that the perpetrators will be arrested soonest and brought to book.” ...