Killer Of A/Ibom Job Seeker Pleads Guilty To Murder

   

    Uduakabasi Akpan, who was accused of killing Iniubong Umoren, a 26-year-old graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has pleaded guilty to the murder. Umoren was lured out of her home with a fake job interview, raped and killed in April in the outskirts of Uyo.

   Her remains were buried in a shallow grave in Mr Akpan’s family house where the crime took place. Uduakabasi, who was arraigned yesterday alongside his father, Frank Akpan before a State High Court judge in Uyo, pleaded guilty to murder but denied raping his victim. Frank, arraigned on a one-count charge of accessory after the facts pleaded not guilty. Consequently, the presiding judge, Justice Bennett Illaumo, adjourned the case to August 18, 2021, for further hearing.

Gunmen Abduct Doctor’s Wife, Friend In Benue

 

    A medical doctor’s wife and her friend have been abducted by gunmen at the New GRA in Makurdi metropolis, Benue State.

   Witnesses said the incident happened on Sunday between 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm in front of the home of the doctor’s wife’s friend. It was gathered that the wife of Dr Dzwachi, a medical doctor, working with the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, drove her friend home when the abductors struck and whisked them away.

Kaduna Kidnap: Four Additional Baptist Students Regain Freedom

 

    Four additional abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Kaduna State have regained their freedom.

  A top official of the school told Channels Television on Monday that the four students escaped from the forest last night where they were held captive by their abductors. The latest development, therefore, brings the total number of the rescued students to 38 out of the 121 that were abducted by bandits on July 5th.

Nnamdi Kanu takes case to African Rights Commission

 

    Special Counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor has disclosed that the extraordinary rendition of his client is now a matter before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.

  Ejimakor said that the defendants in the petition are both Nigerian and Kenya governments, whom Kanu is asking to account for his abduction from Kenya. He disclosed that among prayers in the petition include that Kanu is restored back to his state of being, which was Kenya, before his abduction that he described as reprehensible.

UNN ASUU To Federal Government- 'Prevent Another Strike'

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has advised the Federal Government to take steps to avert another nationwide strike by the union.

   The UNN chapter Chairman, Dr Christian Opata, gave the advice on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka. Opata spoke against the backdrop of the recent threat by ASUU to resume the strike suspended on Dec. 24, 2020.