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AUGUST 24, 2015 : ALEXANDER OKERE Leave a Comment The Edo State Police Command on Monday said it has arrested five persons who allegedly specialise in snatching cars and robbing their victims on the Agbor-Uromi-Auchi express road in the state. The names of the suspects were given as Eric Erazue, Oghenetega Awuze, Donatus Usamako, Jibrin Mohammend and Marvis Aramude. The were said to have been arrested few hours after they allegedly snatched two motorcycles and a Mercedes Benz car. The suspects were said to have snatched the car from its owner at about 7pm on Sunday and later drove it to Auchi, where a buyer was contacted to buy the vehicle for the sum of N300,000. It was, however, learnt that the suspects were arrested by police officers from the Uromi Police Division when the car developed a fault at Obagie village, along the Benin-Abuja express road, while en route to the state capital, for a transfer of ownership. Two locally made guns and a mobile phone, belonging

AUGUST 24, 2015 : GOAL.COM Leave a Comment Karim Benzema has dismissed speculation he could leave Real Madrid for Arsenal by insisting the Santiago Bernabeu is his home. Goal revealed back in May that the Gunners were ready to launch an ambitious bid to sign the France international, believing that the player would be interested in a move to north London. But Real Madrid’s insistence that Benzema would not be sold has been unwavering and last week Goal reported a growing acceptance at Arsenal that they will not get their man this summer. And after returning to first-team training at Madrid’s Valdebebas training complex on Monday, Benzema has finally gone public to distance himself from reports of a possible transfer. Benzema’s decision makes it likelier that Petr Cech will remain Arsenal’s only significant first-team signing this summer, with Arsene Wenger insisting he will only sanction moves for elite targets. The 27-year-old joined Real Madrid from Lyon in 2009 a

AUGUST 24, 2015 : NAN Leave a Comment Enyimba International FC beat FC Taraba 1-0 in a rescheduled NPFL week 25 tie to return to the top of 2014/2015 Glo Premier League table with 48 points.

AUGUST 24, 2015 : ADELANI ADEPEGBA Leave a Comment The police have arrested a medical doctor, Amadi Uzoma, and five others over allegations of kidnapping and child trafficking. The other suspects, Faith Nuhu, Chigozie Goodwill, Mrs. Evelyn Ojiaku, John Ojiaku, and an auditor in Imo State civil service, Mrs. Elizabeth Oyemoabi, were accused of criminal conspiracy and kidnapping. Parading the suspects at the Force Headquarters on Monday in Abuja, the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, said their activities were uncovered by police investigation into the kidnapping of three siblings, Grace Idris,13, Philip Idris, 3, and Paul Isaac, 2, by their older relative, Nuhu and her alleged accomplice, Goodwill. According to Ojukwu, investigation into the reported kidnapping of the siblings by detectives of the Force Analytical Tracking and Interception Centre geo-located the GSM numbers of the suspects to Owerri in Imo state. He said further analytical tracking le

AUGUST 24, 2015 : ALJAZEERA Leave a Comment Three people have died after a boat carrying 73 refugees capsized off the northwestern coast of Turkey, Turkish state media quoting the coastguard said. The coastguard said that all other refugees were saved in Monday’s shipwreck – the first of two deadly incidents on Monday. The semi-official Anatolia Agency said that the group, composed of Afghans and Syrian, had sailed from the Ayvacik coast of Canakkale province to reach the nearby Greek island of Lesbos when their boat sank. Separately, Greece’s coastguard was searching on Monday for at least six people missing at sea after the dinghy they were using to enter Greece clandestinely from Turkey overturned off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, the AP news agency reported. They said one body was recovered from the same wreck. The coastguard said it had picked up 877 people in 30 search and rescue operations from Friday morning to Monday morning off the coas

Bolt celebrating after winning the 100m in Beijing ... on Sunday | credits: AFP usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest miracle of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title, BBC reports. The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race unbeaten run and apparently relishing his role as the sport’s bad guy. But at the same Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing where Bolt announced himself to the world with two Olympic golds and two world records in 2008, the Jamaican superstar came past a faltering Gatlin at the death to snatch victory by one hundredth of a second. Bolt’s 9.79 seconds was more than two tenths off his world record, but this was a night for athletics to celebrate victories rather than times. Canada’s Andre de Grasse and young American Trayvon Bromell were both awarded bronzes in 9.92secs. Few noticed. This was once again the Bolt show, even

President Muhammadu Buhari  President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday described corruption as the greatest human rights violation ever. Justifying the reason why his administration is waging a large scale war against graft, Buhari said the effects of corruption were manifest in suffering, deprivation and death that innocent people were being exposed to. He therefore urged Nigerian lawyers to support his administration to win the war against corruption. According to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President spoke at the opening of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja. He called on Nigerian lawyers to support his administration’s war against corruption and help the country return to the path of rectitude by making Nigerian courts functional and effective again. Noting that lawyers are often in the vanguard of the defence of human rights, Buhari urged them to view corr

Mr. Babatunde Fashola The immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, spent N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja. The project was completed by Deux Projects Limited according to a report published by the state government The report, which was part of the awarded contracts by the Lagos State Tenders Board in 2013, was seen on the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency. In the same year, N640m was spent by the Fashola administration for the reconstruction of a car park and other associated works at the Lagos House, Marina. The report stated that the N640m contract was given to Julius Berger Plc as part of phase two of the reconstruction of Lagos House where Fashola lived during his eight years in government. In the same year, N300m was spent on the relocation of cables belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. The contract was awarded to Deux Projects

AUGUST 24, 2015 : OUR READER Leave a Comment Rape is defined as an unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman typically by a man without her consent, chiefly by force. It is an outrageous violation of the decency and the essence of womanhood. It is an indignity that remains in her mind forever. All men of conscience must, in righteous indignation, condemn this bestiality. This evil act permeates the spectrum of the society and threatens to tear its fabric. My worry is that underage girls now fall victims. This rapaciousness is no longer the preserve of strangers, but of close relations! Fathers, uncles, guardians, neighbours, and even brothers perpetrate this iniquity! The time is almost at hand, when women will get wary of relationship with men, and adopt gender affinity; same sex! We condemned gay marriage. Pity as we precariously re-invent lesbianism! It’s our own nuclear device for human extinction!

Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Ralph Uwazuruike Controversial pirate channel, Radio Biafra, has again resumed transmission, despite the Federal Government’s claim that it had jammed the station’s signals. The Federal Government had on July 14 announced that it jammed the transmission signals of the radio station, which was operating illegally from an unknown location. Our correspondent observed that the channel had not been transmitting on the FM 104.7 band, on which its signals was received in Enugu, since July. However, it was observed on Saturday that the station, which was monitored from 8pm to 9pm, had resumed transmission on the same 104.7 FM band, from which it transmitted before it went off air. Listeners were invited to call in from various parts of the South- East, and from outside the country. The station was still transmitting as of the time of filing this report. The broadcast addressed the most current

AUGUST 22, 2015 : NAN Leave a Comment The Yobe State Government on Saturday said it has developed a document to be submitted to the state assembly to enact a law against open defecation. General Manager, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Alhaji Mohammed Bukar, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Damaturu. “The document will be ratified by the state executive council before submission to the state assembly as an executive bill for passage into law. “The bill will seek to eliminate open defecation through making water supply and sanitation programmes more accessible to the citizenry. “The bill will facilitate access to and coverage of water supply and sanitation by 80 per cent, thereby eliminating the risk of water borne related diseases by about 90 per cent. “We are putting more emphasis on household latrines. We have developed cheap technological options using local materials to construct toilets in homes,” he said. He said the agency had conduct

Leave a Comment A stout defensive performance from Newcastle earned them a 0-0 draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

AUGUST 22, 2015 : NAN Leave a Comment The Police in Nsukka on Saturday arrested two men in masquerade costume in Ovoko Community, Nsukka LGA, Enugu State, for allegedly beating up a passenger on a commercial motorcycle and robbing him of N57,000. The incident happened on the Nsukka/Oballo-Afor highway. A police source said policemen moved to the scene when the victim, Mr. Chinonso Ezewaji, reported the matter to Nsukka Police Area command and the two men were arrested. “The escorts of the masquerade however ran away. “There were eight masquerades. They blocked the Nsukka/ Obollo-Afor road and harassed people. “The two arrested masquerades however denied collecting the N57,000 from Ezewaji but claimed they know the person who collected the money from the victim. “When we searched one of the arrested masquerade, we saw Indian hemp in his pocket,” the police source said. When contacted, Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amarizu, confirmed t

The Secretary General of the Igbo apex body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, has urged President Mu­ hammadu Buhari to start his corruption war with people around him because he is in the midst of them, even though he is not one of them. In a chat with Saturday Sun , Dr. Nwaorgu said: “There are corrupt people around President Buhari. In public perception, people who are corrupt, are very much around him. “He should cast his eyes around him and get those who are parading to be in the same party with him, but who do not have the same pedigree in terms of decency like him.” Nworgu was reacting to statements made earlier in the week by His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto on the president’s resolve to fight corruption. At the National Security Summit organised by the Nigeria Police in collaboration with The Sun Newspaper, the Sultan had advocated that looters should not only be made to return what they stole, but they

AUGUST 22, 2015 : FEMI MAKINDE Leave a Comment Members of the Oodua People’s Congress on Friday clashed with some youths suspected to be members of a secret cult who allegedly came to disrupt the Osun Festival. Our correspondent gathered that the youths stormed the entrance of the Osun Grooves to disrupt the ceremony, but the OPC members resisted them. One of the youths identified as Yusuf, however, became unconscious after he sustained machete cut on his head as a result of the clash. Some worshippers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the hemp-smoking youths came to harass the peace-loving people at the shrine. Some good Samaritans later took the injured youth to the hospital for treatment. A National Coordinator of the OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, told journalists that the determination of the people made the Osun Festival to bounce back stronger this year. He said, “Osun Festival has proved to Africans in the Diaspora that it is an event which is one of the best i

AUGUST 22, 2015 : IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE Leave a Comment The Enugu State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal on Friday upheld the election of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the April 11, 2015 governorship election. The tribunal struck out the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Okey Ezea, on the grounds that it was frivolous, lacked merit and was an abuse of the court process. A cost of N150, 000 was equally awarded in favour of each of the respondents in the petition. Delivering the judgement, which lasted over three hours, the chairman of the tribunal, Justice Kwajafa Hildad, held that several paragraphs of Ezea’s petition were earlier struck out for being imprecise and vague. Hildad said the petition equally contained criminal allegations against people who were not made parties to the case. He added that the petitioner’s allegations of over-voting and non-accreditation, through the manipulation of the card reade

Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, David Shikfu Parradang | credits: http://www.immigration.gov.ng President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday ordered the suspension of the Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang with immediate effect. Saturday PUNCH learnt that Parradang’s suspension might not be unconnected with the ongoing investigations into how a Lebanese terrorist, Ahmed Al Assir was given a Nigerian visa by the Nigerian embassy in Beruit, Lebanon. Parradang was directed to hand over to the most senior officer, DCG, Martin Kure Abeshi, who had been ordered to take over the affairs of the service, according to a statement by the Director of Press, Ministry of Interior, Alhaji Yusuf Isiaka. The statement on the suspension read, “The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. David Parradang, has been suspended from office with immediate effect. “Meanwhile, the Deputy Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. Martin Kure Abeshi,

AUGUST 21, 2015 : OUR CORRESPONDENT Leave a Comment Mothers in Nigeria have been advised to give good nutrition to their growing children so as to ensure sound intellectual and physical growth. Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, who said this while declaring open the 10th Nutritional Seminar of Frieslandcampina WAMCO Nigeria, at Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, noted that some mothers were either not sure of what nutrition to give to their children or completely unaware of this significant period of a child’s life. She said the first five years of a child’s life was the most critical that sets the stage for the child’s intellectual development, lifelong health, as well as vulnerability. The governor’s wife added, “Certainly, the brain development and mental health of a child is essential and it should never be neglected. Science reveals that there is no other period of a child’s life when nutrition has such profound impact as compared to the first five years of

AUGUST 21, 2015 : OUR CORRESPONDENT Leave a Comment Mothers in Nigeria have been advised to give good nutrition to their growing children so as to ensure sound intellectual and physical growth. Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, who said this while declaring open the 10th Nutritional Seminar of Frieslandcampina WAMCO Nigeria, at Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, noted that some mothers were either not sure of what nutrition to give to their children or completely unaware of this significant period of a child’s life. She said the first five years of a child’s life was the most critical that sets the stage for the child’s intellectual development, lifelong health, as well as vulnerability. The governor’s wife added, “Certainly, the brain development and mental health of a child is essential and it should never be neglected. Science reveals that there is no other period of a child’s life when nutrition has such profound impact as compared to the first five years of

AUGUST 21, 2015 : SAMUEL AWOYINFA, ABEOKUTA Leave a Comment The President, Ogun Baptist Conference, Dr. Adesegun Jayesimi, on Friday threw his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war, saying those found culpable should be punished. He said this in Abeokuta on Friday while briefing journalists on the 38th edition of the conference holding in Sagamu, starting on Saturday. Jayesimi, who described the war against corruption as a worthy crusade, however, warned that it should not be used as a witch- hunt against political opponents. He said, “Ogun Baptist Conference also joins the crusade against all forms of corruption and malpractices that seem to be the order of the day in this nation. “This is a worthy crusade that all Nigerians need to put resources together to fight to a logical conclusion. “Nevertheless, I strongly urge the agencies, directly handling corruption cases, to be thorough in their investigation and management of the issues and thu

AUGUST 21, 2015 : OLUFEMI ATOYEBI, IBADAN Leave a Comment The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has explained that the decision to stop the payment of the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination fee for candidates in the state public schools and the introduction of N3,000 annual Developmental Levy for the pupils are temporary. The governor said the decisions were borne out of the economic reality in the state and the desire to address the abysmal performance of candidates in the examination. Ajimobi said this while fielding questions from newsmen at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, on Thursday evening. The governor added that the decision to introduce the levy was taken after it was discovered that parents no longer involve themselves in the education of their children. He added that the Parents Teachers Association and community leader were consulted before the decisions were taken. The governor said, “With the paucity of fund in the state, we had

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed People’s Democratic Party in Kwara State has faulted the rationale behind the state government’s decision to borrow five billion naira to pay the arrears of local governments’ staff salaries. The state Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Rex Olawoye, made the observation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin. Olawoye, therefore, challenged Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, to explain what the monthly Federal Allocations to the councils have been used for. He maintained that the N3.5bn Federal Allocation to the 16 local governments in the state for the month of June was adequate to offset the three months arrears of salaries allegedly owed council staff. He said this was aside the state statutory allocation of N5.2bn from the Federation Account for the same month. “Once an organisation resorts to borrowing to pay salaries, such organisation should be counting its days of collapse or bankruptcy. “As much as

AUGUST 21, 2015 : NAN Leave a Comment The police on Friday arraigned a 15-year-old boy in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stabbing his mother’s customer in the face with an iron rod. The accused, who lives at Isheri, a suburb of Lagos, is facing one charge of assault. The prosecutor, Sgt. Jimah Iseghede, told the court that the offence was committed on August 16 at 8, Ajibode St., Isheri, Lagos State. Iseghede said the accused committed the offence during a fight that had ensued between the accused and his mother’s customer, Wasiu Adeshina. “The complainant lost so much blood in the process and was rushed to a nearby hospital by some passers-by,” he said. The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum. Elias ordered that the acc

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday warned that he would not tolerate past practice of extorting money from applicants before being recruited into the police force. The President gave this warning sequel to Monday’s approval by him for the recruitment of 10,000 policemen and women. He said that he would not tolerate any irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in the coming recruitment into the police. “You must ensure that the recruitment process is transparent. Those who will conduct the recruitment must be above board. It should not be heard that they receive gratification or extort money from those who want to enlist in the police,” the President warned. He spoke during a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A statement by Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, quoted Buhari as also directing the Inspector-

AUGUST 21, 2015 : XINHUA Leave a Comment A member of the press corps of Ghana’s Presidency lost his life Thursday after the vehicle they were traveling skidded off road, a release from the presidency said. The release said the reporter from the state-owned Ghanaian Times newspaper lost his life in an accident involving the press corps at Shai Hills about 45 km northeast of the capital. The release said other members of the press corps were also injured and had been airlifted to the Military hospital in the capital. It said the vehicle skidded off road at the Volta Regional capital, Ho.

The suspects The Anti-Robbery Squad of the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos, has arrested a Lagos prince, Wale Jimoh, and seven others. The police said the suspects were arrested during initiation rites of the Eiye Confraternity in the Jakande Roundabout, Small Kuramo, Lekki. Jimoh’s father is said to be the traditional ruler of a community in the area. Other suspected members of the confraternity group include; Frank Mafiana (32), Robert Williams (34), Koko Etim (25), Ibrahim Ogunkoya (21), Stephen Anoh (27), Adekunle Mayegun (25), and Moris Gordian (27). PUNCH Metro learnt that the men had organised a party at a bar owned by their gang leader, Mafiana, and decided to use the occasion to initiate Ogunkoya. It was gathered that it was at the last stage of the initiation that security operatives, acting on a tip-off, struck. A police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suspects were “caught in the act.” He said, “When we go

•As Adamu mobilises for him By EMMA NJOKU EX-international and National Vice-Chairman of the Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON), South- East, Ndubuisi Opara, has joined the growing list of prominent stakeholders calling on former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, to vie for the FIFA Presidency in the February 2016 election. Opara, popularly known as Warrior in his hey-day, described Kalu as a thorough football lover and an achiever who would go the extra mile to succeed. “I’m totally for the Orji Uzor Kalu’s FIFA Presidency project because he is a thorough football lover and a goal getter who is always prepared to go the extra mile to achieve his set target,” the former Orlando Pirates striker remarked in a telephone chat with Daily Sunsport. “We all saw what he did with Enyimba International Football Club when he was the governor of Abi State, how he motivated the club to become the first and only Nigeria team to win the CAF Cham

The United States Government has pledged its readiness to work with the new management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in achieving the Federal Government’s reforms in the country’s oil and gas industry. Speaking during a courtesy call on the NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, at the corporation’s headquarters in Abuja, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. James Entwistle, said his country was willing to provide all necessary support to the new NNPC management to realise its set goals and objectives. Entwistle, in a statement by the corporation, noted that the job of the GMD of NNPC was about the most challenging job in Nigeria, adding that the US was convinced that Kachikwu had the skills, training and requisite experience to lead the oil and gas industry in Nigeria towards the path of growth and sustainable development. Commending the US for the pledge of support, Kachikwu reiterated the determination of the new NNPC management to impleme

Nigeria and Chelsea midfielder,Mikel Obi Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh has revealed that he was snubbed by Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel during his recent trip to England. It was the reason the player was ignored from the squad that would face Tanzania next month. Oliseh said on Thursday in Abuja that he had attempted to reach out to the midfielder ahead of the Community Shield game against Arsenal but he was rebuffed by the 28-year-old’s decision not to respond to his phone calls. “I met with the players when I went to England on Thursday, the day Chelsea was coming back from a tour before they played Arsenal in the Community Shield,” said Oliseh. “I put a call through to John Obi Mikel. I called him four times, the phone kept ringing. I sent him a text message, I got no response. I called Victor Moses, the phone rang three times. “And I spoke with Moses, I told him to concentrate on his game and after the game he came to my hotel room where we s

Wike and Amaechi The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has denied claims by his successor, Chief Nyesom Wike, that he (Amaechi) left an empty treasury before leaving office. Amaechi described, in a statement from his media officer via electronic mail, as “a lie,” the claim of empty treasury by Wike, adding that he left billions of Naira in cash and assets before leaving office as governor. The former governor recalled that Wike had, through his spokesman, Sir Opunabo Inko-Tariah, told a Port Harcourt- based radio station that he met an empty treasury when he (Wike) took over as the state governor. Amaechi specifically said a total of N7.5billion cash was left behind as balances in the state Internally Generated Revenue Account with Skye Bank, FAAC Account with Zenith Bank, Access Bank and the state Reserve Funds in First Bank. “This is besides other balances in the state government house account with Zenith Bank and other government MDA a

AUGUST 20, 2015 : MUDIAGA AFFE, CALABAR Leave a Comment The family of Capt. Peter Bello Jnr, the co-pilot of the Bristol helicopter that crashed in Lagos lagoon on Wednesday last week, held a funeral mass in Calabar on Thursday without the deceased’s corpse. As early as 10am, family members and friends had gathered at the Magaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, Cross River State, to receive the corpse but they had to leave around 3pm for St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in the Ikot Ansa area of the metropolis, when it became obvious that the corpse would not arrive from Lagos. No reason was given for the delay in bringing the corpse. At the church funeral service, which commenced at about 3.30pm, tributes poured forth for the 26-year-old co-pilot of the ill-fated Bristow Helicopter. Delivering his homily at the funeral mass, Rev. Fr. Patrick Corcoran, who drew his Bible reading from John 14:1-6, admonished Christians not to allow their hearts to be troubled, but

AUGUST 20, 2015 : ARMSTRONG BAKAM, BAUCHI Leave a Comment A 10-year-old boy on Wednesday drowned after falling into a stream in Jugudu village in Giade Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Barely a week ago, the Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, stated in a statement that seven people had drowned in five different rivers across the state, warning the residents to be cautious of their movement around river banks and drainage in the state. The 10-year-old victim, Bello Abdul, according to the PPRO, in a statement in Bauchi on Thursday, was rushed to the hospital but was certified dead by a medical doctor. He said: “On the 19/8/2015 (Wednesday) at about 12:00hrs (12noon), one Bello Abdul, male, (10) of Tudun Maje in Giade LGA of Bauchi State, fell into a stream in Jugudu Village and got drowned. “The scene was visited by police detectives attached to Giade Division and the victim was rushed to the General Hospital, Giade, for treatment but was certifie