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There was pandemonium in the sleepy town of Ikorodu, outskirt of Lagos, yesterday, as a woman suspected to be conveying some substance suspected to be a bomb was arrested at the weekend near a filling station. The Fulani woman, according to our correspondents, was arrested by the police when a fuel attendant raised an alarm. The woman, (names withheld) who was said to be carrying a baby, the source told Nigerian Pilot, had approached a filling station attendant to allow her keep in his custody a black cellophane bag containing the suspected deadly substance that has now been transferred to bomb experts in an undisclosed location for test and analysis. Nigerian Pilot gathered that drama started when the petrol attendant refused to grant the suspected bomb messenger her request, and in an argument that ensued between him and the woman, unsuspecting passers-by including security operatives stationed few metres from the filling station intervened and upon search of the content in t...

Parents of Kolawole Arowolo, the jobless graduate, who was alleged to have murdered and mutilated his wife, Titilayo, opens up in a recent interview. They maintained that Kolawole and Titilayo were hot-tempered and have been fighting two months after their marriage. His mother, a trader, also confirmed that Kolawole at a time suffered insanity that was treated. She also said that she told Titilayo to stay in her father’s house when she realized they were incompatible, but denied that her son was a ritualist. She equally used the opportunity to beg for mercy from Oyakhire’s family. Excerpts from the interview; Mummy, do you think this can be a spiritual attack as claimed? Ki Olorun Ogbawa Lowo Ogun Aye (May God save us from spiritual attacks). Since they got married it was misunderstanding and fights everyday. There was no month that we didn’t settle a quarrel between them. I was fed up to the point that in January this year, I told Omo(Titilayo) to go to their house,...

AT least, 13 family homes and properties, worth millions of naira, have been swallowed up in a gorge measuring about three hundred metres deep and 300m wide, in Amachalla village, Awka, the Anambra State capital. The lawmaker representing Awka South 1 Constituency in the State Assembly, Engr Kenechukwu Chukwuemeka, who was invited to the location by residents, was short of words when he saw the extent of damage. Chukwuemeka, who fought back tears while consoling wailing mothers, toddlers and youth, whose homes and belongings were swept away by torrential rains, urged for calm, assuring them that “something urgent is going to be done by the state government.” Chukwuemeka urged Governor Peter Obi, the State’s Ministries of Environment, Special Duties, Senator Chris Ngige, the Federal Government and Representative Emeka Nwogbo to come to the aid of the residents. He urged them to pool efforts together through the instrumentality of their offices to resettle them and see how some of th...

A memorable day, June 20, 2011, would forever remain fresh in the mind of the family members of Mr. Boniface Ugwu, an ex – official of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Benue State as it was the day their daughter, Adaora Ugwu, who was believed to have died after a fatal accident and deposited at one of the mortuaries in Enugu State, resurrected. The 21-year-old Adaora, had gone to Markurdi for her JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on the fateful day and was returning to Enugu to prepare for the last Army recruitment exercise when a mini commercial bus belonging to the Enugu State Transport Company (ENTRANCO) marked, XL812 UWN which was returning from Markurdi to Enugu city , collided with an Nsukka bound mini bus marked XB504 TKP belonging to Peace Mass Transit, leaving over 20 passengers of the two vehicles dead, including Adaora and four recently discharged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The accident, which occurred at Udi Local Gov...