An accounting officer in a gas plant located in Imo State, Miss Joy Uchechi Nwachukwu, 22, has allegedly been killed by her colleagues in an attempt to steal the company’s money.

Uchechi (pictured above) went to work on Monday, October 24, and that was the last she was seen. When her family didn’t hear from her or see her at the end of the work day and her coworkers could not account for her, they raised alarm.

The family members led by one Pastor Mrs. Precious Abara reported the case to the state’s Police Command and officers were detailed to commence an investigation.

During the investigation, police discovered a shallow grave and exhumed Uchechi’s body. It has now emerged that the victim was allegedly killed by her coworkers with a shovel and her body was buried in a shallow grave within the premises of the gas plant, located at Toronto/Road Safety Road, MCC Owerri. Two suspects, including the manager, have been arrested and are currently being interrogated over the crime.

A family source told The Guardian:

“The suspects killed her because they wanted to collect all the money made from sales in the company since last week. We understand she normally makes deposits into the company’s bank account every Tuesday, being the accountant of the company.”

The spokesperson for the state’s Police Command, Michael Abattam confirmed the incident, stressing that the Command was still investigating it with a view to charging the suspects in court.

“Already, two suspects in connection with the gruesome murder of the victim have been arrested and two others are still at large, while efforts are on towards arresting the fleeing suspects. Suspects will be charged to court after investigation,” Abattam said.

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior to five years’ imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.

The judgement was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The former footballer, according to the prosecutor, Augustine Nwagu, was arrested with 1.4 kilograms of cocaine on his arrival from Brazil on September 26,2022, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

Nwagu told the court that the offence committed by the convict, contravened section 11(a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same Act.

Following his plea of guilty, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence him in accordance with the section of the law he was charged with. But his lawyer, Dennis Warri, in his allocator, pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing the convict.

Warri urged the court to consider the timely plea of guilty of the convict, adding that he has become remorseful since he was arrested and vowed not to get involved in crime.

He particularly urged the court to consider the option of fine in lieu of custodian sentence.

Justice Oweibo, in his judgement, sentenced the convict to five years imprisonment, starting from the date of his arrest.

The judge, however, gave the convict option of N1million fine in lieu of the jail terms.

The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that the autopsy conducted on the corpse of Ifeanyi Adeleke, son of Davido and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland, revealed that he died as a result of drowning.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the state Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the new development on Saturday, November 5.

He also said the two suspects arrested in connection to the tragic incident are still being quizzed.

Tragedy struck along the Ota-Idiroko road in Ogun state on Friday, November 4, when a toddler and his mother who were on a motorcycle were crushed to death by a Mazda car.

Confirming the incident to newsmen, the public relations officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the accident involved two motorcycles, marked, MEK 341 VN and TTD 479 VD and the Mazda car with registration number, TG 557 AAA in front of Muslim Progressive High School, Oke Odan along the road.

Akinbiyi disclosed that three other persons sustained varying degrees of injury. He explained that the Mazda car suffered a brake failure which caused the driver to lose control of the wheels and ram into the motorcycles.

The TRACE spokesperson said both the Mazda car and the motorcycles were heading towards Idiroko, with the motorcycles in front while the car was behind them.

“It was learnt that the vehicle suddenly developed brake failure and rammed into the motorcycles in its front, killing the female passenger and her male toddler, who is between three and four years old. The rider was also injured.

Corpses of the victims; the woman and her toddler boy have been claimed by their relatives for burial, with the permission of the police, while the three male injured victims have been rescued by the FRSC to the general hospital, Idiroko.

The driver of the Mazda has reported himself to the Oke-Odan Divisional Police Station for further investigation with the motorcycles and the car also deposited there.”AKinbiyi said

A corps member made sure to include his mother in his NYSC photo just as she did when she was serving after his birth.

The young graduate took to Twitter to share a photo his mother took with him decades ago when she was serving.

In the photo, his mother is seen wearing her NYSC uniform and she placed the cap on her son’s head.

Now that he is serving, the son posed in his NYSC uniform beside his mother who wore his NYSC cap on her head.

“How it started… How it’s going,” he captioned the photos.

The Federal Medical Centre, Abuja says it is planning to conduct a mass burial for all the unclaimed corpses in its morgue.

According to the hospital authorities, this move is needed to help decongest the morgue that is currently piled with unclaimed bodies.

Speaking to Punch, the Head of Clinical Services, Dr. Joseph Eziechila said the management of the hospital has gotten a court order, police extract and cemetery permission to bury the corpses.

“In every institution, there are policies. Once a corpse stays in a morgue for more than eighteen months and no person has come to claim the body, you tag them as unclaimed bodies.

In the process of trying to dispose of the corpses, you get a court order and we did that, we got the court authorisation, police extract, you even go to the cemetery to get clearance so that you can dispose the bodies.

We did newspaper publications as well. We’ve done all the processes, you don’t have to bridge the process.We have eight corpses, they are all adults.

They’re blocking the space, they’re in the morgue for two years and nobody to come and claim the bodies. We have made adverts, radio announcements and nobody is coming to claim them, we can’t leave it like that.There is no space unless you pile them like sardines.

Every hospital has different sizes of their morgue.We plan mass burial for them though we have not fixed the time for that yet. We may not have medical students demanding it.It costs a lot to maintain and power the morgue.

If some universities apply, and the bodies are still okay, we will give to them, that is where they get cadavers to learn” Eziechila said

Absa bank, Kenya, has been sued by a businessman for allegedly leaking his confidential information to third parties without his consent.

Kirui Kamwibua, owner of New mega Africa Ltd who is seeking damages of Ksh192 million as loss of income, Ksh1.2 billion for loss of goodwill, and Ksh92 million for the loss of fixed assets in the lawsuit filed before Mombasa Commercial Bank Admiralty court, claimed that his data was leaked by an employee of the bank thereby affecting his business operations negatively.

Kamwibua said;

“As a result of the leakage, the plaintiff’s creditors and other suppliers descended upon him and interrupted the business operations.”

The businessman claimed that the decision by the bank employee to disclose confidential information to third parties and failure to maintain the secrecy of his accounts by sharing his financial statements with strangers, infringed on his right to privacy and amounts to a breach of its common law of fiduciary duty.

He added that efforts to save his transport business by requesting the bank to restructure its loan obligations were ignored and resulted in financial sabotage.

A tout in a Kenyan park, was on Thursday, November 3, arraigned before a law court for insulting a female minibus driver.

George Kihiu Karanja who was accused of calling Catherine Kabura Wangari a prostitute at Tom Mboya Street commercial bus stop, pleaded guilty to using abusive words in a public place with intent to provoke a breach of peace.

In the charge sheet filed before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochoi, it was alleged that the suspect had on October 22, 2022, used abusive words on Kabura namely “malaya, mea ndevu”.

It was alleged that he used the abusive words after approaching the complainant, asking her to drive away as where she parked belonged to another minubus driver.

Even though she complied to this, the accused person followed her and opened the driver’s door, pulled her out, and started insulting her.

When two police officers from the traffic police turned up at the scene to restore normalcy in the area, George fled.

After being arrested and arraigned in court, the accused person pleaded guilty while also claiming that the economy is tough, and he was afraid the complainant might affect the movement of his minibus.

He pleaded with the court to forgive him, saying that he committed the offence out of anger and will not repeat the same in the future.

George further revealed that he has since apologised to the complainant, but her boss declined to have the matter settled out of court.

The magistrate detained Karanja until November 7 and directed the probation department to file a pre-sentencing report when the court will issue the sentence.

An aide to the Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, Ossai Success Ovie, says there is a new trend in town where young ladies now pimp their female friends to their fathers with the hope of getting paid by the girls who warm their fathers’ beds and get paid.

Sharing a personal experience with one of his female friends in Benin who indulges in this act, Ossai wrote;

”Young ladies pimping girls for their father’s.I recently met a female friend in benin and she said three of her female friends dated her father few months back and I asked her how is that possible when her father is still married to her mum.

So she said, her father always asked her to connect her friends to him when ever she comes home with her beautiful female friends.

I was speechless at that moment.Then I asked her , why are your Female friends not declining?It was at this point she spoke in Pigin English and said

“Haba Bross Ossai, my friends dem like money and my dad sabi give girls money and I Dey collect my percentage

“I said Oh my God , you have a spoiled friends and your father is spoiled also just like you.

I ended up the conversation by advising her to protect her mother always by not allowing her father to be promiscuous.