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A police officer on duty along Aliade-Awajir road has allegedly shot and killed a motorcyclist, otherwise known as Okada rider. The victim identified as one Friday was killed for interfering while the officer was allegedly arguing with a fellow Okada rider over N50 bribe. IDOMA VOICE gathered that the deceased, who came to the scene to maintain peace, got more than he bargained for as the officer reportedly got angry, pulled the trigger and shot him on the forehead. He died on the spot. The development sparked violence in the area as youths of the community have threatened to set the police station where the officer is attached on fire. However, Benue State Police PPRO, Moses Yamu said the command was yet to receive the report. “We have not gotten the report. I will find out and get back to you,” he said.

The lady, it was learnt, has been inhabiting the spot in the most recent two years. The things were found when the authorities of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), who needed to utilise the place, attempted to evacuate her. A NRC authority, who talked about the state of obscurity to NewTelegraph, said the disclosure of the SIM cards, ATM cards and bank employees came to them as an amaze. He said: The woman has being living at the spot for some time now. Recently, a canteen was built close to the spot where she is sitting, but some people who patronise the canteen always complain about the presence of the woman. To our surprise, when we were about to evacuate her from the spot, about 25 SIM cards, two ATM cards, different bank tellers and a phone were recovered from her. We don’t want another incident similar to that of Clifford Orji where human parts were recovered. We suspect the woman has someone she is working for. We are going to hand her over to the task force because...

✍ �A discourse on Nigeria democracy brewed between I and a colleague at work some weeks back where we discussed on corruption among other things holding Nigeria back. I was not surprised when he said he prefer a military government that abhor indiscipline and can bypass the law of the land to nail corrupt individuals that have formed a parallel government (cabals) and hold the country as ra nsom for their own selfish political and economic aggrandizement to the modern slavery being parkaged as democracy. ✍ �I partially concurred with him because the constitution and rule of law that this corrupt individuals always use as a shield to perpetrate their sinister activities has been turned to a cobweb that can only hold light objects (commonmen) while it breaks the moment it sight heavy objects (cabals). ✍ �Yes! I have written series of articles to criticise Buhari failing administration but have never for once chastise him for undermining the rule of law (even though he has disobe...

Here are pictures from the superlative birthday party of adorable Nosa Khare who turned a year older a week ago. His parents gave him one of the biggest birthday party fit for a Prince. He’s such a cutie. Happy birthday to him. More photos below

In Nigeria, every year fresh graduates travel across the nation to different states in a scheme called National Youth Service Corps popularly called NYSC. The NYSC scheme was an initiative of the Yakubu Gowon military regime in 1973 to reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war. While many Nigerians have called on successive governments to scrap the scheme as they say it has outlived its usefulness, many others have asked that the scheme should be retained. Youth corp members working on road signs in Abuja recently After three weeks in the camps where they are taken through rigorous physical routine, the corp members are then posted to a place of primary assignment. Apart from the uniform salary paid to youth corp members nationwide, state governments where the NYSC members are posted also give them some allowances. In some states, the prices of the NYSC members differ based on their course of study, with medical corp members usually fa...

Since our Health is our Wealth, Let's focus our attention to a disease that has been battling 1 out of 8 young and old people who hardly find a cure on it - Diabetes Mellitus! What is the World Health Organization saying about this diseases? Let's check * About one third of all people with diabetes do not know they have the disease. * There is an emerging global epidemic of diabetes that can be traced back to rapid increases in overweight, obesity and physical inactivity. * Only about five percent of all people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. * A meal plan for a person with diabetes isn’t very different than that which is recommended for people without diabetes. * Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults. * People with diabetes are twice as likely to develop heart disease than someone without diabetes. * Total deaths from diabetes are projected to rise by more than 50% in the next 10 years. Most notably, they are projected to increase ...