Kidnapping: Anambra lawmaker found dead near Niger Bridge

Hon. Justice Azuka, a member representing Onitsha North 1 Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, has been found dead by security operatives near the Second Niger Bridge. Azuka was reportedly kidnapped on December 24, 2024, along Ugwunaobankpa Road in Inland Town, Onitsha, while returning home for Christmas. He was abducted at gunpoint in a commando style that lasted less than five minutes, according to reports. Anambra State Police Command’s spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the discovery, saying a joint security team found the decomposing corpse during a routine patrol.…

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Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US

One of Nigeria’s respected poet and professor of English Language and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl. According to reports from the US, Okafor aged 64, and cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught that his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading home, in Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and also shot himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. A small-caliber handgun was…

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