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13th August 2024 Delta State Police PPRO, SP Bright Edafe Men of the Delta State Police Command have arrested suspects who scammed an unsuspecting victim of N1.5m. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, on X.com on Tuesday, the suspects deceived the victim by claiming to have seen a bright future for him. Sharing a video of the victim, Edafe wrote, “This chap was scammed over N1.5m by some suspects who...

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Commercial tricyclist slumps, dies in Delta

5 months ago953 min

A commercial tricycle operator, otherwise known as ‘Keke’ rider, whose identity is yet to be known, on Thursday slumped and died in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Online gathered that the incident occurred at a location by Okorodudu Junction near the popular Old Airport Junction in Uvwie. Eyewitnesses said that the tricylist slumped a few seconds after hurriedly parking his tricycle and heading to a local roadside food vendor in the...

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Two bag 10-year jail term for illegal possession of firearm in Delta

5 months ago953 min

A High Court sitting in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, has sentenced two men to ten years in imprisonment for illegal possession of a cut-to-size single-barrel gun. The court presided over by Justice O. F Enenmo sentenced the two men to jail on Monday. The defendants Joshua Anamali, 25, and Nelson Adoh, 30, years respectively are in custody at the custodial center, Kwale. The two defendants were arrested by police during...

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Police hunt abductors of ex-Rep in Delta

5 months ago1134 min

The Delta State Police Command says it is on the trail of the abductors of ex-Rep member, Joan Onyemaechi. Onyemaechi, a former House of the Representatives member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency and two-time member of the Delta State House of Assembly, was abducted on Tuesday after her two orderlies and driver were killed by her abductors. The incident happened around 5:pm when she arrived at her church, King Jesus & I at Ogagifo Street, off...

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Two policemen, driver killed as gunmen abduct ex-Rep, children

5 months ago964 min

Two police orderlies attached to a former House of Representatives member, Joan Onyemaechi and her driver were on Tuesday evening killed when bandits abducted her and her children in Asaba, the Delta State capital. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed Onyemaechi’s church, King Jesus and I, located at Ogajifo Street off DSB Road and shot the two police orderlies and her driver before whisking the former lawmaker and her children away. Sources from the...

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Two killed as gunmen kidnap ex-Rep in Delta

5 months ago1023 min

Two police orderlies attached to former House of Representatives member Joan Onyemaechi and her driver are feared dead following an attack on Tuesday evening in Asaba, the Delta State capital. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed her church, King Jesus and I, located on Ogajifo Street off DSB Road. They shot two police orderlies and her driver before abducting the former lawmaker and her children. Sources in the area reported that a stray bullet...

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BREAKING: Gunmen Abduct Former Delta Commissioner In Church, Kill Two Orderlies

5 months ago1132 min

Mrakpor had resigned her appointment to enable her younger brother to contest the chairmanship election of Aniocha South Local Government Council. Former Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Joan Mrakpor has been kidnapped. SaharaReporters learnt that the armed men who kidnapped the former commissioner reportedly killed two police orderlies attached to the former commissioner, leaving others with bullet wounds. Mrakpor had resigned her appointment to enable her younger brother to contest the chairmanship...

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Policemen allegedly lead land grabbers to demolish property in Delta

5 months ago2599 min

No fewer than 30 policemen have been accused of leading hoodlums suspected to be landgrabbers to demolish the property of a real estate company in the Okpanam community, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the armed policemen and the landgrabbers, who were said to be acting on the order of a landgrabber identified simply as Okeke, aka Ogidi, invaded the premises with bulldozers around 1 am to...

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Man jailed 16 years for arson in Delta

5 months ago844 min

A High Court sitting at Kwale, Delta State has sentenced a man, Efajemue Israel Aziakpono, to six and 10 years imprisonment, respectively, for the offences of conspiracy to commit arson and arson. The court presided by Justice O.F. Enenmo convicted and sentenced Aziakpono to 16 years imprisonment for the offences, sentences which would run concurrently. The two other defendants charged alongside the convict were discharged and acquited on both counts. The three defendants, namely, Efajemue...

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Police hunt killers of 33-year-old man dumped by Delta roadside

5 months ago1074 min

A 33-year-old Smart Meju has been killed by a yet-to-be-identified person in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased was murdered on Wednesday while his lifeless body was dumped on the road in Agbor town. Narrating the ordeal, the father of the deceased, Mr Innocent Meju, told our correspondent that his son, Smart, left home at around 8:am to attend a graduation ceremony in one of the...

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