A fresh tragedy has hit the nation’s security community following the killing of six policemen in an ambush in Delta State. Six other officers are still missing, the Nigeria Police confirmed yesterday. It comes as the country remains in shock over the March 14 killing of 18 army officers and men by some youths in […]
Delta State Commissioner of Health, Joseph Onojaeme said that about four cases of Lassa fever have been confirmed in the state. He urged residents to keep their environment clean always and ensure that rats do not breed in or around their homes, reports The Nation. Onojaeme, who spoke to reporters in Asaba, today, Friday, March […]
•Sheriff Oborevwori The Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, yesterday, cautioned traditional rulers in the state against shielding suspects involved in the killing of 17 military personnel in Okuama Community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Oborevwori gave the warning when he addressed traditional rulers on the...
•Troops At least three of the suspects who killed 17 officers and men of 181 Amphibious Battalion, Nigerian Army, Otuama, Delta State, last Thursday, have been arrested. The arrest came as the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said yesterday that whoever was responsible for the killing of the military personnel, would be broug...
•Olorogun Sleek Oshare and the Delta State map As the nation continues to mourn the gruesome murder of some military personnel in Delta State, a community leader in the state, Olorogun Sleek Oshare says a land dispute led to the killing. Seventeen persons were killed in the Okuama community of Delta State last week in […]
•Godswill Akpabio The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, today hinted that the 16 soldiers who lost their lives in Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, may have been killed by mercenaries. The Senate President made the assertion during a debate at plenary over the ‘gruesome’ murder of the service [&he...
The Defence Headquarters has released the list of 17 military personnel killed in an attack in Delta State. The military personnel were killed last week in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State after a peace mission, reports Channels TV. Days after the gruesome murder, the Defence Headquarters said 17 [&hell...
•Motorcyclists protest in Delta Major roads and markets in Asaba and Okayama in the Oshimili South and Oshimili North Local Government Areas of Delta State were, today, taken over by aggrieved motorcycle riders protesting the death of their colleagues. Eyewitness said the group of motorcycle riders took the streets in anger, destroying propert...
•Burning houses in Okuama community Delta State The Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State where sixteen soldiers were killed have been razed. There are strong allegations that some angry soldiers may have perpetrated the act after their colleagues were killed, reports Channels TV. Meanwhile, manhunt for the kil...
•Troops Fourteen lifeless bodies of killed soldiers were in the early hours of yesterday recovered by soldiers of the joint task force under the supervision of the General Officer Commanding 6 division Nigerian Army, Major General Jamal Abdussalam, at Okuama community, in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Some of the reco...