The Police Command in Kano has arrested a couple and a nurse for buying a five-year-old boy.

The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Magaji Majiya, who paraded the suspects in Kano on Wednesday, said that the suspects were apprehended on October 10, following a tip-off by one Hajiya Fatima who connived with the police in a plot to arrest the suspects.

“We received information from Hajiya Fatima that someone wants to buy her baby. So we told her to tell them she has agreed to sell the boy.

“The suspects bought the baby at the rate of N15,000 and paid N13,000 as part payment.”

The PPRO said that one of the suspect, Itopam Pious, who claimed to be a nurse at ECWA Eye Hospital Kano, was arrested while trying to confiscate the baby from his mother.

According to him, the nurse intended to buy the baby for a couple, Mr and Mrs Charles Bob-manuel, who came to Kano from Rivers State to adopt a baby because they were married for 12 years without a child.

Majiya added that the nurse confessed to having committed the offence, while the couple denied the offence.

He said that investigation is still ongoing, adding that the suspects would be charged to court.

Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus, an indigene of Ogun State, has been reportedly killed by the Police in South Africa.

According to an eyewitness, who is also a congolese, and a flat-mate of the deceased, he revealed that the police accused Ibrahim of being a drug dealer.

“I found Omo (the deceased), my tenant on handcuff. There was a plastic where they put paper spray on him.

“I asked the police ‘why are you doing this to him’? They said he’s a drug dealer, he must take out the drug and I was like ‘no, he doesn’t sell drugs’.

“My tenant was on handcuff and he started calling ‘Steve, I can’t breathe’. I started fighting with them and tried to help the guy but the other one (police officer) took me out as well.

“So when I went back inside, Omo was sleeping, looking at them and the police officers were like ‘he just fainted’ that they would call the ambulance,” Lumbwe added.

Confirming the death, Nigeria`s Consul General (CG) in South Africa, Godwin Adama, said that Badmus was allegedly killed on Tuesday at Vaal Vreneging, near Johannesburg.

He said: “Information at our disposal said that the deceased was killed by a South African police officer.

“I led a delegation from the mission to visit the scene on receipt of the information. When we arrived the scene, the place was tensed up because Nigerians there were not happy.

“We immediately met with the Station Commander in the area with some selected Nigerians. The police assured that a thorough investigation would be carried out.

“The investigation will be done by the Independent Police Investigating Department,” he said.

According to Adama, an autopsy will be carried out while investigation on the killing is on.

Badmus’ killing occurred less than a week after Jelili Omoyele, a 35 year–old cellular phone technician was shot dead at Doornfontein, near Johannesburg.

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Okorocha-led Government has released a statement denying claims that the Monkeypox virus is in the state, Imo state.

This is coming after there was panic in the South East, that some soldiers were going from school to school injecting students with the viral disease.

The statement reads:

The Attention of the Imo State government has been drawn to the wicked and unfounded rumor being spread by the wicked ones over the monkey pox virus which created undue anxiety in Owerri, the state capital especially among some parents, on Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

The State government wants to inform Imo people in particular and the general public that the monkey pox virus is not in Imo and will never be in Imo in Jesus Name.

The federal Government has named few states that have had one or two cases and the states that should be monitored closely and Imo State is not among any of the groups. So these wicked rumor mongers in the state will surely reap the ugly fruits of their ugly acts.

Again, no child or pupil or student has been immunized or is being immunized as part of the rumour had carried, because there is no need for such action.

However, the government is on the alert and will take the necessary action if the need arises and Imo people will duly be informed. But for now, there is no cause for any alarm. Imo is in the hand of God.

Sam Onwuemeodo

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor

So, earlier today, there was panic in Anambra, after reports from the state claimed that Soldiers were forcefully injecting school children with the Monkey pox virus in the state.

In a recent video shared online, student recounted what happened and how they had to run home from school.

In the video shared online, a woman is heard questioning some children of school age about what happened. The children, who were still in their uniforms, said they were in school when teachers came in and told them that soldiers were forcefully injecting people and killing those who resisted.

“The teacher told us to go home that soldiers are going about killing children, injecting them,” a boy who goes to Peculiar School in Umuanyagu said. “Most of the students have gone home, even those that went with bikes.”

A girl who attends Marcellina Udoh Nursery and primary school in Ezioba Ozubulu said: “They told us to go home that the army are injecting people, shooting children and if you don’t let them inject you, they’ll kill you.”

Another much younger child piped up: “our school, they’ve locked it and my aunty left.”

The children went on to say all the schools in Ozubulu have been closed and everyone has gone home. There was a little child seen crying for the mother, the male pupil said.

The boy continued: “Those injecting people are around Eke boys. Some of them are in Ugwu Oye, some are in Eke boys. The army is among them. When they come, they’ll forcefully inject you.”

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Meanwhile, eyewitnesses in the state released photos of the soldiers conducting a free medical outreach in the state, to prove that the exercise was not aimed at hurting any one. [See the pictures here] and more below;

School children’s parents in Anambra state have rushed to their kiddies’s schools to pick them after IPOB members claimed that some military officers have invaded school premises and are injecting students them with the new monkeypox virus.

It was alleged earlier today that some people in military uniform arrived a school in an area in Anambra and started forcing them to take injection which led to the death of 3 pupils from the yet-to-be identified school.

Now in reaction to the reports, parents have rushed to their wards schools to pick them up and avoid them being injected.

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The Nigerian military has since reacted to the reports in a statement which was shared by the Secretary to the State Government. (See here)