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Gunman Shoots FRSC Officer In Ogun

December 17, 2019 10:11 am

An unidentified gunman, on Sunday, reportedly shot an officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) attached to the Ogun State Sector Command.

The gunman was said to have wounded the operative severely on the leg before speeding away.

The incident,\THISDAY learnt, happened at the Ibafo corridor of the Lagos Ibadan Expressway when the FRSC operatives were controlling traffic.

The operatives, it was gathered, had stopped his vehicle marked WED264YE for route violation and driving against traffic, but the driver, an unidentified man who claimed to be a policeman, was said to have pulled a pistol and shot at …

Gunmen Shoots OAU Professor Dead In Edo

December 14, 2019 4:43 pm

A senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Prof. Jerome Elusiyan, was on Friday shot dead by unknown gunmen.

According to a family source, the incident happened at Iruekpen, a local government area in the Central District of Edo state where the deceased was attacked by some unidentified armed men and shot dead on the spot.

It was learnt that Professor J.B.E ELUSIYAN was on his way back from Ekpoma where he went to invigilate medical students of the Ambrose Alli University when this …

Policeman Shoots Man Dead At Bank ATM Point

December 7, 2019 11:18 am

But for the quick intervention of elders and stakeholders irate youths would have set the Njaba Divisional Police Station ablaze yesterday. This followed the shooting to death of an 18-year-old man, Awuzie Duru, by a trigger-happy policeman.

Trouble was said to have started yesterday inside the premises of the United Bank for Africa branch at Umuaka where the policeman shot the Awuzie to death for retaliating to a policeman’s slap during a brawl. One of witnesses to the incident told our correspondent that when Awuzie joined the ATM line, other persons equally queued behind him. But somewhere along the line …

SA: Doctor Shoots Wife In The Head, In Front Of Kids

November 13, 2019 12:36 pm

A doctor is in hospital after being shot in the head, allegedly by her estranged husband, who is also a doctor, in Summerstand, Port Elizabeth, over the weekend, police said on Monday.

Police spokesperson Capt Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the woman, 36, and her sister went to the house on Saturday morning to fetch some of her belongings, when they were attacked by her husband.

“A shot was fired, injuring the woman in her head,” Van Rensburg said. The woman survived the shooting and was taken to hospital.

The attack occurred in front of the couple’s three children. …