Lawyer, client shot dead after court session in Anambra
The police command in Anambra has launched manhunt for suspected killers of a legal practitioner returning from the court, after securing bail for a defendant in a murder case.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Awka.

Ikenga said the gunmen also gunned down two others who accompanied the lawyer but one survived.

He said that the three victims were returning from High Court II Ekwulobia in Orumba North Local Government of the state when the incident occurred.

He said that the legal practitioner had bailed a defendant in a pending murder case at the Court not knowing that they were trailed as they left the court.

According to the statement, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Anambra, Ikioye Orutugu, today led a team of senior officers, including the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations and others on a visit to the crime scene at Egbebelu village.
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Family cries out as security operatives detain pregnant woman, two kids for 20 days in Anambra

A family has raised alarm over the alleged prolonged detention of a pregnant woman and her two young children by Udogachi operatives in Nnewi, Anambra State, without formal charges or acknowledgement by the police.

The Guardian reports that the police inaugurated ‘Operation Udogachi-Zero Kidnapping in Anambra on April 14 to ensure a safe environment for residents and visitors.

But, according to a petition filed by the family’s legal representatives to the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, on Friday, Mr. Ikwo Daniel, his pregnant wife, Chinenye Cynthia, and their two children—aged two and four—were reportedly arrested at their residence on Eme Court Road, Umudim Nnewi, in the early hours of May 30, 2025.

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2 die trying to retrieve cell phone from pit latrine
Two men, Usman Muhammed and Ibrahim Inuwa, died on Saturday while trying to retrieve a cell phone from a pit latrine in Kano.

The Incident, which claimed the lives of the duo, both aged 40 years, happened at Bazabe village in Albasu Local Government Area of the state.

The Public Relations Officer of Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, said in a statement on Sunday that the duo were suffocated to death in the latrine.

He said: “We received an emergency call at Takai fire station from one inspector Auwalu at about 11:16 a.m. that two men were trapped in a pit latrine.

“We immediately sent out a team to the scene to rescue the victims.

“Muhammed was trying to retrieve his handset that fell into the pit toilet, when he got trapped.

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15 missing Anambra JAMB candidates, others found safe in Imo

The Imo State Police Command has said that all the 15 candidates who left Onitsha at the weekend for Imo State to write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, earlier rumoured to have disappeared, have been found safely.

In a statement issued on Sunday evening by the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Henry Okoye, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), it was stated that the students, proprietor, and members of staff of the Eminent Scholars Imperial Academy, Onitsha, Anambra State, had left Onitsha on May 16 for the Computer Based Test (CBT) centre in Okigwe Zone, Imo State, successfully wrote their examination, but were obstructed by their vehicle malfunction in Amuro, Okigwe axis, as they were going back to Onitsha.

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