Features

Assasination of Journalists: A case for ethical and professional emergency

Ihesiulo Grace 18 November 2017 0

Before Maltese journalist and anti-corruption crusader, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was bombed off on October 16, 2017, the pen profession upheld her as a voice for the voiceless and apostle of truth whose pen spared no oppressor of commoners. Until her death, the President of Malta, including the

News

ASSASINATION AGAIN IN EKITI, FEW DAYS AFTER POLICE PAYMASTER KILLED

Ihesiulo Grace 20 December 2016 0

….POLICE PARADE THREE SUSPECTED KIDNAPPERS OF EX-LAWMAKER’S WIFE   Barely twenty Four hours  after  Paymaster of the Ekiti State Police Command, Mr Idowu Taiwo was gruesomely murdered by unknown gunmen on the street of Ado Ekiti, another man identified as a professional engineer, Mr Kunle  Enisan  has been assassinated in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital.

Crime

Photos: Security operatives foil assasination attempt on a polytechnic student

Ihesiulo Grace 2 November 2016 0

Security operatives attached to a Polytechnic in Aba, Abia State foiled an attempt to murder a student. The suspects were paraded Monday, October 31, at Abia State Police headquarters in Umuahia. According to Abia Facts Newspaper, the alleged killers, said to be students of that same school reportedly confessed to the crime. They were having […]

Crime

Kogi LG Staff Denies Assassination Plot of Assembly Member-Elect

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2015 0

A local government staff, in Kogi State, Onu Friday, has the denied any link with an assassination plot, as claimed by a member-elect of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Friday Sanni.   He stated that the allegation was a frame-up to tarnish his image.   Onu, who was speaking with newsmen, in Lokoja, on […]

Business Labour

South African Labour Leader Assassinated    

Ihesiulo Grace 16 April 2015 0

Tensions have continued to mount since the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa. A senior leader of South Africa’s main transport union was shot and killed on the same night that the home of the group’s president was bombed, according to union spokesman Vincent Masoga. Chris Nkosi, general secretary of the […]

Today In History

1919: Zapata Assassinated in Mexico

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces. Born a peasant in 1879, Zapata was forced into the Mexican army in 1908 following his attempt to recover village lands taken over by a rancher. After the revolution began in […]

Headlines News

LP House of Assembly Candidate Killed in Imo

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2015 0

The Labour Party, LP, in Ngor Okpala state constituency, Mr Andrew Ugwuezumba for April 11th polls has been assassinated by gun men. Ugwuezumba who hailed from Umunehi Village, Obiangwu Autonomous Community was said to have been shot dead about 08:00pm Tuesday night along Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, (SMICA), and Road. It was gathered that […]

Today In History

1994: Leading Mexican Presidential Candidate Assassinated

Ihesiulo Grace 23 March 2015 0

Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, was gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town of Tijuana. As a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the political party that held power in Mexico for most of the 20th century, Colosio became the protÝgÝ of future Mexican president Carlos Salinas […]