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  It was a moment of grief for the victims and a field day for their thugs, who went into Ndiefi-Ishieke village of Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, to cause mayhem. It was gathered that hoodlums numbering over 50 went into 43 compounds situated within a communal land, shot some villagers and destroyed their buildings. Vanguard investigation revealed that 11 persons were injured and 300 persons displaced in the affected community. Confirming the incident, a key stakeholder of Ndiefi-Ishieke village, Dr Nwoba Benjamin, lamented over the attack unleashed on the villagers by some hired thugs. He alleged that what caused the incident was because a particular family was laying claim to the communal land. The claim, according to sources, was what caused agitation among the villagers, who insisted that the communal land doesn’t belong to a particular family, but to every indigene of the affected village. Benjamin alleged that some key stakeholders of said kindred were behind the

  The police in Plateau State has paraded a church Choir Master who killed a 32-year-old lady identified as Ruth Yakadi Bako in Jos North Local Government Area of the State. Late Ruth, a UNIJOS graduate, was stabbed, raped and killed, and her property carted away at Angwan Jarawa in Farin-Gada area of Jos last year December. Speaking to newsmen, the 29-year-old suspect, a father of two, said he raped and killed Ruth after she refused to sleep with him. According to the accused, he sighted her alighting from a commercial vehicle late in the night after closing from work and followed her to a secluded area where he raped her after much struggling. "I am here because I raped and killed someone. I don’t have any reason for what I did but I did it, it is just wickedness of the heart. That day, I just wanted to sleep with her but she refused, due to wickedness, I raped and killed her,” he narrated. "I am a security guard at a filling station at Farin Gada. That day, I was on duty t