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VDM, Anambra Youths Stage Protest Walk Against Killings Over Fish Magnet https://ift.tt/PSzF1wh #Issues #Aguata #Anambra #Azuka #FishMagnet #Ihiala #oba #Okoye ©August 7th, 2025 ®August 7, 2025 5:57 am Anambra is no doubt one of the states in Nigeria experiencing incessant and very high rates of kidnapping that in some cases do lead to the death of the abducted victims and killing of security operatives and some other persons around the scene of the mostly monetary crimes of hostage taking for a ransom, specifically, our crime reporters gathered that there is hardly no week without one or two persons being kidnapped along the Onitsha-Owerri Federal road in Anambra state, especially between Oba community and Ihiala town, as we gathered that, most victims of kidnapping in the state are hard working small and medium-sized business owners who most of whom struggled out of poverty to become wealthy successful traders, this, we learnt, there maybe no wealthy successful business owner along the Ihiala-Orlu road left to be kidnapped or forced to pay ransom to the kidnappers, while in Oba, wealthy people are being kidnapped quietly and ransom in millions are paid in silence to the kidnappers, according to members of the community, a young successful businessman was kidnapped recently at a location between the Oba New Road and Old Road junctions shortly after he visited his building construction site, while we also learnt that some people in the state do report or contract their friends to kidnappers just to get a share from the ransom that will be paid afterwards or when such people have issue or dispute with their friends or co-traders, it may interest you to know that, the Anambra State Police Command recently arrested a 24-year-old male suspect, Muanaenye Victor, for allegedly luring his friend to be kidnapped by his criminal gang in Uli, Ihiala local government area of the state and they reportedly collected a ransom in dollars equivalent to ₦5.3 million with his gang members, just as gunmen in a not too long distance time, abducted a lawyer and two other persons in Nkpologwu, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra, in addition to previous cases of kidnapping of the owner of De Porsche Club, Chief Ebere Orji by unknown gunmen after the gunmen killed numbers of persons along the new Oba-Nnewi road in Idemili South Local government area of Anambra State, with the number of those killed at the Porsche Nightclub said to be seven but one of the security operatives was beheaded, and another had his foot cut off and made away with by the invading deadly kidnappers, this occurred shortly after, a well known native doctor or witch doctor, Chidozie Nwangwu a.k.a Akwa Okuko Tiwaraki was kidnapped, after his two personal Ghana Defense Minister, Other Top Govt Officials Dead In Helicopter Crash https://ift.tt/4CDJdmK #Breaking News #Accra #Ghana #Obuasi ©August 6th, 2025 ®August 6, 2025 6:55 pm Ghana Minister of Defence, Edward Omane Boamah alongside seven other top government officials and military personnel have been confirmed dead, after Ghana Armed Forces in a statement on Wednesday had declared the Z9 Military helicopter missing, stating, the helicopter traveling from the nation capital in Accra to Obuasi in Ashanti region went off from radar at 9:12am with three crew members and five passengers onboard. #OsazuwaAkonedo Anambra In Search Of Justice Over Fish Magnet Killing - Govt https://ift.tt/2diqs0h #Issues #Anambra #FishMagnet ©August 3rd, 2025 ®August 3, 2025 6:40 pm Anambra state government under the leadership of Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has said that the state is currently in search of justice over the killing of a young and creative fish farmer, Martins Ifesinachi Onyekesi, well known by his business name as Fish Magnet, who was reportedly shot on the leg while being kidnapped on Sunday 27th July 2025, at his residence in Ezinifite village, Okpuno in Awka, the Anambra state capital, this, Dr. George Moghalu, the Labour Party Candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state said that Anambra State is no longer safe, adding that, people are being killed, slaughtered for their families to bury in