Prince Udugbawa, a Nigerian, has described how God delivered him from drugs through Tony Rapu, the senior pastor of the House of Freedom. Rapu shared a video of Udugbawa's recovery journey on Saturday. The man, who is now married and a pastor, stated in the video that he began using drugs when he was young.
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The family of a lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, Steve Nduka, has called for justice for their son whom they said was killed by Air Force officers attached to 211 Base in Owerri.
Nduka, a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, and a fresh graduate of the department, Chimaobi Nwokoro, were killed in front of the Air Force base located on the Owerri-Aba Expressway before the polytechnic junction on January 25.
The lecturer and three others were riding in a Lexus ES 330 car when they were shot.
They were said to be returning from a church service when the incident happened.
Imo StateAt least 10 police officers of the Imo State Police Command caught in a viral video flogging some Orlu residents have been arrested and undergoing interrogation at Command’s headquarters in Owerri.
The Command’s spokesman, Orlando Ikeokwu, who disclosed this yesterday, said the new Commissioner of Police, Nasiru Mohammed, condemned the inhuman treatment and assault on the residents by the officers around the popular Banana Junction in Orlu recently. x
He said: “In fact, 10 of them are here at the Command facing interrogation. They are still answering questions.”
Ikeokwu had on Thursday issued a statement, which read: “The Commissioner of Police has condemned the inhuman treatment and assault on some yet to be identified persons at Banana Junction, Orlu by some officers of the Command, as seen in a viral video, and ordered the arrest of the officers involved in the infraction.
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ANGER has engulfed Imo State as security agents, whose formation had yet to be identified, have shot dead Steve Nduka, a lecturer at Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, the state capital.
Our correspondent gathered that the lecturer, Steven Nduka, was shot dead in his Toyota ER 330 Sport Utility Vehicle in front of the base of Air Force along Owerri-Aba Road.
A source told our correspondent that some security agents killed Nduka, who was of the Computer Science Department of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, alongside one of his students.
The source said, “The lecturer was driving and suddenly, security agents fired gunshots and the lecturer and fresh graduate of Computer Science of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Nwokoro Chimaobi, were dead.”