…State Police Command said it had begun a manhunt for the abductors of the Catholic priest The Chaplain of St. Mary’s Hospital, Okpoga, in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State has been abducted by suspected gunmen. He was said to have been kidnapped along Okpoga-Ojapo Road at about 5pm on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Benue
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…as the Catholic Diocese of Awka disassociates self from the priest’s business transactions The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Hon. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, has adjourned to January 24, 25, 26, 2023, for continued proceeding in the case between the Inspector General of Police (Complainant) and Rev. Father Ejike Nwankwo, (Defendant).
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An Owerri-based legal practitioner, Uche Ejimonye, has narrated how gunmen kidnapped two Catholic church priests after shooting his father-in-law, Valentine Enwerem, dead. The lawyer, in a statement to his colleagues, which was obtained by our correspondent in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Monday, said the killers of his father-in-law trailed him from Amaraku in
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The Imo state police command has paraded a thirty one (31) years old man, Osuagwu Kenneth, from Umukita Nnariambia in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo state, for kidnapping a fourty two (42) years old catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Odoemene Augustine, the parish priest of St. Jude catholic parish Umueze 2 in Ehime Mbano
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