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Five persons have been declared missing after Enwhe and Igbide communities of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta state clashed over a disputed plot of land. A woman with six and half month-old pregnancy was shot dead during the clash. It was gathered that the five missing persons comprising three women and two men had not been seen by their relatives since last Monday clash. The victims were from Enwhe community, one of the communities claiming ownership of the disputed land which could be dated back to 1967. But Igbide community on other hand also claimed that one Prince Palmer Obukeni and a woman with six and a half month old pregnancy were also shot dead during the clash. A source in the community in a statement said that trouble started when some women from Enwhe who had gone to harvest cassava on Monday morning were alleged attacked by suspected gunmen from Igbide at the site of the disputed land. The Enwhe community women who escap...

Armed youths, believed to be land-grabbers, last weekend, stormed a prayer ground in Umudioka, Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State, and beat to comatose one Kenechukwu Nebeolisa and some prayer warriors for allegedly invoking the wrath of God on them. Nebeolisa had invited the prayer warriors to the community to ward off all manner of evils, including land-grabbing, intimidation, harassment, robbery and thug activities in the community. It was gathered that in the middle of the vigil by Nebeolisa and the prayer warriors, some armed youths stormed the prayer ground and beat everybody there to a pulp, for invoking God’s wrath on them. Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the youths, Nnebolisa said: “They said I did not take permission from them before inviting the prayer warriors to curse them; that as those in charge of the youths in Ezi-Awka, I must take permission from them. “Those youths have been going about extorting money, beating up people and taking...