BAYELSA March 8 Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates have attacked a Yenagoa bound commercial boat, shooting two passengers including a pregnant woman in Bayelsa State. News monitored on Channels Television on Thursday indicated that the pregnant woman, known as Gulu Leghemo, was shot in the stomach and has been taken to a medical facility in Koluama II community. She was taken alongside a young man simply known as Billy that was also shot by the suspected sea pirates. The boat was said to be travelling from Koluama to Yenagoa, the state capital, when the pirates attacked the passengers between Koluama I and II axis of the waterways. Chairman of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigerian Maritime Workers Union, Llord Sese, confirmed the incident. He said apart from shooting the passengers, the pirates also went away with a 200 horsepower engine belonging to one Sunday Leghemo, as well as the personal belongings of the passengers. Sese also confirmed that the robbe...
EDO March 7 Six Bureau De Change (BDC) operators at Third junction, near Ekiosa market, Benin City, Edo State, were yesterday injured, as suspected hoodlums attempted to extort money from them. The Nation learnt that hard currencies were stolen from the operators The situation caused panic at Third junction, as traders locked shops and ran. Eyewitnesses said the hoodlums stormed BDC operators’ offices in an attempt to extort money from them, but the operators resisted them. They said in the melee, six operators were injured, while the hoodlums looted shops. One of the traders, whose money was stolen, Muhammad Basiru , alleged that a hoodlum had been coming to beg them for money. He alleged that they were surprised when the hoodlum invited his friends to steal hard currencies from them. The Chairman of Hausa Community in Edo State, Alhaji Gbadamasi Saliu , said he was in his office when he received a call that hoodlums had attacked the Hausa trading in hard currencies ...