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Police Recover Corpse Of Missing Bayelsa Real Estate Worker With Gunshot Wound, Dumped In Forest

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According to the State Police Command, his lifeless body was discovered by operatives of the Rapid Response Unit on Saturday around 6pm.

Ekpeboh Richard, a Bayelsa-based real estate operator, has been found dead in a forest along the New NDDC road in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.

According to the State Police Command, his lifeless body was discovered by operatives of the Rapid Response Unit on Saturday around 6pm.

The police source revealed that the deceased was shot in the head in an execution-style manner and dumped in the bush.

The late Mr Ekpeboh had been declared missing by his family earlier in the week.

He was the Vice Chairman of the Real Estate Consultants Association of Bayelsa, and hailed from Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the state. He was married with two kids.

He left home on the 24th of July 2025 and the wife became worried at about 2am when he failed to return home.

According to family sources, all calls by the worried wife were not answered for three days.

Later he answered via a chat and reportedly asked her not to mount unnecessary pressure on him and that he was okay.

“Further prompting by the wife that she would reach out to the extended family to ask him why he abandoned the house was met by a promise to send money via POS. A sun of N15,300 was purportedly sent to a POS agent and not her account”

“He also revealed that he was owing two persons N9 million and N3 million within the association.

But it was later discovered that those who abducted and killed him were the ones using his phone to chat with his worried wife.

According to some friends and colleague of the deceased, they later reported the matter to the police and the men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) headed by CSP Bishop Elemide.

The RRS operatives, working on intelligence, cooperation of youths and an eyewitness, discovered that two young men in a blue Coloured Honda car had dragged the deceased out and taken him deep into the forest. What was heard later were two gunshots. And the two young men scampered to their car and left.

They also left with the deceased car, a Toyota Matrix car.

Police investigators discovered that there was a struggle between the deceased and his killers with footwear discovered a few metres from where the body was discovered.

Sources at the Police Headquarters said that the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation department may take over the case and are already working on the facts.

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Man in shock after lady he lodged with in a hotel in Abuja flees with his car and other valuables

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A Nigerian man is currently in shock after a young lady identified as Precious Chinyere , whom he took to a hotel in the Asokoro area in the FCT for a romantic getaway allegedly fled with his car and other personal belongings on Thursday, February 5,

The distraught man and Precious had visited the hotel and opted for a short time stay. Things took a different in the evening when the man noticed Precious had left the hotel room without notifying him and took along with her some of his personal belongings including phones and laptop and also his car.

The victim immediately reported the incident to the police.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, SP Josephine Adeh, told LIB that the matter is currently being investigated and that efforts are being made to apprehend the suspect.

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US Reacts As De@th Toll In Kwara Terror Attacks Hits 200

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The United States Mission in Nigeria has condemned the k!lling of more than 200 civilians in recent attacks on communities in Kwara State.

Recall that terrorists launched de@dly attacks on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday night, k!lling unsuspecting citizens.

It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the villages, opened fire on residents and burned homes.

According to reports, the de@th toll from the unfortunate incident hit 200 on Thursday night.

Reacting, the US Mission Nigeria condemned the k!lling via a post on its official X handle.

The post reads, “The United States condemns the horrific attack in Kwara state in Nigeria, which claimed the lives of more than 160 people, with the de@th toll still unconfirmed and many still unaccounted for.

“We express our deepest condolences to the families of those affected by this senseless violence.

“We welcome President Tinubu’s order to deploy security forces to protect villages in the area and his directive to federal and state officials to provide aid to the community and bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.”

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“I’ll never settle for a barber, yahoo boy or a poor man” — nail tech’s list of men she says she can’t marry sparks reactions online

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A Nigerian nail technician has set social media talking after openly listing the kind of men she says she can never settle for.

In a now-viral post, she stated clearly that she refuses to “settle for less” and went on to mention professions and traits she considers a no-go area.

According to her, she can never settle for a barber, an aza man, a yahoo boy, a mechanic, an actor, a laundry man, a hype man, or a plumber. She also added that she wouldn’t marry a man with a high body count or a poor man.

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