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Igangan, a southern Oyo town that shot to prominence amid Yoruba-Fulani tensions early this year, came under a night attack, leaving several persons dead and properties razed. Still and motion pictures obtained by PREMIUM TIMES depict severely hacked and bloodied human bodies, apparently attacked in their homes early Sunday morning. A narrator in one of the videos is heard, saying “these are human bodies on the floor” and blaming the attack on Fulani militias. In that video, at least six bodies could be seen.

Scores of citizens took to the streets and shouted as gunshots rang out in Ado- Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, during an exchange that resulted in an unknown soldier apparently killing an employee of the DSS. The DAILY INDEPENDENT was made aware of the terrible occurrence that occurred at the popular KSSD Hotel located at NTA Road, which occurred Friday evening.   It was said that a soldier had made an indecent proposition to a young guy thought to be an internet fraudster at the Hotel, who had spotted a familiar face just as the military was capturing him, and that it was DSS agent Rick Serros, who was the subject of that allegation. The death of the deceased had an impact on the rest of the group when the corpse became a factor in the soldier' s unwillingness to let the suspect go. After finding out that the DSS (the Ministry of Security) was involved, the soldier allegedly stabbed the DSS employee in the neck, which resulted in his death a few hours later. About an hour after h

Temitope Balogun Joshua, a frontline Nigerian preacher and televangelist, has died, family sources told Peoples Gazette. Mr Joshua, the founder of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), died in Lagos on Saturday evening shortly after concluding a programme at his church, The Gazette learnt from family sources who did not want to be quoted as an official statement was still being prepared. He was 57. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed to The Gazette, but family sources said his remains had been deposited at the morgue and an autopsy would be performed forthwith. Mr Joshua reigned for several decades as a fiery preacher on television, using his platform to attract a large number of Christians from across the world. Emmanuel TV, run by Mr Joshua’s SCOAN, is one of Nigeria’s largest Christian broadcast stations, available worldwide via digital and terrestrial switches. In 2014, his church was at the centre of a multi-national investigation following a section of his ch