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Some chiefs and residents of Ilashe Ijesa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Thursday narrated how the monach of the town, Oba Adesina Anibijuwon, was killed by suspected members of Odua People’s Congress, who allegedly strangled him and left his corpse inside his residence which they set ablaze. Those who recovered his corpse from the building said the charred remains of Anibijuwon were taken to the mortuary at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Osogbo by Osun Ambulance Service at around 10.30pm on Wednesday. The ambulance that conveyed the remains of the monarch was said to have been escorted to the mortuary by armed policemen and some residents. The residents feared that those who killed him might want to seize his corpse. Some residents who also spoke with our correspondent said the officials of the state fire service, who came to put out the inferno, ran out of water. Some residents wondered why some chiefs in the tow

The French hostage held for 11 months in Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect said he made his audacious run for freedom after his captor left a key in the door by mistake. Francis Collomp, speaking on the TF1 channel on Thursday, described how on the night of November 16 one of his captors entered the dungeon where he was kept to perform the ablutions required for Islamic prayer, but left the keys on the door. “While he was in the bathroom, very quietly I opened the closed door. I had all my things ready to leave and then I locked it (behind me),” AFP quoted the 63-year-old engineer as saying on TFI channel. “I ran into an alley towards the main road, then on the road I started walking quickly so that no one would notice me,” he said. After trekking for four to five kilometres, Collomp found a motorcycle taxi, which took him to a police station in Zaria, a nearby town. The Frenchman was abducted at gunpoint in Katsina State last December, and was held for nine months in

                                                                  The Yoruba movie industry is bereaved once again as one of its actresses, Falilat Okerede Oketayo has reportedly passed away. This is coming not long after they lost two other people. First it was the death of a 32-year-old Jane Atayero-Oluseye , followed closely by that of veteran actor, Pa Ola Ogungbe and now this one. Falilat who is a member of the Association of Theatre Arts Practitioner of Nigeria, ANTP, in Ogun State reportedly died on Tuesday at her residence in Sagamu, Ogun State. According to report, she died after a brief illness. She is survived by two children, an aged father and siblings. She was described by ANTP in Ogun State as a versatile,