EruditeBlog

Fresh accounts have provided a clearer timeline of the events leading to the death of 23 year old Mmesoma Umeora of Awarasi Village, Uga, in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. Mmesoma was reported missing on Friday, October 16, 2026. According to investigative accounts, her former boyfriend, Chima Ofoeke, invited her to his residence in Uga even though the pair had already separated. Ofoeke claimed he had previously rented an apartment for her, paid for her shop, funded her skills training, and provided the sewing machine she used in her business. Mmesoma arrived at the residence on a commercial motorcycle. Before the rider departed, she collected his phone number and instructed him to call her when she was ready to leave so he could return and pick her up. The rider waited, but she never made contact. The following day, the concerned rider attempted to reach her without success. After police issued a public appeal for information on her disappearance and circulated her...

Maazi Nnamdi Kanu's youngest brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu alongside Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel for Maazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been arrested today - October 20, 2025, in Abuja during an earlier scheduled peaceful protest demanding Kanu's unconditional release. The arrest in a report gathered by EruditeNewsBlog, occurred amid a demonstration organized under " #FreeNnamdiKanuNow and #MNKOct20 ," where protesters to wit: supporters of Kanu, including family members, legal team representatives, and activists, gathered to highlight what they describe as Maazi Kanu's unjust prolonged detention and trial. Security forces, including police and possibly army personnel, dispersed the crowd using tear gas before the multiple arrests of protesters including Ejimakor and Kanu's youngest brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu. Ejimakor confirmed the arrest himself via a post on Twitter stating: “We’ve Just Been Arrested... At FCT CID, No 1 Zaria St, Garki 2, Abuja.” ...

Lagos Island was today September 16, 2025, engulfed by chaos, as multiple fire outbreaks tore through some parts of the city buildings including markets within hours, leaving a trail of destruction and economic loss. The fires, which struck Afriland Tower on Broad Street and several plazas near Mandilas Market, destroyed goods and properties worth millions of naira, injured several people, and exposed critical gaps in the city’s fire safety infrastructure. In a report by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the first blaze erupted at approximately 1:24 PM today at Afriland Tower, a six-storey commercial building on Broad Street housing offices, including a branch of United Bank for Africa (UBA). The Federal Fire Service (FFS) traced the fire’s origin to the inverter room in the basement, with thick smoke rapidly spreading to upper floors. Panic gripped workers as escape routes became inaccessible, forcing some to leap from windows on the sixth floor and higher. Video below captured the harro...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State has called on Nigerians to abandon the long-standing superstition surrounding the last four months of the year, popularly known as the "ember months,"  emphasising that there is no mystery or peculiarity attached to September, October, November, and December that makes them inherently dangerous, contrary to widespread beliefs. According to Mr. Akinwunmi Fasakin, the Ogun State FRSC Sector Commander, who stated this while speaking on the theme: “Safety on Our Roads and the Ember Months Mystery.” at the monthly congress of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ogun State Information Chapel, held in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, on Tuesday, 9th of September, 2025, the public should discard myths that attribute increased accidents, criminal activities, and misfortunes during these months to spiritual or supernatural causes. He however highlighted human, vehicular, and environmental factors as the primary reasons for the spik...

The security operatives at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK), Anambra State, - UNIZIK Security Department , have in a decisive move to protect the university assets, arrested two individuals who did guise as scavengers - for reportedly stealing valuable property of the institution. According to a statement sourced from the security department and made available to EruditeNewsBlog, the suspects who are being identified as Shehu Ibrahim and Sadiq Haruna, were apprehended on Wednesday, 4th September, 2025, following a meticulous investigation into the theft of an air conditioning unit from the university’s printing press. "Ibrahim and Haruna had been posing as scavengers, blending into the campus environment to avoid suspicion. Under this pretext, they allegedly targeted and stole valuable university property, exploiting their access to restricted areas.. During investigation, we uncovered evidence linking the duo to the theft. Meanwhile, a search conducted at the ...

The Acting Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Prof. Carol Arinze-Umobi, following the tragic death of Miss Isabella Chioma Ajana, a 100-level law student, has suspended doctors, nurses, and security personnel on duty at the UNIZIK Medical Centre on the day of the incident, citing negligence to have contributed to the student’s untimely passing. In a press statement by the Acting VC, the suspension is going to run for 3 months in the first instance, during which all investigations would have been concluded. She also called for the immediate dismissal of the hostel supervisor of Elmada Hostel, who was in custody of the spare key and couldn't return it after repeated calls on her, adding that the relationship between the hostel and the university will be re-evaluated. See full statement below: Recall that, Miss Chioma Ajana, a 100L student of Law in the school and a Type 1 diabetes patient, passed away on Friday, July 4, 2025, after a series of events that b...

A 100L student of Law in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka identified as Miss Ajana Isabella who is being said to have been battling with diabetes, reportedly breathed her last in early hours of Wednesday, 9th July 2025 due to the negligence of her hostel - Elmada. According to reports made available to eruditenewsblog, her demise was as a result of the hostel's management refusal to allow her have access to her room spare key after she lost her's. "The hostel has this policy that an inmate in a room of 3, who lost his or her key has to pay a sum of 40k per head before gaining access to the spare key, this is to discourage the students from being careless with their keys. And Isabella pleaded with the said management to wit: Aunty Ukamaka and Madam Bright who were on morning session the said day about her chronic illness and the need to retrieve her medication (insulin) from inside her room but the hostel managers asked her and her roommates to pay the said fixed ...

Some Muslim youths are reportedly planning a protest in Sokoto State to demand the release of two suspects arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu. According to report, the youths agreed to meet at the Gawon Nama Roundabout by 9am. This was disclosed in a notice circulating online and two phone numbers were scribbled on the notice but the date of the meeting was not stated in the e-flyer written in Hausa. The translated version of the notice read, “We are calling on Muslims in Sokoto State to gather where there was a riot to save brethren in Islam that are battling the faith of Islam and upholding the respect of prophet of Allah S.A.W.” The Police Public Relations Officer in Sokoto, Sanusi Abubabar, confirmed the brewing protest in a telephone interview with News Agency Of Nigeria on Saturday. “We are on top of the situation,” he said, adding that the police authorities in Sokoto are in talks with leaders of thoughts and opinion moulders in ...

One of Deborah’s coursemates, identified simply as Rakia, told NAN that Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College Education, Sokoto, who was killed on Thursday for allegedly “making blasphemous statements about Prophet Muhammad (SAW) had pleaded for mercy and called out for help before she died. Narrating the incident, she said Deborah was flogged, killed, and burnt and it was the most horrible thing she has ever witnessed. Her words: “Deborah was my course mate. I just stepped into the class when the uproar on her voice note started." ”It was her own coursemates that started it. One of them said Deborah dared them by refusing to apologise when she was asked to. It all started with a debate on the upcoming examination on a general WhatsApp platform created for our coursemates. One of the students asked her how she passed the last semester’s examination and in response, she said it was ‘Jesus o.’ “Immediately, about three other chats came in from two Muslims an...

The young lady, simply identified as Mirabel who trended in a viral video having carnal knowledge with a dog in the Lekki area of Lagos has reportedly died of infection at a private hospital in Yaba. According Daily Independent online edition, and several other News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) she died of canine brucellosis on Monday. Reports gathered that the lady had been on admission since Sunday last week after she collapsed and went into a coma. It was also added that the deceased confessed to the doctor when the test result showed that she was suffering from what looks like canine brucellosis, and which can only be contracted from a dog. According to the medic, canine brucellosis is a contagious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium, BrucellaCanis (B. canis). She said bacterial infection is highly contagious among dogs. Infected dogs usually develop an infection of the reproductive system or a sexually transmitted disease. The doctor in charge of the hospital said, ...

A 25-year-old lady identified as Faith Aigbe was reportedly, lured by one Friday Ogieriakhi Iguodeyala who claims to be the Ohen of Uho community in Edo State, to his house and brutally assaulted the her, and left her to die inside a locked Lexus jeep. The incident occurred yesterday (Thursday, 9th September, 2021). Reports gathered that, Mr. Friday has been pestering the young lady, for a relationship despite married to 4 wives, but ended up luring her to a location, where she informed him that she is planning her introductory marriage, enraged by the information, he beat the young girl mercilessly until she became unresponsive, then dragged her into his tinted Lexus 350, and drove her to a hospital in the community. He parked his car in the hospital, with the young girl inside and fled, without alerting the hospital emergency teams to administer treatment or first aid to her. Faith's family members, after waiting for their daughter to return, went in search of her. One of Mr. Fri...