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A popular journalist based in Imo State, Mazi Theodore Chinonso Uba, popularly known as Nonsonkwa has been declared missing after he was allegedly abducted by suspected gunmen on Sunday evening.

According to a statement released on his official Facebook account, his abduction happened in front of Teachers’ House along the Owerri/Portharcourt Road, near Ozisa FM Radio.

The statement reads in full ;

“Nonsonkwa is Missing!!!

An alarming report emerged yesterday evening regarding the abduction of Mazi Theodore Chinonso Uba, popularly known as Nonsonkwa, a well-known radio presenter.

According to report, the incident occurred on the evening of October 20, 2024, in front of Teachers’ House along the Owerri/Portharcourt Road, near Ozisa FM Radio.

Every effort made to reach him or get his whereabouts has proved abortive since then. One of his  is completely off while one hasline been ringing without any response!!

Please, anyone with useful information should not hesitate to reach us or the police. His life is at stake ndi Imo and it will be totally unfair to abandon Nonsonkwa at this trying time!!!!

#WhereIsNonsoNkwa
#FreeNonsonkwa

Sign: Nonsonkwa’s Media team.

Meanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, Imo State Police Command is yet to issue any statement over the incident.

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A gas explosion has injured two people in Abdulkareem Haruna, HumAngle regional editor’s house in Maiduguri.

The incident happened on Monday morning during the naming ceremony of the journalist’s newborn child.

It is gathered also that the explosion sends the newborn into coma and has been rushed to the hospital.

This is happening few hours after the journalist posted the child on his Facebook handle, announcing his name to the public.

The explosion, which is believed to have been caused by a faulty gas cylinder has send shockwaves through the neighborhood.

A former regional editor with Premium Times Newspaper, Mr. Haruna is a veteran journalist working in the Northeastern Nigeria for over a decade.

NB: As we await more details of the incident, we sympathize with Mr. Haruna and pray for the recovery of the newborn and others injured.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has given reasons for branding the Africa Cup of Nations tournament as a “little tournament” after a Nigerian journalist confronted him.

Ojora Babatunde of OJB Sports had said, “Hi Jurgen, during your last pre-match presser, you deliberately called the Africa Cup of Nations a ‘little tournament’.

“I think it’s an insult to the players, an insult to the fans, an insult to the people on the continent and I think you owe the continent an apology.”

Klopp explained to the offended journalist that his remark – which came after the 4-0 win against Arsenal on Saturday – was a way of expressing his frustration at losing vital players at an important stage of the season.

Liverpool are set to lose Mohamed Salah, Naby Keita and Sadio Mane for the month-long tournament, which runs from January 9 to February 6.

“In January, there’s a little tournament in Africa, I just want to say, and I think Asia is playing games, too – South America as well, great, can’t wait,” the coach had said on Saturday.

The journalist had said Klopp had insulted the players, fans, people, and continent of Africa with the comment

Klopp while replying during his Champions League post-match press conference after Liverpool had secured a fifth straight win in the competition to beat Porto 2-0 on Wednesday, said, “I didn’t mean it like that. I don’t know why you understand it like that.

“What I meant is, because people said, and if you watch the full press conference, if you wanted to understand it in the right way you could have understood it in the right way. I said ‘there’s no international break anymore until March’ and I said: ‘Oh and there’s a little tournament in January,’ and I didn’t mean a little tournament, just like you say it when there’s still a tournament. It’s ironic. There’s still a tournament. A big one. We lose our best players to the Africa Cup of Nations.

“I’m not a native speaker, but if you want to understand me wrong you can do that all the time. I know that I would never think like this. I never understand why you thought like this to be honest, but that’s really not OK, because I would never do that, but that’s it now.

“It was not my intention, but you made something of it. That’s not so cool as well to be 100 per cent honest.”

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