{"id":8315,"date":"2021-05-31T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2021-05-31T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T14:50:53","slug":"south-east-nigeria-unknown-gunmen-strike-kill-ex-enugu-high-court-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=8315","title":{"rendered":"South -East Nigeria:\u00a0 Unknown\u00a0 Gunmen Strike, Kill Ex-Enugu High Court Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">South -East Nigeria:\u00a0 Unknown\u00a0 Gunmen Strike, Kill Ex-Enugu High Court Judge<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">A former Judge of the Enugu State High Court, Justice Stanley Nnaji, has been shot dead by gunmen.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Police has described the location as the popular Ebeano Tunnel Roundabout off Garden Avenue in Enugu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">A volley of shots was heard before the men jumped into the black SUV and drove away.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Enugu Police Commissioner Mohammed Aliyu has ordered a full-scale manhunt of armed assailants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Justice Nnaji was a Judge of the Enugu State High Court until he was dismissed following his role in the removal of Governor Chris Ngige, the then Governor of Anambra State in 2007 via a questionable ex-parte order.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">His killing\u00a0came hours after the former Special Adviser on politics to President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead by gunmen in Owerri, Imo State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Gulak was on his way to Abuja from Owerri when he was killed Saturday night.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Source: National Mail Online<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South -East Nigeria:\u00a0 Unknown\u00a0 Gunmen Strike, Kill Ex-Enugu High Court Judge A former Judge of the Enugu State High Court, Justice Stanley Nnaji, has been shot dead by gunmen. 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