{"id":282062,"date":"2020-11-15T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282062"},"modified":"2020-11-15T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:27:34","slug":"police-reveal-why-man-set-lover-ablaze-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282062","title":{"rendered":"Police reveal why man set lover ablaze in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Benue Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed a report of a middle-aged man, identified as Nicodemus, who set himself and his girlfriend ablaze in Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s Spokesperson, DSP Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi that Nicodemus died on the spot, while the girlfriend, also identified as Shiminenge, died later at the Benue State Teaching Hospital, Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>Anene explained that Nicodemus committed the act at his girlfriend\u2019s residence on Inkipi Street, High-Level area of Makurdi on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>She said that an argument had ensued between them, adding, however, that the cause of the argument was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Nicodemus had locked himself and the lady in her room before setting the room ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to an eyewitness, there was an argument between the lovers which we are yet to find out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that Nicodemus, while coming to Shiminenge\u2019s house, came along with fuel,\u201d the police spokesperson reported.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbour of Shiminenge also told NAN correspondent that Nicodemus had abandoned his wife and kids for the lady and that trouble ensued when the lady told him of her plan to marry someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNicodemus was not happy with the lady over her decision to leave him for another man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had earlier abandoned his wife and kids for Shiminenge. So, he couldn\u2019t bear the disappointment,\u201d the neighbor, who preferred anonymity, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benue Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed a report of a middle-aged man, identified as Nicodemus, who set himself and his girlfriend ablaze in Makurdi. The command\u2019s Spokesperson, DSP Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi that Nicodemus died on the spot, while the girlfriend, also identified as Shiminenge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3],"tags":[35,7162,5969,61],"class_list":["post-282062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","tag-benue","tag-murder","tag-ortom","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}