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It almost became a full-on war as suspected cultists invaded the Jesse Police Station in Jesse, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State in the early hours of Wednesday in an attempt to free some robbery suspects. The Delta State Police command confirmed the death of two persons after the attack. The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onowhakpoyeya, who confirmed the attack, said that “two persons were shot dead after they attacked the Jesse Police Station cell this early morning and attempted to free some robbery suspects, in fact, they had actually broken the key of the cell when Policemen on duty, reenforced and went after them and two of them were shot dead in the process” she said. But a source at the community who craved anonymity revealed that the police were economical with the truth “the truth is that one of those Yahoo boys had an issue with another one involving money and one chased the other into the police station with a machete, and right there he

The Kogi state government has rejected the new data from the Nigeria Center for Disease Center NCDC that states that two confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the state.   The NCDC in its data released for Wednesday, May 27, said two cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in the state that was hitherto free of the disease.   However, in a statement released this morning, the Kogi State Commissioner of Health,  Saka Haruna Audu, said the state government has developed “full testing capacity” and “conducted hundreds of tests” which have come back negative. The government says they would not be party to any ''fictitious COVID-19 claims''   “Kogi State till this very moment is Covid-19 free. We have developed full testing capacity and have conducted hundreds of tests so far which have come back negative. We have also continued to insist that we will not be a party to any fictitious COVID-19 claims which is why we do not recognise any COVID-19 test conducted by