Breaking News: UBA Complex Marina Lagos on Fire

UBA Complex Marina Lagos is reported to be on fire. Greenwich news gathered that the fire is affecting neighbouring buildings. No attempt is being made to put off the fire at the time of press.

Nigerian Idol: Audition train Set to Move to Owerri

After a successful outing in Port Harcourt, the Nigerian Idol audition train is set to move to Owerri, capital of Imo State, in search of promising talents for the third season of the Etisalat sponsored music reality TV show.

The Port Harcourt audition was attended by many aspiring contestants, including those who had no idea of what music is all about.

Some contestants from last season also tried to see if they would scale through the auditions.

One of them, Oguadu Chinedu, said, “I have come back to finish what I started last year. I believe this is my time to shine.”

To douse the tension at the event, artistes Kay Switch and Waconzy thrilled the wannabe stars.

Two Policemen Arrested Over Rape of Pregnant Woman in Damaturu

Two Mobile Policemen were yesterday arrested by JTF for allegedly raping a pregnant ward head wife in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
Greenwich news  gathered that the woman was on her way to her matrimonial home at Ajari area when the alleged rapists intercepted her and forcefully had sex with her.

“They threatened her life and had sex with her, when she broke the sad news to us we reported the matter to the JTF, and they arrested them for investigation,” a source revealed.

He added that “Women complain of harassment by the police around where she was raped (Tashar Kurma); that is why we reported the matter to the JTF for quick action and justice.”

Yobe State Police Commissioner, Patrick Egbuniwe confirmed the incidence saying that “affected policemen have been arrested and investigation is on to determine the authenticity of the matter.”

Amid Suffering Of Rivers State Residents From Flood Disaster, Gov. Amaechi Purchases $50m Jet

According to an investigation by Greenwich news, Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has acquired a brand new Bombardier Global 5000 (N565RS) exclusively for his use.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s Global 5000 Bombardier Jet

This is coming at a time when residents of the garden city are displaced by the worst flood crisis ever witnessed in the state.
The newly purchased jet it is learnt, left Montreal-Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Quebec to Dakar Yoff International Airport from where it was delivered to the state government on October 7th 2012.
The jet was primarily purchased from Bombardier in Canada for $45.7 million through the Bank of Utah Trustee account. “This is an ungodly act,” said a Port Harcourt-based human rights campaigner. “Why should Governor Amaechi’s priority be to acquire a jet at a time the state is experiencing the worst flooding in its history, leaving many Rivers indigenes homeless?” he queried.

Rivers State owned Embraer Legacy 3000 jet sold to Cross River state at a giveaway price.

It would be recalled that just last year, Gov. Amaechi traded off the state’s current Embraer Legacy 600 claiming it was too expensive to maintain. But then it beats one’s imagination why the state government will embark on another waste of public funds.
Already, the oil-rich Rivers State parades an AW139 helicopter operated by Aero Contractors on lease. In a rather bizarre twist, the state then turned around to patronize Aero’s VIP Sikorsky S76C helicopter at a cost one critic described as “exorbitant and unjustified.”

Westland(AW) 139 leased to Aero Contractors

Last year, the state government sold its Dash 8-Q200 aircraft to Cross River State for $6 million. Cross River State then leased the plane to Aero Contractors to undertake commercial flights to and from Obudu airstrip in the state.

Church of England Set for November 20 Vote on Women Bishops

The Church of England is to vote on November 20 on whether to allow the ordination of women bishops, the culmination of more than 10 years of debate on one of the most divisive issues within the Anglican community.

Women already serve as bishops in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, but the Church of England, the mother church for the world's 80 million Anglicans, has struggled to reconcile the dispute between reformers and traditionalists on whether to allow them in England.

The vote in the Church's General Synod is expected to be close, but there is reason to believe the proposed legislation will gain the two-thirds majority it needs to pass, said William Fittall, Secretary General to the Synod.

"The expectation in the Church of England and outside the Church is this is going to go through...(but) the arithmetic is tight," Fittall said in a media briefing.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has expressed his strong backing for allowing female bishops, but has underlined the need to respect more traditional views also.

The proposed legislation makes provision for parishes which for theological reasons object to senior women clergy.

"Our challenge has been and still is to try and make it good news even for those within our fellowship who have conscientious doubts," Williams said in an essay this month.

About 50 traditionalist priests have left the Church of England, taking up an offer from Pope Benedict to switch to Rome after they became alienated by the prospect of the changes.

Each of the 44 member churches in the Anglican Communion can decide for itself whether to allow women bishops. Many Anglicans in developing countries are strongly opposed to women clergy.

The vote comes at a time when the Anglican Church is facing division over the ordination of gay bishops which has pitted liberal church leaders in the United States and Britain against more conservative figures in places such as Africa.

If the law on women bishops is passed in November it will be a triumph for supporters who have battled to see women don the mitre, the bishop's hat that signifies the authority to ordain priests, head dioceses and claim a link back to the original Twelve Apostles.

But if a two-thirds majority of the assembly does not approve the draft legislation, it will take at least another five years for a new motion on women bishops to come about, Fittall said.

Williams is stepping down as archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the year and the panel choosing his successor is under pressure to name one soon. Commentators speculate the secretive panel is split over choosing a reformer or a safe pair of hands to maintain the status quo in a post that dates back 1,400 years.

Gov Suntai Flown to Germany for Medical Treatment

Scene of the plane accident

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, involved in a plane crash in Yola on Thursday, has been evacuated from the Yola Specialist Hospital, where he was receiving treatment to Abuja enroute Germany.

The Ambulance conveying him and other medical personnels attending to him departed  the hospital  for the Yola international airport, at about 12.15pm, under heavy security.

A medical source however told Greenwich news that he was in a stable condition. He said the Governor sustained fracture on his right hand and some facial bruises.

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan Friday afternoon visited Governor Suntai at the National Hospital, Abuja before his departure to Germany.

Taraba State Governor Involved In Plane Crash.

The governor of Taraba State Dambaba Suntai, 51, was involved in a plane crash this evening.
There are conflicting reports on whether he was killed today in a plane he piloted which crashed at the Yola airport in Adamawa state. Greenwich news gathered that his body has been evacuated from the crash site and we cannot independently confirm that Suntai is dead.
Reports claim there were two survivors from the crash.

Teacher Flogs Secondary School Student to Death

A 12-year-old pupil of a secondary school in Awka, Anambra State, Miss Chidimma Ukachukwu, has died after she was allegedly flogged by her teacher for failing to do her homework.

A reliable source in the school told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Tuesday that the girl died on Thursday last week after she was flogged.

The source explained that the girl (not the image shown) fainted after being flogged severally by a female teacher and was subsequently rushed to an undisclosed hospital, where she died.

The source also told NAN that the Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Uju Okeke, then ordered the closure of the school as a result of the incident.

A NAN correspondent, who visited the girl’s family home, soon after she was buried on Tuesday in Awka, reports that the family was in grief.

The girl’s father, Mr. Simeon Ukachukwu, confirmed the incident, saying it was a sad development. He added that it was an act of God.

But when Okeke was contacted, she denied ordering the closure of the school and said that the school was on midterm break.

NAN investigation, however, revealed that schools in the state were not on midterm break.

This fact was corroborated by an official of the Nigerian Union of Teachers in Akwa South Local Government Area.

The Chairperson of the union in the local government, Miss Buife Ndigwe, told NAN that primary and secondary schools in the state would go on midterm break next week.

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Mr. Ralph Uzoigwe, said that the matter had not been reported to the police, but promised that it would be investigated.

African Cup Of Nations: CAF to hold draws in South Africa Today

The 35-year old African Cup of Nations soccer game drawing for 2013 will hold today in South Africa according to an official release from the Confederation of African Football (CAF).



The soccer event  which was formally held held every 2 years had its format changed during the last assembly of CAF,  the competition will now run every odd-numbered year.



A total of 16 teams, including host South Africa, have qualified for the recently concluded 2013 CAF African Cup of Nations qualifying series across the continent.  The other national soccer teams participating include Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, and Zambia.



According to the pool that will be used to do the balloting today Nigeria may likely be in the same group as Cote D'ivoire and Ghana.



The Technical Committee Chairman of the Nigeria football association, Barrister Chris Green, Head Coach of the Super Eagles Stephen Okechukwu Keshi and the Secretary of Nigeria's soccer team, Super Eagles, Mr. Dayo Achor, are already on the ground to represent Nigeria.



Below is the event schedule as released by CAF:



Wed. 24th Oct. 2012



11 am (Media expected at 10:30am) ICC Durban



Room 22



Draw of the 29th AFCON 2013 Wed. 24th Oct. 2012



08:30pm (Media expected at 06:30pm) ICC Durban



Press conference (CAF - LOC) Thu. 25th Oct. 2012



10:30 am (Media expected at 10; 00am) SunCoast (Delano room)

Man In Court Over His Facebook Comments On Governor

The Bauchi state Police Command has arraigned a civil servant Abbas Ahmed before a Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defaming the character of Governor Isa Yuguda Facebook.

Ahmed was alleged to have accused the governor of spending huge public funds on the wedding of his son.

Police prosecutor, Sergeant Rufai Ahmed, told the court that the State Criminal Investigation Department received a request from the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Almustapha Suleiman, to investigate the case of injurious falsehood and defamation contrary to Section 393, 394 of the Penal Code.

Chief Magistrate Mohammed Kafin Madaki granted the application and remanded the suspect in police custody, and adjourned the suit to tomorrow for further mention.

Shock as Brazilian Man Interrupts His Own Funeral

A Brazilian family said they did not realize a body had been misidentified as a family member until the “dead” man interrupted his own funeral.
The family of Gilberto Araujo, 41, of Alagoinhas, said they had not seen the car washer for four months when they misidentified the body of a similar-looking man as their family member Sunday, G1 reported Tuesday.

Araujo said he learned about Monday’s funeral plans from an acquaintance and called a friend who was attending the service, but the mourners refused to believe he was still alive until he showed up in person and interrupted the ceremony.

Araujo’s brother said the family does not see him very often and he is often found living in different places, so they had no reason to believe the body was not Araujo.
The body has been returned to police, who are trying to determine the dead man’s true identity.

Nollywood Actor, Pete Eneh Has His Leg Amputated

It was tears and anguish at the Parklane Hospital, Enugu, Enugu State Tuesday, when veteran actor, Pete Eneh underwent a major surgery where one of his legs was amputated.

Pete Eneh, a diabetic had a slight injury on set which sources say "he ignored". The injury failed to heal and in January, he was advised by his doctors to have his leg amputated.

The veteran actor couldn't bring himself to undergo such an operation. The health situation got even more critical and since July he had been in the Amenity ward. The injury at this point had deteriorated so much that the doctors say the amputation has to be done from the mid-thigh.

Pete Eneh was surrounded by his immediate family at the Park-lane Hospital yesterday. He appeared so sad and managed to comfort his wife who lamented and wailed with grief. "The journey has just started," he was quoted saying, "and we will finish it."

Hospital sources believe the surgery should have taken place at press time.

Pregnant women who eat Chicken and Chips could be harming their babies as much as heavy smokers - Experts

Pregnant women who eat large amounts of chips and crisps could be harming their babies as much as smokers, a new European study suggests.

Women and babies from England, Denmark, Greece, Norway and Spain were tested for levels of a potentially toxic chemical found in fried potatoes.

It found babies from Bradford, who represented England, had the highest levels and lower birth weights.

The study was led by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology.

Researchers found infants born to women with a high dietary intake of the chemical, called acrylamide, were found to be 132g (4.6oz) lighter than babies born to mothers who had a low intake.

They also found the infants' heads were up to 0.33cm smaller.

Tracking the health

Researchers said the size of a child's head has been associated with delayed neurodevelopment, while lower birth weights have been associated with adverse health effects in early life and as children grow up.

The study, led by the Barcelona-based centre, is claimed to be the first in humans to examine the association between acrylamide exposure during pregnancy and birth outcomes.

Prof John Wright, from the Bradford Institute for Health Research, said: "The effect of acrylamide is comparable with the well-known adverse effect of smoking on birth weight."

The study looked at the diet of 1,100 pregnant women and newborns from the five European countries.

The babies taken to represent England were drawn from the Born in Bradford project, which is tracking the health of more than 13,500 babies from womb to adulthood.

Dr Laura Hardie, from the University of Leeds, said: "One hundred and eighty six women from the Born in Bradford study took part in this major European research programme.

"We found that their babies had the highest levels of acrylamide out of all the five centres - almost twice the level of the Danish babies.

"When we investigated their diet it was clear that the largest source of dietary acrylamide is from chips."

Prof Wright said women's diet in Bradford was similar to the rest of the UK.

"The UK tends to have high levels of acrylamide in the diet and this is a reflection of the type of diet that we have.

"We eat a lot of chips and crisps in this country - we eat something like 10 billion packets of crisps a year, that is more than the rest of Europe put together."

Okada Riders go on the rampage in Lagos, Damage BRT Buses

Scores of commercial motorcycle operators popularly known as Okada riders yesterday stormed some parts of Lagos State to protest government clampdown damaging no fewer than 10 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses.

The Okada riders who were said to be piqued by the state government’s enforcement of the new traffic law that led to impounding of over 5000 commercial motorcycles in the state went violent, sabotaging government-owned transport system. The violent protest, which started in Ikorodu area of the state spread to other parts of the state including Ojota, Onipanu and Ejigbo axis. The angry Okada operators, who were prevented from carrying out their activities on the restricted routes, mobilised in groups attacking both the BRT and LAGBUS buses, even as they inflicted injuries on some of the passengers.

Greenwich News gathered that there was apprehension at the bus stops, leaving many commuters stranded as commercial bus operators avoided the routes until a team of policemen from the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) was quickly deployed to the area to quell the protest. Daily Sun learnt that some of the protesters arrested by the police were whisked away in police vans. In Ejigbo, Okada riders took over the road, leading to traffic gridlock in the area while they carried leaves and chanted anti-government and solidarity songs.

The Okada riders who vowed to resist governmen’s restriction rejected the ban placed on them from plying 475 roads in Lagos, saying it would cripple their businesses. Speaking on the attack on BRT buses, the spokesperson of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, Mr. Kolawole Ojelabi said the irate Okada operators damaged both BRT and LAGBUS buses.

He said information reaching him from the scene of the protest showed that five BRT buses were destroyed by the protesters. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ngozi Braide who confirmed the protest, said the police moved swiftly to quell the protest.

Motorcycle Rider Sells A Nurse N10, 000 To Ritual Killers

A commercial motorcyclist, identified simply as Ifeanyi, has been arrested for allegedly handing over a nurse, Mrs. Helen Ilonge, to ritual killers after collecting N10, 000.

Greenwich News learnt that Ilonge had on Tuesday last week took Ifeanyi’s motorcycle on her way to Igoli along the Ogoja-Ikom Highway in Ogoja LGA.

Ilonge, the coordinator of Primary Health Care in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State, was coming from a programme at the Assemblies of God Church, Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, and had alighted from a vehicle at Okpongrinya junction before taking the bike.

It was gathered that Ilonge (51) was beheaded while her other vital reproductive parts such as breast and vagina were removed for ritual purposes.

Ilonge’s neighbour, Mrs. Theresa Idagwu, on Sunday said, “Ifeanyi took the lady from Okpogrinya Junction on the pretence that he was taking her to the village, which is 10 minutes drive from the point. But along the way, he stopped and handed her over to kidnappers at Ukpe.

Meanwhile, the woman had called her daughter, Victoria, around 9pm that she had taken a bike at Okpogrinya Junction on her way to Igoli. She said when she gets to her destination; she would call again so that Victoria would boil water for her to take her bath. That was Ilonge’s last call.”

Repeated calls made to the woman’s line, according to Idagwu, indicated that it was switched off.

She said Ilonge’s family became worried when the woman did not return home. “We went everywhere- police stations, hospitals and even her friends in Igoli, thinking that may be an accident had occurred along the road but we got nothing,” Idagwu added.

Two days later, Idagwu said someone called Victoria on her phone and informed her that her mother had been kidnapped. The caller demanded a ransom of N50, 000 to be remitted in form of recharge cards.

She said, “Since her daughter could not raise the money, she rushed to the Bekwarra LGA headquarters where the head of administration, Mr. Bisong Bogbo, and the chairman, Mr. Linus Edeh, provided the money with which she bought recharge cards and sent to the caller.

“The voice claimed that he needed the recharge cards so he could sell and run away from his master who is a ritual killer. He claimed that he had been serving his master for a long time and wanted to run away. He said once he gets the cards, he will break the door where the nurse is being kept and release her.”

The LGA’s head of administration, Bogbo, confirmed that the cards were sent to the kidnapper through Victoria’s telephone.

He said immediately the alleged kidnapper confirmed receipt of the cards; he switched off his telephone.

Luck, however, ran out of Ifeanyi. Policemen tracked his telephone line and discovered that he called Victoria from Abuochiche.

Further investigations, it was gathered, showed that Ifeanyi had been selling the cards in the village immediately he got them.

When he was arrested, Bogbo told our correspondent that Ifeanyi led the police to one of the ritual killers identified simply as Elvis.

Elvis, according to Bogbo, confessed that the nurse had already been killed and some of her vital organs removed before Ifeanyi asked for the recharge cards.

Elvis also said the remains of the woman were buried in a swamp.

At the council headquarters, one of the late nurse’s colleagues, Mr. Gabriel Ogar, said she was probably the kindest woman he ever worked with.

Ogar said, “I have worked with five coordinators, but I know that she is just the best so far. She worked to the admiration of Governor Liyel Imoke and now she has been killed leaving her five children without a helper.

“Her husband died 12 years ago and since then she has been the one taking care of the children and only one has graduated. Please let the government do something for those poor children.”

When contacted on Monday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Osita Ezechukwu, said the police were still investigating the matter.

He said four suspects had been apprehended by the anti-homicide unit, adding that when the investigation was completed the suspects would be prosecuted.

“We have taken confessional statement from them. Those who are not involved have been allowed to go while those who are involved are still in detention,” Ezechukwu said.

Obama Dusts Romney in the Final US Presidential Debate

Barack Obama pummeled Mitt Romney as “all over the map” on foreign policy, dismissing his “wrong and reckless” positions in the heated final debate of a knife-edge White House race.

With just two weeks until polling day, Obama has unexpectedly found himself running neck-and-neck with a challenger who had long trailed him, and Monday’s face-off on world affairs was perhaps a last chance to land a decisive blow.

“I know you haven’t been in a position to actually execute foreign policy, but every time you’ve offered an opinion, you’ve been wrong,” President Obama told his foe, coming out swinging in the debate in Boca Raton, Florida.

Republican challenger Romney played it safe, avoiding any catastrophic error that would have undermined his bid to be commander-in-chief, but was often on the defensive, apart from when lambasting Obama over the struggling economy.

“Attacking me is not an agenda,” the former Massachusetts governor told the president, and renewed charges that Obama had mounted “apology tours” abroad, prompting the president to accuse him of telling a “whopper.”

Obama had the best lines of the night and sharply cross-examined Romney on his approach to Syria, Iran and trade rows with China, accusing him of “airbrushing history” by dumping earlier hawkish conservative positions.

The Republican, who has spent months attempting to paint Obama as a weak appeaser, actually backed much of the substance of the president’s global strategy, courting wavering voters ahead of the November 6 election.

In a clear bid to moderate his image, Romney endorsed Obama’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, supported the president’s lethal drone war against terror suspects and congratulated him on hunting down Osama bin Laden.

Romney vowed to press China harder on trade and currency issues but toned down earlier rhetoric, following warnings his approach could spark a trade war.

“We can be a partner with China. We don’t have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form,” he said, despite his vow to brand Beijing a currency manipulator on day one of his presidency.

Oddly, neither candidate mentioned the eurozone crisis — widely seen as the country’s biggest external economic threat — aside from Romney reprising his warning that the debt-laden US economy under Obama was “heading toward Greece.”

An instant poll by CBS News found that Obama won the debate by 53 percent to 23 percent, after a clash that appeared to polish his leadership credentials and saw him showing the passion missing in his disastrous first debate.

CNN’s poll found Obama beat Romney 48 to 40 percent.

But foreign policy is seen as unlikely to decide the election, with voters preoccupied by the sluggish economy, and it will take several days to gauge whether the clash had any impact in the tied up polls.

Dotty Lynch, professor of Public Communication at American University, said that by agreeing with Obama on foreign policy — the incumbent’s strong suit — Romney had tried to maneuver the evening onto more favorable ground.

“By agreeing on the big points of foreign policy, Romney played it safe tonight and tried to move the conversation to the economy, where he thinks he’s stronger,” she said

George Washington University professor Chris Aterton said Romney may have won over some independent voters simply by showing that he is not “the dangerous, wild conservative that Obama has been trying to portray him as.”

Obama looked bemused, puzzled and exasperated by Romney’s tactics, staring intently at him as he spoke, apparently trying to keep frustration in check.

The president accused his opponent of being “all over the map” on a wide range of issues and dismissed Romney’s claims that that he had run down the armed forces to levels not seen since early in the 20th Century.

“You mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military’s changed,” he said, to laughter from the audience.

“We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, warned Islamic extremism was rampant in post-Arab Spring societies and blamed a lack of US leadership over the last four years, warning “we can’t kill our way out of this mess.”

Romney demanded tightened sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, saying the country’s leaders “saw weakness where they had been expected to find American strength” and accused Obama of neglecting close ally Israel.

The president, who withdrew troops from Iraq, pointed to Romney’s past statements in support of maintaining an unpopular US military presence in the country, invaded in 2003 under former Republican president George W. Bush.

And he mocked Romney’s previous statement that Russia was America’s top geopolitical foe.

“Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s,” Obama said.

The rivals are effectively tied in national polls after Romney surged following his first debate win in early October and started chipping away at Obama’s foundation in the swing states that will decide the election.

Armed robbers kill three police men in Ogun

Three police men have been confirmed dead in an early hour raid on a community in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, while two others were critically injured.

The incident was said to have occurred when the five officers were on the way to address a distress call that a 15 member armed bandit had stormed the Ijemo-Agbadu area of the city.

Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Muyiwa Adejobi stated three police officers were murdered and that two others were injured while an undisclosed amount of money and other personal effects were carted away from the church.

The 15 member armed gang reportedly stormed the community and a church, The Apostolic Church, being  their target.

The Police PRO for the state while on the spot assessment of the area disclosed that a member of the gang who  confessed to be part of the operation has been arrested and is helping the police in their investigations

While seeking useful information from the general public, Mr Adejobi assured residents of adequate security of life and property at all times, stating that the unfortunate incident will not deter the command from performing its constitutional responsibilities.

PHOTO: Psquare's Peter Okoye Changes Look

Recent photos released by PSquare shows a radical change of look of Peter Okoye.

Man opens fire in a salon targeting his wife, found dead later

Radcliffe Haughton, 45, was found dead after shooting an estimated seven people at a day spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon.
Three people were confirmed dead and the four other victims are said to be in non-critical condition.
The deceased and injured victims were all women, police said.
Authorities would not say whether Haughton’s wife was among them.
During the investigation, cops encountered smoke from a small fire that had been started in the building, prompting them to issue a call for extreme caution and keeping them out.
Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus said at an evening news conference: ‘It appears that he is deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.’
He added: ‘There is no other suspect that we are seeking.’

In an earlier statement to the press, Chief Tushaus said the shooting began at 11.09am Sunday morning inside the Azana Spa.
Haughton was described as a bald ethnic man with darker skin, about 6 foot one inch tall and 270 pounds. He is believed to have taken a taxi to the spa.
Haughton, of Brown Deer, is estranged from his wife, who works as a hair stylist at the salon where the shooting took place.
It is not yet clear whether the wife was one of the shooting victims.
Court records show that a judge issued a order of protection against Haughton just three days ago on October 18, hinting that there was a credible threat against the estranged wife.
Under that order, Haughton was prohibited from owning a firearm.
The protection order was filed after an October 4 incident at the salon, when Haughton slashed his wife’s tires in the parking lot.

Haughton’s two daughters – one of which was believed to have been at the salon at the time of the shooting – were found by police and are safe, according to Brown Deer police chief Steven Rinzel.
Chief Rinzel said that his department was familiar with Haughton – most recently on a domestic violence investigation at the home, which resulted in Haughton’s arrest.
The Journal Sentinel contacted the suspect’s father, Radcliffe Haughton Sr., who lives in Florida.
He said the he spoke to his son by phone last week shortly after his estranged wife had been awarded the restraining order against him.
‘I told him, whatever you do, don’t do anything stupid,’ Mr Haughton Sr. said.
‘He told me, “I have to get out of Wisconsin.”
‘I am so saddened. I don’t know what to tell you. As his father, I am very, very sorry and I did not expect this from my son.
‘So he hasn’t been apprehended? Oh Lord. Have mercy, God.
A witness saw a woman screaming, and running out of the spa towards traffic.
‘She ran right out into the street (and) was pounding on cars,’ David Gosh told The Journal Sentinel.

He then saw a man carrying a handgun run after her, and he was thought to be chasing after the woman.
The gunman then saw police beginning to gather and he ran back in the direction in which he came, and back into the spa.
‘He was the shooter. He was looking for an escape route,’ Mr Gosh said.
A witness told the Journal-Sentinel that a he saw a young girl running through a parking lot in a panic after her mother was reportedly shot.
‘She was screaming, yelling, crying hysterical. She was pleading for help,’ Christopher Pfeiffer told the local paper.

‘She kept saying, “My mother was shot.” And she mentioned that there was a gunman. She ran into the bookstore and I followed her. But I watched her from afar.’
Live video of the Azana spa shows a tactical team moving in around 2pm on Sunday.
According to the spa’s website, it boasts that it is the largest salon and day spa in Brookfield with 9,000-square-feet.
The layout of the spa- which has ten treatment rooms, male and female locker rooms, and a cafe area-complicates issues for police as people may be hiding inside.