Category: Crime

Adamu Enock, a widower, requesting the refund of his dowry and other expenses incurred in a failed marriage proposal, stabbed his estranged lover within the premises of Yola Criminal Area Court where the case was being heard. Police said she was in a critical condition in a hospital. Enock is a father of three, who proposed to his estranged lover, Hosea Ashini, a divorcee with four children, but the marriage proposal failed to materialise. Disappointed, Enock reportedly sought the refund of N120,000 he incurred in an attempt to consummate the…

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A grandmother, Funmilayo Olalere, has been arrested by police in Osun State, for beating her grandchild till she lost an eye. The grandmother, who lives in Amondo village, near Ile-Ife, was accused of assaulting her grandchild living with her. It was gathered that the suspect beat the victim with a broom, which stocked in one eye and damaged it. Rather than taking the victim to a hospital after she sustained the injury, the grandmother was said to have opted for self-treatment and applied urine on the eye. The Osun State…

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A teenage Government Secondary School student, has attempted killing her teacher with a pistol in Cross River State. It was gathered that the student, whose name was withheld, was arrested at Ikot Ewa, in the Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of the council, Emmanuel Offiong-Bassey, who spoke to journalists on Thursday, said he was told the suspect was about to shoot her target when she was disarmed. He said, “How she got the gun, I do not know. The information I have, which may not be very…

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Fredrick Ebiesuwa, owner of Victoria East Park Hotel and Suite, Igbogbo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, and his wife, Tinuola Oyegunle, have been sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment over a fraud of N53,713,260. It was learnt that the couple and other suspects at large defrauded one Dunni Olateru-Olagbegi of the said sum under the guise of helping her to avert mysterious death. It was gathered that the victim, sometime in May 2013, boarded a cab with the fraudsters and upon entering the cab, the gang started arguing about…

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A police inspector serving at PMF 31, Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, was shot dead by gunmen on Sunday, February 14, 2021 in a church at Ughelli. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta Command, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya confirmed the news in Warri. “Yes, he (police officer) followed his principal (not named) to the church,” the PPRO said. It was gathered that, the gunmen allegedly stormed a Pentecostal church located in Oviri-Ogor Road, Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state, during worship service on Sunday and shot the…

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A 72-year-old pastor, Jimi Odunayo, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in Ibadan, Oyo State. According to CP Onadeko, the pastor had been having carnal knowledge of the minor since 2019. She added that the suspect and the parents of the victims lived within the same compound and the victim always went to the living room of the suspect to watch television programmes. Onadeko said:”On January 30, 2021, around 9.pm, one Rasaq Aishat, a 13-year-old teenage girl, confessed to her father, one…

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