Category: Crime

Winifred Ngutesen Ingyaji, 18, from Ute-Tse-Kpun, Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State, bathed her mother, Mrs Mbachirin Ashiekaa to death with hot water. The suspect also injured her sister-in-law, Mrs Jennifer Betsee, who is currently receiving treatment at Bishop Murray Hospital Makurdi. It was gathered that the incident started as a minor altercation between Winifred and her brother’s wife, Jennifer. An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said she was there when the quarrel started, but did not anticipate that it would degenerate to such a level. According to the eyewitness,…

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Afolabi Samuel, a pastor of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, for stealing $90,000 and N4.5m belonging to the registered trustees of the church. Samuel, who is an accountant and the church’s treasurer, was arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada on two counts of conspiracy and stealing by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to the EFCC, the pastor and one Blessing Kolawole, an employee of the Covenant University, who is currently at…

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Strange looking men welding machetes and other dangerous weapons, forcibly ejected Mr Wale Seriki, consultant to Nana Hotel from the premises of the hotel on Wednesday as he reported for duty on the morning of Wednesday 3rd February 2021. Led by Mr Wasiu Adejare, one of the children of the deceased owner, they threatened to kill him whenever he is sighted in and around the hotel. This action according to Mr Seriki is against the existence of a quit notice served on the consultant by attorneys to the landlords and…

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Some labourers hired by three Chinese miners have been reportedly abducted on a mining site located at Akere Village near Ifewara, Osun State. Before the men were abducted, it was gathered that a policeman attached to the expatriates was killed. The abduction, it was learnt, occurred following a disagreement between the expatriates and the labourers, said to be mainly northerners, hired to work on the site. The details of what led to the disagreement was however unknown at the moment. A resident of Ifewara town, Gboyega Emmanuel, said that the incident…

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered substances which tested positive for cocaine worth N21bn from a hairstylist, Jennifer Onyejegbu, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. It was learnt that the officials discovered another drug later confirmed to be cocaine worth N7bn in luggage abandoned at the E-arrival hall of the airport after the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian airline. “Based on information on the luggage tag, the luggage arrived in Nigeria from Sao Paulo, Brazil, a destination classified as high-risk country going by…

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A 42-year-old man, Clement Tumba has been arraigned before a Yola High Court for allegedly strangling his mother to death. Tumba, a father of five and resident of Dilchim community, in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, ended the life of his aged mother, Regina Daniel with a rope. Tumba told the court, presided over by Justice Helen Tumba, that he acted under provocation. He said he was angry when his mother advised him to reconcile with his sister, Rebecca, over the sale of the land. The accused…

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