Category: Crime

Kingsley Oriaku, an artisan on Waidi Ogunseye Street, Meiran, Lagos State, has owned up to selling one of his five children, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, Chimamada Oriaku. He also confessed to kidnapping his neighbour’s seven-year-old son, Gabriel Yanga, barely two months after he moved to the area, adding that he used the N310,000 he realised from the sale of the two children for the burial of his father-in-law. The 37-year-old Abia State indigene sold his daughter in September 2017 for N190,000 to the operator of an orphanage home in Aba, Abia…

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A father and his son, who used ethanol to produce local gin, popularly known as ogogoro/kai-kai, in Ogume community, Delta State have been sentenced to 14 and 11 years imprisonment respectively. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) arrested the victims in 2015 and took them to court. Justice O. A. Faji of the Federal High Court, Asaba sentenced Isaac Uti, 58 and his son, Jonathan Uti, 28 to 14 and 11 years imprisonment for the production of processed ethanol (kai-kai/ogogoro) under insanitary condition and its…

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In a dual suicide bomb attack at a busy morning market in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, at least 13 people were reportedly killed and more than 50 wounded according to local sources. The attacks occurred in the town of Biu, about 185 kilometres (115 miles) south of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency. “Two female suicide bombers infiltrated and gained entry into Biu,” a local police spokesman said. “One of the bombers detonated an IED (improvised explosive device) strapped to…

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Olaoluwa Adejo, a 32-year-old bank worker has been arrested for the death of his 28-year-old wife, Maureen, at their home on Peluola Street, Oworonshoki, Bariga, Lagos State. Olaoluwa was alleged to have tortured his wife of five years with a belt, as well as cutting her with a machete. Their 5-year-old son, Richard, who witnessed the incident, said that his father also forced a local insecticide, otapiapia, down the throat of his mother. “My daddy beat my mummy with a belt; machete her here (shows arms), machete her here (shows…

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Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Fingers of God Parish; Victor Kanayo has been reportedly killed by gunmen in Ikorodu, Lagos state. The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation into the killing which took place in Offin, Igbogbo area of Ikorodu. Of particular interest to police is the skull-tattoo found on the late pastor’s body.The police were investigating this to unravel the motive behind his killing. Detectives actually want to probe whether he was a member of a cult group. A statement from the Command spokesman, Chike…

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Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, who was accused of killing her husband, Lowo, to seven years’ imprisonment by Justice Muntar Abimbola for manslaughter. The former worker of the Department of Public Prosecutions in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice was accused of killing her husband with a knife after a disagreement on February 2, 2016, at their residence in the Akobo area of Ibadan. The disagreement was said to have arisen after Yewande accused her France-based husband, Lowo, of infidelity. The…

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An Islamic cleric alongside two others have been arrested by the Police Command in Oyo State for being in possession of two fresh human heads and legs. The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, paraded the suspects in Ibadan on Wednesday. Odude said that the suspects confessed to have severed the body parts from corpses at a Muslim cemetery in Isale General Area, Ogbomoso. He said the suspects were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the command on November 11, following a tip-off by a member of the public. “The…

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In a fresh attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists on Tuesday, at least 50 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, police said. The blast happened during early morning prayers at the Madina mosque in the Unguwar Shuwa area of Mubi, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) by road from the Adamawa state capital, Yola. “So far we have at least 50 dead from an attack at a mosque in Mubi,” Adamawa state police spokesman Othman Abubakar said. “Several people were injured.…

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Former Minister of Finance, Dr Kalu Idika was reportedly drugged and robbed by his chef, Peter Odion who is presently cooling his heels at the Lagos State Police Command. Odion lived with the ex-minister at 180A, Moshood Olugbani Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. He had allegedly put some sedatives into a cup of coffee he served the ex-minister on a Wednesday morning. After Idika slept off, Odion was said to have led his gang members into the boss’ apartment, where they made away with a sum of N750,000, a Blackberry, a…

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