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A 51-year-old man, Oluranti Badejo, has been arrested by Police for allegedly killing his 40-year-old wife, Folasade Badejo, at their house in Orimerunmu, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that Folasade, a fashion designer, on Wednesday, got into an argument with her husband over the payment of their three children’s school fees. The argument was said to have degenerated into fisticuffs as 51-year-old Oluranti allegedly smashed Folasade’s head against the wall of their apartment. She was said to have fallen. Their eight-year-old daughter,…

Samuel Ortom, Benue State governor, yesterday gave the federal government a month’s ultimatum to grant the state the approval to acquire AK-47 rifles for operatives of its vigilante group or the state would do the needful. Recall that the state government had asked for such approval from the federal government, following incessant killing of farmers in the state by herdsmen, but the Presidency had insisted that no state of the federation had the powers to acquire such weapons. Speaking at the passing out parade of batch B of the Benue…

Olajide Kareem, alias Seun Egbegbe, a Nollywood filmmaker and producer, has been convicted for fraud by a Federal High Court in Lagos, after spending six years and eight months in prison custody. Egbegbe was remanded on February 10, 2017, after allegedly obtaining money by false pretence from no fewer than 40 Bureaux De Change operators in different parts of Lagos for over a period of two years between 2015 and 2017. He was accused of swindling the BDC operators by claiming that he had naira to change into foreign currencies.…

A 21-year-old man, Chinedu Eziuzo, has been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, for raping his 14-year-old sister in Adazi-Enu, in the Anaocha Local Government Area of the state. Eziuzo was said to have committed the crime in 2021, but was arrested on May 30, 2022. The judge, Dr Nnamdi Dimgba, said the sentence would commence from the day of his arrest. He was further handed down a non-custodial sentence of community service of not less than three hours daily. Share…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has arrested a 49-year-old housewife, Mrs Augustina Ikyor, in Makurdi for allegedly stealing two-month-old twins. The Makurdi Zonal Commander of the agency, Mrs Gloria Bai, who made this known, yesterday, said her office acted on a distress message from the mother of the babies, who, Tuesday, raised the alarm, alleging that the suspect tricked her and took away her twin babies to an unknown destination. According to Bai, “she stated that the woman had previously demanded she sold off…

Police have arrested three men in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, for allegedly attempting to kidnap their former employer, Ifenuga Olayinka, after he sacked them . The suspects — Peter Nse, 24; Chuckwuma Nwobodo, 48; and Michael Umanah, 30 — were arrested following a complaint by Olayinka. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He explained that Olayinka reported that he received a text message on his phone from someone who described himself as ‘Killer Vagabond of Africa.’ The…