Seun Egbegbe All Smiles After Being Granted N5m Bail Today

Nollywood marketer, Seun Egbegbe and one Oyekan Ayomide, who were arrested for defrauding some Bureau De Change operatives of over N40.647m, between 2016 and February 2017, have been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo granted him granted a bail of N5m with two sureties each in a sum of N2.5m. He ruled that Egbegbe should be granted bail once he meets bail requirements.

One of the sureties must be a civil servant who has attained level 16 while the other surety must be a land owner in any part of Lagos metropolis. The landowner must submit Certificate of Ownership of the landed property and while the civil servant must submit his international passport to the court.
The sureties must swear to an affidavit while the house and office addresses and telephone number will be verified by the court. Egbegbe will be in prison custody pending fulfillment of bail conditions.

Buhari gave ‘corrupt’ Nigerian judge N500,000 during his certificate controversy, witness tells court

A witness in the corruption trial of Justice Adeniyi Ademola has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the embattled judge N500,000 while his certificate controversy was pending before Mr. Ademola.

Some persons had filed a suit challenging Mr. Buhari’s candidacy prior to the 2015 elections, alleging the president had no secondary school certificate as required by law.
The witness said the money was given through Mr. Buhari’s former lawyer, Kola Awodeyin. The witness, however, said he does not consider the money a bribe.
Mr. Ademola is being prosecuted by the Nigerian government for alleged corruption. He has denied the charges and requested accelerated hearing at the trial in Abuja‎. He is being prosecuted alongside his wife, Olubowale, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Joe Agi.

Five months after his death, 16 children of Ibru start property, paternity battle

Five months after the death of frontline businessman Chief Olorogun Michael Ibru, 16 of his children are in a legal tussle over their paternity and his multi-billion naira assets, The Nation reports.
One of his sons, Oboden Ibru, has approached the Igbosere High Court, Lagos, for a declaration, among others, that he and his 15 other siblings are entitled to the estate of their father.

In a counter-claim, one of the late Chief Ibru’s daughters, Janet Ibru, urged the court to declare that only persons whose paternity are confirmed by a diagnostics centre in the United States are entitled to an equal share of the estate.
Furthermore, she is seeking an order of the court directing the administrators of the estate of the late Ibru to refund to her, the expenses incurred in taking care of the late Ibru during the final year of his life.
Oboden’s suit was filed February 8 by Chief Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN) but has not been assigned to a Judge.

Pastor sentenced to 20 years in jail for defiling 13-year-old daughter of his friend of 25 years

Pastor Vincent Kete has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old girl in Ghana. The pastor pleaded guilty to defiling the daughter of his friend of 25 years.

Presenting the facts in court, prosecutor Inspector Kofi Atimbiri said the accused called the victim to his room on Tuesday, February 7. and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her. The accused and the victim’s father, as friends, lived in a single room in a mission house of their church.
The pastor told an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku that his action was the work of the devil and does not know what came over him. He was sentenced on his own plea.

Official electrocuted during illegal connection of electric cables

It was tragedy in Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area, on Saturday following the electrocution of Kola, an ad-hoc staff of the Ondo Business District of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC.

The incident occurred at the Government Reserve Area, GRA, located at Itanla along the Ondo/Akure highway, while he was trying to connect a wire from an electric pole.
Kola was in charge of the area on behalf of BEDC and was attempting to connect a wire from the pole to a new building nearby, when he was electrocuted. The motorcycle he rode to the place was seen packed under a mango tree.
Officials from the BEDC later arrived the scene to remove the body from the pole. The Business Manager of the Ondo Business District of BEDC, Chris Enuamaka, while confirming the incident, noted that Kola was on an illegal duty at the time of the electrocution.

18-month-old boy dies after his mom served him kerosene instead of water in Benin

The incident happened, last Tuesday, at about 10am, at Iguma Street, Off Medical Stores Road, Benin, Edo State. Isreal Buhari had complained to his mother, a hired kerosene seller, that he was thirsty.
The mom then mistakenly gave him kerosene stored in a beverage can, to drink. The child, the only boy of four children, was said to have, on first gulp, immediately spat out the remaining content in his mouth, before his mother realized her error.

His mother,Mrs Ata Buhari, said with the help of neighbors, some volume of palm oil was immediately given to Isreal, before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died few hours later.Narrating how she ‘mistakenly’ served her only son kerosene instead of water, Mrs Buhari, from Kogi State, stated that one of her children had filled an empty can of beverage with water, which they took to the stop that fateful morning.She added that a similar container of beverage inside which she stored kerosene, was kept in her shop and when her child complained of thirstiness, she ‘mistakenly’ picked the one filled with kerosene. Crdt: Nigerianobservernews

Nigerian doctor commits suicide by setting himself and hotel on fire in Abuja

One Dr. Isaac Ojukwu has set himself ablaze in a rented hotel apartment in Nyanya, Abuja. The incident which occurred in the early hours of Thursday.
Narrating the ugly incidence to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the owner of the burnt hotel, an Associate Professor at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Sylvanus M. Itodo (MON); said it still remained a shock, how an adult would just wish to take his own life, without a particular known reason.

“We were all sitting together that fateful night (Wednesday night) before he left to watch football match and I also left the hotel premises by 11pm, to go and sleep. It was around 12am that I recieved a phone call from one of the boys in the hotel, crying, that my hotel was on fire.
Before I could get down here, the flame was everywhere; and it took the efforts of the Federal Fire Service to prevent the inferno from escalating to the surrounding houses,” Itodo lamented.
The deceased, who hailed from Ohuhu, Umuahia, Abia State, had been staying in the apartment, Boundary Plaza Hotel, Nyanya, for the past 5 years.
He was married to a German woman with kids. Tt was, however, revealed that, none of his family members, including the wife or children, had paid him a visit all through his stay in the hotel.
An eyewitness, Ohize Yakubu, said they made frantic efforts to pull the deceased out of the building, but he struggled and ran back into the burning room.
He said: “We forced his door open, we met him standing in the sitting room while fire was burning in the bedroom. He was unhurt, we then held his hands and asked him to follow us.
All of a sudden, he struggled his way from our hands and ran into the burning room. At this point, everyone ran back as the inferno had started escalating and all my belongings got burnt." Crdt: Dailypost

I killed my mom so that I will have peace of mind, she's responsible for my misfortune - Killer

A magistrate court in Osogbo, Osun State today remanded a man Ayoola Kazeem in Ilesa prison for killing his mother in a village in the state. Ayoola killed his 85-year old mother, Taibat Ayoola, on the 10th of February, 2017, in a village near Osu.

When allowed to address the court, Ayoola said his mother was making life difficult for him and he was relieved after her death. “My mother is responsible for all my misfortunes. I built three houses and burnt two because of her. I always feel like destroying things whenever she is around me.
On that fateful day, mummy came to meet me in my farm and started irritating me as usual. I decided to kill her once so that I will have peace of mind." The presiding judge, Magistrate Habibat Basiru ordered that the accused be remanded at Ilesha prison and adjourned the case till 15th of March, 2016. Crdt: DailyTrust

Woman kills pregnant co-tenant because her child defecated on the ground

24-year-old Jacinta Ewa Omiko, is alleged to have murdered her pregnant co-tenant, Ginika Gabriel, following an altercation because the victim’s child defecated on the ground, in their compound at Akpoh, Ebonyi State, The Sun reports.
Omiko was alleged to have hit Gabriel on the head with a kitchen stool and she slumped. She died within minutes. Her body was subsequently deposited at God’s Seed Funeral Mortuary, Afikpo, awaiting autopsy.

The Commissioner of Police, Eboniy State Command, Mr. Titus Lamorde, revealed that the incident took place on January 28, 2017, after Omiko had a hot exchange of words over the fact that Gabriel's child defecated on ground in the passage of the house where they live.
While speaking with newsmen, Omiko said: “What happened was that I asked my neighbour, Gabriel, to clear the feaces of her son on the floor of the passage, to avoid people stepping on it. She ignored me and we began exchanging words. Then a fight ensued and I pushed her down.”

Man shoots his rival to death over a woman both of them were dating in Ogun

A 43-year-old man, Adebisi Akinrinmola, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly shooting his rival, Ademola Asimiyu, to death over a woman both of them were dating.
The incident occurred on Sunday at about 3pm at Ajebo Village in Ijebu-Igbo.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect claimed that the deceased has been threatening him for quite some time now over the woman he was dating.
He said the suspect also claimed that the 36-year-old Asimiyu had accused him of snatching the woman from him and had warned him to leave the woman. Touble started when the deceased met the suspect with the said woman while returning from the farm and a hot argument ensued between the two men.
The suspect claimed that it was the deceased that brought out a machete and made attempt to hit him which prompted him too to bring out a dane gun and shot him to death.

I used ropes as belts, drank garri daily – UNN best graduating student

Eke Ifeanyichukwu Emmanuel emerged the 2015/2016 best graduating student of University of Nigeria, with a CGPA of 4.83. In an interview with Vanguard, when asked about the challenges he passed through while in school, he said: "I had a whole lot of challenges.

One of them was financial challenge. I am from a very humble background. We reside in Aba. I remember in my first and second years, I used to drink garri (cassava flakes) and eat Fibre active biscuit. It was a daily ration to me. I also used ropes as belts as a student.
I remember then, I had few clothes. No shoes to where, only slippers. Having money to pay my fees was an issue. I stayed in the hostel from first year till I graduated. In my first year, I was having an eye challenge. Then, I would be seated in front of the classroom.
Yet, I would not see what was written on the board. No money to go to the hospital for check up talk less of getting glasses. I had a D in a three unit load first year course. It was a motivational factor that spurred me into reading more."

I cut my wife into pieces to save myself – Lagos driver who killed his wife

Shakiru Bello, who was arrested for allegedly killing his wife, Sherifat, said he cut her remains into pieces to escape the wrath of her father, Akeem Atanda, and to avoid being prosecuted for her death, reports Punchng.
Shakiru added that after hiding her remains in different uncompleted buildings in Lagos, he fled to Ibadan, Oyo State. Sherifat’s head and neck were recovered in Morocco, Yaba, while other parts of her body were recovered in another uncompleted building on Moshalashi Street, Somolu.

 Sherifat and Shakiru, who were married for over 9 years, were separated in July 2016. Sherifat had, however, last Monday reportedly demanded money for the upkeep of their three children. Shakiru was said to have invited her to a location where they allegedly met. She never returned home.
The victim’s father, Akeem, on Tuesday reported a case of missing person to the police, leading to a search for the suspect. A source said Akeem told policemen that an unidentified number called him that his daughter fell into a lagoon.
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The source said, “The police tracked the number, and discovered that the caller was in Ibadan. He (Shakiru) was arrested and brought down to Lagos around 1am on Saturday.”
The suspect was said to have led the police to the two uncompleted buildings where the remains of the late Sherifat were recovered. Shakiru said, “After we separated, I secretly reconciled with her and we started meeting.
On the average, I gave her N15,000 in a week. On that Monday, she called me that she needed money and we agreed to meet. I gave her N10,000 that evening. I took her to my house on Olaleye Street, Somolu, around 12am. I went out to get her balm and some drugs.
Unfortunately, she died. I was afraid of her father, who didn’t want to see us together. Also, I couldn’t report to the police, so I decided to cut her into pieces.” A police source, however, said that Sherifat's private parts were missing, saying the suspect might not be acting alone.

5 months after resuming, 12-yr-old Nigerian housemaid, disappears with Ghanaian family’s daughter

Mary, a 12-year-old housemaid, has disappeared with her boss daughter, Faith Ayeh, at Kudirat Abiola Estate, Akute Road, Iju Ishaga, Lagos State. Mary had been employed by the family through an agent about five months ago.
Mary was said to be working directly with the woman of the house, Mrs. Glory Ayeh, who had a frozen foods shop on the street. However, the suspect reportedly went out with the victim last Thursday, and their whereabouts had remained unknown.

Faith’s father, Paul, said, “My family needed a house help and one of my wife’s friends arranged one for us. She brought Mary to my family about five months ago. She is the same age with my daughter.
I was told that last Thursday, Mary disappeared from the house with my daughter. Our driver said he saw them with a bag. He said when he queried them, Mary answered that my wife asked them to take the bag to her shop.
Since then, we have not heard anything.” He said the matter, which was reported at the Iju Ishaga Police Division, had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
Paul said the agent who brought the suspect to the family had been arrested and assisting the police with investigations. The suspect, who hails from Benue State, was staying with her parents in Ibadan, Oyo State, before her employment.

Father-of-5 excretes 73 wraps of cocaine, on his way to Dubai

A 49-year-old stationer, Nwafor Samson Tochukwu, has been arrested while attempting to export 1.699kg of cocaine to Dubai. The arrest was made at the Abuja during the outward screening of an Ethiopian airline flight.

NDLEA commander at the Abuja airport, Hamisu Lawan, said that Nwafor excreted 73 wraps of cocaine. The suspect who hails from Awka, Anambra State, said that he was offered the sum of N1.5m to smuggle the drugs.
“I live in Lagos with my wife and five children. I got myself into drug trafficking because of economic hardship. They offered me N1.5m. I thought it will be easy for me to go undetected but I was arrested in the process” Nwafor lamented.

RRS arrests ATM thief who has robbed over 35 people in Lagos

A gun – wielding robber, Gbenga Babatunde, 35, arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police,  Command, has confessed to have robbed about 35 ATM users in Alaba Rago Market, Ojo, Lagos before his arrest.
The suspected robber, who was arrested after a failed bid to rob a lady who withdrew an unspecified amount of money around 5:48 a.m. at an ATM point in Alaba Rago Market, was chased by the operatives, patrolling the area.

It was gathered that the suspect, was not operating alone. He had an accomplice, whose name was given as Samson Baba Ramadan, 28, but he however managed to  escape after the botched operation.
During interrogation, the suspected said: “I have been in the crime since I met my colleague, Samson Baba Ramadan. I met him at Field Joint, Alaba, 2 years ago and since then we have been working together.
We have robbed about 35 people together. We would have gotten to the ATM point by 4:00 a.m. We would hide inside the shop that is not open beside the ATM point.
As soon as the withdrawer collects the money, we will accost him or her and collect the money and escape. I don’t go home. I sleep in Osankwa Hotel, Alaba Rago. It is only whenever I don’t have money that I go home. I have no wife or child."
Also recovered from the suspect were: a First Bank mastercard belonging to Iweka Christopher Uchenna and a Diamond Bank debit card owned by Nkechi Esther Idoko.

PDP asks Fayose, Wike to visit Buhari in London

The youth group of PDP called the PDP Youth Frontier has demanded that Governor Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose should visit Pres. Buhari in London.

The group lamented that visiting the Pres. Buhari was not the exclusive right of the APC members only.

Police arrest printer of fake ballot papers/voters cards in Lagos

Remi Adeniyi, a business centre operator, who allegedly specialised in printing fake ballot papers has been arrested in Ikotun area of the state by detectives from the state police command.

It was gathered that the arrested suspect is the owner of Rems Multimedia and he has confessed to the crime, stating that he was contracted by some people to print fake voters’ cards.

FUTMinna clinic burnt down after student died following staff's refusal to treat him

There was pandemonium at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Bosso Campus, last night, after a student died, due to the insistence of medical personnel to see his I.D card before attending to him.

According to multiple reports, Olamilekan Emmanuel fell while playing football in the male hostel. He was rushed to the school Clinic nearby. The medical personnel, however, refused to treat him because he didn't have his ID card on him and he eventually died.
Students then got angry and went on a rampage, proceeding to burn down the clinic buildings.

Again, RRS arrests 18-yr-old serial phone thief who has gone to jail 7 times in 2 years

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested an 18-year old serial phone thief in Oshodi. Sadeeq Wasiu, who had been imprisoned 7 times, was re-arrested on Tuesday, after several months of being on the operatives’ wanted list.

Wasiu, alias “Omo Eiye”, was arrested at Oshodi Under Bridge while trying to escape after snatching an Infinix Note 3 from an undergraduate. Before his arrest, Wasiu had been fingered to be the master minder of four phone thefts and two bag snatching attempt in Oshodi.
Sadeeq, who disclosed to interrogators that he was released from Potoki Prison, Badagry in January, 2017, said he ran away from Ikire, Osun State when he was 15 years old. “I was 15 years when I came to Lagos to work as a conductor in 2014. My parents were not aware I am in Lagos,” he stated.
He disclosed “My popular name is Eyie. I steal phones from people at Oshodi. We were three in my group; Ahmed alias Oyi, Tombolo and I. We have stolen more than 45 phones as a group and I have stolen countless number of phones individually.
I used to sell the phones at Idi-Oro, Mushin. I sell the phone according to their make. I sell some N10,000.00 and N8,000.00. I have gone to jail seven times. I sell Indian Hemp too. I buy it from Spider in Lagos Island and I resell in small raps to over 50 of my colleagues in Oshodi. I can buy N4,000 and brake into small wraps and sell for N8,000”.

Boxer Bash Ali alleges police brutality while demanding to meet with sports minister

Boxing champion, Bash Ali, has accused policemen attached to the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, of brutalising him for demanding an appointment with the minister, Punchng reports.
He alleged that security operatives hit his head with rifle butts and also kicked him in the ribs causing him to lose consciousness. He says he still felt pains in his ribs and on his skull where he was assaulted by Dalung’s police orderlies.

He vows to take legal action against the minister and the policemen, adding that he was talking to his lawyers about the next line of action on the alleged assault.
He said, “Last Friday, the Perm Sec told us the minister said we should come on Monday. We were excited and I and some members of the LOC went to the ministry. We got there and waited almost three hours.
Later they told us he said we should come back again, that he just resumed. While we were discussing this, the Hungarian ambassador walked in and I asked the minister’s personal assistant, ‘How can this man just walk in to see the minister and in our own country, we couldn’t see him’ and that was how his police aides started pushing me; one hit the back of my head with the butt of his rifle and my back and I just collapsed."
Ali accused the minister of trying to frustrate the Guinness World Record boxing championship he was organising, adding that Dalung had been plotting to cut a deal for himself with the sponsors-the Bank of Industry and NEXIM Bank.
But the Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Sports, Tolu Makinde, said Ali was merely stopped from molesting the ambassador and alleged that the boxer blocked him from entering the minister’s office.
He said, “The security had to politely take him away to allow the ambassador to enter; he just enacted a melodrama and feigned slumping. He said he would not stand up, so they took him to their clinic for observation and rest.
He wasn’t manhandled, but they (policemen) had to ensure he gave the right of way to the ambassador. You know what would happen if the ambassador was molested."

Nigerian footballer slumps, dies after complaining of severe chest pain during a match

Former Enugu Rangers star, Henry

Obiekwu, slumped and died while playing a friendly in Enugu Monday.
Eyewitnesses said right fullback, Henry, asked to be replaced during the friendly match with his youth team Samba FC at the UNEC Stadium in Enugu Monday morning after he complained of severe chest pain.
He later slumped and was rushed to several hospitals before he was confirmed dead at the Eastern Nigeria Medical Centre in Enugu. FC Taraba was Henry’s last club.

Two blood brothers behead 12-year-old victim for ritual on Valentine's Day, one arrested

Two brothers from the same parents, suspected to be ritualists have been arrested by the Police with fresh human head in Ado Ekiti. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Adeyemi Alberto, gave the names of the suspects as David Oluwatosin and Tosin Oluwatosin.

He, however, said that David is at large. Alberto, said Tosin was arrested with the fresh head in Ifaki Ekiti, around 3.35pm on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. He said, “Yes, it is true. One of the suspects is on the run.
The victim is about 12 years old but we are still looking for the severed body and we are also on the trail of the one at large.” The PPRO, who decried incessant beheading in the state, said the police would also investigate if the two brothers had hand in the first two beheading.

Photo: 33-year-old man rapes 70-year-old London returnee to death in her shop

Mrs. Egunjobi, a London returnee, was allegedly been raped to death by one Dare Garuba, at about 11p.m. on Sunday, in her shop at Mowe, Ogun State, reports NewTelegraph.
Witnesses reveal that the woman had taken two bottles of Alomo gin and became intoxicated. When she started misbehaving, the suspect reportedly offered to lead her home so that she would not be injured.

However, when Garuba led Egunjobi into her shop, he decided to take advantage of her. The Coordinator of OPC in the area, Bamidele Ayeyemi, said a Hausa man, who went to defecate in a nearby bush close to the woman’s shop, discovered that her shop opened.
According to Ayeyemi, the man raised the alarm, thinking that armed robbers had broken into the shop. He said: “Some of my boys and I, immediately we heard the man shouting thief, thief, we called for reinforcement and went round the market.
When we moved closed to the woman’s shop, Garuba opened the door and bolted. We finally apprehended him in the ceiling of an uncompleted building where he was hiding. We then handed him over to the police for appropriate action.”
What surprised us was that it was the same suspect who promised to take care of the woman so as not to sustain injuries, that later took advantage of her.” It was learnt that Garuba was still making love to the woman without knowing that she had died.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mowe Police Division, was said to be at the scene of the incident with the woman’s husband. But the widower refused to comment on his wife’s death.

PDP will win in 2019 – Jonathan

PDP remains Nigeria’s strongest and biggest party despite losing the 2015 presidential election, and will win the next general election, former President Goodluck Jonathan has said.

Jonathan said current efforts at reforming the party are “a clear sign” the PDP will win in 2019. The former president said this on Monday in Abuja while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of the PDP.
“Yes we lost the presidential election but that doesn’t diminish us. Every other party still knows that PDP is a leading party. Losing the presidency is something temporary. We should be able to get that position back as long as we are able to get our acts together,” he said.

I Poisoned My Twin Children To Death, Because They Confessed They Are Witches - Father

The Cross River Police Command has arrested one Anyanime Festus, 33, for killing his twin children, Emediong Festus and Mfoniso Festus, both 11 years old for allegedly being witches.

The Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Hafiz Inuwa, alleged that the suspect killed his twins for confessing to being witches. Inuwa said that the incident happened on Jan. 11, 2017 in Uyanga.
He said that the matter was reported to the police by some neighbors. The suspect, who is a taxi driver, said that since the incident happened, he had “not been himself”.
Festus, who said he regretted his action, blamed the incident on the devil. “I poisoned them through the malt I gave them to drink. I did it because they confessed to being witches,” he said.

I Killed The 10-Year-Old Boy We Abducted Because He Knows Me - 18-yr-old Kidnapper/Boko Haram

Policemen attached to the Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris’ Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), have arrested suspected Boko Haram members, who abducted a 10-year-old boy in Maiduguri, Borno State and later stabbed him to death, reports NewTelegraph.

The victim, Baa Goni Maina, was abducted on January 14, by 18-year-old Adam Bakura and his brother, Modu Bakura. He was killed three days later after his father couldn’t cough up the N10m ransom the brothers demanded.
Police said that the boy was tricked away from his street, down to a river bank. After he was killed, the gang carried his body to a place called Gwange graveyard in Maiduguri town and dumped it there. It was said that investigation revealed that the brothers were Boko Haram members.
A police source said: “Adam has confessed that he had to stab Maina several times in the stomach to ensure he dies because the boy knew him and would disclose his identity to police if released."

It’s God’s will that I become an armed robber —Suspect

According to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Sam Adegbuyi, Nurudeen (25), Mohammed (35), Timmy (23), Oriowo Ayo (28) and Ahmadu Garuba (30) were arrested in November 2016 for armed robbery.

The trio of Nurudeen, Mohammed and Ogunbiyi Kola a.k.a. Timmy are ex-jailbirds. Three of the suspects went to Arafat Area of Saki town and robbed a family of their valuables, including cash, a Toyota Corolla car, phones and laptops at gunpoint.
One of the suspects, Mohammed from Gombe State, was arrested in 2005 for robbery and remanded in Agodi prison in Ibadan till his release in 2006. In 2012, he reportedly robbed in Ilesa and was in prison till July 2016 when he got his freedom.
When asked why he chose robbery after his experience as prison inmate, the suspect replied: “I believe it is God’s will that I graduated to being an armed robber in the prison. There is nothing that happens without God’s knowledge. He is the one that created good and evil.” Crdt: Tribune

I’m Not A Thief And Can’t Be One - James Ibori

Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday reaffirmed his innocence of charges leveled against him in the U.K, where he recently served a jail term, saying, “I am not a thief.”
Chief Ibori gave the clarification at a thanksgiving service organised in honour of him by the monarch and people of Oghara kingdom at the First Baptist Church, Oghara.

Speaking for the first time since his arrival after serving his jail term in London, Chief Ibori said: “Today, I have decided to speak for myself, I am not a thief, I cannot be a thief.
Today is the day they say I should give testimony to God, for those that know me, you know that my entire life is a testimony itself and I have said it over and over again that my life is fashioned by God, directed by God, sealed, acknowledged, blessed by God and I believe that since the day I was born.
Like the Arch Bishop said, when this whole commotion started, what was most painful to me was the pain and suffering that my people were going through.
It has nothing to do with me as a person because for some reasons like I said to you, I drew my strength from God and somehow, I knew that God would stand by me, I knew that one day, and this day would come.
I am indeed very pleased that I can now stand before you and look at your faces, faces that I have missed and those of you that have indeed suffered the pains of my absence. It has nothing to do with me.
When I looked how things were going, I discovered that they want to separate me from you people. They want me to go to the corner where I will not be seen. That is how I see it.
At a point, I called my elder brother (former Governor Uduaghan) that this is how I can get home, that this is what I am about to do now. It was a pragmatic decision. I am happy to be home with my people. There is nobody that can battle with the Lord."

Man sleeps with girlfriend’s corpse after killing her for denying him sex

Today, Sunday Ushie, 35, confessed to killing his purported ‘girlfriend’, identified as Nnena Samuel, a mother-of-two, and went ahead to have sex with the corpse. The incident happened on January 26, 2017 in Adijinkpor village in Ikom LGA of Cross River State.

Ushie said she never gave him the opportunity to have sex with her while alive. He said that he invited her to his house and killed her with knife before having sex with the corpse.
The farmer, who said he was regretting his action, blamed the incident on the devil. He said, “It is the work of the devil. I do not know how. I am the one that killed her. I killed her with knife.
She was my girlfriend and I knew her for just two months before this incident happened. I slept with her corpse after killing her. It was strange sleeping with a dead corpse. I never had sex with her when she was alive because she never gave me that opportunity. I was always giving her money but she didn’t allow us to have sex.”
The acting Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said it was the landlord of the deceased that informed the police that his tenant had been brutally murdered.
He said, “Her right hand and left leg and mouth were severed by the suspect. The children of the deceased, Hezekiah (11) and Ezekiel (9) confirmed to the police that their mother was invited out by the suspect on the night of January 26 but did not return home." Crdt: Punchng

She tempted me, says security guard, 45, caught having sex with girl, 10, inside a generator house

Covenant Dako, a security guard with a restaurant in FESTAC Town, Lagos State, escaped death by a whisker after he was attacked by an angry mob for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl, reports Punchng.

The Kogi State indigene would have been lynched, but for the intervention of the policemen who responded to a distress call from the management of the restaurant. He was subsequently rescued and taken into custody.
Dako had lured the victim with N50 and had rounds of sex with her in the restaurant’s generator house on Friday, February 3. He allegedly took the victim again on February 6, and was having sex with her when he was sighted by a passerby who alerted residents.
He was beaten to a pulp before the police intervened. A police source said the victim, a girl who is in Primary 4, also lived in the neighbourhood, adding that her parent had been identified.
He explained that the minor, who strayed from home, had been taken to Mirabel Centre of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where test were conducted on her.
“The suspect, a married father-of-two, has confessed to the crime. He said the girl tempted him by always asking for money,” he added.

Police parade driver that killed UNIOSUN final year student

Osun State Police Command has paraded a driver, Elijah Oyebode, as the suspected killer of a female student of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Rofiat Damilola Adebisi.

The Commissioner of police in the state, Mr Fimihan Adeoye told journalists that Elijah killed Rofiat on 2nd of December, 2016, allegedly, for ritual purpose. The CP said Elijah would be arraigned in court without delay.

Women who expose their breasts, wear bangles, trousers, makeups, are going to hell – Pastor Muoka

G.O of Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministries, Pastor Lazarus Muoka on Sunday reiterated his warning to women who are fund of adorning male wears such as trousers. He maintained that such people would go to hell.

He also warned women to desist from adorning their bodies with artificial makeups, as such unholy practices were sins against God. He gave the warning while addressing a large crowd of worshipers at the just concluded international crusade titled; ‘From Sorrow to Joy” at the Chosen Revival Ground, ljesha, Lagos.
He said: “I want to tell you, you don’t need extra eye, makeup or bangle or attachment at all. You don’t need to dress and show your nakedness, your ass, your chest, your armpit, your tummy, your waist, your lap….that is sin. Cover your body properly.
And if you are a young man and you are doing jerry coil and you make your hair like a woman, use some funny language…and when they ask you where are you from and you say Naija instead of Nigeria, something is wrong with you. The Bible tells us that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
If you are a woman wearing trousers that’s a sin. If you are a man wearing skirt and blouse, that’s an abomination. Search your life, repent of your sin and God will show you mercy. God loves you. It is not the will of God that any soul should perish.”

Auto dealer jailed 10 years for smuggling heroin

The Federal High Court sitting in Kano has sentenced an automobile parts dealer, Okeke Chika Victor, to 10 years imprisonment over heroin smuggling. Victor pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of unlawful importation of heroin filed against him by NDLEA.

After five months of trial, Justice Sale Kogo Idrissa found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment. The heroin weighing 10.6kg and concealed inside new submersible water pumping machines were illegally imported from Maputo in Mozambique in April 2016.
NDLEA officers at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) made the discovery during an inward screening of an Ethiopian Airline flight. After follow-up operation the convict was arrested on September 3, 2016 and charged to court.

$9.7m Cash Stash: Andrew Yakubu had 4 safes, not 1, whistle-blower insists

The whistle-blower who informed the EFCC where a former managing director of NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, hid safes stacked in foreign currencies has said that the safes were four not just the only one found in his Kaduna residence, Daily Nigerian reports.

A large fire-proof safe containing $9.7m and £74,000 cash, was found in Mr Andrew’s house in a Kaduna slum, Sabon Tasha, when EFCC operatives raided the house on February 3.
According to the news outlet, credible security sources reveal that the whistle-blower told EFCC investigators the safes in the house were 4 in number, and that the remaining 3 cash boxes were taken to an unknown destination, a few days to the EFCC raid.
Asked whether he had any hint as to where the rest of the safes were hidden, the whistle-blower said he did not know.
He was also quoted as saying that had EFCC not swung into action on February 3, chances were that the remaining one would also be evacuated.
According to the sources, Mr Yakubu had suspected that operatives of the commission had mounted surveillance on the house and ordered the evacuation of the safes.

List of Grammy winners, Adele wins 5 awards, breaks her Grammy, gives Beyoncé one half

Adele took home five awards Sunday night, including album, record and song of the year. She beat Beyoncé in the top 3 categories with her comeback album “25,” and repeated her accomplishments from 2012, when the British star also won album, song and record of the year at the Grammys.

She used her speech to honor Beyoncé and her groundbreaking “Lemonade” album, which was also nominated. She then broke her Album of the Year Grammy in half and gave the other half to Beyonce!
Below is the full list of winners:
* Album of the year: “25,” Adele
* Record of the year: “Hello,” Adele
* Best new artist: Chance the Rapper
* Song of the year (songwriter’s award): “Hello,” Adele and Greg Kurstin
* Best pop solo performance: “Hello,” Adele
* Best pop vocal album: “25,” Adele
* Best traditional pop vocal album: “Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin,” Willie Nelson
* Best pop duo or group performance: “Stressed Out,” twenty one pilots
* Best dance/electronic album: “Skin,” Flume
* Best rock song: “Blackstar,” David Bowie
* Best rock album: “Tell Me I’m Pretty,” Cage the Elephant
* Best alternative music album: “Blackstar,” David Bowie
* Best R&B album: “Lalah Hathaway Live,” Lalah Hathaway
* Best urban contemporary album: “Lemonade,” Beyoncé
* Best rap album: “Coloring Book,” Chance the Rapper
* Best country album: “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth,” Sturgill Simpson
* Best country solo performance: “My Church,” Maren Morris
* Best jazz vocal album: “Take Me to the Alley,” Gregory Porter
* Best jazz instrumental album: “Country for Old Men,” John Scofield
* Best compilation soundtrack for visual media: “Miles Ahead,” Miles Davis & Various Artists
* Producer of the year, non-classical: Greg Kurstin
* Best music video: “Formation,” Beyoncé

India busts Nigerian heroine dealer, recovers N160m worth of drugs

India’s Delhi Police Crime Branch claimed to have busted in two incidents, two drug trafficking modules with the arrest of three drug traffickers, including a Nigerian.

The accused were identified as Uchenna (28), from Nigeria, Indian Ajay (33) and his associate Naresh Kumar (39). As much as 170 grams of cocaine and 590 grams of fine-quality heroin estimated to be worth a consolidated amount of $320,000, were seized from the trio.

Nigeria’s youngest referee, appointed to officiate in the Champions League

24-year-old Quadri Ololade Adebimpe, a FIFA badged referee, has been appointed by the Confederation of African Football to officiate in the CAF continental club competitions.

He will oversee the CAF Champions League Second Leg game between AS FAN of Niger Republic and AS de Tanda of Ivory Coast in Niamey, next week Saturday.

Former heavyweight Ibadan socialite, Danku, dies of cardiac arrest

Ibadan-based socialite, Abiodun Femi Lekuti, aka Danku, passed on, yesterday, at the Teju Memorial Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State. He allegedly suffered a cardiac arrest, after he was rushed to the hospital from his home.

Until he fell on bad times, Danku rode the social scene like a Colossus and his name was an anthem on the lips of many musicians, especially, Kwam1. He later gave politics a shot, but was denied an attempt to contest for a House of Reps seat.

Woman uses her menstrual blood of 4 months, to make painting of a baby

A woman meticulously collected the blood from her menstrual cycle for four months to make a painting. Artist Timi Pali wanted to make an image which represents the importance and fragility of motherhood.

She used tampons to collect her blood and her fingers to paint the matter onto four individual canvases which were eventually placed together. She told Mirror magazine.
“The focus is not on the blood, but the work has its message because of the menstrual flow. My concept with this elimination of the ovum, through the menstrual blood I gave birth to an artwork during these nine months and actually I created a ‘start of the end,’ and an artwork was born, which illustrates a baby.”
Explaining the piece in more detail on her website, Timi wrote: “One drop of experiment and I realise the beauty of the pain, the value of the period, fertilising my whole being. The periodic elimination of my ovum with my menstrual flow inspired me to give birth to something which has a biological end, and to create the start of the end.”

$20bn NNPC fraud: EFCC discovers Diezani’s $37.5m Lagos mansion

Efcc has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Punchng reports.

The discovery was made as part of investigations into a string of fraudulent activities in the NNPC, which cost the nation over $20bn at a time the oil price stood at about $100 per barrel on the average.
A source at the EFCC said, “The aggressive drive by the EFCC to recover all hidden assets of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is under investigation for corruption and money laundering, produced another breakthrough this week with the discovery of a property acquired through shell companies by the former minister at upscale Banana Island in Lagos.
The property is a 15-storey edifice comprising 18 flats and six penthouses. The property was acquired by the former minister between 2011 and 2012 at a total cost of $37.5m from the developers, YF Construction Development and Real Estate.
The property was allegedly acquired in the name of a shell company, Rusimpex Limited under the control of certain Mr. Afamefuna Nwokedi of Stillwaters law firm, in Lagos.” Last year, the commission seized an $18m mansion in the Asokoro area of Abuja. allegedly belonging to the ex-minister.

Uncle arrested for raping a 16-year-old orphaned housemaid

Afrobest Chinedu Eze, a trader at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos, was arrested on Wednesday, after several efforts by the police to track him down.

Punchng initially reported how the victim, Blessing, was brought to the home of the Ezes to work as a housemaid about three months ago.
She was said to have lost her parents and had been living without care in the village, before a relation brought her to Lagos.
She accused Eze, whom she refers to as ‘uncle’ of forcing himself on her at three separate times when his wife was not around. According to her, when Mrs. Eze came back from her travels, she summoned her.
Blessing revealed that the woman accused her of seducing her husband while she was away and she tortured her as a result.

Buhari’s Doctors, Aides In Tug Of War Over His Possible Return Tomorrow

Presidency sources have said that Pres. Buhari plans to return to Nigeria on Saturday after his test results came in “fine.” However, his return remains uncertain as his team of doctors in the U.K has yet to certify him fit to take on the significant burden of his office.

SaharaReporters learned that members of Mr. Buhari’s inner circle were pressuring him to return to Nigeria in order to avoid a power vacuum that could scale down their influence.
SaharaReporters learnt that President Buhari remains in frail health and requires treatment for an undisclosed ailment that requires his absence from Nigeria for a prolonged time.
However, owing to the volatile political situation in Nigeria, some members of his inner circle have been persuading him that he cannot afford to take more time off.
Members of the political establishment surrounding him are persuading him to accept a piecemeal medical treatment plan rather than adopt a plan recommended by his UK doctors that would take several months for treatment and recovery.
The president’s associates are reportedly afraid that a prolonged tenure as acting President for Mr. Osinbajo, could significantly change the power equation against them.
One source disclosed that, even if Pres. Buhari returns to Abuja on Saturday, he would soon have to travel again to the UK to seek further treatment.

Nigerian man excretes 90 wraps of cocaine, upon arriving India, from Lagos

India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested Okonkwo M Tony, for allegedly trying to smuggle in cocaine in as many as 90 capsules, which he had swallowed. He was apprehended after he landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

He was admitted to a hospital, following which he ejected 90 cocaine-filled capsules weighing 1.3 kg, over two days. He told investigators that he had swallowed them at a guest house in Lagos. He was to hand over the capsules to another Nigerian in India.

Police arrest mom who poisoned her children due to her husband's inability to buy Xmas dresses

Bayelsa State police have arrested one Helen Okwata Azibabeh, 32, for poisoning her two children, on the 22nd of December, 2016, in Kolo, Ogbia LGA, by giving them Parafox, a popular herbicide used for curbing weeds, Sunonline reports.

Although, her one year old daughter, Gloria, escaped death by the whiskers, her two year old brother, Innocent, died. Azibabeh’s atrocity was subsequently discovered by her elder sister, who promptly reported to the police.
The Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Amba Asuquo, confirmed the incident and said the suspect is to be charged to court for murder as soon as investigation is concluded.
When newsmen spoke with Azibabeh, she stressed that her anger was really directed at her husband. “I didn’t see any of the Christmas clothes my two children could wear,” Azibabeh said.

46-year-old commercial bus driver arrested for impregnating his 14-year-old stepdaughter

Onyiyechi Edum, a native of Abua, Rivers State, started sleeping with the girl, who is currently in JSS 1, when his wife took ill and was hospitalised for over three months.

Edum, however, said he was drunk when he slept with her, on different occasions. Speaking on the matter, the Divisional Police Officer, Kingsley Chukwueggu, stated that the suspect would soon be charged to court for his actions. Crdt: Punchng

Cheating wife sets husband ablaze, burns their children to death, after being caught

A Malawian Revenue Officer MRA is battling for his life after suffering incidiary burns caused by his wife. He was said to be on a night shift, but suddenly felt unwell and left work for the hospital. After being attended to briefly at the clinic, he retired home.

When he arrived at his house he found a strange car parked in his yard and his little investigations quickly revealed the wife was with another man. The wife was shocked that the husband had come early and actually caught them in bed.
She begged for mercy and pleaded with the husband to forgive her. But the husband told the cheating wife to leave his house peacefully. The wife however requested to be allowed to leave in the morning as it would be dangerous to leave in the night.
The husband allowed her to stay the night in the house and slept in the children’s bedroom. Later the man woke up to a burning fire that nearly killed him. It has now been established that the cheating wife attempted to burn him to death.
Investigations point to a can full of petrol from the garage she used to light the house. The woman has been arrested for arson and murder of the children that failed to survive the burning inferno. Crdt: Tumfweko

19-year-old apprentice, pays assassins N5k, to kill his boss

Samuel Jonah, from Benue State, was arrested and charged before a Lagos court sitting in Ejigbo, for engaging some people suspected to be assassins with the sum of N5000, to kill his boss, Donatus Nnaji, Pmexpress reports.
The incident happened at Ikotun Area of Lagos where Nnaji runs a bakery. Jonah allegedly offered the men a sum N5,000 but paid N2,000 cash with promised to pay the balance on completion of eliminating Nnaji.

Jonah was brought from Benue and got engaged in the bakery, by Nnaji. It was learnt that the bread factory was considerably making progress and Jonah reportedly started scheming on how to take over the business.
According to the police, he engaged the assassins to rob and kill Nnaji, with intent of taking over the business since Nnaji’s family did not know much about the bread industry.
However, the matter was foiled after he had disagreement over money with the people he hired. The gang demanded full payment and when Jonah was not forthcoming, one of the men leaked the information to Nnaji who contacted police and Jonah was arrested.
At the station, one of the men who stood as witnesses, came with a recorded video and Jonah confessed. He was later charged with felony. The presiding Magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola, granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum.