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  • Court remands woman abusing child in viral video

    Court remands woman abusing child in viral video

    A Lagos Magistrate Court sitting at Ogba has remanded a woman seen in a viral video mal-treating a child.

    The suspect was  remanded  at Women Custodial of the Lagos Correction Service, Kirikiri  last  Friday on the order of Magistrate Owolabi.

    Magistrate Owolabi remanded the woman pending legal advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    This was  disclosed in a statement  issued  and signed by the Head, Public Affairs Unit of the Lagos Domestic and Sexual Agency (DSVA)   Mrs Adejoke Ladenegan-Oginni .

    The statement stated:  “We wish to inform the public that the woman identified in the viral video mal-treating a child, has been arraigned in Court 5, Ogba Magistrate Court, Ikeja on Friday the 7th of June, 2024..

    “She will be remanded in custody pending the issuance of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) legal advice.

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    “We also want to assure the public that the child has been placed under the care of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, ensuring she receives the proper care and shelter she needs.

    “The Lagos State Government remains committed to protecting the rights and well-being of children and will continue to work diligently to ensure justice is served in this case.

    “We encourage residents to speak up and report cases of Domestic and Sexual Violence  through our toll free number 08000 333 333.”

  • Court remands eight for alleged attempted murder

    An Igbosere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, yesterday remanded eight murder suspects in prison custody, pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    The suspects are: Akinmuleya Abiye, 45; Juni Yagba, 48; Yusuf Agunbiade, 21; Taiwo Omosehin, 48; Ola Omosowone, 35; Samuel Agunyebi, 28; Michael Aladetan, 40 and Okunomo Tomola, 30.

    Chief Magistrate B. I. Bakare made the order following a charge of conspiracy, attempted murder, malicious damage, unlawful assault and conduct likely to cause breach of the peace brought against the men by the police.

    Before remanding the defendants, Bakare noted that the magistrates’ court had no jurisdiction to entertain a charge of attempted murder.

    He directed the police to apply for a remand warrant in line with Section 264 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Laws (ACJL) of Lagos State, 2015, following which prosecution counsel, Mr. Morufu Animashaun, made an oral application pending the DPP’s advice.

    Bakare granted his prayer and remanded the defendants till November 29.

    The police, in the temporary charge marked P/99/18, alleged that the defendants, on or about August 26, at Itun-Agan community, Tin Can Island, Apapa, Lagos, conspired and attempted to kill Omoshola Segun, Lot Ikuesan and Abudu Adekunle.

    They were also alleged to have unlawfully and maliciously damaged three buildings belonging to the trio of Segun, Adekunle and Asemudara Alaba, which were valued at N47.5 million.

    The police alleged that the suspects unlawfully assaulted Olorunyomi Elejuawa and Inspector Ogundipe Oluwaseyi, who was on duty of peace-making.

    The offences, according to Animashaun, are contrary to and punishable under sections 411, 230(1), 230, 339, 172, 174(a) (b) and 160(1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

    Animashaun told the court that the Special Enquiry Bureau (SEB) of the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (FCIID), Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, received a petition from Segun, which alleged that the suspects and others at large invaded their community, Itun-Agan.

    The petition was subsequently investigated by a team led by Mr. Samuel Olukayode, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), following which the suspects were arrested, the prosecutor said.

  • Court remands lawyer in Kirikiri for husband’s death

    A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a lawyer, Mrs Udeme Odibi, 47, in Kirikiri prison for allegedly killing her husband, Sym Otike Odibi, 56.

    Odibi was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Bukola Kikelomo Ayeye on a one count charge of murder.

    The prosecutor, Mr. Effiong Asuquo, a Chief Superintendent of Police, (CSP) said she ripped out her husband’s intestine and cut off his genitals with a knife at their Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Lagos residence.

    He urged the court to remand her in prison, pending the advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    Defence counsel Oluseye Bamijoko urged the court to stop the burial of the deceased holding today.

    He said the burial could wait until result of the psychiatric evaluation carried out on his client is released.

    He prayed the court to remand the defendant at Ikoyi prisons.

    Chief Magistrate Ayeye ordered that the defendant be remanded in Kirikiri, pending the DPP’s advice.

    She declined her request to be remanded in Ikoyi prisons, saying it has no facility for women.

    The Chief Magistrate also declined to stop today’s burial of the deceased, saying burial is the right of the dead.

    She adjourned the matter till June 25.

  • Court remands dry cleaner for ‘baptising’ policeman with hot soup

    Court remands dry cleaner for ‘baptising’ policeman with hot soup

    AN Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court has remanded a 33-year-old man, Imole Emmanuel, in prison custody for assaulting a police corporal, Kayode Akingbade, and conducting himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of public peace.

    Emmanuel, who was slammed with a three-count charge on June 13, at about 5.30 pm, poured hot soup on Akingbade’s face and police uniform.

    He also “attempted to snatch” his service rifle.

    Policemen were said to be on surveillance around Baptist Comprehensive College area on Ilawe Road and the suspect was ordered to leave their area to allow the cops carry out their operation.

    Akingbade went to a nearby canteen to eat 35 minutes later only for Emmanuel to launch the attack on the officer while eating.

    The charge sheet reads: “That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on 13/06/2016 at about 5 .30 pm at Baptist junction, Ilawe Road, Ado Ekiti in the Ado Ekiti Magisterial District did threaten with violence one Cpl Akingbade Kayode attached to New Iyin Road Police Station, Ado Ekiti by pouring hot stew on his face and police uniform before trying to struggle with his rifle and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 86(1) of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State of Nigeria 2012.

    “That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by pouring hot stew on the face and his police uniform and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249(d) of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State Nigeria 2012.

    “That you Emmanuel Imole ‘m’ on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did assault one Cpl Akingbade Kayode while eating at Nike Food Canteen located at Baptist junction, Ilawe Road, Ado Ekiti by pouring hot stew on his face and on his uniform and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 356(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 16 Vol. 1 Laws of Ekiti State Nigeria 2012.”

    At the sitting yesterday, police prosecutor, Bankole Olasunkanmi, disclosed that five witnesses have been lined up to give evidence against the accused person but only three, including the nominal complainant, were in court.

    Olasunkanmi prayed the court for a short adjournment to enable him study the case file and assemble his witnesses.

    Defence counsel, Gbenga Alabadan, urged the court to grant admit the accused person to bail, stressing that the presumption of innocence was still in favour of his client.

    He, therefore, prayed for bail for the accused person.

    Chief Magistrate Idowu Ayenimo, in his ruling, said there was no enough ground placed before the court by the defence counsel to justify the bail for the accused.

    Ayenimo ordered the defence counsel to approach the court with written bail application for the accused.

    He ordered the accused to be remanded in prison custody and adjourned the case to July 7.

     

  • Court remands driver for ‘killing’ girlfriend

    n Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has remanded a driver, Raphael Effiong, in prison for allegedly killing his girlfriend.

    A Effiong, 28, was said to have killed Gift Sunday, 29, for allegedly refusing to marry him.

    Gift allegedly turned down his marriage proposal at a hotel in Ketu, Lagos.

    The prosecutor, Corporal Onaiwu Iyobosa, told the court that the crime was committed at 11.30 am on July 28 at Mayor Lodge Hotel at 10, Yusuf Oyero Street, Ketu.

    Iyobosa alleged that the defendant and the deceased met in 2013 when they started having an affair.

    “The defendant proposed to the deceased many times but she refused the proposal because the defendant is a difficult man. On that fateful day, he invited the deceased to the hotel. The deceased honoured the invitation and she brought food for him.

    “They checked in and a misunderstanding occurred between them because the deceased turned down his marriage proposal. He (Effiong) brought out scissors and stabbed the deceased on her armpit and breast.

    “The deceased screamed for help and was heard by guests in the hotel. The guests forcefully opened the door after the defendant refused to open it,” Iyobosa said.

    The woman, Iyobosa said, was rushed to a nearby hospital where she died the next day.

    The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 221 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2011.

    The defendant’s plea was not taken because the court lacks jurisdiction to hear murder cases.

    Magistrate E. J. Adefioye ordered that the defendant be remanded in Ikoyi prisons pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    He adjourned the matter to September 22.

  • Court remands Guru Maharaji’s devotee

    A Guru Maharaji high priest, Dr. Chimeize Osigweh, who hid the body of his late mother in a cupboard in his residence at Ejemekuru, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State for more than 10 years, has been remanded in Owerri prison.

    The whereabouts of Osigwe, a 68-year-old retired assistant headteacher who was arrested by the police for allegedly murdering his 78–year-old mother, Mrs. Lucy Osigweh, has remained a puzzle until he was reported sick in the prison.

    A source close to the Owerri Prison authorities, said Osigweh has refused to eat the Prison’s food because of his faith and fell sick.

    The source said: “He claims that his sect doesn’t eat cooked foods and nobody is ready to serve him his sect’s type of food. He said he is a member of Guru Maharaji sect and does not eat secular food.

    “As a result of his refusal to eat food or take any medication, he has developed kwashiorkor and was rushed to hospital but he has been discharged and back to the prison.”

  • Court remands man for running ‘fake’ varsity

    A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday remanded in prison custody, a man accused of running a “fake” and an “unregistered” university.

    Justice Ahmed Mohammed made the remand order after the accused, David Iornem, was arraigned on a three-count charge filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

    He was said to have collected money from three people on the pretence that he would offer them admission into his university, identified as Commonwealth University, Belize.

    He reportedly committed the offence between July last year and May this year in Abuja.

    The accused, who pleaded not guilty, was granted bail in the sum of N100,000 and a surety in like sum.

    The court said the surety must be a federal civil servant of a rank not lower than Level 8. He/she is to swear to an affidavit of means and deposit his/her recent passport with the court. Justice Mohammed ordered that Iornem should be kept in Kuje prison, Abuja, until he meets the bail conditions.

    The judge was persuaded to grant the bail when the prosecution lawyer, Elijah Akaakohol, said he would not oppose the accused’s bail application.

    The prosecution lawyer said: “It is not in our character to oppose bail in cases of this nature.”

    Count one of the charge reads: “That you, David Iornem (m), on or about July 4, 2012 in Abuja, with intention to defraud, attempted to obtain $11,550 from Prof. Is-haq Oloyede by falsely representing yourself to be ‘Prof. David Iornem’ and solicited payment of $11,550 from him for the award of an academic doctoral degree of the Commonwealth University, Belize, when you know that the university is fake and unaccredited, owned and operated by you, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 8(b) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

    Count two: “That you, David Iornem (m), on or about January 21, 2013 in Abuja, with intention to defraud, obtained $5,000 from Akinkiotu Albert Oluwatoyin by falsely representing yourself to be ‘Prof. David Iornem’ and pretending to offer admission to him to pursue a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management at the Commonwealth University, Belize, when you know that the university is fake and unaccredited, owned and operated by you, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related offences Act, 2006.

    Count three: “That you, David Iornem (m), on or about May 23, 2013 in Abuja, received $800 from Jamilu Rabiu Sani as application form fee and good-faith deposit for admission into Commonwealth University, Belize, when you know that the university is fake and unaccredited, owned and operated by you, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

    Trial begins on September 19.

  • Court remands Lamido’s son in prison

    Court remands Lamido’s son in prison

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Aminu Sule Lamido, the first son of Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, on a one-count charge of money laundering before Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court, Kano.

    The accused was arrested by EFCC operatives at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on December 11, last year, when he attempted to transport $50,000 out of the country. He declared only $10,000 to the Nigerian Customs.

    The charge said Aminu, on or about December 11, 2012, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, while transporting $50,000 from Nigeria to Cairo, Egypt, falsely declared to the Nigerian Customs $10,000 instead of $50,000, as required under Section 12 of the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, Cap. F34, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, and Section 2(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 2(5) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011.

    Aminu pleaded not guilty to the charges. This prompted the prosecuting counsel, S. H. Sa’ad, to apply for a hearing date.

    The defence counsel, O. E. D. Offiong (SAN,) prayed the court to grant the accused bail, who is on an administrative bail.

    But Sa’ad opposed the bail application.

    He prayed the court to remand the accused in prison, arguing he would tamper with the cause of investigation because he had once declined to appear for the first hearing and refused to get served when the EFCC approached him with the service.

    Justice Riman agreed with the prosecuting counsel and ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody.

    He adjourned hearing till today.