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  • Three brothers beat up expectant mother

    Three brothers beat up expectant mother

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday remanded three brothers for allegedly beating up an expectant mother.

    The accused are a tailor, Yusuf Oloyede, 25; an artisan, Ganiyu Oloyede, 18; and a designer, Riliwan Oloyede, 28.

    Magistrate A.O. Gbajumo, remanded the brothers in the police station and adjourned the case till today for mention.

    The trio, who reside on Church Street at Obawole in Ogba, Lagos, were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault.

    Prosecuting police Corporal Michael Unah said that the accused committed the offence on Saturday at their residence.

    He said the accused conspired to assault the expectant mother, Mrs Maria John.

    “The accused beat up their neighbour not minding her condition,” he said.

    Unah said the pregnant woman’s husband reported the case to the police.

    He said the complainant’s children were digging the ground to pack sand to fill the front of their house when the accused ordered them to stop.

    “The complainant’s children were digging sand to fill the front of their house and the accused asked them to stop but they refused.

    “The accused went to pick cutlasses and was chasing the complainant’s children to machete them following which the complainant rushed to the station to report the matter.

    “While at the station, he received a call from his daughter that the accused persons have descended on his pregnant wife and beaten her into coma.

    “He rushed home to meet his wife in coma, stained with blood all over her body, she was rushed to the hospital and she delivered on Monady through Caesarean section,” he said.

     

  • Woman assaults expectant mother

    THE police have arrested a woman for allegedly assaulting her six-month pregnant neighbour with hot water.

    The incident occurred at 3, Gbagada Road in Bariga, duringa scuffle.

    The suspect simply identified as Oluwatoyin was alleged to have poured the water on the face and body of Rukayat Osuleanle.

    After bathing her victim with water, Oluwatoyin was said to have dipped one of her hands inside another hot water, alleging that the expectant mother did it.

    But her trick did not work. The police arrested and charged her to court for alleged assault.

    She was said to have pleaded guilty before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos to charges of assault, occasioning harm and was consequently remanded in police custody till October 14 for facts and sentencing.

     

  • Bus knocks down expectant mother in Ibadan

    A commercial bus yesterday knocked down an expectant mother in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. She died immediately.

    The incident occurred in front of the Agodi Police Division around 9 am.

    Sources said the bus driver was trying to escape from a policewoman, who was struggling the wheel with him, when the incident occurred.

    It was learnt that the bus driver, who was coming from Iwo Road, was flagged down by a policewoman in front of the station.

    Sources said the driver slowed down but failed to stop.

    They said the policewoman tried to take control of the steering to stop him.

    While the struggle for control was going on, a commercial motorcycle conveying the expectant mother moved in front of the bus and the woman was knocked down. Sources said she bled profusely and died immediately.

    An eyewitness said angry residents gathered to attack the police station but policemen from other stations and men of the Operation Burst were deployed in the area to forestall a breakdown of law and order.

    Angry residents gathered in groups blamed the accident on the policewoman.

    As at 9:45am when The Nation visited the scene, the victim’s blood, slippers and Muslim rosary were still there.

    Armed soldiers and policemen made passersby raise their hands to signify peace as they passed.

    Head of the Information Unit, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Mr. Toye Akinrinlola said the victim was brought there dead, adding that those who brought her were asked to take her to the State Hospital, Adeoyo.

    Acting police spokesman Nyang Ignatius debunked claims that the policewoman struggled with the driver.

    He said it was hoodlums suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who were trying to extort money from the driver, that struggled with him to take control of the steering.

    Nyang said the police rescued the driver from a mob that wanted to lynch him.

    He said: “The bus was intercepted by hoodlums, but the driver refused to stop. He lost control and ran into a pedestrian. Sympathisers attempted to lynch the driver and burn the vehicle, but the police took the driver and the vehicle to the station. The people started throwing stones into the station, asking the police to release him because they believed we would not do Justice. But the police did not release him to them. Investigations are ongoing.”

  • Man beats expectant mother to death

    A middle-aged man has fled his home after allegedly beating his wife to death. The deceased, Mujidat, 42, was carrying a four-month pregnancy when the tragedy occurred.

    The suspect (names withheld) committed the murder in Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, last week.

    It was learnt that the deceased challenged her husband to explain the reason he was having a love affair with another woman. She was said to have caught the husband with the woman in his car.

    According to a police source, a hot argument ensued, leading to a fight between the couple. Mujidat, it said, died during the fight.

    Police spokesperson Mrs Olabisi Ilobanafor, said the case was reported at the Apata Police Division by the deceased’s father, Pa Rufus Tijani, who accused the suspect of killing his pregnant daughter. The suspect, she said, had since fled, abandoning his home and car.

    She said Mujidat’s corpse had been deposited at the morgue of the Oyo State Hospital, Adeoyo, off Ring Road, Ibadan.

    Ilobanafor, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), said that police were on the suspect’s trail, assuring: “Wherever he is hiding, I advise him to report himself because he must come and explain his role in the criminal act.”

  • ‘How ‘soldiers’ killed expectant mother in our village’

    Matthew Nyam is a teacher and an indigene of Mbalagh ward in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State where suspected Fulani herdsmen allegedly killed 30 Tiv farmers last Tuesday morning.

    Nyam alleged that the herdsmen enjoyed the backing of soldiers from the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering (NASME) in Makurdi, the state capital.

    He told The Nation how he was beaten to the pulp when the residents attempted to stop soldiers from shooting an expectant mother who was protesting the incessant killings of Tiv farmers.

    Sitting in a plastic chair and carrying a partially blinded eye with a swollen face, the teacher looked ruffled. Blood was dripping from his mouth as he narrated his ordeal.

    The 40-year-old man had lost his composure; he carried the mien of a tormented soul. The scares of his sad encounter with the soldiers were clear on his face.

    As he struggled to narrate his ordeal in the hands of the soldiers, tears rolled down his eyes. His memory of the bloody attack on his kinsmen evoked an image of horror and trepidation. Nyam said it would take a long time for him to forget the incident.

    According to him, for over three years, there had been no schooling in Mbalagh ward because of the incessant attacks and killings of Tiv farmers.

    The teacher said the residents had always suspected that the soldiers from the NASME were involved in the killing of Tiv farmers. According to him, the reality dawned on the residents when, last Tuesday, 30 persons, including women and children, were allegedly killed.

    He said three loads of Toyota Hilux vans bearing Nigerian Army number plates and colour with military men in camouflage uniforms stormed the village at 5am. Four Fulani sat at the back of one of the vehicles, Nyam said.

    When the villagers first saw the vehicles, the teacher said, they thought the soldiers were on patrol. But as the residents moved towards the vehicles, the soldiers allegedly opened fire and killed many of them, including women and children. They also moved into the village, where they allegedly killed 16 villagers and set their homes ablaze.

    The soldiers allegedly took away 17 residents to an unknown destination; their whereabouts are still unknown.

    Nyam urged the Federal Government to save his kinsmen from extermination.

    The teacher called for an investigation into the attack and severe punish against the culprits.

    Attempts to speak with NASME Commandant in Makurdi failed. Our correspondent was directed to the Army headquarters in Abuja for any comment on the matter.

  • Man beats expectant mother

    A 27-year-old man, Innocent Ukwenya, has been charged before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly beating an expectant mother , Jennifer Omini.
    Ukwenya is facing one  count charge of assault, occasioning harm punishable under Section 171 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2011, before Magistrate A.K. Shonubi.
    The accused, a resident of 7, Goriola Street, Ajegunle, was said to have given  his neighbour’s wife, a blow on her lower abdomen.
     when the woman warned Ukwenya for his audacity to ask her husband to call her to order.
    The accused was said to have warned her husband to caution her, following, what he calls “consistent insults” from her.
    Angry at the development, she was said to have attacked the accused who pounced on her and beat her up despite her condition.
    Ukwenya allegedly gave her a blow on her lower abdomen which led to her being hospitalised.
    He pleaded not guilty and was granted N50,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum by Magistrate Shonubi who adjourned the case till October 3.