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  • Man strangles girlfriend to death

    Man strangles girlfriend to death

    • Dumps body into drainage

    A boy identified as Chukwu has been arrested for killing and dumping the corpse of his orphaned girlfriend in the gutter at Madumere Street in Owerri Municipal Council of Imo State. 

    The incident which took place on January 7, 2024, between the hours of 11 pm and 12 midnight is generating panic and concerns among the residents and Imo indigenes who are wondering how the young woman was murdered in cold blood. 

    The deceased spotted a red skirt, gold earrings, and gold necklace, and was seen in a drainage, soaked in the pool of her blood near an uncompleted building on the same street. 

    The deceased whose name was not disclosed hailed from Umuayala, Egbu in Owerri North LGA. 

    The residents have expressed shock that the suspect’s relations including a retired police commissioner are fighting hard to sweep the case under the carpet so that the suspect would evade prosecution. 

    A source who craved anonymity said the case was first reported at the Owerri Urban Police Station, where he disclosed that police wanted to play funny before the case was reported to CP Monitoring at Homicide 2 Department,  Imo State Police Command where authorities ordered the arrest of the suspect.

    He said:  “The young lady is an orphan from Owerri North LGA and the boyfriend is from Madumere Street from Owerri Municipal Council. 

    “The boy has been arrested and is cooling off at the homicide department of command,”  he said. 

    Narrating the incident he said:  “This case happened on January 7, 2024.

    ” When I noticed it, I raised the alarm which attracted the residents to the spot where the corpse was dumped in a gutter near an uncompleted building. So I evacuated the body and I paid every bill including the mortuary bill and we went to the police in Owerri Urban where the police were trying to be funny, I transferred it to CP monitoring.

     “We later set up a surveillance group about four of them, including my lawyers, to go into that community on surveillance. My Deputy PG also was there on surveillance. We also mobilised the whole vigilante in the area.

     “We then threatened to make the police arrest all the boys on the street if they would not tell us exactly who killed this girl because in that community there are gates in every street that are being locked by 11 pm.

    “So how come that such a corpse was dumped at Madumere Street and nobody saw them?

    “So, it was supposed to be within, we threatened them and they confessed that that woman was a girlfriend to one of the vigilante boys and the same boy was the one that killed his girlfriend on Friday night.”

    He said that the people reported that they saw the suspect with the victim on January 5th, 2024 around Onumiri very far from Madumere Street about two poles where the suspect resides adding that on that Friday night the girl was with the suspect.

    When contacted,  the police spokesman in the state,  Henry Okoye said, “The suspect is still in Police Custody, the Command intends to carry out an autopsy to ascertain the cause of death of the victim. The suspect will be arraigned in court after a comprehensive investigation.”

    “So after the vigilantes had written their report at the state CID Homicide 2. Then we went onto surveillance again, and we continued until the suspect was arrested using my lawyers and everything at our disposal because the boy wanted to run away, we tracked him and he was arrested. 

     “We also tried to track the deceased families and now found out that the deceased family is from Umuayala Egbu. So, we eventually got the sister and brother. They confessed that the boy had been a friend of their sister for four years and that there was a time he came to say he wanted to marry the girl and the same boy is married already. 

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    “So we brought brother and sister to the homicide section and we had their statement and later the police paraded the boy at the sight of the scene. My deputy PG took them to the place to show them everything that had happened and they took the police to his boy’s house. 

    “Now we realised that the boy has a retired commissioner of police who was bent in closing the case and secondly the deceased family wanted to settle with the deceased family because they (deceased family) are so poor and scared because they don’t want any trouble as they claimed they have nobody to fight on their behalf them because the suspect family has been threatening fire and brimstones. 

     “But we have been told the deceased’s family to be strong and that we are with them but they have been so scared because they don’t have anybody. “

     The source further said:  “The suspect’s family wanted to negotiate with the deceased’s family so that they could negotiate the burial and pay the bride price but the bride price is not the future of the deceased. So the question is why was she killed and dumped in a gutter in that manner? Was it that she was not a human being?.”

    He expressed sadness at how the victim was killed and dumped,  “human beings should not be treated that way. I want the suspect to confess those who did it with him. I am calling on Nigerians to assist and call these people to order and make sure justice is given.”

  • Man, 30, docked for alleged abduction of ‘girlfriend’

    A 30-year-old man, Idris Usman, who allegedly abducted his 16-year-old girl friend, was docked yesterday before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    Usman, a resident of 25, Muricals Street, Agege, is on trial for alleged kidnapping, to which he pleaded not guilty.

    The Prosecutor, Inspector Chinalu Uwadione, told the court that the accused committed the offence on June 16 on Railway Line, Ikeja, the state capital.

    Uwadione said the accused hid the girl from her mother because she did not consent to the relationship.

    “The accused took the teenager to his sister’s place in Ondo State where she was until she was found,” Uwadione said.

    He added that the offence contravenes Section 2 of the Kidnapping Prohibition Laws of Lagos State, 2017.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mr O. O. Olatunji, granted the accused bail for N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum.

    Olatunji said the sureties must have proof of evidence of tax payment to the state government in the last three years.

    He adjourned the matter till October 24 for mention.

     

  • Man stabs friend to death after ‘seducing’ girlfriend

    Residents of Mabayoje area of Alakuko, a Lagos suburb, were shocked penultimate Thursday after a youth, identified simply as Samson allegedly killed his best friend, Tobi, during a scuffle.

    The fight broke out after Samson, according to sources, attempted to seduce Tobi’s girlfriend called Abigael.

    Witness told The Nation, that Samson and Abigael were squatting in a Cherubim and Seraphim church in the community.

    Abigael,19, was said to have raised the alarm after Samson allegedly  caressed her body while she was asleep inside the church.

    ‘’Abigael reported Samson to his mother, following which the woman queried her son for attempting to seduce his friend’s lover.

    ‘’But Samson denied caressing Abigael and the two of them had an altercation. The matter assumed bloody dimension after Tobi accused Samson of betrayer, which led to a fight.

    ‘’ Tobi reached for a broken bottle, while Samson brought out a knife and chased after him until he succeeded in stabbing Tobi  in the chest.’’

    It was learnt that Tobi was taken to a nearby private hospital where he was confirmed dead.

    A community leader, who asked for anonymity said Samson and Abigael have since been arrested by men of Alakuko Police Station.

     

  • Troost-Ekong, girlfriend welcome baby boy

    Super Eagles’ defender, William Troost-Ekong has welcomed a baby boy into his family after his girlfriend put to bed on Tuesday, AOIFootball.com reports.

    The pair, who have been dating for about five years, made public the pregnancy prior to the FIFA World Cup in Russia as Ekong wished for a tournament baby.

    The birth of the Ekong’s baby boy, adds to the growing list of future Super Eagles’ stars following the birth of Elderson Echiejile’s son earlier in the year.

  • Davido buys girlfriend a Porsche

    •Comedian AY makes a joke of the gift

    Hip hop music superstar David Adeleke, aka Davido has presented his girlfriend, Chef Chi, with a gift of aN45m Porsche car, bearing the plate number ‘Assurance’.

    This happened at a bash last weekend in celebration of her 23rd birthday.

    Davido also said that he and Chef Chi, whose real name is Chioma Avril Rowland are in the romantic relationship forever.

    This is the first time that the ‘FIA’ crooner will express his feeling to a lady in public, having been in the spotlight for a long time.

    In a video which Davido uploaded, Chef Chi, as she is fondly called is seen standing in front of the car.

    Davido wrote: “I give my baby Assurance!!! I love you baby!! We in this 4 life!! @thechefchi !! Happy birthday chiom chiom !! From me to you!! I bought my baby a Porsche!!”

    The father of two has reportedly fallen in love with the 300Level student of Babcock University, making known his desire to have a son by her to compliment his two daughters from two different baby mamas. Davido declared that Chioma loves his daughters openly and is ready to spend the rest of his life with her.

    Meanwhile, popular comedian Ayo Makun has made a joke of the gift from Davido. In his reaction to the video, the comedian said on Instagram: “@davidoofficial you don’t have respect. I need to rush and go and block you from appearing on my wife’s timeline… This Porsche Assurance gift to @thechefchi is too much for your age na. How much @miraclebigbrother win after waiting on the lord for 3 months in #bbnaija2018? God punish any man wey one begin type one page of poem give woman for instagram tomorrow morning all in the name of birthday wishes.

    To his wife, he said: “@midas_interiors, the good lord told me you don’t want designer, you don’t want Ferrari but my love. All these are the things of the world, let’s just continue to serve the living God and avoid #yorubademons like these lazy Nigerian OBO youth. In short make God scatter this world make everybody start afresh.”

  • Man kills self after row with girlfriend

    A young man identified as  Sunday Agboola has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inide his room shortly after a row with his girlfriend

    The incident happened penultimate Monday at the deceased’s home in the Abule Iroko area of Sango, in Sango/Ijoko Local Council Development Area of Ogun State.

    The deceased was said to have moved into his apartment three monts ago.

    An altercation was said to have broken out between the deceased and his girlfriend called Esther, following which the lady left the decease’s home in anger.

    According to sources, Agboola’s mood changed immediately his girlfriend stormed out of his room and he kept top himself for several hours.

    ” No one can tell whether it was due to what happened between him and his girlfriend, but we noticed that he was not happy after his girlfriend left in anger and he kept to himself afterwards.

    ”He later went back to his room and idd not come out again. It was when some people knocked on his door and got no response that they peeped through the window and saw his body dangling from the ceiling.”

    It was learnt that before his tragic death, Agboola had never been visited by his family members, hence, it was difficult to locate his relatives.

    A resident said: ” We know that he is a native of Abeokuta, we never saw him with any of his family members throughout his brief stay in this house.

    ‘’Even his landlady wept regretting giving her house to the man. She said that it was one man called Ade that brought Agboola to rent a room in her house and that she did not know his stay here would end up in a tragedy like this.”

  • Scores injured as church programme ends in fracas over girlfriend

    Scores injured as church programme ends in fracas over girlfriend

    ALL hell was let loose on Sunday January 14, 2018 as hoodlums unleashed terror on residents of Ipaja, a Lagos suburb, during a fracas at an event organised by a white garment church.

    The pandemonium broke out between 7pm and 9.30 pm, following a fight between some youths during a ceremony organised by Fogofoluwa Cherubim and Seraphim Church on Gbadamosi Close, Pako area of Baruwa, Ipaja.

    Witnesses disclosed that the church was celebrating one of their members who had just returned from trance, when a disagreement between two youths over a girl led to a scuffle.

    One of the youths at the event was said to have attacked a boy for dancing suggestively with his girlfriend.

    The altercation led to a fight during which the girl’s boyfriend was brutalised and he left the event only for him to return with over 100 hoodlums. They attacked everyone in sight as people scampered into safety.

    Scores of residents were brutalised and stabbed as the warring youths freely used dangerous weapons including cutlass and broken bottles to attack themselves and innocent bystanders.

    The hoodlums allegedly moved from house to house, attacking residents and dispossessing them of their valuables.

    It took the intervention of men of the Ipaja Police Division to restore normalcy in the neighbourhood, while some of the perpetrators were arrested.

    The police were said to have rushed some of the victims to a nearby private hospital where they are still receiving treatment for machete cuts.

    It was learnt that some of the perpetrators were arrested and detained at the Ipaja Police Station, but they were later released on bail following the intervention of some community leaders.

    One of the victims, Sheriff Aremo, a bricklayer cum commercial motorcycle operator popularly called okada, had barely returned home from a visit to his pastor when the hoodlums swooped on him.

    He was stabbed in the head and robbed of N40, 000 while the hoodlums searched his room for valuables.

    Recalling his ordeal, Aremo said:”I had just returned from the residence of my pastor around 9.30 pm on my motorbike, when those who were beaten up at the event returned with some hoodlums. They stormed my residence and beat me to a pulp. They hacked me with machete on several parts of my head. They also stole my handset and stole N40, 000 from my room, money I saved up to start a small business later this year.

    “The hoodlums also attacked other people especially those who were taking fresh air outside their homes. We were later brought to the hospital by policemen attached to Ipaja Police Division who arrived the scene to disperse the mob and arrest some of the perpetrators.

    “There was a young man like me who was also brutalised and stabbed in the head. The wound on the man’s head was so deep that two fingers could be slotted into it without being seen at all.”

    The 25-year-old native of Abeokuta, Ogun State, claimed he had been abandoned in the hospital as the police has refused to compel the perpetrators to pay for his treatment at the hospital.

    “I am one of those brought to this

  • ‘I kidnap my girlfriend to raise money for our wedding’

    • Suspected killers of UNIBEN don paraded  

    A 24-year-old man, Michael Duda, has said he kidnapped his teenage girlfriend to raise money for their wedding.

    Michael, paraded with 104 suspects arrested for kidnapping, rape, robbery and cultism, at the headquarters of Edo State Police Command, said the girl just finished secondary school and there was no way he could approach her parents for marriage.

    Addressing reporters yesterday, Michael said he kept the girl in his home for four days and asked her father to pay N2 million ransom.

    The suspect, who said he sells cups, admitted that he had sex with the girl throughout the four days.

    “I live at Ekae, off Sapele Road. She came to my house. We planned to collect money from her father to raise money for our wedding, but I did not collect the money again. She stayed in my home for four days.

    “I couldn’t tell the father I want to marry his daughter. She said her father will not agree because she is yet to gain admission to a university. She was with me for four days. The father said he had no money. I was at home with my lover when the police came to arrest me.”

    The girl said they met on Facebook and after days, she visited him.

    She said she was surprised that Michael abducted her when she got to his home, adding that she learnt he demanded N4 million ransom from her father.

    The teenager’s elder sister, Rodha, said her sister was sexually abused before the police rescued her.

    Three suspects, who allegedly killed Prof. Paul Otasowie, of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Benin (UNIBEN), were also paraded.

    The don was killed on October 4 in his home at Evbuotubu in Egor Local Government.

    They are Osaze Oghogho, Best Ogumode and Happy Okoro.

    The suspects said they never intended to kill Prof. Otasowie, but to snatch his car and use it for robbery.

    They claimed he was mistakenly shot when he rushed at Osaze, who held a gun.

    Addressing reporters, Police Commissioner Babatunde Kokumo said the suspects would soon be arraigned.

    He listed the recovered items to include five AK 47 rifles, military weapons, 33 cut to size guns, motorcycles, 90 live AK 47 ammunition, 234 live cartridges, vehicles and N1.2 million.

  • Man arraigned for ‘stealing’ girlfriend’s tablet’

    A 20-year-old man, Akeem Alhassan, who allegedly stole his girlfriend’s tablet

    valued at N45,000 and sold it, has been arraigned at a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

    The accused, whose address is unknown, is facing a charge of stealing, to which he pleaded not guilty.

    Police prosecutor Akpan Ikem said the accused committed the offence on September 18 at J5, Seme border between Nigeria and Benin Republic.

    He said the accused’s girlfriend, Beatrice Agbor, gave him the tablet for keep when she was travelling.

    “The accused sold the tablet and used the money to buy cartons of biscuits.”

    Ikem said the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    The Magistrate, Jimoh Adefioye, granted bail to the accused at N100,000 with a surety and adjourned the case till October 25 for mention.

  • Man in court over assault on girlfriend

    A 26-year-old man, Ugochukwu Ebereonwu, who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend, Amaka Nwankwo was on Tuesday arraigned in a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

    The accused who resides at No. 6, Ilom Close, Sabo, Ajangbadi in Lagos state, is facing a charge of assault.

    The prosecutor, Insp. Akpan Ikem, told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 19 at his residence.

    He said the accused and the complainant got into an argument over the messages in his cell phone, adding that in the process, the accused beat her mercilessly.

    “They started arguing because the complainant wanted to check his cell phone which he did not agree to.

    “During the argument, he gave her several blows on her face and nose. It was the neighbours, who rescued and took her to the hospital,’’ he said.

    The offence contravened Section 243 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
    The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    The counsel to the accused, Mr Ezekiel Daniels, urged the court to grant his client bail on liberal terms.

    The Magistrate, Mr Jimoh Adefioye, granted the accused bail in the sum of N100, 000 and two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case til April 11 for mention.