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  • Court remands man for ‘killing’ his grandmother

    A 24-year-old man, Christian Musendiku, who allegedly killed his 80-year-old grandmother, was yesterday arraigned at an Ebute-Meta, Lagos mainland, Chief Magistrates’ Court.

    Chief Magistrate O.A. Adegite ordered that the defendant be remanded at Ikoyi Prisons pending legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Prosecuting Inspector Julius Babatope told the court that the accused committed the offence on April 2 about 1 a.m. at 3, Erelu Street, Ato-Awori, Ijanikin, a Lagos suburb.

    He said the accused hacked his grandmother, Maria Ogabi, to death with a cutlass.

    The case was adjourned till May 16.

  • Grandmother, son-in-law battle for child

    A grandmother, Hauwa Dauda, is locked in a battle with her son-in-law, Abdulhameed Abdullahi, for the custody of her three-year-old grandchild, whose mother remarried.

    The woman had gone to Sharia Court II, Magajin Gari, Kaduna, asking it to grant her custody of the child.

    Her lawyer, Kabir Alhassan, told the court: “My client wants the court to grant her custody of her grandchild as stipulated in the Shari’a law and compel the father to take responsibility of the child.”

    The complainant also asked the court to order Abdullahi to pay N5, 000 monthly as feeding allowance for the child.

    However, Abdullahi told the court that the case had been decided by another court, which granted him custody of the child.

    He said the Shari’a Court at Bashama in Tudun Wada, Kaduna, granted him custody of his son after his ex-wife remarried.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdullahi presented documents from the earlier court, to substantiate his claim.

    Abdullahi said the child was under the care of his ex-wife after they divorced, but was returned to him after she remarried.

    “My mother-in-law dropped my son at my mother’s home, saying she could no longer take care of him, as her husband doesn’t support her,” he told the court.

    Counsel to the complainant, however, denied Abdullahi’s claim, describing it as “mere hearsay’’, as he was not around when the child was returned.

    He said the grandmother returned the child due to illness, adding that she only sought medication for her grandchild.

    “My client did not dump the child as the defendant alleged. Rather, she returned him to his maternal grandmother to receive treatment, as he was ill,” the lawyer stressed.

    He urged the court to disregard the documents presented, saying it was based on a different case.

    “The document he presented was a resolution of a case between him and his ex-wife, while this case is between him and his child’s grandmother,” he said.

    The son-in-law prayed the court to investigate the matter.

    The judge, Malam Musa Sa’ad, adjourned the case till April 9.

  • Ooni plans big for grandmother’s burial

    Ooni plans big for grandmother’s burial

    It is widely believed that in old age, the knock of death is loudly heard and its approaching footsteps become even louder. Madam Mariani Ayeyei Ogunwushi lived a life filled with accomplishments, and in her old age, she refused to let the inexorableness of death ruin her optimistic approach to life. Weeks after witnessing the coronation of one of her grandsons as the Ooni of Ife, Madam Mariani Ayeyemi Ogunwusi passed on.

    She died last Monday at the age of 104. The lovable monarch, we gathered, is planning a befitting burial for his late grandmother. However, the details of the event are still sketchy.

  • Ita-Giwa becomes grandmother

    Ita-Giwa becomes grandmother

    The intercessory prayers of fruitfulness that followed the impressive union between Senator Florence Ita-Giwa’s daughter, Koko, and her hubby, Chimaobi Shawcross Obioha, have finally yielded results. The duo got married on September 29 last year and welcomed their bundle of joy in the early hours of August 24.
    The CEO of Hair by Koko, who had a society wedding last year, was ecstatic to have her first child, a bouncing baby boy, in a US hospital. No doubt, Senator Florence Ita Giwa is excited to have her first grandchild.

  • Grandmother docked for ‘breaking’ tenant’s leg

    A 72-year-old grandmother, Kehinde Alayo, was yesterday arraigned by the police from the Sagamu Road Division for allegedly breaking her tenant’s leg.

    The prosecution, led by Police Corporal Kemi Adeniran, alleged that Mrs Alayo and one other person at large on July 14 at Jasper Hameed Street, Aga, Ikorodu, Lagos conspired to injure Mr Hammed Ajibola.

    The defendant was said to have broken the right ankle of Ajibola, which caused him permanent deformity, an offence punishable under Sections 243 and 409 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011.

    The defendant, who was led into court by the Investigative Police Officer, Corporal Adeya Isaac, pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate A. Oshodi-Makanju considered the defendant’s age and granted her bail on self recognition. The matter was adjourned to September 2.

  • Kema Chikwe set to become grandmother

    Kema Chikwe set to become grandmother

    She has sown the seeds and her time to reap is here. Any moment from now, there will be the cry of a new baby to signal the arrival of former Minister of Aviation, Mrs Kema Chikwe, into the world of grandmothers.

    Nicole, wife of her musician son, Naeto C, is heavily pregnant. And with the way she paraded her protruding tummy last Saturday when computer guru, Leo Stan Ekeh, gave her daughters hand out to Tolu Ijogun in an elaborate wedding ceremony, it was evident that she might be delivered of a baby at any time.

    Nicole and her husband were the cynosure of all eyes at Ekeh’s daughter’s wedding at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos last Saturday. All things being equal, the couple will contribute their quota to the nation’s population any time from now and Chikwe will proudly become a grandmother.