The police in Lagos have arrested a woman identified as Ndifreke Femi, 30, for allegedly stabbing her neighbour to death.
Although the incident allegedly occurred at Block 109, Ikota Housing Estate Ajah, the suspect is currently being held at the Homicide Unit, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti-Yaba.
The Nation also learnt that the police have launched a manhunt for the suspect’s husband who has allegedly fled his residence since the incident occurred.
It was gathered that the mother of two stabbed her neighbour identified as Ayomide Ayenuwa, 28, on the neck with a kitchen knife when he attempted to settle a rift between her and her husband.
According to their neighbours, the deceased had gone into the Femi’s home to pay his electricity bill but met the couple having a scuffle over N20,000 the woman claimed her husband had stolen.
He was said to have made efforts to broker peace between them to no avail and as he was leaving their apartment, the angry woman rushed to her kitchen, picked a kitchen knife and stabbed him on the neck.
It was learnt that other neighbours rushed him to Peninsula Hospital in Ajah but he was referred to the General Hospital, Akodo. He died on their way to the general hospital.
A neighbour who gave his name as James Peter while narrating the incident said it occurred at about 5pm.
“When he got to their room, he saw the husband and wife quarrelling. Ndifreke was accusing her husband of stealing the N20,000 she hid under their mattress. Her husband denied the allegation but she was ready for a fight.
“It was at this point that Ayenuwa made efforts to settle the quarrelling couple but they kept fighting each other. Ayenuwa appealed to Ndifreke to take the matter easy but she descended on him and started calling him names. She told him to mind his business.
“That was how Ayenuwa left the couple to their trouble. As he was walking away, Ndifreke ran into the kitchen and brought out a kitchen knife which she used to stab Ayenuwa on his neck from behind. Neighbours made efforts to save Ayenuwa’s life while others held Ndifreke down and almost lynched her.
“The neighbours with Ayenuwa’s family rushed him to the Peninsula Hospital at Ajah for treatment but he was referred to the General Hospital at Akodo. Sadly, he died on his way to the hospital.”
But in her statement to the police, the suspect claimed she acted in self defence, adding that it was the deceased who attacked her first by punching her on the head.
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Lagos police arrest woman for “killing” neighbour
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Police arrest woman, 60, for buying five babies at N5m
A 60-year-old woman, Asabi Adebayo, has been arrested by the police in Oyo State for allegedly buying five babies at N5million from Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
The suspect, who planned to fly the babies abroad for sale, was said to have brought them to an orphanage in Ibadan to obtain a certified police report for them when the bubble burst.
Commissioner of Police Leye Oyebade, who paraded the suspect and the babies yesterday at the Eleyele Police Headquarters, said the woman would have escaped if not for the patriotic behavior of the officials of the orphanage, who reported the matter at the Iyaganku Police Station.
The suspect, who said she hailed from Lagos State, is also a British citizen.
The ages of the babies, (two boys and three girls) range from two years, eight months, seven months, six months and four months.
The babies have been taken to the Ministry of Women Affairs, Child Welfare; the suspect is assisting the police in their investigation.
The police commissioner said officers, who accompanied the suspect to Port-Harcourt where she claimed to have bought the babies, have not been able to apprehend the sellers.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Iyaganku, Mr Ojopagogo, said: “ A woman, who operates an orphanage came to our station last Thursday and reported to us that a 60-year-old woman came to them that she had five children and that she needed police report for the children to be flown abroad .
“Our detectives, led by a Superintendent of Police (SP) from the Juvenile Welfare Section, went to arrest the suspect.
“After her arrest, the suspect told us that she got the children for N5million and that she bought the children from a woman in Port-Harcourt. We travelled with the suspect to Port-Harcourt, unfortunately we could not find the woman.”
Also paraded were three young men- Ganiyu Taiwo (29) a meat seller, Adam Adeleke (20) furniture maker and Ayuba Jubril (19) –who confessed to breaking into a girls’ hostel, stealing phones, laptops and other valuables at Oke-Ogun Poly, Saki, Oyo State.
Others were two robbery suspects- Tunde Adeniyi (32) Aluminum doors dealer and Solomon Ajibesin 22. They were arrested in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
A bricklayer, Femi Adeyemi, a father of three, confessed to robbing his boss of his car. A man, Taiwo Samson, who bought a stolen Range Rover, was also paraded.
Another man, Daramola Adewale, 34, a food stuff seller, was paraded for threatening to post nude pictures of his girlfriend online, if she failed to pay him N50,000.
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Assaulted lawyer: Police, NBA embrace dialogue, peace
Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP) Fatai Owoseni yesterday reiterated the need for dialogue and peaceful coexistence among Nigerians.
He stated this during a visit to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, to pacify the association, following the alleged assault of its member, Sunday Elimihe, by some policemen attached to Onipanu Division.
Owoseni, who praised the lawyer as well as the NBA for not letting the issue escalate, emphasised the importance of dialogue in resolving issues.
The police boss also assured that he would investigate alleged malpractices engaged by personnel of the Onipanu Division, just as he urged the lawyers to follow due process when seeking policemen to aid in judgment execution.
“We are not here to judge who is wrong or right. I came to visit you people as I promised and to also commend you for not letting the issue go out of hand. I told the lawyer that I will foot his hospital bills and my concern is for him to be healthy.
“The lawyer has his fault, which I will tell him when we see again. But no matter what, the policeman should not have assaulted him. The police are not 100 per cent clean, but we have done so much to improve professionalism.
“There are bad eggs everywhere and the police are products of the society,” he said.
The NBA chairman, Yinka Farombi, noted that there has been decline in crime rate under Owoseni.
He, however, decried the treatment meted him by the Onipanu Division after he went there to see the Divisional Police Officer.
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Police to retrieve guns from alcohol, drug abusers
As part of measures to curb killing of citizens by policemen, guns will no longer be handed to personnel who abuse alcohol and drugs.
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone two, Bala Hassan stated this Thursday at the Police College, Ikeja, during the launch of medical kits for urine drug test, as well as mass screening for hypertension and diabetes in the force.
He stated that aside retrieving weapons from the affected officers, the police have set motion in place to ensure they are rehabilitated and rid of the vice before entrusting them with the important duty of saving lives and properties.
“These officers and men need to be very healthy, fit and safe in order to be able to carry out these statutory duties.
“It is in realisation of this that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase has placed health care packages in the hands of all policemen, through the National Health Insurance Scheme, collaborating stakeholders, and now mass screening for hypertension and diabetes in police officers.
“The urine drug test for alcohol and drug abuse us aimed at ensuring the safety of lives and property of Nigerians from accidental discharges by police officers who carry firearms.
“Hopefully, only policemen that test negative to alcohol and other substance abuse that will be allowed to carry firearms,” he said.
Urging policemen to live healthy lifestyles and stay safe while performing their duties, Bala noted that the health insurance scheme inaugurated by the IGP has 100 percent coverage on all officers and their immediate families.
In her remark, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of Medical, Dr. Modupe Obembe said every police officer was expected to be physically, mentally and socially fit, as well as emotionally stable.
She highlighted the tips for healthy living, urging officers to be mindful of the things they eat and drink.
Obembe also warned policemen to avoid self medication; to be faithful to their partners and avoid unprotected sex; have regular exercise, among others.
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Police cage 200 hoodlums
THE police have flushed out over 200 hoodlums from Lakowe Village in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos.
The action followed the villagers’ complaint about the hoodlums’ activities. They were said to have unleashed terror on the village, raping, looting and maiming.
Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives from the Zone 2 Command in Onikan, Lagos, stormed Lakowe on Tuesday to weed out the hoodlums, sources said yesterday.
The operation was at the instance of Assistant Inspector- General of Police (AIG) in-charge of Zone 2, Bala Usman. Some of the arrested hoodlums are being interrogated.
The villagers’ spokesman, Otunba Yemi Adeoye, said the hooodlums had been terrorising the community for long.
“Sometime last year, these people came here and caused mayhem and we went to court to seek redress’’, he said.
He said the hoodlums were trying to deprive a firm, Toll System Development Company Ltd., of its ownership of land in the village.
According to him, a court has ruled that the land belongs to the company.
The court, he said, in a ruling in suit LD/4320/2014, Toll System Development Co. Ltd. vs Unknown persons, by Justice Muftau Olokooba, on Wednesday July 6, 2015, held that : “ Exhibit Toll 2 shows that the claimant was the one issued a certificate of occupancy over the land registered as No 17 page 17, 2003 situate at Lakowe village, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State.
“The claimant has therefore possession. The claimant has also shown in its affidavit in support of the application that the defendants have been occupying the land without the consent of the claimant. I am therefore satisfied that this is a proper occasion for the exercise of the court’s power to grant the order of possession sought
“It is hereby ordered that the claimant herein do recover possession of the parcel of land measuring 1,581.20 hectares covered by certificate of occupancy registered as No 17 page 17 in volume 2003T situate at Lakowe village, Ibeju, Lekki, Lagos State from any person who occupies same without the consent or permission of the claimant’’.
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Rogue cops dismissed, to face trial
Two policemen who participated in the hijack of a trailer loaded with auto spare-parts last Saturday in Ogun State have been dismissed from the service.
Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, disclosed this during an interaction with reporters on Wednesday, adding that the suspects will be prosecuted.
Inspector Durojaiye Taiwo and Sergeant Victor Omorokai attached to the strike unit of the Special Anti-Robbery Sqaud (SARS) Ikeja, on Saturday night led two other cops to hijack the trailer carrying goods worth N30million at Shagamu.
Omorokai was later arrested at Okokomaiko , Lagos, after the police through the tracking device on the trailer, monitored the movement of the suspects and ambushed them.
Owoseni, who said the command was resolute in its war against crime and criminality, disclosed that the suspects have been handed over to the Ogun State police command where the crime was committed.
“We did not deny the story, it was all over the media. Some bad fellows committed a crime and it is the stand of the Inspector General of Police that all bad eggs in the Force be exposed and made to face the law like other ordinary criminals.
“We arrested them and the ones that are on the run, we are going after them. Exhibits have been recovered.
“The crime was committed in Ogun State police command and we have handed the ex-policemen to that command to prosecute them in the court of law.
“In the same vein, I want to state that we have not covered anyone of them. They would be tried in the court of law. The Nigeria police would not spare those who are not worthy of wearing the police uniform,” Owoseni said.
The police commissioner paraded over 15 suspects, arrested for various crimes since last week.
Among the suspects were six juvenile cultists arrested at Lagos Island on April 18, during a clash between “Happiness cult” and “Owonikoko cult” groups.
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Police wade into Linda Ikeji, Wizkid’s feud
The police in Lagos has waded into the feud between celebrity blogger, Linda Ikeji and music star, Ayo Balogun alias Wizkid.
Ms. Ikeji had filed a threat to life compliant against the singer after he publicly threatened to send his teenage cousin to beat her up.
Confirming that the blogger lodged a complain, the police command’s spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent (SP) said the Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni has brokered peace between them.
She said: “Yes, the command received a petition of threat to life from Linda Ikeji against Ayo Balogun. The CP has waded into the issue between Wizkid and Linda Ikeji. Alternative dispute resolution was used and the parties left in peace.”
The social media war between the duo climaxed after the blogger published a report that Wizkid was facing eviction problems from his supposed Lekki home.
Angered by the report, the singer wrote a stinker about Ms. Ikeji, where he threatened to send his 16-year-old cousin to “beat the shit” out of her.
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Police conduct autopsy on dead married woman found in hotel
The police in Edo State has conducted autopsy on the remains of one Yvonne Omoarebokhae, a married woman who was found dead in a hotel room after allegedly having a fling with one Apostle Psalm Okpe.
Apostle Okpe has since been arrested and is helping police with investigations.
A church in Benin City, Canaan Land Deliverance Ministry where Apostle Okpe was supposed to participate in a programme, has dropped the name of Apostle Okpe as one of the invited guest pastors.
The autopsy on Yvonne, a gospel singer, was done on last Saturday.
A family member who pleaded anonymity said results of the autopsy would be out soon.
He debunked reports on social media that autopsy report showed that late Yvonne died of cardiac arrest.
The family member accused friends of Apsotle Okpe of spreading the cardiac arrest reports.
Late Yvonne made friend with Apostle Okpe on Facebook and after weeks of chatting, Apostle Okpe invited her to perform in some of his programme in Warri, Sapele and Benin.
She went to Warri with Apostle Okpe on April 7 and was found dead in a hotel room the next day.
Police Commissioner, Chris Ezike, who confirmed the report said only a post mortem, would determine the actual cause of death.
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Police petitioned over land dispute
The police have been asked to intervene in a land dispute in Richard Estate at Sapati on the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos.
In a petition, a landlord, Mr Steve Ajose, is accusing a businessman of encroaching on his land.
Ajose alleged that the businessman converted the 20 acres of land he sold to him in 1999 to 22 acres.
The conversion, he claimed, was done in 2005 without the owners’ consent.
Ajose, in the petition sent to the Area J Police Commander by his lawyer, Mr Dotun Adewole, said when his client confronted the businessman, he pleaded for understanding.
But Ajose, he said, rejected his plea, adding that his client sheathe his sword following the intervention of a former police chief and some elders of the community.
Things were said to have got to a head when, at the businessman’s instance, some miscreants destroyed the fence demarcating his land from others.
The petitioner alleged that the businessman is now ‘’forcefully acquiring’’ land in the area and harassing those who challenged him.
Adewole implored the police to call the businessman to order to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
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Why I reported Wizkid to police, by Linda Ikeji
After several exchanges of flames on social media, Linda Ikeji has come out to reveal why she reported popular music act Wizkid to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police in a lengthy post on her blog.
According to Ikeji, she reported the matter to the police because Wizkid publicly threatened her and because she wanted to set an example for other women in similar situations.
While the blogger claimed she’s been a fan of Wizkid and had no dislike for him contrary to some online comments making the rounds, she said she noticed Wizkid passed snide remarks on her about a year ago.
The current squabble started when Linda Ikeji published a story that Wizkid was given a quit notice from his Lekki home.
‘When I reported that he was served quit notice at his Lekki home, I stated fact and I didn’t write it out of malice. It’s not every day you get exclusive stories…and I’m sure any other blogger who got the story first would also have published it. So, there was no beef, I was just doing my job. A day or so after I wrote this story, Wizkid went on my Instagram page to call me names and lied that I slept with some director of his … which I have said before is 1000% lies! But the insult and lies is not why the police is now involved.
‘Here’s the thing; You can insult me, insult my family, call me any names you like, even lie that I slept with your forefathers … but don’t threaten me. If you threaten me, I will act!
She disclosed that some comments that said she reported Wizkid to police because she was afraid of him was wrong.
‘No, my darlings, I am not afraid of Wizkid,’ she wrote, ‘Though I do not take his threats lightly.’
Urging young boys to pay attention, she continued: ‘You see, violence against women and threat of violence against women is not okay. Threatening harm to someone in a public space is a criminal act in every country of the world, including Nigeria. I bet some of you didn’t know that, yeah? You cannot publicly threaten someone with harm. You will only get away with it if your victim doesn’t report to the authorities. If they do, you will have a case with the police and I promise you, the police take these things seriously.
Decrying violence and threats of violence against women by men, Ikeji vowed that ‘as long as I have my voice and my platform, I will speak up.’
The popular blogger also said she reported to police to serve as an example to other women in similar situations.
‘The second reason I filed a police report is to encourage other women in similar situations to do same. My dear ladies, if a man threatens to puts hands on you, and you feel the threat is real, report to the authorities. Don’t wait until he does it. What if you don’t survive it? If he’s picked up and may be charged to court (yes, you can be charged to court for making threats…it’s a misdemeanor with a prison sentence), then he will think twice before making threats against you in the future or any other woman for that matter.’
Ending the post, she wished Wizkid the best, saying, ‘I have nothing but love for his craft and hope that one day, we will put this behind us.’