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  • Police arraign man, 42 for allegedly receiving stolen car

    Police arraign man, 42 for allegedly receiving stolen car

    The police in Ibadan on Friday brought one Ogunsanmi Akolade, 42, before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for allegedly receiving a stolen Toyota Camry worth N2.5 million.

    Akolade, whose  address was not provided, is charged with receiving a stolen property.

    The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    The prosecutor, Insp Toyin Ibrahim, told the court that Akolade committed the offence on Jan. 15 at 7. 00 p.m. on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

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    Ibrahim alleged that the defendant received the Toyota Camry from one Chibuzor Esomonu.

    The prosecutor said that the defendant knew that the car  was stolen from its owner, Mr Johnson Ojo.

    He said that the offence contravened Section 427 of the Criminal Laws of Oyo State, 2000.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Oluwabusayo Osho, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Osho adjourned the case until Feb. 15, for hearing.

    (NAN)

  • Man sues siblings over land

    A middle-aged man, Obed Umeojiaka, has sued his four siblings over his inheritance of the Obi and compound of his late father at Ifite village, Ezinifite, in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    He said he sued his brothers, Emeka, Ifeanyi and two others, as the eldest son in accordance with the custom and tradition of the community.

    In Suit No.AG/7/2019, Obed claimed, among others, that while his father was alive, he (Obed) erected some buildings, including a warehouse and boys’ quarters, within his (father’s) compound and fenced them off with an entrance gate.

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    Obed said: “My late father 20 years ago called his male children and gave homesteads to us individually outside his father’s compound.

    “None of us protested, we accepted the homesteads from our father.”

    He said he had been in possession and occupation of the Obi and compound of his late father until January 2017 when the siblings allegedly invaded the compound.

  • Dad arrested as kids are found dead inside freezer

    Two children have been found dead inside their mother’s deep freezer at their Ikorodu, Lagos home.

    Seven-year-old Emmanuel Edeh and his brother, Darasimi, four, were said to have gone missing on Sunday at their 2, Benson Onoja Street, Selewu, Igbogbo, Ikorodu.

    It was gathered that the children were doing their homework when their mother, Adesola, left home on Sunday for the market. Their father, Michael, Edeh 52, was said to be with them.

    Deputy Coordinator, Child Protection Network (CPN), Ikorodu, Lateef Akinborode, quoted Adesola’s sister as saying that the couple consummated their marriage three years ago after being together for seven years.

    Quoting her, Akinborode said: “They have been together for seven years, but got married legally three years ago. The wife is a businesswoman. She is very hardworking. They have been having misunderstanding and she usually complained that she wanted to leave her husband.

    “The family always appealed to her to forgive her husband.

    “Mrs. Adesola left home in the afternoon to buy items in the market. Her children were in the sitting room doing their school assignment and their father was with them. Later that afternoon, her husband called her, but she did not pick his calls because they were quarrelling.”

    The Nation learnt that the woman was eventually called by her neighbour, who told her the children had gone missing.

    Adesola, it was gathered, ran home and asked how it happened.

    “The husband said he was with them in the sitting room and he locked the entrance door from inside. He went to sleep with the children. When he woke up, he could not find them in the house and the door was not tampered with.

    “So the mother went inside the room, checked everywhere and she opened the deep freezer and found the children there with their puppy. She shouted and neighbours came to help her.

    “She fainted and was taken to a nearby hospital. The case was reported at the police station in Ikorodu; it has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID),” said Akinborode.

    Police spokesman Chike Oti said the father had been invited for questioning.

    He said the incident occurred on Sunday, adding that it was the boys’ father who reported the matter to the police.

    “One Michael Edeh came to the station to report that around midnight on Sunday, November 11, he and his two children slept in his bedroom, with the apartment’s doors locked. Unfortunately, when he woke up to urinate in the night, he could not find his children, but after searching for them, he found them dead inside the freezer.

    “The bodies have been taken to the General Hospital mortuary. We are investigating the incident and have arrested the kids’ father for questioning.

    “Call it arrest or invitation. The case has been transferred to the homicide section of SCIID and the father has been invited for questioning. He should be able to say what transpired. From the look of things, their mother seemed not to be around.

    “How could it be said that the two children left under his care and who had gone to bed with him, were found dead inside a deep freezer along with a dog. Was the freezer opened or locked before they went to sleep? How did they enter the freezer? These and many more are things he has to explain,” Oti said.

    He added that experts would determine the cause of death.

  • How we discovered our brother’s body, by siblings

    Two siblings of the 50-year-old lawyer, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife, Udeme,  yesterday narrated how they found his body.

    They told a Lagos High Court that they discovered their brother on his matrimonial bed, with his genitals and intestines cut off.

    The deceased’s friend, Mr. Stanley Grange-Koko, also testified.

    The widow, Udeme, 48, is facing a two-count charge of murder and misconduct preferred against her by the state.

    Udeme reportedly committed the offence on May 3, at their Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Lekki, Lagos home.

    She pleaded not guilty and was remanded in Kirikiri prison.

    Led in evidence by Attorney-General Mr. Adeniji Kazeem (SAN), Grange-Koko said the deceased’s younger sister, Dr. Anwuli Akwukwuma, called him around 2am on May 2 to go to the deceased’s home and check what was happening.

    Grange-Koko said he went there, but could not enter the house.

    He said no one answered when he knocked the gate.

    Grange-Koko said he returned to his house, but rushed back to the deceased’s home when Akwukwuma called back, expressing fear that life might be involved.

    He said he went with his wife.

    “When we got to the estate, we called the security men to go with us. On arriving at the place, we climbed the fence to gain entry to the compound.

    “We broke the front door to gain access to the house because nobody answered us,” Grange-Koko said.

    He said he ran upstairs and saw blood on the floor, adding that he traced the deceased to the bathroom and bedroom.

    The witness said together with the security men, they broke the door and entered the deceased’s room.

    He said they saw him lying on the bed with his wife, Udeme and there was blood everywhere.

    “The deceased’s intestines were outside. I ran out and met his sister heading for the room. I tried to stop her from entering the room, but she ran past me and entered,” Grange-Koko said.

    He said the sister ran out of the room and shouted that her brother was dead.

    Grange-Koko said the defendant was taken to hospital.

    “When I got to the deceased’s home and saw him lying on the bed with his intestines out, I checked him and saw that he was already cold. I noticed that he had died,” he said.

    Otike-Odibi’s sister, Akwukwuma and younger brother, Andrew, who were the second and third witnesses, corroborated Grange-Koko’s evidence.

    Akwukwuma said she called Grange-Koko because he lived in the same estate with the deceased and was his friend.

    She said their mother informed her about the quarrel between Otike-Odibi and Udeme, adding that the deceased had complained to her that his wife attacked him with a knife.

    Justice Adedayo Akintoye adjourned till October 10.

  • Kerosene explosion kills siblings, injures two others

    Two siblings have died while two others sustained severe burns as a result of two adulterated kerosene explosions in Umuebe village, Ezzamgbo community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

    It was reliably gathered the victims purchased the adulterated kerosene from the same filling station at Ezzamgbo junction.

    The explosions happened in two different locations in the area, it was learnt.

    The names of the deceased are Joy Ituma, 6 and Joshua Ituma, 4.

    The two children and their uncle were rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA) where the siblings died.

    The severely injured are 34-year-old Mrs. Christiana Idenyi and 17- year- old Uchenna Idoko.

    Mrs. Idenyi lamented the explosion occurred on Monday evening immediately she struck the matches to light her lantern.

    She said it gave her serious burns, which affected her two legs.

    “I went to the filling station and bought the kerosene. I poured it into the lamp immediately I returned.

    “So, immediately I struck the matches, it exploded. As you can see, my legs, hands and other parts of my body were burnt,” she lamented.

    The deceased’s uncle, Mr. Chukwudi Idoko, who was deeply saddened by the incident, alleged the kerosene was bought from the same filling station.

    Mrs. Juliet Igwebuike, who also lives in the building, confirmed she was at the scene of the incident.

    According to her: “I was just coming back from church. I went inside to change when I started hearing shouts calling for help.

    “I thought he was quarrelling with his sister. But the boy kept ‘shouting help oh!’ ‘It’s fire oh!’

    “So, I rushed out immediately. He was already outside the room trying to put out the fire on him.

    “There was no way to enter the room. I checked the door net and it was locked. I checked the window, it was locked too.

    “Later, the other man took courage and broke the door net that was locked. The boy had earlier broken the window glass and jumped out.

    “He kept screaming his brother and sister were inside. One Calabar man in the house, my neighbour, went inside with courage. The other man also moved in also.

    “I was standing at the window. They threw out the first child, a girl, from the window and I picked her and poured water on her.

    “Later they threw out the second child, a boy, and I also poured water on him.”

    Police spokesman in the state, Loveth Odah, confirmed the incident.

    She said that the filling station’s manager, Emmanuel Omiyi and the kerosene pump attendant, Anayo Ayu, have been arrested for interrogation.

    She said that some samples have been taken from the facility for laboratory test by experts in petroleum products.

    Chief consultant at the Burns and Plastic Surgery unit of Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA), Dr Nnadozie Ugochukwu, said the 4-year-old was 100 percent burnt.

    “The 6-year-old was about 95 percent burnt; several degrees burn. The only thing that remained was a little part of her hairs.

    “The 17-year-old boy sustained about 57 percent burns. And because they stayed so long inside that place, they had difficulty in breathing even by the time they came,” he stated.

     

  • Afe Babalola: I lost six siblings to poor maternal care

    Afe Babalola: I lost six siblings to poor maternal care

    The founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has said he lost six of his siblings to poor maternal care.

    The eminent lawyer promised that the university’s teaching hospital, ABUADTH, will give priority to maternal and child care to prevent neonatal maternity.

    Babalola spoke yesterday at a workshop on Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), sponsored by the university, in conjunction with Project C.U.R.E., World Health Organisation (WHO) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

    The event was attended by the wife of Ekiti State deputy governor, Mrs. Janet Olusola; wife of Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Mrs. Bosede Adejugbe; Chief Executive of ABUAD Ventures, Mrs. Modupe Babalola, as well as midwives, nurses and other health workers.

    Babalola said: “In those days, some children were born while their mothers were going to the farm and such children would be carried back home in basket. My mother gave birth to 10 of us but only four of us survived.

    “I was a survivor of child mortality about 90 years ago. A mother is like gold, and gold is very precious. We must do everything possible to save them and their babies.

    “We are grateful to Project C.U.R.E. and other partners for this training. In our hospital, we have a special wing for women and children.”

    Ms. Amy Greene, who spoke for the agency’s President, Dr. Douglas Jackson, said they held the programme at ABUAD to support the new 400-bed multi-system ABUADTH.

    Greene, who said the agency donated $1 million medical equipment to ABUADTH, said it had saved about 1,620 babies from untimely death due to the training it offered experts in sub-Saharan Africa.

    She said: “In Africa, less than 33 per cent of children have access to neonatal care and this mainly predisposed them to deaths caused by malnutrition, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS and other preventable diseases.

    “With this training, our medical personnel will be able to sensitise expectant mothers about the hazards associated with poor neonatal care and the need to take care of their personal hygiene for improved health of our babies.”

    Mrs. Babalola noted that besides saving about 60,500 babies from deaths, Project C.U.R.E also trained 1,343 birth attendants and facilitated train-the-trainers trips worldwide through the HBB programme.

    She added: “With this training, the three most common causes of preventable neonatal deaths – complications during childbirth, complications from preterm birth and neonatal infections – would be reduced.

    “But there is need for us to get to the grassroots where unregistered deaths take place and where deaths are often erroneously associated to witches and wizards without paying attention to the real issue.”

  • My siblings and I have dropped out of school –7-yr-old son of Police Inspector buried alive by mob

    My siblings and I have dropped out of school –7-yr-old son of Police Inspector buried alive by mob

    SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Goodluck, whose Police Inspector father, Sunday Musa, was buried alive by a mob in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, when he responded to a distress call alongside some other policemen in November last year, has said that he hates the police force and would never pursue a career in the force. Rather, he said, he would like to become a lawyer. Speaking amid sobs in a chat with our correspondent, Goodluck said that he ordinarily would have liked to pursue the same career as his father, but he observed that Nigerians have no respect for policemen in spite of the risks they take to protect the lives and property of citizens.

    The seven-year-old, who said he was passing through a lot of trauma over his father’s death, told our correspondent that he could not believe it the first time he was told that a mob had buried his father alive while he was on a rescue mission. He said: “Initially, I did not believe it when I heard that my daddy was buried alive. He was armed with a fully loaded AK 47 rifle, but he did not fire a shot because he believed that he was under pledge to protect lives and property. “He did not fire a shot at the crowd. The wicked people came, collected his rifle and buried him alive. Each night I think about what my father passed through in the hands of wicked people, I do nothing but cry uncontrollably.

    “I hate police and I will not like to become a police officer. I will like to become a lawyer to rescue helpless people with the law and not with weapons of war like guns or rifles.” Talking about his family, he said: “My father married only my mother and she had four children. We are two boys and two girls. The eldest of us, Jennifer, is 14, Dorathy is 12, I am seven while Victor, the youngest of us, is five. “Now other people are in school while we are at home because there is no money to go to school. We stopped going to school the moment our father was buried. We were living in Ojodu Berger, Lagos, when our father was alive, but now we have relocated to our village in Idah, Kogi State. My mother is a complete house wife.

    “My father was murdered in Ibeju Lekki on 29th November 2016 and was buried on 23rd September 2017. They are talking about official benefits, burial expenses, insurance benefit, corporative benefits including the Lagos State Government promise of N10 million for fallen heroes who died in active service, but we have not seen a dime up till now that I’m talking to you. “We are suffering. No money for our education. Even feeding and other basic things of life are out of our reach because of our father’s death. “We heard from the print and electronic media that other victims in the same circumstance have been paid the N10 million and other benefits.

    I don’t know why my father’s case is different. Why are they treating my father’s case like that? “His case was most pitiable. He went to rescue people and the people he went to rescue held him and buried him alive. He was armed yet he respected the oath he took as a police officer, which is to protect lives and property. “He paid with his own life. He was murdered and his family is still in pains because there is no comfort from anywhere yet. “I know that I am still a boy, but what happened to my father has made me an old man. It is devastating, but God gave me the courage to talk to you in an adult’s voice. So I am no more a small boy at seven after witnessing the most horrible episode in my life. “My father served his country with his life, but today, Nigeria Police has not encouraged me to bear the cross of my father. That is why I told you that I hate Nigeria Police. How can I think of serving my country by becoming a police officer when police officers and their families are not protected? “I want to become a lawyer to protect, defend or rescue the downtrodden with the law and not with the rifle.”

  • Akure monarch’s driver crushes two siblings

    The pilot driver attached to the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo, has allegedly crushed two siblings to death.

    The incident reportedly occurred on Wednesday in Akure, Ondo State capital.

    It was learnt that the incident involved the monarch’s pilot driver and two cyclists.

    The accident, sources said, occurred when the driver was reportedly trailing a man who allegedly parked “illegally” in front of the palace.

    Although the identities of the deceased were unknown, it was gathered that they were on a motorcycle from Ore, headquarters of Odigbo Local Government Area, and heading to Idanre, about 15 kilometres from Akure.

    It was learnt that a private car owner parked in front of the palace and the security men ordered him to move the car but he was said to have refused.

    This prompted the security men to alert the monarch’s driver about the situation.

    It was learnt that in a bid for the man to escape arrest, he allegedly zoomed off and hit a passer-by.

    Disturbed by the development, the monarch’s driver trailed the car down to Italorun village on Akure-Idanre Road, where he reportedly crushed the two cyclists to death in an attempt to catch up with the “run-away” car owner.

    Eyewitness said one of victims, identified as two brothers, died instantly, while the second died a few hours after being admitted at an undisclosed hospital.

    The incident was said to have caused commotion in the area.

    Villagers were said to have attempted to burn the monarch’s pilot car but for the intervention of security agents in the area.

    The Chief Press Secretary  to the monarch, Michael Adeyeye, said the accident occurred outside the palace.

    He added: “The matter has been resolved and there is no cause for alarm.”

    Police spokesman Femi Joseph, a Superintendent of Police (SP), said the incident had not been reported at the state command.

    He promised to get details on the incident.

  • Siblings face kidnapping, extortion charge

    Two siblings Ogunseye Olabode and his sister, Odunayo, were yesterday brought before an Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly kidnapping a man, Victor Adedeji and demanding a ransom from him.

    Olabode, and Odunayo, both 34, are on trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping.

    Prosecuting Inspector Cousin Adams told the court that the defendants committed the offences last June 21, at Ipaja.

    He alleged that the siblings conspired and kidnapped Adedeji with the intention of extorting money from his relatives to secure his release.

    The alleged offences contravene Sections 271 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendants pleaded not guilty.

    In a bench ruling, Magistrate Helen Omisore granted each of defendant N200,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    She adjourned till October 18 for trial.

  • Court grants siblings N200,000 bail for ‘beating up’ policeman

    Court grants siblings N200,000 bail for ‘beating up’ policeman

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court yesterday granted N200,000 bail each to two siblings who allegedly beat up a policeman and tore his uniforms.

    The Magistrate, Mrs O.A Layinka, also ordered each of the accused – Michael Oladunjoye (28) and Sephia Oladunjoye (26) – to produce two sureties each with evidence of two years tax payment.

    The accused, who lives at Church Street, Ayobo in Ipaja, Lagos, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of assault and unlawful damage.

    The prosecutor, Donjor Perezi, had told the court that the accused on July 16 assaulted a policeman, Isaac Akam, at Allen Avenue, Ikeja.

    According to the prosecutor, the duo beat up the policeman and tore his uniform while performing his duty.

    He said a fight ensued between the policeman and the duo after the police stopped their car for a routine search.

    According to him, it was the intervention of other policemen at the scene that saved their colleague from the duo.

    Perezi said the siblings were subsequently arrested and taken to the police station for further questioning.

    The offences, he said, contravened sections 173 and 348 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The case was adjourned till August 28 for mention.