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  • Hairdresser stabs friend over gari

    35-year-old hairdresser, Anita Samuel, was yesterday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on a charge of assault.

    She was accused of stabbing her friend for not allowing her to taste the gari, which was eating. Gari is made from cassava

    Samuel pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Akeem Raji alleged that the defendant stabbed Miss Ediomo Linus with a broken bottle on the forehead, following their gari disagreement

    Raji said the defendant told the complainant to let her taste the gari but she refused.

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    “The following day, the complainant greeted the defendant, but she did not answer.

    “This led to an argument, which made the defendant to lock the door and hit her with a broken bottle on the head,” he said.

    Chief Magistrate Oyeladun Layinka granted the defendant N200, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    She said the sureties must be employed with evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    The case has continues on April 25.

  • Man ‘stabs’ hotel manager

    A 21-year-old man, Samuel Wills, suspected to be a member of a cult, was yesterday brought before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing a hotel manager in the head with a broken bottle.

    Wills, whose address was not provided, is facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, cultism, assault and stealing.  He pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecutor Godwin Oriabure said the accused committed the offences with others at large on December 21 at 11:30pm at Ben Jack Hotel in Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos.

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    He alleged that the accused and his friends beat up the complainant, Mr. Agwu Okike, because of disagreement over the payment of their bill.

  • ‘Juju’ contest ends in tragedy as student stabs colleague to death

    Tragedy struck at Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti where a student allegedly stabbed his colleague to death during a juju contest on Thursday.

    The culprit, Kehinde Timilehin, reportedly killed a schoolmate, Matthew Favour, on Thursday  in a bid to test the efficacy of a charm that can prevent the penetration of sharp weapons like knife and cutlass.

    Favour, who was of Ebira extraction, was rushed to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH)  to save his life but he gave up the ghost despite being placed on life support.

    The duo were said to have had an altercation over ownership of a football earlier in the day before the stabbing incident occurred.

    Following the tension generated by the murder, the school was  closed down as the family and kinsmen of the deceased had threatened to kill thirty students in retaliation.

    A police Toyota Hilux van with over ten armed officers was stationed at the gate

    with few teachers allowed entry into the school while students who reported as early as 7am were turned back.

    Sources told reporters on yesterday at the school that Favour actually brought the weapons but was killed after the axe and knife wrapped with white and red scarf could not pierce the suspect who overpowered him and stabbed him in self defence.

    The School Principal, Mr Ebenezer Falayi and the Vice Principal, Mr. Olurotimi Olaoluwa, explained that the incident occurred around 2.15 pm at a far section of the institution after the school had closed .

    He disclosed that the school had officially closed for the day before the screams of the victim was heard from one end of the school where the incident happened.

    Falayi said: “What I gathered from students who were at the spot of the gory incident was that, the duo were arguing over who had superior power and the deceased had earlier gone home to bring all those weapons which could not pierce the suspect when used on him.

    “I was told that the suspect later overpowered him and collected

    those weapons and stabbed the victim in the chest. Our teachers, including myself, my Vice Principal and Registrar alongside other teachers who were resident on campus here rushed him to EKSUTH. We even took the suspect along.

    “The victim was put on life support, but that could not help the situation, he died in the hospital. I had to quickly call the DPO of Odo Ado Police Station who reinforced his men and contacted police station at Oke Ila to prevent the suspect  from being killed by highly enraged deceased’s family members.

    “The hospital insisted on doing the autopsy before releasing the corpse but the family resisted it. They later released the corpse to the family when it nearly caused trouble in the hospital.

    “The police also took the suspect into custody. But I had to beg for security to be beefed up around the school when there was threat that 30 students will be killed in reprisal attack today (Friday)”, Falayi stated.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, Mr. Caleb Ikechukwu, a Deputy Superintendent, said he has not been officially briefed about the killing.

    But an officer who asked not to be quoted confirmed that the suspect was immediately taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the Police Command shortly after the deceased was confirmed dead.

  • 60 year old man stabs, kills daughter a day to her marriage

    •Police arrest suspect

    Oyinye Aguluka was only 24 hours away from becoming a wife when death struck her tragically.

    Oyinye was allegedly stabbed to death in bed by her own father at Ndiagu Igboezue in Osikwu village Awgbu, Orumba North local government of Anambra State in the early hours of Friday.

    Sources said her traditional wedding was scheduled for yesterday.

    The suspect, Cletus Aguluka, is now in police custody.

    He was arrested by members of the community’s vigilance group while trying to flee the village moments after committing the offence.

    Giving an account of the incident, mother of the deceased, Georgina, said the suspect returned home late on Thursday looking drunk.

    He asked for his torch from his children, none of whom gave him a satisfactory answer about its whereabouts.

    The household thought it was all over and everybody went to bed.

    “We thought he had forgotten about the torch until he woke up around one o’clock in the night, went inside his room and brought out a machete and stabbed Onyinye who was fast asleep,” Georgina said.

    The suspect’s younger brother, Sebastine Aguluka, said Cletus had lately indulged in molesting almost every member of the extended family.

    Twin brothers of the deceased, Sochima and Chidera, said they had to leave home that night when they saw the way their father was behaving and they did not want to give him an excuse to molest them.

    The state police public relations officer, PPRO, Mr Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the killing yesterday but told reporters that investigation was still in progress.

    He said that once the investigation was concluded, the suspect would be charged to court.

     

  • SARS officer allegedly stabs monarch’s son

    An officer of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has allegedly attacked a son of a monarch at Rumuagholu in Obio/Akpo Local Government of Rivers State.

    The incident followed a land dispute.

    The Nation learnt that the victim, Anna-Ugochukwu Nyegwa, was injured.

    He said in Port Harcourt that he was stabbed by an inspector, who led SARS team to his father’s land, on the directive of a relative, in a bid to take over the land.

    Nyegwa alleged: “We went to our land, which my father has just deforested and saw a grader, owned by the relation, SARS operatives and boys. My father called the IGP monitoring unit at Choba division to intervene.

    ‘’We stopped the people from working on our land. A SARS operative confronted my brothers and me. He said: ‘You again? You have come again? This time you will die on this land, as you don’t like heeding warnings’.

    ‘’The officer stabbed me in the nose. The policemen, who came with us, witnessed the incident. SARS operatives ignored them. They even tried to prevent them from taking me to the hospital by blocking exit routes with their cars.”

    The victim’s father and traditional ruler of Rumuagholu, Eze Samuel K. Nyegwa, condemned the act of SARS operatives.

    He accused them of collecting bribes and creating tension in the family.

    The monarch alleged: ‘’I want the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to caution the security personnel. Their duty is to protect life and property. Why have they become enemies of the society?

    ‘’Most SARS operatives don’t obey their boss’ instructions. The inspector and his team have been terrorising me and my children for years. I don’t know why they must involve in family issues by oppressing one faction of the family because they have collected bribe from the other faction. It is very bad.’’

  • Kogi poly student stabs room-mate to death

    Kogi poly student stabs room-mate to death

    A Higher National Diploma (HND) student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Akoh Abuh Samuel has allegedly been stabbed to death by his friend, Agba Victor.

    Victor, an HND 1 student of Accounting, according to unconfirmed sources, is mentally-challenged.

    He reportedly went to the deceased room, and attacked him.

    The incident happened in Felele, not far from the school’s convocation ground.

    The victim, who was of the Department of Public Administration died on the way to Kogi State Specialist Hospital, Lokoja.

    They were said to be best of friends since their National Diploma (ND) days.

    Sources said that the suspect claimed he didn’t know what came over him.

    The Public Relations Officer, Mr. Luke Yakubu, told reporters, yesterday, in Lokoja, that the suspect on Sunday night started acting funny.

    He said: “When the late roommate and neighbours discovered this strange behaviour from Victor, they took him to church for prayers.

    “They were best of friends from their National Diploma days and attended the same fellowship. Later that night, nature caught up with the deceased, and his friend used machete to kill him.

    “After he committed the act, he told us that he threw the cutlass inside a well. He even came back to the room where the incident occurred without running away.

    “The police is still carrying out their investigation, because he was not mad when he got admission into our institution. All this so-called strange behaviour started on Sunday.

    The case, it was gathered, has been transfered from the B Division, Lokoja, to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

    Police spokesman William Ayah could not be reached.

  • Wife stabs son of ex-PDP chair Bello to death over text messages

    Wife stabs son of ex-PDP chair Bello to death over text messages

    The police are probing the stabbing to death of Bilyamin Muhammed Bello by his wife, Maryam, in Abuja.

    Bilyamin is a son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one-time minister, Dr. Haliru Bello.

    His wife, who is the suspect, is a daughter of former Aso Savings boss Hajia Maimuna Aliyu.

    Hajia Aliyu was recently nominated into the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

    The couple before the weekend tragic incident had a one-year old daughter.

    “The FCT Police Command has commenced investigation into the matter.

    “The case has been transferred to the Homicide Section for discreet investigation,” spokesman Anjuguri Manzah stated in a text message on Sunday.

    The suspect is being detained by the police while the deceased was buried yesterday after the Janazar prayer at the Central Mosque in Abuja.

    Maryam was taken to her residence by homicide detectives for a search, fingerprints and forensic investigation.

    She was saved from being mobbed by angry siblings and relatives of the deceased husband.

    Clinging to her seven-month old baby girl, Maryam, who looked remorseful, burst into tears after being led into the flat where she allegedly killed her husband.

    According to sources, the jealous wife was uncomfortable with the text messages her late husband had been receiving from some women.

    It was gathered that a particular message from a banker made the wife to attack her husband.

    The source added: “They were at home when the wife became berserk over some text messages, including one allegedly suspected to be from a female banker.

    “After engaging in a shouting match, the wife was embroiled in fighting with her husband before heading to the kitchen where she picked a knife to stab Bilyamin three times, including on his private parts.

    “Drenched with blood, Bilyamin fought hard by crawling out of the couple’s flat to ask for help from neighbours.

    “Upon hearing his distress call, neighbours, who had heard the exchange of words and banging of doors at the flat, ferried Bilyamin to a hospital.

    “Unfortunately, the husband died in the hospital. The incident was reported to the police and Maryam was arrested by homicide detectives.”

    Maryam is a graduate with two degrees from British university.

    In a Whatsapp message on Sunday afternoon, her mother Hajia Aliyu expressed shock and feeling of loss over the sad development.

    “It is with a heavy heart but with total submission to the will of Allah that I announce the death of my son in-law, Bilyamin Bello Haliru, which sad event took place in the early hours of today.

    “Prayers will be held at the Central Mosque…

    “May Allah grant his soul Aljannah Firdaus as his permanent place of abode,” the grieving mother in-law stated.

    There had been whispers of a rocky relationship in a marriage meant to bring two prominent families together but allegations of infidelity and plans to marry another wife might have caused the insecurity in Bilyamin’s Maitama home.

    The patriarch of the family, Bello, is said to be away in the United States for medical attention.

    “We were all sad, it was just too heavy for us to break the news to our father,” a family source added.

  • Sex worker stabs client to death in Asaba

    The police in Delta State have arrested a commercial sex worker who allegedly stabbed her client to death during an argument at  an Asaba hotel, on July 18.

    Spokesman for  the Police Command in the state, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba that the police responded to a distress call from the hotel after the incident.

     “A day after the incident, the C Division in Asaba carried out preliminary investigation on the case and transferred it to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID,” he said.

    “As I speak to you, homicide detectives have commenced full investigation into the case with a view to unraveling what actually transpired between the suspect and the victim to establish culpability.”

    The  hotel has now been deserted, and attempt to speak with its manager was unsuccessful as he was said to have traveled out of Asaba.

    However, a bar attendant, who preferred anonymity, said the incident had thrown “the stakeholders” into a mourning mood.

    His words: “The sad incident started like a normal argument inside the hotel room, and before we realised it, a man was down with a fatal stab.

    “The incident happened at about 10.45 p.m., so nobody could actually say what led to the fracas.

    One of the few sex workers in the hotel who also spoke anonymously, described the incident as horrible and unfortunate, saying it had brought “our business to a standstill’’.

    “However, I will like to use this opportunity to advise our clients to always respect themselves when they come here.

    “Many of the clients do invite trouble to themselves. I rest my case,” she said.

    NAN said that the victim was a married man with four children.

  • Teenager stabs BRT driver with knife

    A 19-year-old unemployed man, Mathew Obong, who allegedly attacked and stabbed a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) driver with knife with others still at large at Oshodi, was on Thursday brought before a magistrates’ court in Lagos.

    Obong, a resident of Ajanayo Street, Oniwaya, Lagos, is being tried for breach of peace, assault, grievous harm and conspiracy at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

    According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Emmaunel Ajayi, the accused committed the offences on Feb. 22 at Cappa Junction near Oshodi, Lagos.

    He said the accused with others still at large conspired and assaulted the BRT driver, Mr Stanley Kalu when he came out of his vehicle to urinate.

    “The accused stabbed the complainant with a knife all over his body,” he said.

    Ajayi said the complainant, who was driving from Oshodi towards Mushin, made a U-turn at Cappa Junction and came down from the vehicle to urinate.

    “After the complainant had off-load his passengers, he made a U-turn and parked to urinate.

    “The accused attacked him claiming that he beamed the headlight of the bus on them.

    “The accused removed a knife from his pocket and started stabbing him.

    “He and his accomplices ran away when blood was gushing out of the complainant’s body.

    “But when the police stormed the scene, only the accused was arrested,” he told the court.

    Ajayi said after beating and stabbing the complainant, the accused took his N13, 500 from his pocket.

    The offences contravened Sections 166, 171, 243 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Section 243 prescribes a maximum seven years jail term for offenders.

    The accused pleaded innocence of the offences and was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.

    The Magistrate, Mrs F. A. Azeez adjourned the case to March 21 for mention. (NAN)

  • Artisan ‘stabs’ housewife with bottle

    41-year-old welder, Lukmon  Kolawole, was yesterday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing a married woman with bottle for fighting his wife.

    Kolawole, who lives on Aresanolu Street in Agege, Lagos, is being tried for breach of peace and assault.

    Prosecuting Inspector George Nwosu said the accused committed the offence on December 19.

    He said the accused assaulted one Mrs Joy Asekharme by beating and stabbing her on the head.

    Nwosu said the accused came home and met his wife in a fight with the complainant.

    “He came home to meet his wife in a fight with his co-tenant, instead of him to separate the fight, he joined his wife in the fight by punching the complainant all over her body.

    “The accused was not satisfied with the punches alone so, he rushed inside to pick a bottle, smashed it on the ground and stabbed the complainant on her head,” he said.

    The accused pleaded not guilty. He was granted N50,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    Magistrate A. A. Adesanya adjourned the case till January 16.