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  • Court remands suspected killer of police corporal

    A Senior Magistrates’ Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has ordered the remand in prison custody of 23-year-old Ndifreke Jonah, for alleged murder of a police corporal, and armed robbery.

    Ndifreke and others at large allegedly shot dead Cpl. Godknows Iworima at an hotel, before snatching N4,000 from another victim.

    A court document obtained by our reporters showed that the incident occurred on March 7, 2018 at Varlin Hotel, Rumueke Mgbuoba, Port Harcourt.

    Iworima was reportedly shot on the left side of his chest by Ndifreke’s gang, who were armed with guns, including a locally made revolver pistol. He died from the gunshot wound.

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    The accused was also alleged to have dispossessed Obinna Irondi of N4,000.

    The suspect was charged with a three-count charge of murder and armed robbery, but the charges were not read to him; hence he did not take any plea.

    Magistrate Sunday Abel said the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter and ordered that Ndifreke’s case file be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

    He said the accused should be remanded in prison custody, and adjourned the case till May 2.

     

  • Suspected killer of LASTMA official dies after mob action

    A Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) inspector, who allegedly killed an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Wednesday, has been confirmed dead.

    The Nation learnt yesterday that Inspector Olukunle Olonade, attached to FSARS Ikeja, died of injuries after he was allegedly attacked by passersby and motorists for allegedly killing Rotimi Adeyemo, the traffic official.

    A statement yesterday by police spokesman Chike Oti said the mob allegedly beat up the inspector mercilessly.

    He said Olonade died while being taken to hospital.

    The late inspector had earlier allegedly shot Adeyemo dead for flagging him down for a traffic issue.

    The incident occurred at Iyana-Ipaja roundabout about 6pm.

    Olonade, it was gathered, got down and warned the traffic official never to stop him again, adding that he didn’t have a right to do so.

    “Adeyemo was controlling traffic at Iyana-Ipaja when he asked the officer to stop so that motorists from Agege could have their way. Olonade refused to stop and he (Adeyemo) moved away so that he could pass. The next thing was that the officer brought out his gun and shot Adeyemo at close range,” an eyewitness said.

    Oti said Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal had directed that the late Inspector Olonade be tried posthumously in the Orderly Room and be recommended for dismissal from the Force.

    The statement reads: “On Wednesday, the driver of a Toyota Highlander Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), marked LSR 277 BJ, later identified as Police Inspector Olukunle Olonade, attached to FSARS Ikeja, while driving along Iyana-Ipaja road, was contravened for driving against traffic by a LASTMA official, Rotimi Adeyemo, 46, at Iyana-Ipaja roundabout.

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    “The two men argued with one another. During the altercation, Inspector Olonade allegedly shot the LASTMA officer to death.

    “Consequently, a mob, who thought the attacker was an armed hoodlum, because he was in mufti, descended on him and beat him up to stupor.

    “Although he was later rescued by the policemen drafted to the scene, he later died while being rushed to hospital.

    “The serial number of the pistol recovered at the scene was checked in the system and it revealed the bearer as Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS Ikeja. The body of the deceased has been evacuated to the morgue for autopsy.”

     

  • Enugu command trails suspected killer

    The Enugu State Police Command is trailing a suspect, who allegedly killed his friend over a lover.

    Spokesman Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement in Enugu, said the incident occurred on Sunday.

    He said: “The alleged incident occurred on Sunday, about 7 am at Amaeke village, Egede Community in Udi Local Government.

    “On that day, the deceased, Friday Owusa, 43, was hit with a pestle on the head by Nwaotobo Ozoha from the same village.

    “Fight allegedly broke out between them over what is suspected as a struggle for a woman, identified as Ijeoma.

    “The victim became unconscious and was taken to a nearby hospital by relatives and sympathisers, before he was transferred to Parklane Hospital, Enugu, where a doctor confirmed him dead.’’

    Amaraizu said the body was deposited in the mortuary, adding: “A manhunt for the fleeing suspect is on.’’

  • Police parade suspected killer of UUTH doctor, others

    Police parade suspected killer of UUTH doctor, others

    The Akwa Ibom State Police Command yesterday paraded some suspected murderers .

    Among them was Henry Silas, who allegedly killed the Head of Department of Pathology at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Dr. Ivy Umanah.

    At a media briefing at the police headquarters in Uyo, the state capital, Police Commissioner Murtala Mani said Silas (28), a native of Ikot Akpanwa village in Ika Local Government Area, allegedly used a vehicle iron (car shaft) to hit Dr. Umanah on her head, causing her instant death.

    The police chief said the late pathologist gave the suspect a tilling job to do in her apartment.

    He said Dr. Festus Abasiubong introduced Silas to the UUTH doctor after completing a designing work at Dr. Abasiubong’s home at Ikot Ntuen village on Abak Road in 2015.

    Mani said: “Silas confessed to the crime – that he killed Dr. Umanah with an object, a car shaft, which he picked by the side of her vehicle, which was parked in the compound of the deceased’s house.

    “The suspect said he was not sent by anyone to kill the deceased, that the killing was as a result of the disagreement he had with her over the payment of N100,000 for the work he did in her house: tilling and Plaster of Paris (P.O.P) work.

    “He also stated that Dr. Abasiubong did not send him for the killing, though it was Dr. Abasiubong who introduced him to the deceased to work for her.”

    The police chief said a team of officers from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), led by Julian Igbudu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), arrested the suspect in Aba, Abia State.

    Items belonging to the deceased, which the police allegedly recovered from Silas’ home, include: two car keys, three First Bank and GT Bank ATM cards.

    Mani said: “When the house and premises of Silas was searched, the plasma television of the deceased was recovered in his room at 124 Aka Road, Uyo. The cell phone of the deceased has not yet been recovered though he claimed that he lost it inside a tricycle he entered.”

    The police commissioner also said another suspect, Glory Bassey (28), killed her 75-year-old father, Bassey Udo, for allegedly being a wizard.

    He said the suspect, who is from Itu Local Government Area, broke into her father’s home and hit him to death.

    Another suspect, Uwem Akpanebe (17), allegedly killed Mrs. Josephine George with a machete.

    Mani said Akpanebe, who is from Essien Udim Local Government Area, is a nephew to the deceased.

    The police chief said Akpanebe allegedly killed the woman because he felt Mrs Akpanebe wanted to use him for money ritual.

    The suspects spoke separately with our correspondent, confessing to the killings.

    Silas said: “I was pleading with the deceased to pay me. But she started complaining about the work, that she did not like the design. The deceased gave me a slap and banged the door on me.

    “I got angry and I picked a rod kept outside the compound. I waited for her to come out. When she came out and saw that I was holding a big rod, she became afraid and ran to the parlour.

    “I chased her and, in the process, she fell down. I hit her hard on the head with the rod.”

    Bassey said: “I had two husbands and five children and all died mysteriously. My brother went mad before he died and my mother had seven strange sicknesses before she died. My father had strange powers and had killed all the children before their birth.

    “Five of my children died in my stomach at the point of their birth and were evacuated through surgical operations. I confronted my father about my predicament but he started flogging me while raining abuses on me. I then retaliated by whipping him back only to be told after a day that he had died.”

    Akpanebe said: “I was arrested because I killed my mother’s sister. I was told that she wanted to use me for money ritual. I used a machete to kill her.”

  • Suspected killer arrested, two years after

    Suspected killer arrested, two years after

    The police have arrested a man two years after he allegedly killed a 27-year-old final-year student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Kazeem Bamijoyi.

    Bamijoyi was killed on August 22, 2012 on his way to Doyin, Orile-Iganmu, a Lagos suburb, to collect feeding allowance from his elder brother, Taiye Bamijoyi, before returning to school. He was said to have been caught up in a fight between two rival cult groups.

    The suspect, Sekiru Yusufu (32), a father of two, was arrested last week by the police. He is said to be a Junior Secondary School (JSS2) drop-out of Iganmu High School, Orile-Iganmu.

    Sources at Orile Police Station said the incident occurred during a clash between the Adeleye and Alhaji Jimoh cult groups.

    The suspect, who is a member of the Adeleye group, was said to have relocated to Iyana-Iba, abandoning his wife and two kids.

    A source said he was arrested at Chemist bus stop in Sari Iganmu when he went for another operation.

    It was gathered that in his statement, the suspect said he hit the deceased with iron but never knew he died. “After I hit him with the iron, some small boys came and started beating him. I had to leave the place. I was working as a motor park tout at Iyana-Iba, while living in Orile, but after the incident, I relocated to Iyana-Iba, pending the settlement of the matter,” the suspect said.

    The deceased’s elder brother, who witnessed the incident, said: “I saw when Yusufu hit his head with a big iron. That was when I ran towards where he was lying helplessly. The injury was so deep that I knew he would not survive it. Yusufu ran away after the incident and did not return to Orile until he was arrested by the police”.

    He said their mother was yet to recover from the shock of the incident, adding: “He was the hope of our family. We invested in him and hoped that one day, he would lift the family. As a tricycle operator, I suffered to take him to school. It is unfortunate he died that way.

    “My brother was gentle, responsible and a devout Muslim. He was not a cult member. He was supposed to start his Industrial Training (IT) programme with the Nigerian Breweries, Iganmu, in the week he was killed.”

    Expressing joy over Yusufu’s arrest, the bereaved family urged Commissioner of Police Umar Manko not to allow him go unpunished.

    The suspect has been transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Panti, Yaba Lagos Mainland.

  • Oyo police parades suspected killer of LAUTECH student

    The Oyo State Police Command has paraded Mr. Alex Akinyemi, an alleged accomplice of one of the suspects involved in the killing of Miss Seun Adaramoye, a student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH).

    On June 20, Seun’s body was found by passers-by near a guest house around Under-G area in Ogbomoso.

    Addressing reporters yesterday at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyanganku, Ibadan, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, CID Unit, Dansuki Galadanchi, said following investigations, the owner of the guest house where the body of the deceased was dumped told the police that his security guard was involved.

    “When the owner of the guest house heard about the incident, he told the CCTV engineer to play back the video. He saw where one of the security guards in his home, Akinyemi, carried the body. He reported the matter to the police.

    “The police swung into action. The security guards, Dauda Aliyu and Samuel Ojo, were arrested. When the video was played for them, they identified the person in the film as Akinyemi, who worked as a guard in a guest house at Under-G area, Ogbomoso,” Galadanchi said.

    He said on July 6, the security guard was arrested in Ogbomoso, adding that the body of the student was taken to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital for a post-mortem.

    Galadanchi said efforts were being intensified to arrest the fleeing suspect, Charles Segun Aregbesola.

    The suspect said: “I have been working as a security guard in the guest house for over two months, and I know Segun as a resident of the area. I saw him dump the body about 8am. He said I should not report the incident to the police and threatened to kill me with an axe if I did. He promised to give me N500,000, but has not fulfilled his promise.

    “He said he was not involved in the murder of the student.”

    Also yesterday at the SCID, Wajud Akande, 50, was paraded for alleged conspiracy, stealing and conversion of goods worth N1.2 million.

    According to Daladanchi, on June 5, Alhaji Lawal Mohammed reported that his colleague chartered an Iveco truck with registration number XA 487 MGR to convey 4,554 cartons of soaps valued at N9.12 million from Apapa in Lagos State to Zaki-Biam in Benue State.

    He went on: “But the driver of the truck diverted the goods and sold them at Agbeni market in Ibadan. After investigation, Akande was arrested in his home in Molete, Ibadan where he kept part of the goods.”

  • Police arrest suspected killer of Nigerian in New York

    Police arrest suspected killer of Nigerian in New York

    The police in New York, the United States (US), on Tuesday arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a Nigerian cab driver in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn in downtown New York, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

    Uro Ama Orji, 54, from Ebonyi State, was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on June 13 by one of the two passengers he was carrying.

    The suspect was seen, through security camera, running from the scene of the incident.

    The late Orji was taken to the Brookdale Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

    The suspect, identified as Shamel Allen, 28, of Brooklyn, was charged with manslaughter and possession of weapon.

    He was accused of the stabbing Orji inside a cab in Brownsville on June 13.

    Orji’s sister-in-law, Mrs Chinedum Agwu, described the deceased as “a hard-working Nigerian” who had been driving cab since he moved to Brooklyn 10 years ago.