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  • We killed our madam because of N150,000, teenager confesses

    We killed our madam because of N150,000, teenager confesses

    A 17-year old boy Philip Emmanuel has narrated how he and his accomplice, Precious, killed their madam, Mrs. Adene Iyabode Deborah.

    Late Adene, a popular caterer, was found dead inside her apartment after not being seen for some days.

    She was stabbed severally and her head severed.

    The suspect, who was paraded at the Ondo Police headquarters, said he has worked with the victim for five months before the incident.

    He said it was Precious employed as a driver for only two months that lured him to commit the crime.

    Philip stated Precious overheard that N150,000 was paid into their madam’s account and approached him that they should kill her and collect the money.

    According to him: “I am here because I killed my madam. Last month, I have worked with her for five months. I was her cook. She just employed a driver who have only worked for two weeks.
    One day the driver came to me and said N150,000 just entered madam account. He told me we should killed my madam and collect the money. I said I have not killed someone before.

    “On Saturday, madam said I should come and help her wash clothes that she was very tired. The driver came around and madam was surprised but the driver explained that he wanted to help her.

    “That day, the driver brought a drink and gave to me. I drank it. He brought out a cutlass and started threatening me that he will also kill me.

    “We went into the house and he pushed me inside. I said i should use cutlass to hit the woman. I did it. But I started crying.

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    “After we killed the woman, the driver went to check the only in the account and found only N60,000. He gave me N30,000. I went to Idanre.

    “After four days, we heard the woman has died. Police called us to come and explain when last we saw the woman. I told them and they asked me to go home.

    “They called me again and told me I am in communication with the driver. I had to confess.”

    Ondo Police Commissioner, Oladipo Abayomi, who described Philip as a trusted employee of the deceased, urged residents to be cautioned when discussing sensitive financial information, especially around employees or individuals who might misuse such knowledge.

    “Avoid openly discussing financial transactions or other personal matters in the presence of staff or others who do not need to be informed.

    “In a shocking confession, Philip revealed that he had conspired with Mrs. Deborah’s driver to kill her. The driver, eager to start a “yahoo” business, suggested they steal her ATM card, having overheard that a large sum of money was soon to be deposited into her account.

    “On July 25, 2024, Emmanuel and the driver carried out their horrific plan. After lurking around till the unsuspecting woman fell asleep, they brutally attacked her, stole her ATM card, and withdrew a total of Sixty Thousand Naira (₦60,000). The driver remains at large, and efforts to apprehend him are ongoing.”

  • Teenager commits suicide in Benue

    Teenager commits suicide in Benue

    A teenager identified simply as Terna has committed suicide in Makurdi, Benue State capital, by walking into an electricity transformer.

    He was said to have walked into the transformer laid on naked armour cables at Welfare Quarters on Makurdi – Otukpo Road.

    The naked electricity wires were said to have immediately snuffed life out of him.

    An eyewitness, Paul Omale, a commercial motorcycle operator, told The Nation that the deceased woke up in the morning without any signs of worries.

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    Another witness, Anayo, who resides near the transformer, said he saw the deceased walk straight towards the transformer before jumping into it, following which he became motionless.

    Some residents of the area, who spoke with our correspondent, dismissed insinuations that Terna’s mission was to vandalise the transformer, as no tools were found on him as it is the case with most vandals.

    The Head, Corporate Communications of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), Dr. Friday Adakole Elijah, confirmed that “a young man was found dead inside our transformer at Welfare Quarters.”

  • Teenager allegedly kills mum’s boss over phone

    Teenager allegedly kills mum’s boss over phone

    An 18-year-old teenager simply identified as Mubarak has been arrested for allegedly killing his mother’s boss, Mrs. Sidikat Anuoluwapo, over a phone worth N80,000.

    The victim was last week found in a pool of blood inside her room in the afternoon by one of her granddaughters, who just returned from school.

    Investigation by the police in Ikare Akoko led to the arrest of the suspect and the victim’s phone was found on him.

    Mubarak reportedly named another suspect, Riliwan, aged 20, as his accomplice and they took detectives to Similoluwa area of Agbaluku Arigidi Akoko, the crime scene, where they demonstrated how they scaled the fence.

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    It was learnt that Mubarak is a son of a casual house keeper and cleaner to the victim.

    Witnesses said he always accompanied his mother to the house to work.

    His mother, identified as Oluwasuen, was said to have been arrested.

    It was learnt that the case has been transferred to the police headquarters in Akure.

  • Teenager strangled to death in Delta

    An 18-year old girl, identified as Favour Ogheneyenrowho, has been reportedly strangled to death by suspected ritualists in Abraka, Ethiope-East council area of Delta State. The incident has thrown the community into serious tension.

    The Nation gathered that the victim’s pubic hairs were shaved off before, she was murdered and her remains kept in a “Ghana-must-Go” bag which was disposed at a dump site behind Ozoro park in the town. Witnesses said there were violent marks around her neck area, indicating that she was violently strangulated.

    Ogheneyenrowho hailed from Ughere in Abraka Community. Recounting the incident leading to the teenager’s demise, Maureen Sunday, her elder sister, told the police that Favour had received a call from a male at about 10 a.m, requesting that she met him at the Abraka Park.

    She, however, replied the caller that she was going to the market with her elder sister. Sunday added that on their way out of their residence located along Winners Road, a young man, whom she had never seen before (whom she believed was the same person that called her sister earlier), boarded a motorcycle that stopped at the junction and approached them.

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    A short conversation ensued between them and her late sister, Favour, joined him on the bike and they rode off, even as she called after her to return early. Unfortunately, it was the shocking news of her sister, dead and tied with ropes in a sack that reached her the following day. When contacted, the Delta State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adeyinka Adeleke, explained that what had been discovered so far revealed that the killing of the victim was more of a murder case and not ritual killing.

    The police boss also revealed that the suspected killer, who is believed to be Favour’s boyfriend, has since been on the run, adding that the state police command was already on his trail. “The lady in question was with the sister and she had a call. When she wanted to leave, she told her sister that it’s her boyfriend that she wanted to go and see. After some time she disappeared, they did not see her.

    The next day they saw her body tied in a sack in a plantain/ banana plantation and her boyfriend runaway. So it is not a ritual, but a murder case. Signs on her body show that she was strangulated,” he explained.

  • My pastor gave me alcohol, took me to hotels for sex, says teenager

    A 17-year old girl (names withheld) has narrated how the resident Pastor of the Amagba branch of the Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel, Pastor Kingsley Emeka Mokwunye, introduced her to alcohol and has sex with her severally.

    The teenager who spoke to reporters in Bénin City said Pastor Kingsley also slept with her in her father’s house.

    She was in tears as she narrated how the affair began in September last year shortly after she finished her secondary education.

    Stating the reasons for opening up on the love affair, she said she wants to leave the state for lack of concentration and that she wants Pastor Kingsley to be jailed.

    According to her, “He used to call me to advise me to stay away from boys, to live a good life and always respect my parents. I took it like he was my own father that I could trust and tell him anything I want to say.

    “That was how he started calling me, talking to me till it gets to a time he told me that he likes me. I took it as a normal thing. He started taking advantage of me. He tells me I do not know what he is doing for me. He started showing me things I have not seen before and took me to places I have never been to. That was how it started. He was the first person to show me how condom looked like. He taught me how to take alcohol.

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    “He told me not to tell my parents. He said they will understand what he is doing. He slept with me many times including our house when my parents are not at home.

    “Thinking about the thing has affected me educationally. I could not read. The whole thing was disturbing me. When I told his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it before her husband.

    “I want Pastor Kingsley to go to jail. I was always shocked anytime I am in church and see him preaching. I was afraid of telling my mother what was happening”.

    Her father who is also the Board Chairman of the church branch, Mr, Paul Obidah, said he was shocked that a Pastor he trusted as could destroy his only daughter.

    Paul said what pained him was that Pastor Kingsley had sex with his daughter in his house and even when his daughter was having her monthly flow.

    He said he want justice in the case and not swept under the carpet.

    His words, “I have been in the church for the past 27 years. I started the church in Kaduna State. Abioye led me to Christ. I have been in Kaduna all these years. It got to a time. I decided to relocate home.

    “We have been in Bénin serving God with our heart. Many pastors have come to the branch and go. I see the pastors as Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith. There was a day Pastor Kingsley came to my house, I could smell alcohol from his breath.

    “One day, his wife came and said she wants to see our daughter. I left her to discuss. I heard my daughter telling her she has something to tell her. The next day, the woman came and told me she has seized her husband’s phone because of the calls her husband was making to my daughter. I just said maybe it was a family friend matter.

    She said he went to pick my daughter at school, I said maybe he bought her ice cream.

    “I was sleeping when something struck me to ask my daughter what is happening. I called and asked her to open up to me. She began telling me how the Pastor used to make love to her in my own house. The different hotels he took her to. She said it was a burden to her. She said she does not know what the pastor gave to her.

    “This is a Pastor we trusted. We talked and do everything as a family. I didn’t know he has been doing this nonsense in my house. This is a girl that does not go out. She has been in

  • Teenager, two others charged with robbery

    Chief Magistrates’ Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday ordered the remand in prison custody of Victory Eziogo, 19, for alleged robbery, kidnap and cultism.

    Also remanded were Samuel Chibuihu, 25, and Daniel Chibuzor, 28.

    The suspects allegedly robbed  Akanbiyi Olusola, a pastor, of his Toyota Sienna car while armed with a locally made pistol and other weapons.

    They also allegedly dispossessed him of N25,000 cash, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and phone, all valued at over N1 million.

    The trio were alleged to have kidnapped their victim and demanded N500,000 ransom before he was released to his family last December.

    The suspects reportedly belonged to and participated in the activities of a cult called ‘Ice-landers’.

    The accused allegedly committed the crime at different times last December at Ipo in Ikwerre Local Government.

    They were charged with a six-count charge of robbery, kidnap and cultism.

    The charge was not read to them because the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the matter, hence, they were not allowed to take any plea.

    Counsel to the defendants urged the court to grant bail to the defendants, saying the victim has forgiven them and they plan to settle out of court.

    The case was adjourned till April 4.

  • Teenager steals students’ phones, laptops

    A teenager, Malik Moruf, who allegedly stole phones, laptops and other property from four Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) students, yesterday appeared at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court.

    Moruf, 18, pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Modupe Olaluwoye alleged that the defendant committed the offences from January 28 to February 12, at Abule-Oja, Yaba.

    She said the defendant had been stealing from the students’ lodge for two weeks.

    Olaluwoye said the students – Mr. Raro-Edo Enakofa, Miss Esther Shofeso, Miss Esther Oyinoluwa and Miss Juliana Ajibola – reported the theft at Yaba Police Station.

    She said the defendant stole two iPhone 6 valued at N120,000 each, a bag worth N17,000, an HP laptop valued at N150,000 and a Samsung phone worth N35,000.

    The prosecutor said the defendant also stole a Sony laptop valued at N400,000, Airtel SIM cards worth  N3,000 and a Samsung tablet worth N91,000.

    She said the stolen items worth N936,000.

    “It was upon investigation that the police ambushed the defendant and caught him while trying to break into one of the apartments to steal,” Olaluwoye said.

    Magistrate Oluwatoyin Oghere granted the defendant N200, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    She said one of the sureties must be a relation of the defendant, adding that both must be employed with evidence of three years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    The case was adjourned till April 3.

  • Teenager faces malicious damage charge

    A 17-year-old boy, Pinock Evans, who allegedly broke into a shop with the intent to steal, was yesterday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court.

    Evans pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Akpan Ikem said the defendant committed the offence on February 16, at about 5:40am at 1, Abule Era Road, Ijanikin, Lagos.

    He alleged that the defendant broke into Ocean of Life Pharmacy with intent to steal.

    “The defendant damaged three padlocks valued at N3,000, property of Mr. Okwuegbulem Promise.

    “Evans was arrested during the act and handed over to the police by the complainant,” Ikem said.

    Chief Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya remanded the defendant in a correction home at Adigbe in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The case continues on April 15.

  • We were to earn N7,000 daily from prostitution, says teenager

    •Police arraign suspects today

    The missing teenager found at a trafficker’s den at Ile-Iwe, Ikotun, a community in Alimosho area of Lagos State, has said she and other girls scheduled to travel to Ghana were to earn N7,000 daily for sleeping with seven men.

    The victim, a 16-year-old, was rescued on Sunday night after area boys contracted by her grandmother, Mrs. Olorunkemi, launched a search for her and found her.

    The Nation reported yesterday how the girl, a victim of gang-rape, had fled home shortly after returning from a boarding school, which left her aunt and grandma disturbed.

    Facts yesterday showed that the girl was lured from home by a suspected cultist and a girl, who took her to the suspected human trafficker.

    At the den, said to be a brothel in Ikotun, it was gathered that the teenager and other young girls were put on Rohypnol and other harmful drugs and they were made to have sex with 10 men daily.

    The 16-year-old girl said: “The madam (trafficker) is from Calabar in Cross River State. She said her children were doing the same runs in Ghana. She said she would take us to Ghana.

    “The woman said we would sleep with seven men daily, collecting N1,000 from each of them. The woman gave us hard drugs.

    “When the police were invited, they searched us and saw Rophynol in the mouth of one of us. We were more than five girls. So, that was how they took everyone to the police station and the woman was arrested.”

    It was gathered that the suspected cultist had asked the victim to steal N100,000 from her aunt so that they could take her to a place she would be protected from her suspected rapists.

    The Nation learnt that a young man, a suspected member of the Black Axe, had convinced the girl that her aunt was bad and she needed to run away from home to a ‘safe’ place.

    A source said: “The girl felt unsafe after her experience three years ago. She was also unhappy with her family because she felt they did not do enough to protect her. So, she became rebellious and took to drugs.

    “She’s an orphan. Her aunt and grandma have really tried to give her a decent life. They also thought they were protecting her by covering up the rape, but it seems the girl is still very hurt and unhappy with them.

    “It was during the rebellion that she met this bad gang. There’s a young man who has been luring her to join Aiye cult. He even told her to steal N100,000 from her aunt so that they would run to an unknown place to have good time.

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    “The man told the victim that someone was always giving her guardian information each time, so she went to the area where they smoked marijuana and took drugs.”

    It was gathered that the man sent a girl to lure the victim, who did not know they were trying to initiate her into cultism with promises of freedom and protection.”

    Confirming the incident, police spokesman Chike Oti, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), said the suspects would be arraigned today.

    He said the command under Police Commissioner Zubairu Muazu would not compromise on any case, describing the incident as heinous.

    Oti said: “We are not going to compromise in that case, I can assure you of that. It is heinous and the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, has directed that all suspects involved be charged to court on Wednesday (today).

    “The victims will be handed over to the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development for therapy and debrief. The Divisional Police Officer has been directed to transfer the matter to the Gender Section. Justice must be done in this matter I can assure you.”

  • Teenager held for alleged sodomy

    The police in Lagos have arrested a 16-year-old boy and a man, Prince Chinecherem, 32, for allegedly engaging in homosexuality.

    Chinecherem, the police alleged, was the leader of a gay gang, who carried out their illegal acts in Lekki, Lagos.

    Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal alleged that Chinecherem used the teenager as a commercial sex worker, adding that besides sleeping with him, he also gave him to other men requiring his service.

    He said both tested positive for Human Immune Virus (HIV), adding that people might have contracted it through them.

    The police have declared two pastors and some business executives wanted for allegedly having carnal knowledge of the minor and belonging to the illegal group.

    It was gathered that Chinecherem, during interrogation, gave the identities of other members of the group, including the prominent persons declared wanted.

    Narrating how they were arrested, Edgal told reporters that on January 22, in Ejigbo, Lagos, a teenager was seen sneaking out of Chinecherem’s home in a suspicious manner.

    He said neighbours accosted him and asked what he had gone to the house to do, but he could not answer satisfactorily.

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    He was thereafter asked to open a bag he was carrying and the neighbours saw used condoms inside.

    “At that point, the boy revealed that Prince Chinecherem was his lover. The matter was reported to the Police at Ejigbo and Prince Chinecherem was arrested. After preliminary investigation, the matter was called for further enquiry by the Gender Section of the command.

    “The suspect and the victim were taken for medical examination and the result revealed that the victim had been introduced to homosexuality for long. The worst is that both are infected with HIV virus, which causes AIDS,” Edgal said.

    He said the suspects would be arraigned at the Sexual and Special Offences Court in Ikeja, adding that the boy had been sent to health counsellors for health talk on how to manage the situation.