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  • Tekno releases visuals to new single ‘Woman’

    Augustine Kelechi, popularly known by his stage name Tekno, has released the visual of his recent new single “ Woman”

    The Cartel Music boss shared the video to the first single released on his independent platform, titled, ‘Woman’

    According to him, he is putting out the visuals today to commemorate with a day that is recognized globally as the ‘ International Women’s Day’.

    The artist celebratory record is a record that recognizes the growing and evolving place of women in the present scheme and how the role of a woman should no longer be restricted.

    The visuals of the artist latest single,’Woman’ portrayed the importance of women in the society, where the artist sang excitedly and danced with women in appreciation to their significant.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the singer released his first official song in audio in Jan., where he appreciated the place of a woman in the society and applauded their role in building a family.

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    The video for ‘Woman’ was directed by Clarence Peters shows different categories of women as they danced in excitement to the song.

    The lyrics of the song talks about the singer’s emphasised on the importance of women, stressing that they should not be belittled because they could be president.

    The Nigeria music star has won many people award which includes City People Music Award for music producer of the year 2017.

    Also, the MTV Africa Music Award for Best Breakthrough Act 2016 and City People Entertainment Award for new music of the year 2014 and worth over three billion.

  • Woman kills cleric in attempted rape

    A 25-year-old woman, Gift Daniel, yesterday appeared at an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stabbing to death a cleric, who attempted to rape her.

    She was said to have killed Taofeek Olumoro, 52, on February 16, at 3, Bajulaiye Street, Fadeyi, Lagos.

    Daniel, who lives at 1, Alhaji Aleke Street, Bariga, Lagos, pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecuting Inspector Oladele Adebayo said the defendant used a kitchen knife to stab the deceased.

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    “The defendant was lured into the deceased’s room where he tried to forcefully have sexual intercourse with her. In defence, she picked a knife and stabbed him fatally in his chest,” Adebayo added.

    Magistrate A. Kusanu granted the defendant to N200, 000 bail with two sureties each in the like sum.

    She ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.

    The case continues on  March 27.

     

  • Woman allegedly swindles church of N100m

    The police in Ogun State have arrested a 39-year-old woman, Onyinyechi Iwuagwu, for allegedly swindling a church-based organisation of N100million.

    Onyinyechi, the police said, had defrauded MIA Enterprises of the sum on the pretext of assisting the organisation to raise money for charity.

    Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said Onyinyechi’s arrest followed a petition to Commissioner Ahmed Illiyasu, from the organisation’s lawyer, Godswill Ojakovo.

    Oyeyemi said in a statement yesterday that the lawyer reported that the suspect claimed to have a Local Purchase Order (LPO) from a company known as Location 3 Properties and appealed to MIA Enterprises to fund the LPO.

    “Consequently, N33,118,000 was transferred to her online,” Oyeyemi said.

    He added: “While the organisation was awaiting the repayment of the above amount, the suspect came with other LPOs she purportedly got from Ancillia Catholic Hospital, Iju, Lagos and Holifull School, Ikorodu, Lagos, upon which another sum of N77 million was given to her after showing relevant documents and proof to back her claims.

    “He stated further in the petition that as soon as she got the last payment in September 2018, the suspect disappeared. This prompted the church to make discreet enquiries about the LPOs submitted and found out that they were forged.”

    Oyeyemi said Illiyasu, upon receipt of the petition, directed the monitoring team to go after the suspect, adding that she was trailed and arrested on January 21.

    “The suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation. She admitted that the LPOs presented by her were forged, as most of the companies where she claimed to have gotten the LPOs were only imaginary. The CP has directed the team to arraign the suspect as soon as investigation is concluded,” said Oyeyemi.

  • Man, woman found dead inside car

    A man and a woman have been found dead inside a vehicle, but the cause of their death remains a mystery.

    The police yesterday said investigation had begun to unravel how they died.

    The deceased, who were said to be well dressed, were found inside a vehicle at Maryland, Lagos, on Saturday morning.

    It is believed that they might have been chatting because of the position they were found.

    The Nation learnt that they might have died of carbon monoxide inhalation.

    Detectives, it was learnt,   found alcoholic beverages and substances suspected to be herbal concoctions in the vehicle.

    The bodies have been deposited in a mortuary.

    Command spokesman Chike Oti, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), told The Nation that Commissioner Zubairu Muazu has given the forensic unit one week to submit its findings.

    He said: “The police were called to the scene around 8:30am. The bodies were already stiff when the detectives arrived. The identity card of the driver and other items were found inside the vehicle. They have been handed over to forensic experts for analysis. The name on the ID card is Emmanuel Chetan I., Creative Director, Image World Visuals.

    “Commissioner Muazu has directed the Forensic Unit, Homicide Section, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos to carry out detailed investigation into the matter and submit its report within one week.”

    Oti added that the family of the woman, whose name is Annie Bose Akhadelor, has been contacted.

  • Woman, two others face N8m theft charge

    Two men and a woman were yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing 10 bags of cocoa beans valued at N8 million.

    The defendants, Romanus Adah, 42, Soroghaye Stanley, 39, and Sherifat Hamza, 50, are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing before Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat.

    Police prosecutor Benson Emuerhi said the defendants committed the offence on September 14, last year at Isolo, Lagos.

    He alleged that the defendants conspired with others at large to steal the farm produce belonging to Olam Nig. Ltd.

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    Emuerhi alleged that the defendants sold the cocoa beans which were in their custody and converted the money to personal use.

    He said they were later arrested after investigation.

    The defendants pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Sule-Amzat granted them N1.1 million bail each.

    She ordered that the defendants should provide two responsible sureties each as part of the bail conditions.

    One of the sureties, he said, should be a relation of the defendants and should be employed.

    The sureties are also to show evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State Government.

    The case continues on April 11.

     

  • Woman goes blind after broken bottle attack by her sister

    • Doctors remove hair attachment from her eye after it got embedded during fight
    • A shard of bottle got stuck in her cheek pinning her hair

    A moment of fury between two sisters in Delta State has left one of them permanently blind in one eye.

    The victim, 37, was allegedly attacked in the face with a broken bottle by her sister.

    A shard of the glass got stuck in her upper cheek pinning the victim’s hair attachment in her eye socket.

    She was rushed to Delta State University Teaching Hospital where doctors battled to extract the shard and the hair attachment from the eye socket, according to the London Mail.

    It said the woman’s predicament was published by the medical journal BMJ Case Reports.

    It quoted doctors as saying the unnamed victim was in an ‘anxious state’, because of the gaping wound in her cheek.

    She was given local anaesthetic before surgeons pulled out the shard and  then stitched up the cuts on her eyelids.

    A doctor from the teaching hospital, who reported the case in the  BMJ Case Reports, said the victim’s right eye was producing excessive amounts of fluid and intensely red, but her eyeball was mostly intact.

    However, she suffered ‘irreversible’ damage to her cornea – the front of her eye – leaving it blinded and useless.

    The hair attachment – believed to have been sliced off the woman’s weave during the attack – was sticking out of a diagonal slash beneath her eye.

    The doctor did not include any details of the woman’s argument with her sister or any other injuries sustained in the vicious fight.

    “The doctor’s report suggests the woman’s hair was hanging in front of her face and the plait became caught on the end of the glass during the stabbing,” the Mail said.

    “It was then driven into the flesh beneath her eye and pinned there by a piece of glass which broke off what is presumed to be a bottle or drinking glass.”

    It quoted the doctor as saying: “Although the patient had similar strands on her hair, the flexible nature of the strands further posed a challenge to the cause of the retention.

    “The mechanism that introduced the woven artificial hair strands … is not clear but it is most likely that the hair was on the path of penetration of the broken glass at the time of the stab injury.”

  • Woman jailed 25 years for stealing N4.5 million

    An Osun State High Court in Osogbo yesterday sentenced a 38-year-old woman, Toyin Raheem, to 25 years’ imprisonment for stealing N4.5million.

    Prosecutor Abiodun Badiora said the convict stole the money belonging a telecommunications outlet owned by Wolid Investment Limited (an MTN partner) in Osogbo on June 1, 2018 about 8am.

    He said the convict, after stealing the money kept in her custody, attempted to set the business outlet ablaze to cover up the crime.

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    Badiora said the convict’s intention was to deceive the owner of the business that the money got burnt before the fire was put out.

    According to the charge sheet, the offence was contrary to sections 443(A), 390(9),1(1)(A) and punishable under Section 1(3) of the Advance Free Fraud and other Related Offences Act 2006 and the Criminal Code CAP 34 Vol. 11, Laws of Osun, 2003.

    Defence counsel Mr. Abdulfatai Abdulsalam, who prayed the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing his client, said the convict was a first offender and had learnt her lesson.

    Justice Yinka Aderibigbe sentenced Raheem to 25 years’ imprisonment.

  • Woman, 40, dies during scuffle in Ondo community

    A scuffle between two tenants on Ogo Street, Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State has led to the death of a woman, Mrs Foluke Olanipekun.

    It was learnt that there was protracted misunderstanding between two families, said to be living at the same street, Arigidi, Akoko North West Local Government Area.

    The feuding families reportedly faced each other in a free for all in the night.

    An eyewitness said the altercation took a new dimension when Mrs Olanipekun allegedly slumped and died during the scuffle.

    The deceased housewife, aged 40, was described as an easy-going woman by sympathisers.

    Her remains were said to have been deposited at Ikare State Specialist Hospital mortuary, while Mrs Morenikeji Bello, 27, and her two children who were involved in the attack of the late Mrs Olanipekun, had been arrested.

    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Okeagbe-Akoko, Ibitayo Adetanranmi, a Superintendent of Police (SP), said the suspects would soon be transferred to Akure, the state capital.

  • Woman, son arrested over boy’s death

    Rivers State Police Command has arrested a woman and her son for allegedly stabbing a boy to death.

    The Nation learnt that the incident occurred yesterday.

    The victim, Chimezie Dike, was allegedly killed for pasting the poster of a Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) House of Representatives candidate for PHALGA Constituency 2, Collins Owonda, at 40, Azikiwe Street, Mile 2, Diobu, Port Harcourt.

    Sources said the deceased was contracted to paste the posters in the neighbourhood.

    An eyewitness, simply identified as Emmanuel, said there an argument between the suspects and victim while he was pasting the posters, resulting in a fight and murder.

    Police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed the incident. He said the suspects have been arrested and will be arraigned after investigation.

  • Woman allegedly vomits cash in Warri

    There was panic yesterday on Ogaga Street, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government of Delta State when a lady, Mariam Abdul, allegedly vomited cash.

    It was gathered Mariam’s husband Taye Adekunle raised the alarm about 3.45 am that neighbours should come to his aid as his wife was behaving strangely.

    An eyewitness said Mariam had recently been a victim of suspected ritual act.

    “Recently, Mariam’s panties were stolen by some unidentified ‘Yahoo Boys,’ and she raised the alarm that her panties had been stolen. You must know that this has been a trend in the state in recent times.

    “But about 3:45am, we heard a strange voice of ‘help me o’ from their apartment. The man was calling for help. Many of us could not open our doors until we heard the voices of some vigilante men in the area. When we got there, we saw the lady vomiting N500 notes.

    “I would have doubted if I had not seen her myself. We’re all dumbfounded because we don’t know what to do. The N500 notes were coming out one after the other. It was through the effort of the pastor and some residents who were praying for her that she stopped.

    “Three weeks ago, she and her husband announced that her panties, which were hung in front of their apartment, were missing. No one claimed to have seen the panties. We suspect that whoever stole the panties might have used them for ritual since it is the reigning thing,” the source said.

    Warri Area Commander Mohammed Shaba said the matter would be investigated.

    He said: “Today, according to the DPO (B’ Division), he received a distressed call this morning that Taye Adekunle, of Ogaga Street, reported to B’Division that three weeks ago his wife, Mariam Abdul, washed two panties and a wrapper and spread them outside their apartment. That the two panties and the wrapper were stolen.

    “That Saturday, December 22, his wife started experiencing strange spiritual attacks and then he invited a pastor and when he started praying for her, she started vomiting water, including 14 pieces of N500 notes. The victim had been taken to hospital but when they are done the case will be transferred to the state CID.”