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  • Woman arraigned for allegedly attacking stepson

    A woman, Khadija Yahaya, has been arraigned by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), for allegedly attacking her stepson with hot water.

    Yahaya, who allegedly dipped the hands of her two-year-old stepson, Abubakar Yahaya, into a boiling water, was slammed with a two-count charge and arraigned at a Federal High Court in Bwari, Abuja.

    A statement by Adekoye Vincent, for head, Press and Public Relations Unit, NAPTIP, said: “The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arraigned a 30-year-old housewife, Khadija Yahaya, for allegedly dipping the hands of a two-year old boy, Abubakar Yahaya, into boiling water, thereby causing him harm. The victim is her stepson.

    “The accused was slammed with a two-count charge and arraigned at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Bwari, Abuja, presided over by Justice A. O. Musa.

    “NAPTIP arrested the woman, said to be the second wife of her husband, Mr. Yahaya, following a tip-off by concerned Nigerians.”

    The accused pleaded not guilty. She was granted bail at N500,000 with a surety.

  • Woman charged with beating husband’s ex-wife

    31-year-old food vendor, Faith Onuoha, who allegedly beat up her husband’s ex-wife, was yesterday hauled up before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

    The accused was arraigned before the Magistrate, Mr J.A Adigun, on a charge of assault occasioning harm.

    The woman, who lives at Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos, however, pleaded not guilty and was admitted to N50, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    Adigun said the sureties should be gainfully employed with an evidence of two years tax payment.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Godwin Awase said the accused committed the offence last December 25 at her residence.

    He said the accused assaulted Mrs Amarachi Onuoha by beating her.

    “The accused used a plank to beat the complainant. The complainant and her ex-husband had approached a court for the dissolution of the marriage and after the judgement, the complainant was granted the custody of their son.

    “After some days of the judgement, the 10-year-old boy was missing and when the complainant went to report to the police to report, she was told that the father must have abducted him.

    “The complainant traced the boy to her ex-husband’s house and saw him.

    “But the accused, her ex-husband’s mistress, prevented her from taking her child by thoroughly beating and injuring her,” he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the section stipulates three years imprisonment for offenders.

    The case was adjourned until February 27.

  • Woman dies after being hit by train while taking selfie

    Woman dies after being hit by train while taking selfie

     A Thai woman died after being hit by a train while taking a selfie on the railway track, police said on Friday.

    “Walailak Sukuma, 28, was proclaimed dead at a Bangkok hospital hours after an oncoming train hit her and her friend while the pair was taking a selfie, Wissanusak Suebin,’’ a police investigator in charge of the case, told newsmen.

    Wissanusak said Walailak’s right leg was cut off by the train’s wheels, while her friend, 24-year-old Amnaj Nawantip, suffered a head injury and a broken arm.

    The pair was part of a group of five friends who had been drinking beer at a railway station in Bangkok.

    According to railway officials, the group often hung out drinking beer near the rail tracks.

    “The difference is that this time they were taking selfies too.

    “Their friends said they didn’t see the train approaching the platform.

    “The group said they have learnt their lesson now, but it remains to be seen if they will come back in the future,’’ Wissanusak added.

  • Police arrest man, woman for hijacking N2.7m beer

    Police arrest man, woman for hijacking N2.7m beer

    Policemen in Ogun State have arrested two suspects for allegedly hijacking at gun point a truck conveying Trophy brand of lager beer from Ilesa and heading to Iragbiji, both in Osun State.

    The beer is estimated at N2,714,000.

    Those suspects are: Saheed Omotosho and Adijat Azeez, the suspected receiver.

    Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the arrest followed a distress call policemen attached to the Sagamu Area Command got that a truck with registration number LEW 615 XA had been hijacked by three armed men while coming from Ilesa.

    Abimbola added that the truck with a tracking device indicated that the hijackers were  heading towards Sagamu with the beer.

    According to him, the Area Commander for Sagamu, Ibrahim Muhammad, alerted the patrol team around the area to look out for the truck and the armed men.

    He said the anti-robbery team of the area command intercepted the truck on Sagamu-Ore Road where they demolished, blocked it and apprehended one of the suspectes.

    The spokesman said two other suspects escaped.

    Abimbola added that Omotosho said the beer had been delivered to their receiver, Adijat Azeez, at Ode-Remo, near Sagamu, where the product was recovered and the woman arrested.

     

  • Alleged human parts seller set ablaze in Delta

    Alleged human parts seller set ablaze in Delta

    A woman, allegedly found in possession of human parts, was Saturday afternoon set ablaze by a mob around Ekete-Inland area in Udu council area of Delta state.

    The Nation gathered that the woman, who was reportedly known to be moving around the area, disguised as a lunatic, was caught with human parts as well as a fresh human corpse at the spot where she stays.

    According to eyewitnesses, the woman was discovered with the unsightly possessions when residents were disposing off refuse and burning dirt gathered during the day’s environmental sanitation exercise.

    One of the witnesses, who spoke under conditions of anonymity, said the woman, whom she said had always been seen in the area as a mere lunatic, attracted the attention of some members of the community, who suspected her strange attitude while they were burning refuse close to her shack.

    “When some of the people who were burning refuse observed she was behaving strangely, they went on to look into her hut and to their surprise, they saw a fresh corpse of a young girl and other human parts. This made the people to raise the alarm and suspecting that she might have been in this sort of business for a very long time, people got angry and seized her”, the source said.

    The crowd, which grew more and more with time, unleashed their anger on her and before long and before security agents could arrive the scene, the woman, whose name could not be ascertained in the melee, had been set ablaze.

    Meanwhile, when reached for official comments, the spokesman of the Delta state police command, Andrew Aniamaka (DSP), said he would only be able to comment after getting briefed by the relevant Divisional Police Officer of the area.

  • Woman slumps, dies after FSARS arrests son

    Woman slumps, dies after FSARS arrests son

    A woman has reportedly died of shock after her son’s arrest by some Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad ( FSARS ) operatives.

    Mrs Asiata Adeyanju, 42, slumped and died close to her 9, Ajenifuja Street, Ilupeju, Lagos home on Wednesday night. She was said to be hypertensive.

    The Nation gathered that the FSARS operatives from Ipakodo Division in Ikorodu, who have been allegedly picking people up in the area in the last two weeks, arrested Muiz, the deceased’s 17-year-old son, when he  was about switching on the generator in front of their home.

    The operatives, said to be  in black vests with the inscription “FSARS”, allegedly slapped Muiz and hurled him into an unmarked van. A neighbour simply identified as Emmanuel, a teacher, was said to have been slapped by the operatives when he tried to stop them from taking the boy away.

    By the time Muiz’s parents, who were in their room, learnt of his arrest, the  operatives had whisked him away with others arrested at various spots. It was gathered that the late Mrs Adeyanju ran out with only her wrapper and chased the police van.

    The Nation learnt that Mrs Adeyanju slumped at a spot. Residents said she died while being rushed to a nearby hospital.

    Her widower, Musendiku Adeyanju, who was said to be observing his evening prayer at the time of the incident, later met with the operatives  at Ilupeju Junction, off Adesiyan Street, to secure his son’s release. The Nation learnt that Muiz was released after the  operatives were told his  mother had been rushed to the hospital.

    It was gathered that the operatives hurriedly left the area when they learnt of Muiz’s mother’s death.  None of those arrested was taken to the police station. They allegedly secured their release at a price.

    Describing his encounter with the operatives, Muiz said: “I was pulling the generator’s starter when the policemen grabbed my trousers and asked me to enter the bus. Before I knew what was going on, two of the officers started slapping me. They took me away with some other people I didn’t know. They were moving round the area, picking up people. They wore black shirts with ‘FSARS’ boldly written on them.”

    There was wailing on Ajenifuja Street yesterday when Mrs Adeyanju’s  body was brought back home.  Sympathisers rained curses on the operatives, describing FSARS as  “evil organisation”.

    Some residents complained that the operatives had been coming to the area for “illegal raids and indiscriminate arrests”.

    At his wife’s funeral performed by some Islamic clerics, Mr. Adeyanju, 43, was all tears.

    He described his wife’s death as “devastating agony”, wondering what his son’s offence was to warrant his arrest by the FSARS.

    He said: “I returned from work around 9:00 p.m., after which my wife served my food. After the dinner, I performed ablution to observe the prayers I missed. I was in the middle of the prayers when there was power outage. My wife instructed Muiz to start the  generator in front of the house.

    “The boy was arrested by FSARS when he was about to put on the set. I overheard one of my neighbours, Mr. Emmanuel, telling the policemen that the boy lives in the house. I had to break the prayers to attend to the situation. Before I got to the scene, the police van had left the spot. We ran after them but we didn’t see them.

    “I was returning home to take my car and search for the police van when I saw my wife at the street junction, gasping. People around rushed her to a hospital. I joined neighbours in search for the police van. We met the FSARS officers at a junction in Ilupeju and I explained to them my wife had collapsed because of my son’s arrest. That was when they released the boy to us. We had barely left that scene when I got a call that my wife had died.”

    The deceased’s elder sister, Mrs. Fausat Usman, described her as ‘’a quiet and cool-headed woman.”

    She confirmed that the late Mrs. Adeyanju was hypertensive.

    Police spokesman Chike Oti, a Superintendent of Police (SP), did not pick this reporter’s calls.

    He cut the call after his phone persistently rang last night.

    He did not also respond to messages sent to his phone.

  • Woman dragged out of car, raped in front of husband in India – Police

    Woman dragged out of car, raped in front of husband in India – Police

    A 22-year-old woman was dragged out of a car and raped in front of her husband and brother-in-law, who were held at gunpoint in the northern Indian state of Haryana, the police said on Tuesday.

    The woman was raped, according to police, on Sunday night in Sector 56 of Gurugram on the outskirts of New Delhi.

    Police said they had arrested four people in connection to the rape.

    A police official said: “on Sunday night a woman, her husband and brother-in-law were returning from a function in a car.

    “When they stopped near the business park tower, the woman’s husband got out of the car to use the toilet.

    “Suddenly two cars stopped near them and four men came out and dragged the woman out of the car.

    “One of the men took the woman and raped her while others held her husband and her brother-in-law at gunpoint.”

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    Reports said before running away, the men warned the woman and her husband against reporting the incident to the police.

    This is the latest incident of rape horror that emerged in the state.

    Recently two incidents of young girls being raped and killed were reported in Haryana.

    Sexual attacks on women and girls in India put a question mark on their safety and efficiency of police force in the country.

    In December 2012, a medical student was fatally gang-raped in New Delhi. that incident brought spotlight on crimes against women in India.

    The incident saw huge protests and resulted in new anti-rape laws in the country. However, brutal sexual attacks against women continue to be reported across India.

    NAN

  • Woman arraigned for ‘child theft’

    Woman arraigned for ‘child theft’

    A 42-year-old woman, Ndidi Eze, has been arraigned before an Okpanam Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a two years and seven months old girl at Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.

    The suspect was arraigned on a two-count charge of child theft.

    The charge reads: “That you Ndidi Eze on December 21 at Ogbosadi Quarters, Okpanam did conspire with one Chinyere (surname unknown) now at large to commit felony to wit: Child stealing punishable under the Laws of Delta State 2006.

    “That you, Ndidi Eze and one other now at large on the above date and place did steal one Happiness Ujukwu, two years and seven months and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 371 (1) of the criminal code law Cap c21 Volume 1Laws of Delta State

    The suspect was remanded at the Agbor Prison custody.

    Magistrate C.E Osuma adjourned the case till February 12.

  • Woman stabs rival’s son to death

    Woman stabs rival’s son to death

    Tragedy struck yesterday in the refuse dump area of Kubwa , Abuja, after a woman, Rukayat Abdulkareem , allegedly killed her  rival’s son.

    The incident happened at about 10 pm.

    Rukayat was said to have stabbed, Awal Sani, during an altercation with his mother.

    Awal, 18, a 200 level Statistics student of University of Abuja, was said to have tried to calm Rukayat when she insulted his mother.

    It was learnt that Awal was billed to resume school on Monday, January 15, 2018.

    A younger brother to the late Awal’s mother, who lives with them, recalled the incident saying: “Around 10 to 10:30pm yesterday, I heard someone banging on the door, I came outside and asked her what she wanted and she said she was looking for her husband. I know the woman, they were living close to us here in Pipeline before they packed to Kaduna road. I told her that i would check and see if I can call the husband for her, I went inside, I met my sister and informed her that the man’s wife was outside looking for him. My sister said she was going to meet the woman, i tried to stop her, i told her she was not the one the woman came for but she insisted so i followed her cause i didn’t want any problem.

    “We met the woman and then I realised that if they start talking, it may result to another thing. So, I asked my sister to go inside while I went to Pipeline Police Station; I invited a policeman, he asked the woman what the problem was; she said she was here to see her husband.The policeman asked her to follow him to the station so she can write a statement and they will return to pick her husband but she said she was not going anywhere so the policeman left.

    “I went inside the house and the next thing I heard was that they had stabbed Awal, I rushed out, we did all we could to save him, we rushed him to the hospital and the doctor confirmed him dead and we brought him back home. She had left when i rushed out but the vigilante security men caught and brought her later and kept her till the police arrived”.

    One of Awal’s friends, who asked not to be named also recalled his last moments saying: “I have known him for about  ten years. Last night, we were sitting outside together, I was lifting weight under the tree, he came outside and met me and said he wanted to go and change his phone(from a man he bought it from). We went there and the man asked us to return today to get the phone we want, we walked back home, bought suya on the way and sat on the bench under the tree chatting about how he was getting ready to return to school. As we sat there,  a slim woman who covered her head with  a veil walked past us, i greeted her the islamic way, (As-salamu alaykum )but she did not respond. Awal later went in to sleep but I stayed back still lifting my weight, after a while, the woman came back, she had been hiding behind the mosque next to the building, she flashed her phone torch in my direction but I ignored her and continued with what I was doing, she then opened the back door of the car and sat in the back seat, she was still inside the car when I went to my own house to sleep. I was trying to sleep around 11pm when my brother came to call me to come outside, that they have stabbed my friend, I rushed outside and saw him in a pool of his own blood with his mother trying to control the blood. W we rushed him to a General Hospital; we have all been crying since 11pm last night, his mother even fainted twice”.

    Awal’s sister, Fatima Sani, a Higher National Diploma (HND II) student of Abdul Gusau Polytechnic in Zamfara State, was also stabbed by Rukayat said: “A woman (Rukayat Abdulkareem) came here yesterday and claimed to have issues with my mother. She was busy insulting my mother outside, my mom came out and requested that a policeman should be called for her. They called the policeman, he came and the woman was invited to follow them to their station but she declined and said she was not going to follow them because she did not have any issue with them. Right there and then, the policeman said since she refused to follow them to the station, whatever happens to her is at her own risk. Unknown to us that she already had her plan well cooked. She was still there insulting my mother, my junior brother, Awal got provoked and went to ask why the woman was insulting his mother despite not getting response from my mother and of course that is expected of a real son who is not a bastard but before we knew it, he was stabbed directly in the heart. I went out to see what was happening and she also stabbed me on my palm and I was also lost lots of blood. My mom who happened to be a nurse tried to run all her first aid but it was not working, we rushed him to General Hospital and by the time we got there, the doctors confirmed him dead.

    Contacted, the spokesman of FCT Police Command, Mr. Anjuguri Manzah, a Deputy Supretendent of Police(DSP) said the case had been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department  (CID)for discreet investigation.

    ”We have received the complaint and the case has been transferred to Command CID for discreet investigation. The suspects including the alleged killer and the husband are also in our custody”.

  • Woman ‘steals’ child at Redemption Camp

    Woman ‘steals’ child at Redemption Camp

    The police have arrested a woman, Anuoluwapo Joshua, 28, for allegedly stealing a three-year-old girl at the  Redemption Camp off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    Joshua was arrested on December 29 after Akamaka Francis was seen during the church’s end of year children’s party.

    It was gathered that the child was stolen from her mother in July at the monthly Holy Ghost Congress.

    According to the police, the mother had left the little girl and went to the church’s new auditorium to pack their belongings.

    When she returned, the child was gone and she reported the matter to the church’s security, said the police.

    “All efforts to find the child failed. The suspect ran out of luck on Friday when the child was sighted inside the youth centre at the Redemption Camp during the children’s end of year party.

    “On receiving the information, the DPO, Redeemed Division, Olaiya Martins, a Superintendent of Police (SP), led detectives to the centre where they waited until the end of the programme.

    “The suspect came out to pick the child and was promptly arrested. She confessed to the crime. She admitted that she lured the child out of her parents’ sight and took her to Ofada, where she has been caring for her.

    “Investigation further revealed that the suspect had earlier got pregnant for somebody in Lagos but travelled to the North where she claimed she was delivered of a baby girl. But when she came back from the North, she didn’t come with the baby.

    “This made the man who impregnated her to pressure her to bring his child for him. She later informed her relatives that she was going to Nasarawa State to bring the child but went to Redemption Camp, stayed for some days before stealing the child. She presented her to her relatives as her daughter.

    “The Commissioner of Police (CP), Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution,” said Abimbola Oyeyemi, the command’s spokesman.