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  • Ogun police arrest man for allegedly raping his wife’s 11-year-old cousin for three years.

    Ogun police arrest man for allegedly raping his wife’s 11-year-old cousin for three years.

     

    Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Idowu Shittu, 35, for allegedly raping his wife’s 11-year-old cousin for three years.

     

    Shittu, who lives at Hallelujah Street, Ifo area of Ogun State, was apprehended by the police after his wife reported at Ifo division that Shittu had been forcing the minor to sleep with her for three years.

     

    The Ogun State police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the wife informed the police that “her cousin, who lives with them informed her that her husband, Idowu Shittu has been forcefully having sex with her for the past three years, and when she can no longer bear it.”

     

    According to Oyeyemi, the cousin, whose mother died when she was a toddler, had told the woman that she had been enduring the sexual molestation because she had no other place to go should she be sent out by the suspect, saying “he used to threatening whenever he wants to have his way with her.”

     

    It was gathered that DPO of Ifo division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, having been briefed about the case, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested.

     

    “On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, but pleaded for forgiveness from the little girl,” Oyeyemi said on Sunday, adding that the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State CIID for further investigation and prosecution.

  • Music sensation, Timaya arrested after alleged hit-and-run incident

    Music sensation, Timaya arrested after alleged hit-and-run incident

    Nigerian music sensation, Timaya has been arrested hours after he was accused of almost killing a young lady.

    On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, an Instagram user Osinubi Omowumi, who claimed to be the sister of the victim, accused the music star of ramming his car into her sister after she challenged him for damaging her car.

    In a new development, men of the Nigeria Police Force stormed the residence of the music star on Thursday morning.

    The singer was seen explaining to the officers what transpired during the alleged hit and run incident.

    A few minutes later he was whisked away by the armed police officers.

    Omowumi accused the music star of causing severe injuries to her sister.

    “She is in the hospital now in serious pain and the funniest part is me messaging him to do the needful but this wicked fellow blocked me after reading my messages,” part of her post read.

    She also accused him of blocking her on Instagram when she tried to reach out to him.

  • NED NWOKO: Court orders re-arrest of Jaruma

    NED NWOKO: Court orders re-arrest of Jaruma

    Justice Ismaila Abdullahi of an Upper Area Court in Abuja has ordered the re-arrest of a popular aphrodisiac seller, Hauwa Mohammed (aka Jaruma), after revoking her bail.

    Delivering judgment on Wednesday, the judge directed that she should be remanded in the Suleja Correctional Centre following her and lawyers’ absence in court.

    Jaruma is facing a four-count charge of “defamation of character, criminal intimidation, injurious falsehood, and publishing falsehood to incite the public to hate against Prince Ned Nwoko, Regina Daniels’ husband.”

    She was granted bail on January 28, after four days in custody.

    Justice Abdullahi adjourned the matter
    until March 17, 2022.

  • Ned Nwoko debunks marrying another wife

    Ned Nwoko debunks marrying another wife

    Ned Nwoko, husband to Nigerian actress, Regina Daniel, has debunked news of him marrying another wife.

    Taking to his Instagram page, in a post titled ‘Ned Nwoko marries another wife’, he said “I will keep being law abiding and reporting the miscreants to the police for appropriate actions.

    If I want to marry, it will not be done in secrecy

    According to him, such rumours are fake, adding that it would not be in secret if he takes in another wife.

    He asserted that “the miscreants,” who are promoting such news, has been reported to the police for appropriate actions.

    He wrote, “This is fake news and you shouldn’t help to propagate it. If I want to marry, it will not be done in secrecy.

    “There is a particular group of little minded faceless individuals who believe they can gain followership in the social media by using my name to create sensational news every week.

    “I will keep being law abiding and reporting the miscreants to the police for appropriate actions. When such misguided individuals are arrested, don’t accuse me of using the law against them.”

    It would be recalled that social media had reported that Nwoko allegedly paid the bride price of another woman.

  • Where are pictures of Kyari in handcuffs – Eedris Abdulkareem asks NDLEA

    Where are pictures of Kyari in handcuffs – Eedris Abdulkareem asks NDLEA

    Nigeria’s rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, has said he would not believe suspended DCP Abba Kyari’s arrest until he sees pictures of him in handcuffs.

     

    Abdulkareem, on his Instagram page, questioned the authenticity of Abba Kyari’s arrest for alleged drug dealing with an international cartel.

    When will the pictures of Abba Kyari in handcuffs surface the internet

    He said: “Supercop in the morning, criminal moonlighting at night. A life of layered pretence and lies.

    “When will the pictures of Abba Kyari in handcuffs surface the internet. Until I see that picture I won’t believe any news of his arrest.”

     

    It would be recalled that Kyari was arrested on Monday after the NDLEA declared him wanted and released a video of him trying to bribe an NDLEA agent to back up its allegation.

     

    Shortly after the evidence was released, men of the Nigeria Police Force arrested Kayri and handed him over to NDLEA for further investigation.

  • NSCDC arrests 11 suspected illegal migrants, 10 kidnap suspects in Edo

    NSCDC arrests 11 suspected illegal migrants, 10 kidnap suspects in Edo

    The Edo Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has disclosed the arrest of 11 suspected illegal Nigerien migrants and 10 kidnap suspects.

    Mr Aniekan Udoeyop, the State Commandant of the corps, made the disclosure on Monday in Benin, during a media briefing.

    According to Udoeyop, the suspects were arrested along the Ekpoma-Auchi road, based on intelligence and distress call from the area.

    He explained that on Feb. 11, the command received a distressed call about the suspicious movement of some persons along the Ekpoma-Auchi expressed.

    He said he promptly directed his personnel to swing into action, and in the process, the suspects were arrested.

    The state commandant said that investigations were still ongoing, and plans were being made to return the illegal migrants back to their country.

    “We will liase with relevant security agencies and see how they can be returned back to their country.

    “We also arrested three of the main culprits who brought them in under the guise of given them lucrative jobs.

    “I will therefore advice parents to be cautious of whom they give their children out to.

    “Some of this lucrative jobs these human traffickers promise are actually not there, and it’s just their ploy to modernize slavery”, he said.

    He however said that the three suspected human traffickers would face the full weight of the law.

    On the kidnap suspects, the commandant said that they were arrested with exhibits like charms, machetes and other dangerous weapons.

    He added that the suspects also tried to utilise their charms on the personnel of the corps, but unluckily for them, their charms failed.

  • Absence of judge stalls suit seeking to stop arrest, extradition of DCP Abba Kyari

    Absence of judge stalls suit seeking to stop arrest, extradition of DCP Abba Kyari

    Absence of Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stalled the hearing of a suit filed by a group against the police over the suspension of DCP Abba Kyari.

    Although counsel to the applicant, the Incorporated Trustees of Northern Peace Foundation, Hamza N’Dantani, was in court, the court registrar apologised over the inability of the judge to sit.

    The matter, which was on number six on the cause list, was however fixed for April 4 for hearing.

    It was reported that the matter could not proceed, on Jan. 12, due to the absence of counsel to the plaintiff and the respondents in the suit.

    Justice Okorowo then adjourned the matter until today for hearing.

    The foundation, in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2021, sought to stop the police and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing DCP Kyari.

    The suit filed on Aug. 9, 2021, is praying the court to grant a temporary order of injunction against the police and the AGF pending the hearing and final determination of the substantive suit.

    The matter came up for the first time before Justice Okorowo on Jan. 12.

    The case, which was earlier before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, was reassigned to Okorowo.

    Okorowo, in the last adjourned date, ordered that hearing notices be issued on the parties.

    DCP Abba Kyari was allegedly indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an alleged mult-million naira advanced fee fraud said to have been perpetrated by a Nigerian citizen,

    Ramon Olorunwa Abbass, popularly known as Hussipuppi.

  • Jaruma gives details of who is responsible for her arrest

    Jaruma gives details of who is responsible for her arrest

    Popular Nigerian aphrodisiac seller, Hauwa Saidu Mohammed, otherwise known as Jaruma, has spoken after her arrest by the Nigeria Police on Friday.

    Reports of her arrest by the police in Abuja made the rounds on Friday, January 21, 2022.

    There were claims that actress Regina Daniel’s billionaire husband, Ned Nwoko was responsible for her arrest.

    After her release, Jaruma in a video shared on her Instagram page, stated that someone who she abused used the Nigeria police to bully her.

    Recal that Jaruma had called out regina Daniels for a sponsored advert she paid that didn’t do well.

    The Kayamata seller also claimed that her product used by Regina Daniels was responsible for the collapse of Nwoko’s marriage to Laila.

    But, Regina clarified that she has never used any of Jaruma’s products and was just paid to advertise for her as an ambassador.

    Nwoko also clarified that Jaruma was not responsible for the collapse of his marriage with his Moroccan wife, Laila Chanrai, adding that he divorced her because she had an affair with another man and had plastic surgery without his consent.

    Speaking on her arrest, Jaruma said, “I don’t know how someone would abuse you and you will abuse them back and then the person will now use the Nigeria Police to bully you, to silence you.

    “You’ll take someone’s land, the person will complain and you will send Nigeria Police to arrest them.

    “You’ll also take someone’s plantation, the person will complain, you’ll send Nigeria Police to arrest and put that person in prison.

    “I paid N10m for a job that was not done and I complained, boom, my own too don land for my head.

    “How many Nigerian youths do you want to put in jail?” Jaruma asked.

  • Evans, five others to know fate in 2022 four years after arrest

    Evans, five others to know fate in 2022 four years after arrest

    The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has fixed February 25, 2022, to deliver judgment in the case of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, also known as, Evans and five others charged with conspiracy and kidnapping.

    Justice Hakeem Oshodi fixed the date after lawyers to Evans and his co-defendants argued and adopted their final written addresses on Friday. The suspect was arrested in June 2017.

    The Lagos State government had arraigned Evans alongside Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, and Victor Aduba for allegedly kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu February 14, 2017.

    Evans is also facing similar charges before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo and Justice Adedayo Akintoye of the same court.

    All the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    While arguing his final written address, Evans’ lawyer, Victor Opara, urged the court to discharge and acquit his client of the crimes.

    Opara argued that there was no direct evidence linking Evans to the alleged crimes and that the alleged victim of the crime did not identify the defendant as the perpetrator of the crimes.

    “The victim said he was blindfolded throughout his 88-day ordeal, he did not state to the court in his testimony that he could physically identify Evans,” he said. “There is also the fatality of the prosecution’s case that there was no identification parade to identify the first defendant (Evans).

    “There was no evidence before your lordship to show that PW2 (Dunu) had a clear opportunity of identifying the first defendant.”

    But the prosecutor, Adebayo Haroun, urged the court to convict the defendants as charged, saying “when a man has confessed to a crime, you do not need an identification parade”.

    “There is direct evidence of PW2 (Dunu) testifying of how he was kidnapped, how he escaped, and the roles each of the defendants played,” he submitted.

    “We have circumstantial evidence linking the first defendant (Evans) to the crime, and we also have confessional statements and video recordings of him. We urge your lordship to convict the defendants as charged.”

    The prosecution had alleged that Dunu was kidnapped on Ilupeju Road in Lagos State and the defendants collected 223,000 euros as ransom from his family.

    It closed its case against the defendants on January 10, 2020, after presenting four witnesses, including Dunu.

    The defence, on the other hand, closed its case on August 3, 2020, after the six defendants testified.

  • Alleged fraud: I was invited not arrested, Fani-Kayode speaks on ordeals with EFCC

    Alleged fraud: I was invited not arrested, Fani-Kayode speaks on ordeals with EFCC

    Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has denied reports that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC arrested him on Tuesday.

    News of the former minister’s arrest by operatives of the anti-graft agency broke on Tuesday night. He was said to be quizzed for alleged manipulation and forgery.

    The EFCC Spokesman Wilson Uwujaren had confirmed to newsmen that he was indeed arrested even though he did not give details.

    But Fani-Kayode on his Twitter page on Tuesday night said, he was only invited by the commission and has since been granted bail.

    He wrote, “Just arrived at the George Hotel for dinner. I was never arrested by the EFCC. I was invited & I flew down to Lagos to see them. I arrived in their office at 2.00pm & left at 8.30pm.

    “I was granted bail on self-recognition. They were very polite & professional. Thanks be to God.”