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  • Police recover corpse of abducted Rivers monarch

    Police recover corpse of abducted Rivers monarch

    The Rivers State Police Command has recovered the remains of a 61-year-old monarch, who was abducted in 2019.

    The decomposed body of Chief Robert Loolo, the deceased, was found by Police Operatives at a creek linking Luwa, Bera, and Bane Communities.

    Loolo, our reporter learnt was whisked away from his residence on the 27th of June 2019, by irate youths of the community.

    The deceased son, Dr Douglas Fabeke, told reporters that ransom was paid twice to secure his father’s release from his captors.

    He said the traditional ruler was tortured and tied to a stick inside the creek and left to die without help.

    “He was kidnapped from his house by a youths group in the community who were fighting over the position of a youth president. We tried to beg these youths to release him for us; we had to pay ransom twice.”

    “We reported the matter to the police and to all the security agencies in the state; they got involved and tried to make sure he was released but after some time, there was silence.

    “We went into more action and after about a few months; we were able to arrest a native doctor who confessed that he had been killed but did not know where he was buried.

    “Ever since we have been on this issue, but two months ago, we renewed effort through intelligence gathering to make sure we locate where he was buried, and by the grace of God, today, we were able to mobilise forces from the Bori divisional police headquarters, with a combined team, and they stormed the forest.

    “We were able to discover where he was buried. Everything to identify him with was there, we noticed he was tortured. He was tied to a tree.”

    The State Police Public Relation Officer, SP Nnamdi Omoni, told our reporter that the deceased remains were recovered by the Command’s Operatives.

  • Outrage as siblings keep decomposing mother’s corpse at home for 9 days

    …we were instructed by God not to disclose our mother’s death – Children

    Some residents of Universal Road by Medical Store Road, Okhoro axis of Benin City woke up on Sunday to discover that two siblings had kept the corpse of their 78-year-old mother at home for nine days.

    The deceased, Mrs Agbenese Oshoma’s decomposing corpse was only discovered when neighbours became uncomfortable with the offensive odour oozing out from the house on Sunday morning.

    The two sisters were said to have known about their mother’s death but kept the news to themselves for nine days and did not disclose what led to her death.

    The offensive odour forced neighbours to barge into the house to discover the bloated body of the elderly woman.

    The two children, Grace Osagede, 60, and her younger sister, Theresa Suberu, 58, told the neighbours that they were instructed by God not to disclose the death of their mother to anybody.

    The two children, it was gathered, went about their normal daily chores inside the house while their mother’s corpse laid rotten away as they made no attempt to embalm the body.

    Neighbours, who initially perceived the stench from the building, inquired from the two sisters what the matter was, and the children of the deceased dismissed such enquiries as nothing.

    When the offensive odour became unbearable, the neighbours mobilised and barged into the building only to discover the decomposing body of the woman, whom everyone in the neighbourhood called “Iye”, meaning an old woman.

    When the neighbours confronted the elder sister, Grace, she told them that she had instruction from the Lord not to disclose the death of their mother to anybody.

    The position was corroborated by her younger sister, Theresa, who said her elder sister asked her not to tell anyone as “instructed by the Lord”.

    The neighbours and the landlord of the building told newsmen that they had invited the police just as they were arranging to move the corpse to a morgue.

    At the time of filling this report, no member of the deceased had made any remarks on the mistreatment given to one of them by her children.

    When contacted, the Edo Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Kontongs Bello, confirmed the incident.

    “The Police evacuated the corpse. The sisters were not arrested because there was no reasonable ground to arrest them.

    “Every family has the right to their culture and since there is no evidence to show that they compromised the law, there is no reason to arrest them,” Kontongs said.

  • Bauchi man kills 35-year-old pregnant lover, buries corpse in sewage

    Bauchi man kills 35-year-old pregnant lover, buries corpse in sewage

    The Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a middle-aged man, Lamido Gunduma, for allegedly killing and burying the corpse of his supposed lover, Jamila Saidu, in a sewage system.

    According to reports, Gunduma committed the act in his compound while trying to abort the 35-year-old woman’s pregnancy.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, made the discovery of Saidu’s corpse known in a statement made available to newsmen in Bauchi, the state capital yesterday.

    According to him, her corpse was discovered on April 8 after her father, Saidu Iliyasu of Zubuki village in Jamaare Local Government Area, declared her missing on April 7, 2021 at the Jamaare Divisional Headquarters. SP Wakil said the suspect deposited the corpse in a sewage system within his compound and fled to Kwadon in Gombe State where he was tracked and arrested, adding that he had been charged to court for prosecution accordingly. ‘

    On Wednesday, April 7, at about 1200hrs, one Saidu Iliyasu of Zubuki area Jamaare Local Government Area of Bauchi came to Jamaare Divisional Headquarters and reported that on 5/04/2021 his daughter, one 35-year-old Jamila Saidu of the same address was declared missing after which a search party which was organised, but to no avail’’ the statement reads

    It reads further that ‘’on Thursday, April 8, at about 1030hrs, her decomposed body was discovered with a newborn child in a sewer at her boyfriend’s house identified as Lamido Gunduma at Unguwar Yari-Mari Jamaare.

    “During preliminary investigation, it was discovered that the suspect criminally conspired with one Ishaq Abdullahi, aged 34yrs of the same address and fixed a canola into the arm of Jamila Saidu and administered her with dextrose water, Quinine and Ostagen in order to abort her pregnancy, which culminated in induced labour that resulted in the death of the victim and newborn baby,” the PPRO said.

  • #ENDSARS: ‘I saw five dead bodies at Lekki Tollgate when I went to pick my brother’s corpse’

    #ENDSARS: ‘I saw five dead bodies at Lekki Tollgate when I went to pick my brother’s corpse’

    Some persons with injuries on Friday stormed the Lagos Court of Arbitration in Lekki, the hearing venue of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on the night of October 20 at the Lekki tollgate.

    Some of the injured persons, who were brought to the LCA in a white bus, had plaster of Paris cast on their legs and arms and bandages wrapped on their heads and chests.

    One of them, Mr. Nathaniel Solomon revealed that he saw about four bodies on the ground when he went to pick his brother’s remains at Lekki Tollgate in the aftermath of the shootings by soldiers on October 20.

    He said his younger brother, Abouta Solomon, was shot dead and had since been buried in his hometown in Mubi Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Solomon, displaying a picture of Abouta lying dead on the grass, narrated how he found his brother’s corpse.

    The person in the picture is my younger brother, Abouta Solomon. We’re from Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State. “My brother was shot at Lekki Tollgate, on October 20. It was the Army that shot him.”

    Asked why he felt it was the Army, Solomon said: “Because some boys that he was with told us that he had been shot, so we rushed there and picked up his corpse. “I didn’t know when my brother left home for the tollgate. He never told me he was going there.

    He was living with me here in Lekki, at Marwa. “Some boys called me. By then, my phone battery was flat and the phone had gone off. They called one of our brothers and told him that Abouta had been killed.

    “His corpse was at Lekki Tollgate. There were people around at the time; protesters. He was laid on the grass in the middle of the road. He was already dead.

    “We took him to St Paul’s Mortuary at Oyingbo. One of my brothers had a car, so we drove down there.”

    Nathaniel said they first went to the Lagos Island General Hospital, but were told there was no space.

    “They directed us to Oyingbo and we began driving around until we found the place. It’s on Ibadan Street. We kept his corpse there. The next day at about 4p.m., we took the corpse and travelled to the village and buried him.

    “Everyone was there— my family, my village people. The name of the village is Keria, in Mubi North, Feli area.” Solomon alleged that he saw other corpses at the tollgate, when he went to pick his brother.

    He said: “That night when we took my brother’s corpse, we saw other people who had been shot; about four of them, on the floor. They were dead. “I didn’t see any soldiers around. This was about 11p.m. I didn’t see any policemen, too.”

    Responding to the question whether he informed government authorities about his brother’s death, Nathaniel said no, but that it was common knowledge in his neighbourhood. “Everybody in Marwa knows,” he said, adding that despite online offers of cash assistance for Lekki shooting victims or their families, nobody approached him with help.

    He further added that no one had induced him with money to keep quiet about Abouta’s death.

    Another survivor One of the survivors, Edwin Augustine, who was on crutches, said he didn’t see who fired the shots that pierced his thigh and that his companion was hit first around the chest. Augustine said: “I was shot on October 20 at Lekki Tollgate.

    I didn’t see who shot me. “I was at the snooker board when I heard gunshots. The first one was in the air. The second was direct at people. I wanted to follow someone to the charging spot to collect my phone, but he was shot right near his heart.

    “Immediately he fell, I tried to turn and check what was wrong and I received mine on the thigh. I fell and I was unconscious. When I woke up the next day, I saw myself at the hospital.” He said he had been receiving treatment at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

    Another victim Damilola Ogunleke, with scars on his head, said a bullet hit him on the head and that he had undergone two surgeries already. “I was shot in the head, but I didn’t see who shot me. It happened on the protest ground, Lekki Tollgate on the night of October 20, near Access Bank,” Ogunleke said.

  • BIZARRE! Six-year-old raped to death in Kaduna, corpse dumped in cemetery

    BIZARRE! Six-year-old raped to death in Kaduna, corpse dumped in cemetery

    The corpse of a six-year-old, Aisha Ya,u, suspected to have been defiled before being killed, has been recovered from a cemetery in Kurmin Mashi area of Kaduna.

    According to reports, the corpse was discovered by a farmer, returning from his farm, and who alerted passers-by.

    Eye witness accounts as at the time of filing this report indicated that the girl returned from Islamiyya school on Sunday at around 11 am, changed into her playing clothes, and went out to play in the neighbourhood until her mother discovered that she had not returned.

    “The search for the girl began and she was found dead at a burial ground in the area by a farmer with sand all over her body”, a source, who sought anonymity, said.

    Effort made to speak with Amaratu Ya’u, the mother of the victim, failed because she was still in shock over what had befallen her daughter.

    A source close to the family, however, narrated that Aisha’s mother had raised alarm about her missing daughter an hour after she couldn’t find her, and this attracted neighbours who joined in the search for the missing girl.

    On June 28, while locals were in their houses due to the COVID-19 lockdown, a similar incident involving a minor uncovered the corpse of a little girl left at a Mosque in the same area. Her killer(s) are yet to be apprehended till date.

    Reacting to the incident, the Commissioner, Ministry of Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, expressed sadness over the development, while calling on the Police to deploy all available resources to apprehend the perpetrators of these heinous crimes occurring repeatedly in the same community.

    “Right thinking Kaduna people are very sad about this unfortunate development”, she said, adding, “These criminals are still on rampage but they must be stopped. I am calling on the Commissioner of Police in Kaduna, CP Muri Umar, to help us get to the bottom of this’’, Baba said.

    Spokesman of the Kaduna Police Command, ASP Muhammed Jalige, who confirmed the discovery of the corpse of the little girl, cautioned against attributing her death to defilement.

    He said Police had already obtained a Coroner’s Form duly signed by a Magistrate’s Court to enable the hospital to carry out series of examination on the girl’s corpse.

    ” After the examination, the hospital can then release the corpse to the parents for burial”, he said.

  • Why we didn’t conduct autopsy on Arotile’s corpse before burial – NAF

    Why we didn’t conduct autopsy on Arotile’s corpse before burial – NAF

    The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said no autopsy was carried out on Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile because the family of the deceased was satisfied with the explanation on what led to her death.

    According to the air force, Arotile, who was Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, died at the NAF base, Kaduna, after being hit by a car driven by her former classmate with two others on board.

    However, NAF added that the circumstances surrounding her death were clear and no autopsy was needed or demanded by the family.

    Daramola said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Friday.

    He said, “On the issue of autopsy or otherwise that would have been initiated by the family but based on discussions with them and the fact that witnesses were there at the time she was taken to the Nigerian Air Force hospital in Kaduna, there were no doubts as to the cause of death which was head injury as a result of blunt force trauma caused by the vehicle hitting her from the rear.

    “So, in consultation with her family, her father, Akintunde Arotile, said they wanted closure on this matter and that he was comfortable with the Nigerian Air Force’s investigation which of course is also being transferred to the police.

    “Autopsy was not done because it wasn’t requested, the cause of death was already known based on the investigation and how she was taken to the hospital and the confirmation was made. There were no doubts in that regard and there was no request from the family for that specifically. No autopsy was done.”

    Daramola further stated that the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Road Safety Corps were invited to investigate the incident.

    He said, “First of all, we carried out a preliminary investigation to determine those who were involved, their level of involvement, interviewed witnesses and looked at the scene. That was our own first phase of investigation because it happened on the base.

    “The air force has its own air police directorate where we have forensic and K9 investigators many of whom are trained in and out of the country. Some of them also trained in police institutions and there is a lot of collaboration between the Nigerian Air Force Air Police Wing and the Nigeria Police. Immediately it occurred, we involved the police.”

    The spokesman noted that the person that drove the car, Nehemiah Adejoh, which knocked down Arotile was not 36 but 24 and was a junior of the deceased in the Nigerian Air Force Secondary School.

    Daramola said the case would be handed over to the police today.

  • Court orders exhumation, one week after burial of wrong corpse

    Court orders exhumation, one week after burial of wrong corpse

    An Upper Islamic Shari’ah Court on Monday at Kofar Kudu emir’s palace in Kano State ordered the exhumation of a corpse one week after interment.

    The judge, Ibrahim Sarki-Yola, had over a week ago ruled that the state’s moral police (HISBAH) was to take custody of the body of late Abdullahi Obinwa from Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) for burial.

    However, the officials wrongly took the corpse of one Basil Ejensi and gave him an Islamic burial.

    The relatives of late Mr Ejensi complained to the Islamic court and urged the judge to order the exhumation of the body of their relative whom they plan to bury using Christianity rites.

    The court granted the appeal and ordered the immediate exhumation of late Mr Ejensi. The judge ordered that the body be handed over to his relatives.

    The judge also ordered security personnel to accompany the parties involved to exhume the body buried at Gandun Albasa Cemetery in Kano Municipal Local Government Area.

    The exhumation was done on Monday.

    While receiving the body, the lawyer to late Mr Ejensi, Masalinas Duru, commended the court for the judgement.

    The Imam that observed the Islamic burial rite of the late Mr Ejensi, Aminu Adam, said the mistake has been done and nobody is above mistake.

    The incident attracted hundreds of residents who trooped to the cemetery to witness the process of the exhumation. Many onlookers described the incident as an oddity.

  • Police exhume corpse of LASU final-year student allegedly killed by boyfriend, Pastor

    The Police Command, Osun State, has exhumed the corpse of the Lagos State University final-year student, Favour Daley-Oladele on Saturday.

    The commissioner of police, Osun State, Babatunde Kokumo led his team to Ikoyi-Ile in Isokan local government where the body was exhumed.

    Babatunde Kokumo while addressing newsmen after the exhumation said, “We are all aware of the gruesome killing of a student of LASU. The killing has been traced to Ikoyi -Ile. In furtherance of the investigation started by the Ogun State Command. We have brought our homicide expert to exhume and help in the furtherance of the investigations started by the Ogun state police command with a view to prosecuting the suspects.

    “This will further help Ogun State police with the investigation process.”

    Babatunde noted that “It is a gruesome murder and the happening is quite horrible. We will not fold our arms and watch lawless citizens take laws into their hands, destroying people’s lives.”

    According to him, “We have been informed that we have a number of churches in this community. It is our responsibility to conduct our investigation. What we are doing is intelligence policing driven by the people’s needs. If the community is making us know that they are no longer comfortable with the number of churches in the community or the caliber of such people running the churches then it becomes our responsibility to conduct an investigation on their activities and check them.

    He advised parents to see to the morals of their children and not only lay emphasis on their academic pursuit only.

    Parents must be able to build good morals and quality education in their children. It will make the child to be whole and must see to the peer group their children belong to. ” He ended”.

  • [Graphic Photo] More corpses recovered from Rivers pipeline explosion site

    Three more dead bodies have been evacuated from the scene of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, pipeline explosion last Saturday at the swamp of Komkom Community in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State.

    This brings the death toll to 46 so far.

    The leader of the youths in the area, Ethel Nwokoria, told our Correspondent that more corpses were still trapped in the swamp, saying that the terrain was hampering the recoveries of more bodies.

    Nwokoria said the community had opened a register and directed the families of persons who were still missing since the explosion to indicate and also come to identify the bodies of their relations in the swamp.

    The youths of Komkom Community are appealing to both the relevant medical oriented agencies, the local, state and federal governments to come to the aid of the community in the area of medication to decontaminate the already polluted environment to avoid epidemic.

    Residents of the area have raised the alarm over the humanitarian disaster due to the fast decomposing bodies, stench and pollution of the swamp and the environment.

    A visit to the area showed that the number of human casualties grew because villagers were in the swamp scooping refined petroleum product suspected to Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, gushing out from the ruptured NNPC pipeline.

    Among those affected were a number of palm wine tappers, local brewers of Ethanol who were in the swamp to tap wine.

    The villagers have expressed shock that since the sad incident, there had not been any delegation from the state government to commiserate with them.

    Meanwhile, preliminary investigation carried out by the company contracted to manage the affected NNPC pipeline explosion showed that the pipeline was vandalised by suspected oil thieves.

    Executive Director of Operations of UTM Offshore limited, Port Harcourt to Enugu, Kennedy Azu Onoche, said: “This is clearly a case of sabotage. But samples will be taken.The spot will be opened to see if it was ruptured or there was a leakage due to system failure as as alleged or if was ruptured.”

    It was also observed at the spot that there were hose and other implements used by oil vandals to siphon petroleum products abandoned in the explosion.

    At the time of filing this report, no official figure has been released by the Police as the actual number of casualties.

  • Four tenants allegedly exhume landlord’s corpse, sell his property

    Four tenants, who allegedly exhumed the corpse of their landlord before selling his property, were on Monday brought in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    The three accused men and a woman are – Silifatu Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45.

    The accused are facing a five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, breach of peace, forgery and false assumption of authority.

    The police prosecutor, Williams Ologun, told the court that the accused committed the offences on November 1 at Ishola Daniel str., in Oshodi area of Lagos.

    Mr Ologun alleged that the accused had conspired to illegally sell the house they were living in, which did not belong to them.

    He said that a prospective buyer had insisted they relocated the grave that was in front of the house before he would make payments.

    “My Lord, they forged an exhumation of corpse permit from Oshodi -Isolo Local Government and dug the corpse of the house owner, Sumonu Bakare, who was buried in the compound.

    “They also kidnapped the only son of the deceased; Gbenro Bakare, who is crippled, thinking he was the only surviving child of the deceased,” he said.

    Mr Ologun said that the first and second accused’ were relations of the deceased, while the third and fourth accused were long time tenants on the property.

    He said that the third and fourth accused had registered for change of name to ‘Bakare’, which was not their real names, claiming to be the children of the deceased.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offences contravened Sections76 (1) [c], 168 (1) [d], 271 (1), 365 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    The chief magistrate, Peter Ojo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

    In his ruling, Mr Ojo insisted that one of each accused sureties must be a blood relation and must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction.

    He said each of the sureties must also show evidence of three years tax payment to the Lagos State Government and be gainfully employed.

    Mr Ojo adjourned the case until January 10 for trial.