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Police detain 3 over Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s daughter’s death

The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed detention of three domestic workers over the death of Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s daughter’s death.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to NAN on Wednesday.

“Three domestic staff have been arrested and handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department, which has since taken over the investigation,” he said.

Hundeyin said that the daughter, Chukwu, was found dead in Lagos on Wednesday.

“Chukwu was found lifeless this morning (Wednesday) about 6:45 a.m. at the entrance of her parents’ house on Bembe Street, Parkview Estate, Lagos,” Hundeyin said.

The spokesperson that the detention of the three suspects was in line with a directive from the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, for a thorough investigation of the death.

Chukwu’s father, Mr Soboma Ajumogobia, is younger brother of Odein Ajumogobia, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.

July 31, 2024
UK sanctions Vladimir Putin’s daughters

Vladimir Putin’s daughters have been sanctioned by Britain under measures to target the lavish lifestyles of the Russian president’s inner circle over the invasion of Ukraine.

The Foreign Office announced travel bans and asset freezes against Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova on Friday.

Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov’s daughter, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova, also faces the same action.

The U.S. has already sanctioned Putin’s daughters in retaliation against “war crimes’’ in Ukraine, and the European Union is expected to follow suit.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “Our unprecedented package of sanctions is hitting the elite and their families, while degrading the Russian economy on a scale Russia hasn’t seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“But we need to do more. Through the G7, we are ending the use of Russian energy and hitting Putin’s ability to fund his illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.

“Together, we are tightening the ratchet on Russia’s war machine, cutting off Putin’s sources of cash.’’

The Foreign Office said the action is being taken to target the lavish lifestyles of the Kremlin’s inner circle.

The action against Tikhonova, 35, Vorontsova, 36, and Vinokurova, 39, appeared on an updated sanctions list published online.

Britain has now sanctioned more than 1,200 individuals and businesses in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February.

It is not the first time a relative of Lavrov has been targeted, with his step-daughter Polina Kovaleva sanctioned last month.

With 76 oligarchs among the sanctioned, the measures are in part designed to apply pressure on the Kremlin to retreat.

But they are also seeking to seal off funds to reduce Putin’s military might, with 16 banks targeted too.

Sanctions across Western allies have meant that 275 billion pounds of Russian foreign currency reserves, representing 60 per cent of its total, were frozen, according to the Foreign Office.

April 8, 2022
My daughters are probing about their mothers -DAVIDO

Daughters of multiple award-winning pop star, Davido, have begun probing about their mothers and living spaces.

This was disclosed by the 30BG boss, who recently had the O2 arena on lockdown for a second time with his sold-out concert.

The father of three explained as the girls grow older, they’ve developed the habit of asking tough questions bothering on why they have different mothers and residential homes.

Davido said: “My two oldest daughters, my son is still a baby. Like as they are getting older, they keep asking, why are their moms different? Stuff like that. Why don’t we live with you? Stuff like that.”

DAVIDO’S BABY MAMAS

Currently, Davido has a total of 5 baby mamas and counting.

Here is a full list of Davido’s baby mamas:

1. Sophia Momodu

Sophia Momodu is the cousin of Dele Momodu, a Nigerian veteran journalist and CEO of Ovation International. Sophia Momodu and Davido had a brief affair in 2015 which resulted in the birth of their beautiful daughter, Aurora Imade Adeleke. There are also reports that they were together way longer than before their relationship got public. A source who spoke to DNB Stories Africa called Sophia Momodu “Davido’s first true love”.

Sophia Momodu’s Instagram handle is @thesophiamomodu.

2. Amanda (Laplubelle)

Amanda is an Atlanta-based model. She is the mother of Davido’s second daughter, Hailey Adeleke. Amanda is known as @laplubelle on Instagram. She is also called Mandy.

3. Chioma Avril Rowland

Chioma is the baby mama Davido dated openly the longest and also publicly acknowledges. She is also the only one to date that Davido publicly engaged. For several months, the couple’s sweet relationship remained a hot topic on social media until it crashed in early 2021. Chioma is the mother of Davido’s son, David Ifeanyi Adeleke. Ifeanyi Adeleke was born on the 20th of October 2019 in a hospital in the United States. Chioma’s Instagram handle is @thechefchi.

4. Larissa Lorenco

Larissa Yasmin Lorenco is a London-based makeup artist. She was born and raised in Angola but now based in the UK. Larissa is reportedly the mother of Davido’s fifth child born in March 2020. Larissa is on Instagram as @larissalondon.

5. Ayotomide Labinjo

Ayotomide came public with her affair with Davido in 2017. She revealed that she met the singer in a nightclub in February 2013 and they had a brief affair which resulted in pregnancy. She is the mother of Davido’s 6-year-old daughter, Mitchell Anu Adeleke. Her Instagram handle is @ayolabinjoh.

March 9, 2022
Witchcraft: Court sentences man to death by hanging for killing daughters

A High Court sitting in Akamkpa, Cross River has sentenced Ayanime Udo to death by hanging for killing his twin daughters on allegation of being witches.

Delivering judgment on the case with suit number HK/6C/2018, Justice Agnes Onyebueke said; “Udo’s act is satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension.’’

She held that the defendant had willfully and gruesomely murdered his 11 year-old twin, Mfoniso Anyanime and Emediong Anyanime in 2017 after dubbing them witches.

The defendant, who is in his 50s, could not defend his allegation of witchcraft against the female children when cross examined and had given his 11-year-old girls a malt drink mixed with acid from his motorcycle.

One died at the spot on Jan. 10, 2017, while the second crawled to the road where a Good Samaritan picked and took her to the hospital but she died the next day.

According to a Child Rights Activist, Mr James Ibor, who’s Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BCRI) facilitated the prosecution of the accused, the case was first reported in February, 2017.

Ibor said after it was reported, the convict was arrested by the police after due investigation was carried out.

“The Police ensured that necessary medical examinations and autopsy were done on the deceased children, which aided the judgment.

“This judgment is a great victory to the victims, Mfoniso Anyanime, Emediong Anyanime in particular, and the Government of Cross River,’’ he said.

It would be recalled that the killing of twins was predominant in the Southern part of Cross River which includes Akamkpa before the intervention of the Scottish Missionary, Mary Slessor.

February 16, 2022
Man remanded in prison for allegedly “fingering” his 3 adolescent daughters

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 43-year-old man, Ademola Oladimeji, for allegedly inserting his finger into the private part of his three adolescent daughters.

Oladimeji, a resident of Fadeyi, was arraigned by the police on a two-count charge of defilement and assault.

The Prosecution Counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that Oladimeji committed the offence sometime in 2021, in his residence at Fadeyi.

Ajayi explained that the mother of the girls had reported that the accused had been defiling their daughters aged nine, seven, and five.

The Prosecution informed the court that when the girls’ mother found out, she confronted her husband, who got angry, beat her and inflicted injuries on her body.

According to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2005, defilement attracts life imprisonment.

In the ruling, the Magistrate, A.O. Ajibade, who refused to take Oladimeji’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.

She adjourned the case until March 2 for the DPP’s advice and directed the suspect be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre.

February 15, 2022
Shocking! Mother takes daughter, nieces to bandits for sex in Kaduna [VIDEO]

A married woman has been arrested by the police in Giwa Local Government Area in Kaduna for allegedly taking her daughters to bandits for sex.

Maryam Abubakar, a housewife and resident of Rugar Hanwa in Sabon Gari Local Government, who was arrested on December 21, confessed that she had been luring women, including her own daughters and nieces, to the bandits for sexual pleasure.

Also arrested was a girl named Fatima Jibril, who, in connivance with her boyfriend, Muslim Abubakar, both residents of the Sakadadi area in Sabon Gari, had also been supplying women to the bandits.

Maryam said her clients were paying her N20,000 and that the women were being ferried to the forest on motorbikes.

The syndicate was exposed when the girls they had earlier procured from the criminals in the forest couldn’t return.

Another woman, Jummai Ibrahim, was arrested on the suspicion that she had been engaging in an affair with the bandits’ kingpin in the forest.

Ibrahim said she submitted herself to the bandits’ kingpin to protect her children and her father from their wraths because the bandits threatened to kill them, even after they had rustled the family’s cattle.

Some of the women said they had passed the night only once with the bandits.

One of them said the gunmen were living alongside their wives, only that they are hosted at different locations separate from their families.

One of the girls said the gunmen had been inseparable from their guns round the clock and they were stockpiled with foodstuff.

The arrested women were, however, remorseful for being in romance with the bandits in the forest.

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January 9, 2022
Mother, two daughters die in Boxing Day crash

A Sunday auto crash at Itako, Ijebu-Ife in Ogun State, claimed the lives of a woman and her two daughters.

A truck and a Ford SUV were involved in the accident.

Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesman of Ogun State’s Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta.

He said the accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. and was caused by excessive speeding by the driver of the Ford SUV who sped into the truck.

He said only one of the four persons involved in the accident survived.

“The Ford SUV was on its way from Lagos and heading towards the eastern part of the country when it rammed into a stationary Dangote articulated vehicle having lost control of the vehicle.

“The husband of the woman stays overseas and the driver was employed as the family driver. The driver is in police custody.

Akinbiyi said also that FRSC operatives deposited the corpses at the morgue of Goshen Hospital, Ijebu-Ife while the vehicles involved I the accident were taken to Ijebu Ife Divisional Police Station.

He commiserated with the family of the deceased, advising drivers to avoid excessive speeding and dangerous driving particularly during the harmattan season.

December 26, 2021
Why I defiled my three daughters, 48-year-old father confesses

A 48-year-old man, Igbo Thomas, has been remanded in the Awka Custodial Centre, Anambra State, for allegedly defiling his three daughters.

Thomas, who hails from Enugu State, allegedly committed the offence at Enuoji village in Enugwu Ukwu, in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The Anambra State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on May 24, 2021 arrested the suspect at Okolo Ani village, in the Igbo Etiti LGA of Enugu State for the offence.

The suspect, who reportedly confessed to the crime, said he acted under the influence of alcohol.

The state NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Edwin Okadigbo, in a statement on Wednesday, said the suspect was arraigned at the High Court, Awka, and remanded

Okadigbo said, “It will be recalled that on May 24, 2021, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Anambra State, arrested one Mr Igbo Thomas of Okolo Ani village, Igbo Etiti LGA, Enugu State, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his three daughters.

“Upon the conclusion of thorough investigation, the suspect was arraigned at the state High Court, Awka, and remanded at the Awka Custodial Centre by the judge.”

July 29, 2021
Woman lands in police net for selling her two daughters

The Police in Ogun State have arrested a woman, Blessing Ebuneku Agoro (35) for allegedly selling her two biological daughters who are aged four and two.

According to a statement issued on Sunday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at the Redeemed Camp divisional headquarters by her husband, Oluwaseyi Agoro.

She was said to have sold the two children to a couple in Port Harcourt at the rate of ₦300,000.

The husband of the suspect reported that he traveled for some time, and when he returned on June 8, he couldn’t find his two daughters.

He stated further that all efforts to make his wife tell him the whereabouts of the children proved abortive, hence his report.

The command’s PPRO said upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Redeemed Camp division Chief Superintendent of Police, Alabi Akinjide detailed his detectives to apprehend the suspect, who had already been with the camp’s Code Of Conduct Department.

“On interrogation, the suspect explained to the police that, her husband left home for the past two years, and while he was away, she found it difficult to cater for the two children and two other children she had with another man.

“She stated further that while she was contemplating on what to do, one Kolawole Imoleayo introduced her to a couple in Port Harcourt who are in dire need of children, and she sold the two daughters to the couple at the rate of ₦300,000.

“Her confession led to the arrest of the said intermediary, Kolawole Imoleayo. They are now both assisting the police in their investigation” the PPRO said.

The Commissioner of Police in the state CP Edward Ajogun has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.

He has equally directed that the children must be rescued and brought back to their parents as soon as possible

June 13, 2021
Gunmen kill, bury Niger village head one week after abduction

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Mr Zakari Ya’u Idris, the Village Head of Madaka in Rafi Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State.

The Chief of Staff to the Chairman of Rafi LGA, Mohammed Mohammed, confirmed the murder of the village head to on Saturday.

According to reports, Idris was killed a week after he was abducted by his captors who invaded Madaka community on Sunday last week, where they murdered three persons and abducted the village head for a second time.

Mohammed revealed that the bandits had earlier contacted the family of the deceased to pay a ransom of N800,000.

He noted that five persons that were released after they paid their ransom revealed that the Village Head of Madaka had been killed by the bandits.

According to the LGA chairman’s aide, those who gained their freedom said Idris was killed after going through torture in the hands of the gunmen, as they were always beating him.

They further disclosed that the remains of Zakari Idris were buried in the bush by the bandits.

The village head was abducted after his release about a month ago during which he spent three months in the custody of his abductors.

Those killed by the gunmen during the raid on Madaka included a leader of the vigilante group in the community, Isyaku Alhassan, his son Abdulhamid, and one other person.

Scores of other persons were also said to have been injured during the attack while many houses were set ablaze.

Similarly, the District Head of Gunna who was abducted in Yakila in the same local government has yet to regain freedom.

The gunmen, according to Mohammed, have yet to get in touch with the family of the district head to demand any ransom.

Gunmen kill PDP chieftain, Kidnap three daughters

Meanwhile, the daredevil gunmen also extended their killing spree in the state to one Alhaji Ahmodu Mohammed, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kampala ward of Bosso Local Government Area of the state.

According to reports, Ahmodu’s three daughters were also kidnapped by the bandits.

According to eyewitness account, the murder of Alhaji Mohammed, a successful farmer, took place Thursday after the bandits had paid two previous visits to his community.

The armed men were said to have previously attacked traders at the popular Beji market.

Thursday’s raid by the bandits who numbered about 15 and carried dangerous weapons took place around 2.00 am, it was learnt.

Confirming the development, a close family member said: “This is the third time that the bandits are attacking the man. They have been coming before but they couldn’t succeed because the man is very powerful”. “He was shot several times before he eventually died.”

The Niger State Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Tanko Beji confirmed the development. Beji said the remains of the slain Ward leader of the party had been interred according to Islamic injuction. He also confirmed the kidnap of three daughters of the deceased and described the incident “as unfortunate and pathetic”.

December 27, 2020