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  • Police to prosecute “bulletproof” herbalist in Abuja

    Police to prosecute “bulletproof” herbalist in Abuja

    The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is set to prosecute one Ismail Usman, a herbalist, who shot himself while testing his self-made bulletproof charm.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT,  SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.

    She said the herbalist shot himself in the stomach in an attempt to test the efficacy of his self-made ‘bulletproof’ charm.

    Adeh said that one Shandam Michael reported the incident to the police, adding that it occured on Nov. 23 at Kuchibuyi Village in Kubwa area of Abuja.

    According to her, operatives from Byazhin division responded swiftly on receipt of the report and on reaching the scene found the herbalist in critical condition.

    Adeh said the herbalist was quickly rushed to Kubwa General Hospital for emergency treatment, but was later refered to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital.

    “In the aftermath, police conducted a thorough search of the herbalist’s home and recovered homemade gun and an array of charms used in his reckless experiment.

    “Investigations are ongoing. Usman is expected to face charges for unlawful possession of firearms and attempted suicide,” she said.

    The PPRO said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Olatunji Disu, had condemned the incident and highlighted the dangers associated with illegal firearms.

    “This situation illustrates the serious risks of engaging in reckless behaviour. We strongly advise the community to avoid such dangerous practices,” Adeh quoted Disu to have said.

  • My wife’s adulterous lifestyle is negatively affecting my daughter – Herbalist tells court

    My wife’s adulterous lifestyle is negatively affecting my daughter – Herbalist tells court

    A herbalist, Kasali Yinusa has pleaded with a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his nine-year-old union to his estranged wife, Abosede on the grounds that her adulterous lifestyle was having negative effects on their daughter.

    Yunusa, accused Abosede of being short-tempered, fighting every now and then with people in the neighbourhood.

    “I’m most unhappy with the high level of immorality Abosede has impacted on our only child. Since, Abosede and the child no longer stay with me, I notice that the child is exhibits some bad manners whenever she visits me.

    ”Abosede is too wasteful. I stock up her shop with goods but at the end of the sales, she squanders the proceeds,” he alleged.

    The petitioner, consequently, begged to be given custody of the child.

    However, Abosede did not comment on most of the contending issues raised by the petitioner.

    Abosede, who is a trader, pointed out that her husband never played the role of a good father.

    ”He refuses to pay our child’s school fees. In fact, that was the reason why I started going to the church, seeking divine intervention.

    ”He gets angry whenever my baby sings church hymns. My lord, whenever Yinusa extorts money from me and I’m unable to provide it, he beats me up.

    “Also, I am the sixth wife in his home. He married another woman when I was three months pregnant,” ” Abosede stated.

    Delivering judgment, the court’s President, Mrs S.M. Akintayo held that there was no marriage to be dissolved between Yinusa and Abosede because their union, initially, was not based on traditional laws.

    ”None of the parties stated that there was payment of bride price and giving of gifts, which are essential requirements before a traditional marriage can be considered as valid.

    ”The fact that a man and a woman lived together and had children, does not mean that they are married,” she held.

    Akintayo granted custody of the seven-year-old child to  Abosede because she was in a better position to cater for her.

    The judge granted the order restraining the respondent from harassing, intimidating and interfering in the personal life of the petitioner henceforth.

  • Pastor divorces wife after herbalist died on her during s3x

    Pastor divorces wife after herbalist died on her during s3x

    Joshua Ajagunigbala and Rita’s 22-year marriage was dissolved by an Ekiti State Customary Court in Ado Ekiti due to irreconcilable problems, most notably infidelity.

    Following charges that his wife had been promiscuous, most recently with a well-known herbalist in Ikere-Ekiti, the state’s capital and the location of Ikere Local Government Area, the pastor sought a divorce and went to court to do so. The marriage had produced four children and was blessed with the couple’s attention.

    The herbalist, Kehinde Fadayomi (Ejiogbe), was thought to have passed away from magun (thunderbolt) on January 2, 2023, after having sex with the cleric’s wife in a hotel.

    The cleric in a petition pleaded with the court to dissolve their union on the accounts of adultery and also pleaded for the custody of their children.

    The petitioner in his evidence stated that he did not pay the respondent’s dowry, adding that they had both lived together for more than 22 years.

    He added that this would be the third time he would drag his wife to court on the grounds of adultery.

    Joshua stated that the respondent in 2017 had an illicit affair with an herbalist called Ifadayomi AKA Ejiogbe who is now late.

    He gave evidence on how the man died on the respondent while having sex in a hotel in Ikere-Ekiti on 2nd of January, 2023 which led to thugs destroying his house and his church at Ikere.

    Joshua was equally suspended by his church authority.

    The petitioner as a result of these stated that he was no longer interested in the union and pleaded with the court to dissolve it and grant him custody of their children.

    Delivering his judgement, the court president, Joseph Oyedele, said there was no legal customary marriage between the two, declaring that both were, therefore, free to go their separate ways.

    He said: “Having gone through all the oral evidence presented before this court, it was discovered that there was no legal customary marriage between the parties and as such there was no marriage to be dissolved.

    The court here-by declare that both parties are now free to go their different ways and maintain peace.”

    Oyedele, however, ordered that the petitioner take full responsibility for the welfare and education of the last two children because they are still minor.

    “On the issue of the custody of the children, the court can only give order on the last two children of their marriage because they are yet to reach the age of maturity. The first two children are free to decide with whom they want to live between the two parties because they are no longer minor.

    “However, the court orders that the last two children of the union are to be with the petitioner and he should be responsible for their welfare and education.”

  • MONEY RITUAL: Herbalist, ‘Yahoo boy’ caught with human parts

    MONEY RITUAL: Herbalist, ‘Yahoo boy’ caught with human parts

    A herbalist simply identified as Ike, aka Ogenesu, has been arrested after policemen attached to the Obiaruku Police Station recovered suspected human parts at his place in Obiaruku, in the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the herbalist was arrested alongside a yet-to-be-identified suspected “Yahoo boy“.

    It was gathered that the fraudster was driving to a destination in Obiaruku around 5.20pm on Friday, October 28, when five policemen, who were on stop-and-search duty, flagged down his vehicle.

    Instead of parking, the suspect zoomed off, as the policemen, who became suspicious of his action, gave him a hot chase and caught up with him.

    A resident, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said the policemen, while searching the vehicle, found a note specifying the need for human parts.

    “The instruction on the note was that the man should provide a human head, hand and leg. After recovering the note, the policemen asked what he wanted to use the specified items for and out of fear, he said it was for something.

    “So, the policemen embarked on full investigation by visiting the Obiaruku Police Station to obtain a warrant to search his three-bedroom flat and while searching his house, they obtained another written note requesting the same items in the first written note that was found in his car,” the resident added.

    The source said after the policemen found the notes, they detained the suspect and during interrogation, he said Ike requested the human parts.

    He explained that the next day, the suspect led policemen to the herbalist’s place, and while searching the premises, a decomposing corpse was found beside a fish pond.

    “The herbalist used nylon to cover the corpse and since the corpse was close to the fish pond, nobody perceived the smell because of the odour around the fish pond.

    “The policemen took the Yahoo boy and the herbalist to the station and they were transferred to the state command for further investigation,” the source added.

    A video clip in possession of our correspondent showed the herbalist unwrapping a sack containing the bones of a corpse.

    A human skull was also seen beside the sack in the midst of policemen questioning him over the incident.

    In his defence, Ike was heard saying, “It was my child that was buried; I dug the grave and removed the corpse from where it was buried.”

    The state police spokesperson, Bright Edafe, did not take his calls and had yet to respond to a text message sent to his mobile phone as of the time this report was filed.

  • Police arrest mother of 4 found with suspected human skull

    Police arrest mother of 4 found with suspected human skull

    The Police Command in Edo on Thursday said it had arrested a mother of four caught with a suspected human skull.

    SP Kontongs Bello, the command’s Public Relations Officer, said this in Benin City while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command within the last two weeks.

    Bello also said that the command within the period arrested 16 suspects within the state for various crimes.

    The mother of four caught with the suspected human skull had advised other women not to get involved in selling of human parts no matter the financial gains, saying it is evil.

    Narrating her level of involvement in the crime, the suspect said that she bought the human skull at N8,000 from a cemetery attendant.

    She said that she sold the skull to a male suspect who approached her for it at the rate of N40, 000.

    The suspect who is also a divorcee and deals in traditional items added that for a good job delivery, the male suspect gave her an extra N5,000.

    She said that she sold the human skull to the male suspect in February but was arrested in May despite warning him not to involve her in any form of troubles.

    Similarly, the male suspect, also a heavy duty operator, had been arrested by the police.

    He, narrating his roles, said that he was asked by a herbalist whom he had met to get a human skull for sacrifice to enable him be more prosperous in his business.

    However, the herbalist who had also been arrested, said that the male suspect approached him that he needed a soap and he advised him to get a human skull for him to get the ritual done.

    The 42 year-old herbalist said that the male suspect came to him with a human skull two months after which he used for the ritual.

    Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Edo, Mr Abutu Yaro, was quoted to have assured the people of the state that the command would not allow criminal elements to take over the state.

    He was further quoted as saying that the command would do everything in its power to protect the lives and property of the residents of the state.

  • Mortuary staff arrested with fresh human head in Ogun state

    Mortuary staff arrested with fresh human head in Ogun state

    In Abeokuta Ogun state, a mortuary attendant has been arrested by security operatives for allegedly cutting off the head of a deceased boy in an attempt to sell for the sum of 50,00 Naira.

    The suspect whose name is given as Kushimo Lukman, was arrested by men of the Ogun State owned security outfit, the So-Safe Corps on Tuesday morning.

    The So-Safe Corps said the suspect was “an acclaimed mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta.”

    So Safe spokesman Moruf Lukman said that the suspect who lives at 9, Abule Oloni, Oke Yidi, Abeokuta, was apprehended by officers of the corp , while on routine patrol.

    He was apprehended “after he had beheaded the corpse of a male minor at the Oke Yidi cemetery in Abeokuta.”

    Yusuf confirmed to journalists that the suspect confessed during interrogation that “the beheaded corpse was brought to the cemetery from the Federal Medical Centre FMC, Abeokuta, after he died due to complications from a kidney disease.”

    The suspect was quoted to have said that “the parents of the boy, who came from Ibadan, sought his assistance as a mortuary attendant to get the body buried,” adding that “he buried the boy’s body inside the cemetery, in the presence of his parents at about 19:00hrs on Monday.”

    However, the suspect was said to have later gone back to the cemetery at 6 am on Tuesday, “to severe the head of the buried boy, and he was caught after a fierce fight with the So-Safe officers, who later overpowered him.”

    Yusuf added that the suspect “confessed that the fresh head was requested for by one Chief Ifalonishe (AKA Lanroye) at the rate of N50,000,” saying “it was supposed to be delivered to him at a designated point within Abeokuta.”

    However, Soji Ganzallo the commander of So Safe corps has ordered the operation department to ensure that other accomplices are apprehended and made to face the consequences alongside other persons linked to the nefarious acts.

    Meanwhile, the So safe corps have handed over the suspect to the Ogun state police command for further interrogation and subsequent punishment.

     

     

     

  • Man plots fiancée’s killing over N14m, promises killer-herbalist N5m

    Man plots fiancée’s killing over N14m, promises killer-herbalist N5m

    The police on Wednesday exhibited 36 suspects, including a female, in connection with various crimes in different locations in the country.

    The suspects were detained for allegedly committing crimes ranging from armed robbery, homicide and kidnapping to rape, car theft and unlawful possession of arms among others.

    Among those paraded was Christopher Akpan, 54, the alleged killer of a 45-year-old National Security and Civil Defence Corps officer, identified as Josephine Cynthia.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, DCP Frank Mba said: “Akpan had promised to marry Josephine. In the course of the relationship, a lot of financial dealings took place and it is believed Josephine handed a large chunk of money to Akpan.

    “Between December 19 and 20, 2019, she visited her lover who lured her to the house of a native doctor, Rafiu Afolabi, 67, in Benue, where she was murdered and her body buried in a shallow grave in the forest.

    “Akpan promised to pay Afolabi N5m out of the N14m he had collected from Josephine. It took intense effort and massive follow-up by the Intelligence Response Squad before the crime was uncovered.”

    However, Akpan denied slaying Josephine, saying that he had planned to marry her between December 28 and 29.

    He added that she came to visit her to see assess preparation on December 17 and left safely on December 19.

    Also exhibited was Prince Ruben, 27, who was accused of abduction, raping, robbing, killing and mutilating the body of one Joy Saturday, a mother of four.

    Reuben confirmed his participation in the crime.

     

  • TRENDING VIDEO: Moment Sowore storm court with herbalist

    TRENDING VIDEO: Moment Sowore storm court with herbalist

    Revolution Now convener, Omoyele Sowore, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, stormed the Abuja Magistrate Court in the company of a herbalist.

    The former presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections was arrested by the police for leading a protest against bad governance on New Year’s eve in Abuja.

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    He was subsequently arraigned alongside four others by the Federal Government.

    They were arraigned on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and attempting to incite others.

    Sowore and four others were in January 2021, admitted bail in the sum of N20 million each by the Magistrates’ Court sitting in Wuse Zone II, Abuja.

  • Herbalist murder hotelier after collecting N250k for money ritual

    Herbalist murder hotelier after collecting N250k for money ritual

    The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old herbalist, Misipode Dosu, for allegedly killing a hotelier, Jimoh Bello.

    In a statement on Thursday, the command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the herbalist was arrested after several months of thorough investigations into the case.

    The deceased, who was said to be the owner of J.B hotel in the Owode-Yewa area of the state, was found dead in the boot of his car on May 29 by men of the Idiroko divisional headquarters.

    According to the police, Dosu, during interrogation revealed that the deceased had come to him for money ritual and paid N250,000 out of the N300,000 price he gave him to carry out the exercise.

    The herbalist, however, said after some time, the deceased started disturbing him that he had not seen any result of the money ritual he paid for.

    He added that since he was not able to deliver, he had to kill the hotelier by giving him some concoction to cover his tracks.

    Dosu was said to have after that put the deceased into the boot of his car and drove the vehicle to a place where the corpse was recovered.

    The statement added that the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had already directed that the suspect be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as the investigation is concluded.

    “The police team embarked on an intelligence-based investigation which led them to the arrest of the herbalist, Misipode Dosu, who happened to be the last person seen with the deceased,” the statement read.

    “On interrogation, the suspect confessed that the deceased contracted him for a money-making ritual of which he billed him the sum of N300,000 out of which the deceased had paid him N250,000. But after some time, the dead started pressuring him that he had not seen any positive outcome of the ritual.

    “Out of fear that the deceased might report him to the police for obtaining money from him under false pretence, he invited him to come for the final stage of the ritual at Idiroko.”

    The police said that was where the murder took place.

  • Pastor speaks after killing herbalist, says he was sent by God

    Pastor speaks after killing herbalist, says he was sent by God

    The Police Command in Anambra says it has commenced investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the alleged murder of a native doctor by a pastor.

    A statement issued on Friday in Awka by Haruna Mohammed, the Command’s spokesman, identified the herbalist victim as 60-year-old Oliver Ugwu of Umusiome village, Nkpor near Onitsha.

    He said the suspect, Uchenna Chukwuma, 21, a pastor who reside at Ugwuezue street, Umusiome Nkpor near Onitsha, allegedly carried out the murder with a machete on Sept. 3.

    “The suspect, who hails from Amagunze in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State, claimed during interrogation that as a pastor, he was sent by God to kill the native doctor.

    “The suspect further alleged that the victim was disturbing him spiritually and had not allowed him to progress financially,” Mr Mohammed stated.

    The Police spokesman said detectives attached to Ogidi Division led by the DPO, CSP Ekuri Remigius, visited the scene of the crime and rushed the victim to Iyi Enu hospital Ogidi for medical attention.

    He said the herbalist was certified dead by the medical doctor at the hospital, and the corpse was deposited at the hospital mortuary for autopsy.

    According to him, the machete used in perpetrating the crime was recovered as exhibit and the case transfered to the Criminal Investigation Department for investigation.