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  • [Photo] Shiite leader, El-Zakzaky appears court, charged with murder

    [Photo] Shiite leader, El-Zakzaky appears court, charged with murder

    The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, on Tuesday, appeared before a Kaduna High Court over allegations of murder.

    The appearance marks the first time the Shiite leader would be tried in public since his arrest and detention in December 2015.

    Shiite leader, El-Zakzaky appears court, charged with murder

    The State Security Service, SSS, has held the Shiite leader in detention despite a court order ordering his release.

    He was arrested following a clampdown on his supporters who blocked the army chief, Tukur Buratai, from using a public road.

    Over 340 members of the Shiite group were killed by the soldiers in attacks condemned by local and international rights groups.

    One soldier was also killed.

    The Kaduna State Government is prosecuting El-Zakzaky for the death of the soldier.

    It is for that trial that Mr El-Zakzaky was brought to court on Tuesday.

    According to a report by Premium Times, El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, were brought to court at about 9:00 a.m.

    They were said to have been brought into Kaduna the previous night from where he was kept.

    Journalists and other members of the IMN that trooped to the court premises were barred from entering as the major road leading to the court was blocked off by armed security officers.

    Counsel to El-Zakzaky, Maxwell Kyom said the cleric is being charged with unlawful gathering, criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide punishable with death.

    Kyom said the case could not continue because two of the defendants were not in court.

    According to him, an oral application was moved for the bail of the cleric and his wife. But the presiding judge, Gideon Kurada, asked him to put his application officially in writing.

    The case was adjourned to June 21 by the presiding judge based on application by the prosecutor for them to properly file their statement of claim.

     

  • [BREAKING] Danish man who allegedly murdered Nigerian wife, daughter to remain in prison

    A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba on Tuesday adjourned till next month the trial of a Danish man accused of killing his wife and three-year-old daughter in their Lagos home last month.

    The trial judge ordered the continued detention of Peter Nielsen, 53, until June 28 when his proper trial at a high court for the April 5 alleged murder of Zainab, his wife and their daughter Petra, was to start.

    Zainab, a 37-year-old singer popularly known as Alizee, was a rising Nigerian star.

    “He was brought to court this morning but no plea was taken. The prosecutors asked for an extension of his detention in Ikoyi prison pending his trial at the high court,” activist lawyer Christian Kolawole Love said.

    “The request was granted as Mr. Nielsen will remain in prison until June 28,” he said.

    He said the prosecution was hopeful that justice would be done in the matter.

    “We are optimistic that the course of justice will be served. Nielsen is culpable in the murder of Zainab and Petra and should be brought to justice,” he said.

    Court officials said the suspect had been returned to prison after the hearing.

    Dozens of rights activists under the auspices of Women Arise NGO, families and friends of the victims, beseiged the court in black in T-shirts with the pictures of Zainab and her daughter.

    They carried placards denouncing the growing menance of domestic violence in the country, amidst sobbings and wailings of relatives of the victims, including Zainab’s mother.

    “Our campaign against domestic violence will be pursued with renewed vigour in order to stop this menace that is consuming our families,” Women Arise president Joe Okei Odumakin said outside the court.

    She commended the police for their prompt investigation as well as the state justice department for establishing “a prima facie case of murder against the accused”.

    The Danish man was first remanded in prison when he appeared in court on April 11 as the authorities awaited legal advice from the state director of public prosecution.

    He was said to have hit his wife’s head against the wall several times, inflicting fatal injuries and later poisoned his daughter and tried to cover up the murders as a domestic accident.

    The case, which has generated media attention and publicity in Nigeria, a country where domestic violence is receiving more attention.

    In March, the Lagos state governor Akinwunmi Ambode led a protest against domestic violence in support of a 25-year jail term for rapists.

    Recall that the Lagos State Government had also earlier affirmed that the Danish national won’t escape justice for the murder of his wife and daughter.

  • BREAKING: FG charges detained Shiite leader, El-Zakzaky with murder

    The federal government has charged the leader of the detained leader of the Shiite group in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky with murder.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that El-Zakzaky and his wife are currently detained by the federal government.

    Recall that the El-Zakzaky’s supporters have been protesting in demand for his release.

    El-Zakzaky and his wife have been held by the Nigerian government since December 2015 despite court rulings authorising his release.

    The government claims he is held in a “protective custody”, but his supporters have in the last two weeks intensified protests demanding his freedom.

    In what appears to be a response to the protests, the Kaduna state government slammed a fresh eight-count charge on the Shiite leader, his lawyer, Femi Falana, said Thursday.

    The charges include homicide which is punishable by death.

    However, court papers obtained indicate that the charges were filed on April 18.

    According to the charge, the alleged offences took place during the December 2015 clash between the IMN and a convoy of Nigeria’s army chief, Tukur Buratai.

    Details soon…

  • Witness reveals how Maryam Sanda made attempts to stab husband before murder

    A witness has revealed in details how Maryam Sanda made several attempt attempts to stab her husband, Bilyamin Bello before eventually killing him the night she did.

    Recall that Sanda is standing trial for the alleged murder of Bello, who was her husband and son of former Peoples Democratic Party Chairman, Bello Haliru.

    The witness, Ibrahim Mohammed, said he was with the deceased for over eight hours, the night before his death; and witnessed several attempts by the first defendant, Ms Sanda, to kill him.

    According to Mohammed, a friend of Bilayamin, Sanda asked her husband for divorce and appeared bent on getting it that night.

    The witness said she threatened several times to chop off his sex organ if he declined to give her freedom from their marriage.

    Mohammed told the court that while he was watching television with the deceased at the couple’s residence that fateful day, he heard Sanda calling her husband from upstairs.

    “He went to meet her, but soon returned to the sitting room,” said Mohammed.

    The witness further explained that the accused soon came herself to call her husband a second time in the sitting room.

    “Soon after they returned upstairs, I heard noise coming from there. Maryam sent the fourth defendant to call me. When I got there I saw both of them holding each other to the throat.

    “I enquired to know what was happening and asked them to stop fighting. The first defendant asked me to tell her husband to divorce her, but I asked her to take things calm. She said she was not going anywhere until he divorced her,” Mohammed told the court.

    Mohammed said he tried disengaging Sanda’s hand from her husband’s neck. He added that shortly after separating the couple, the first defendant rushed to break a bottle of groundnut on the wall and tried stabbing her husband with it.

    “She came straight at Bilyamin to stab him. I held her hands and Bilyamin went behind her and collected the broken bottle from her hands and went downstairs. I closed the door and continued to advise Maryam that they should stop fighting.

    “She said she would not stop until Bilyamin divorced her that night; that either he divorced her or she would cut his private part.

    “While pleading with her, Bilyamin entered the bedroom and Maryam followed him, insisting that he should divorce her that night but Bilyamin kept silent,” Mohammed said.

    The witness narrated that the first defendant made another attempt to stab her husband after breaking another bottle of perfume, but her husband collected the bottle, pushed her to the bed and left the room.

    “The first defendant then went to the kitchen and picked a knife with which she attempted again to stab the deceased,” said the witness who added that Bilyamin collected the knife from the defendant but that she made three other attempts to collect the knife.

    “She attempted picking the knife for about three or four times,” he said.

    At that point, the witness said he tried to make a number of calls. When one of those whom he called arrived the house, Mr Mohammed said he went with the deceased to treat the injury sustained from a bite inflicted upon him by Ms Sanda.

    They later returned to the house and were subsequently joined by a third person who chatted briefly with them at the sitting room.

    “When we returned, the first defendant was not at home. She later returned and started playing with the baby,” added Mr Mohammed.

    To avoid being seen as coming in-between the couples, the visitors decide to leave, the witness narrated. While leaving, Mr. Mohammed said he narrated what happened before his arrival to his friend who wondered why they left the house, given the violence between the couple.

    Mr. Mohammed said they made further attempts to call the deceased on phone, without success.

    Mr. Mohammed added that he later received a call from Bilyamin’s brother that Bilyamin had been killed.

    “I went to Maitama Hospital after that call and met Bilyaminu lying on a bed in front of the hospital. There was a hole in his chest near the heart, bite on his stomach. There was a cut on his thigh and there was a sign of stitching on him,” he said.

    During cross-examination, Mr. Mohammed told the court that the deceased was not badly injured before he left the house. He also said although Ms Sanda threatened to cut off her husband’s sex organ, she never actually threatened to kill him.

    The trial judge, Yusuf Halilu adjourned the matter to May 15.

     

  • NIM set to confront Buhari’s government over murder of Shi’ites protesters

    …NIM Grand Coalition accuses Buhari’s Government of brutal force and murder of Shiite peaceful protesters

    …Plans solidarity for the Shi’ites movement

    The Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM has said it will confront the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government over the alleged murder of some Shi’ites who were protesting in Abuja on Monday.

    Recall that TheNewsGuru.com had earlier reported of a clash between the police and the Shi’ites members protesting the continuous detention of their leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

    NIM said this in a statement sent to TheNewsGuru.com on Monday.

    The statement read thus:

    The grand national coalition of Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM wish to condemn the Federal Government in the strongest terms for using operatives of the Nigeria police to inflict brute force against the peaceful protest organized by members of the Shi’ites movement of Nigeria, leading to the reported murder of scores of Shiite peaceful protesters today.

    We find the killings of defenceless citizens by the Nigerian police during a peaceful protest as inhuman and mindless, something that has further accentuated the reputation of the Nigerian government as irresponsible, reckless and anti democratic. NIM as the emergent alternative political leadership of the Nigerian peoples, shall however, not stand aloof, fold its arm and watch the country turned into a police state, where defenceless are terrorised and murdered by the incompetent cabalistic government of General Muhammadu Buhari

    We hereby demand that indicted happy trigger police operatives involved in this unfortunate cruelty and criminality be immediately brought to book and withdrawn from further confronting the peaceful protest of the Shi’ites movement. Finally, NIM demands a strong apology and compensation to the Shiite movement from General Muhammadu Buhari’s drowning government as we shall not hesitate to provide fraternal solidarity to the peace loving Shi’ites movement in their legitimate cause and protest for an injustice to one is an injustice to all.

  • Police name Sen. Shehu Sani suspect in murder case

    The police in Kaduna have named Senator Shehu Sani as a suspect in an ongoing homicide investigation.

    Consequently, Austin Iwar, the police commissioner in the state has written to the senator asking him to appear on April 30 at the Command Headquarters in Kaduna for questioning.

    “This is in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide transferred to this office by 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, alongside with exhibit audio CD in which your name was mentioned by the principal suspect,” Iwar said in a letter to Sani, who represent Kaduna Central at the red chamber.

    “This is to enable us fairly and timely conclude investigation into the matter, Mr Iwar said,” Iwar said in the letter addressed to Sani through the Clerk of the National Assembly.

    A copy of the letter was also forwarded to Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
    Reacting, however, Sani claimed there was a plan to frame him up for murder by his political opponents in the state.

    The lawmaker pointed accusing fingers at the Kaduna government, with which he has been having a running battle.

    “They want to frame me the same way they frame Senator Dino Melaye in Kogi on allegation of arming thugs,” Sani, who claims not to have seen the letter said.

  • Tpain under fire over jokes about murdering wife

    King of auto-tunes, Tpain has been slammed by fans over the comment he left on his wife’s Instagram page.

    In the photo shared by his wife, the couple are sitting next to each other on a couch in front of a mural that reads, “I love you so much.”

     

     

    T-Pain left the message in the comment section, which has now been turned off. While he first remarked about how much he loves his wife, the message took a strange turn that didn’t sit well with a lot of his fans.

     

    I love you so much baby,” he wrote. “I see ppl hatin’ on us so much and I bet they’ve never experienced love nowhere near the levels you give me. You’ve dealt with so much bullshit from me and came out of it a new woman with new goals and I can’t believe how dope you are. You are a gift from god and I can confirm this from many different angles and proofs.”

     

    He continued, “If I catch you with another nigga I’m gonna kill both of y’all with a deadly weapon for sure but I’ll leave you for last because I’m a fuckin’ gentleman. That’s how much I love you lady. Enjoy the worship.”

    This has however generated different reactions from fans.

     

    Read them below

     

     

  • Police release report on alleged murder of Nigerian singer by Danish husband

    Police release report on alleged murder of Nigerian singer by Danish husband

    The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said it had dispatched letters to the Embassy of Denmark over investigation of the murder of a Nigerian singer allegedly by her Danish husband.

    Chike Oti, the state police spokesperson, said the letters were to inform the embassy about its investigation of Peter Nielsen, a Dane, for an alleged case of murder.

    Mr Nielsen, 53, had been arrested in connection with the murder of his Nigerian wife, Zainab, and their four-year-old daughter.

    Zainab, a musician popularly known as Alizee, was murdered, alongside her daughter, last Thursday at Bellasta Tower, Banana Island in Ikoyi.

    “In respect of the unfortunate incident, the Command declares as follows:
    that on the 5th day of April, 2018, at about 11am, it received a complaint from the Facility Manager of Bellasta Tower, Banana Island, Mr. Kunle Kukoyi, that at about 7am of 5th April, 2018,” the police statement on Sunday evening began, “He was informed by 13-year-old Miss Gift Madaki that she heard her elder sister, late Mrs Zainab Nielsen, 37 years old, crying in the early hours of the morning as she was being manhandled by her husband, one Mr. Peter Nielsen, a 53-year old citizen of Denmark.

    “The little girl estimated the time she heard her sister’s cry to be 0345hours.”

    Based on the report, the police said, crime scene detectives were sent to the location alongside medics from Britannia hospital in Lekki Phase One.

    The team got to Flat 17, Block 4 apartment of the Nielsens, where they saw two bodies identified as the deceased and her child.

    “The doctor and his team inspected the bodies and confirmed them dead,” the police said.

    “Preliminary investigation conducted at the scene revealed that the violence that consumed the deceased persons started in the couple’s bedroom but the bodies were dragged to the kitchen.

    “On closer examination, visible marks of violence were seen on the bodies. The corpses were photographed and evacuated to Lagos Island General Hospital for autopsy.”

    Following the news of her death, the deceased’s record label, Petra Entertainment, issued a statement urging the Nigerian Immigration Service to be on the alert as police begin an investigation of Mr Nielsen in connection with the murder.

  • Court adjourns trial of ‘killer wife’ Maryam Sanda as witness disappears

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the trial of Maryam Sanda to April 19, 2018, to enable the prosecution to call its first witness.

    The defence counsel Mr Joseph Daudu, had on behalf of Mrs Sanda made an application for the charges to be dismissed because it is incompetent, null and void.

    Mr Daudu had argued that the charges which were filed as an originating summon ought to be by the Attorney-General of the Federation and not the police.

    He also argued that the police ought to file it through first information but in the instant case it has not been done.

    The Police Prosecutor, therefore, asked the court to reject the application of the defendant because it is misconceived.

    He said that the administration of Criminal Justice Act is the only operational law in the FCT and the law has laid down procedures for filing a criminal charge which the police has adhered to.

    The court had on March 7, 2017, granted her (Sanda) bail on the grounds that she is pregnant, ill and requires medical attention.

    She was remanded in Suleja Prisons on November 24, 2017, for allegedly killing her husband at his Maitama home in Abuja, by allegedly stabbing him several times based on allegations of infidelity after seeing a text message on his phone.

    He was later rushed to the hospital where he eventually died.

    She was in December denied bail as no cogent reason was brought forward by the defence counsel.

    However, the FCT Police Command filed two counts of culpable homicide against her.

    Although she pleaded not guilty, the accused was remanded in prison custody.

    The development took a different turn on when the police amended the charges, joining the mother of the accused, her brother, and one of her relatives in the suit.

    The trial could not continue as the prosecutor said efforts by the police to serve the three other defendants proved abortive.

    Maryam’s lawyer had requested that his client is released on interim bail because she is a nursing mother, but the prosecution counsel argued that the application should not be taken since the charge had been amended.

  • Murder: Court grants Ekiti monarch N5m bail

    An Ekiti State High Court on Friday granted the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Ayodele Obasoyin, bail in the sum of N5 million.

    He is also expected to provide two sureties.

    The monarch has been in prison for about two months for alleged murder.

    Justice Abiodun Adesodun while ruling on the bail application filed by the Olukere said the application had merit and subsequently granted the defendant bail.

    Apart from the N5 million bail bonds to be fulfilled by the monarch, Justice Adesodun ruled that the two sureties must swear to affidavits and produce evidence of three years tax payment.

    The judge held that one of the sureties must produce evidence of land ownership within the jurisdiction of the court.

    Olukere’s lead counsel, Mr. Morakinyo Ogele, said: “This ruling is symbolic and historic. Symbolic in the sense that it is in favour of justice and historic in the sense that it will enter into the judicial history of Ekiti.

    “We believe that will be done eventually in this case.”

    The state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Kolapo Kolade, left the court before Justice Adesodun finished delivering the ruling.

    Although the judge noted that the offences for which the Olukere was charged were grievous in nature, he held that the monarch was entitled to bail and resolved the request for bail in his favour.