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  • La liga: Villarreal defender, Ruben Semedo charged with attempted murder

    Villarreal defender Ruben Semedo appeared in a Spanish court on Thursday charged with attempted murder.

    The court in Lliria, near Valencia, also charged the 23-year-old with robbery, assault, “illegal detention” and possession of illegal weapons.

    Semedo, who was arrested on Tuesday, has been remanded without bail.

    The former Portugal Under-21 centre-back joined the La Liga club in June for 14m euros from Sporting Lisbon.

    The court, the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana, told BBC Sport: “The court of Lliria has ordered provisional detention, without bail, for Villarreal player Ruben Semedo.

    “The judge has charged the player with attempted murder, injuries, threats, illegal detention, illegal possession of weapons and robbery with violence.”

    Semedo’s agent, Catio Balde, told Portuguese television network TSF on Wednesday that his client denied the allegations, while Villarreal has opened an investigation.

    Semedo has played five times since joining Villarreal and his last game was a 2-0 defeat to Barcelona on 10 December.

    He played twice for Portugal at the European Under-21s Championships in Poland last summer as they failed to progress beyond the group stage.

  • Police charge Florida shooter with 17 counts of premeditated murder

    The heavily armed teenager who gunned down students and adults at a Florida high school was charged Thursday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, court documents showed.

    Recall that Nikolas Cruz, 19, killed fifteen people in a hail of gunfire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Two others died of their wounds later in hospital, the sheriff’s office said.

     

    Details later…

  • Traditional ruler, son, arraigned for allegedly murdering EFCC informant

    A traditional ruler, Nojimu Abioye, and his son, Wahab Abioye, were on Wednesday arraigned in an Ikeja High Court, for alleged murder of one Alhaji Olatunji Rasak in 2015.

    Rasaki was said to be an informant for the Economic and Financial Crime Commission ( EFCC ).

    The duo was charged with a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

    They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    The Prosecutor, Mr M.T Adewoye, told the court that the Baale of Temidire and his son committed the offences at 10.a.m on July 20, 2015 at the Temidire Area of Alagbado, Lagos.

    “The defendants alongside others who are now at large, murdered Rasak by shooting him with a gun and cutting him with a machete and dangerous weapons,” Adewoye said.

    According to the prosecution, the offences contravene Sections 221 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2011.

    Counsel to the defendants, Mr Adebayo Lawanson, requested that the accused be allowed to maintain the bail granted them during their prior arraignments at the Magistrates’ Court.

    “The accused ever since they were granted bail by the magistrates’ court had never jumped bail,” Lawanson said.

    Obliging the defence counsel, Justice Hakeem Oshodi, ordered that the accused continued with the bail earlier granted them by the magistrates’ court.

    Oshodi adjourned the case until March 19 for trial.

     

     

  • Court remands Ekiti monarch, five others in prison for alleged murder

    An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Obasoyin Ganiyu, 50, and five other persons be remanded in prison over alleged conspiracy, attempted murder and murder.

    The other accused persons are Ajewole Sunday, 25; Adetowoju Bode, 27; Kayode Michael, 31; Olowolafe Tola, 32 and Aluko Taiwo, 32.

    The accused were arraigned on a remand order request filed by Ekiti Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Chafe, who was also present at the court’s proceedings.

    The remand order form with registration number MAD/181fk/17 alleged that the accused persons committed the offences of conspiracy, attempted murder of Ayodele Osanyinbola and murder of Kolade Adefemi.

    The offences are punishable under Sections 324, 320 (1) and 319 (1) of the Criminal Code Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.

    The offences were said to have been committed within Ado Ekiti Magisterial District on Monday.

    The Prosecutor, Insp Okunade Johnson, urged the court to remand the accused persons in prison pending receipt of legal advice from the Office of Director of Public Prosecution.

    The DPP, Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, also attended the court’s proceedings.

    The pleas of the accused persons were not taken while their counsel, Mr Ademola Adeyemi, pleaded with the court to consider the nature of the case and admit his clients to bail.

    The prosecutor, however, opposed the bail application and pleaded with the court to grant the remand order request.

    Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye refused the bail application and ordered that the suspects be remanded in prison pending the issuance of legal advice on the case.

    The case was adjourned until Jan. 8 for mention.

     

    NAN

  • Court fixes Nov 10 to decide Evans’ applications to quash murder charges

    The Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has fixed November 10 to rule on whether or not to quash the murder and illegal sales of firearms charges filed by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions against alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans.

    Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo fixed the date on Friday after hearing two applications filed by Evans, through his lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, challenging the competence of the two fresh charges and seeking to quash them.

    The two fresh charges are different from one, involving kidnapping, on which Evans and his co-defendants were earlier arraigned on August 30, 2017 before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Ikeja division of the court.

    The Lagos State DPP had on Monday attempted to arraign Evans and others on the two fresh charges, but the move was resisted by Evans’ lawyer, Ogungbeje, who contended that the charges were incompetent, saying he had filed two applications seeking to quash them.

    Justice Taiwo had then adjourned till Friday to entertain the applications.

    Moving the applications on Friday, Ogungbeje described the new charges as an abuse of court processes, contending that some of the counts bordering on kidnapping were merely a duplication of the ones filed before Justice Oshodi in Ikeja.

    “Counts 4 and 5 constitute a gross abuse of court processes as similar charges on the same offence of kidnapping had earlier been filed by the prosecution against the same first defendant in charge numbers LD/5962C/2017 and LD/5970C/2017,” Ogungbeje said.

  • Police arrest man for allegedly murdering his new wife

    Stephen Akpata, a Nigerian who used to live in Australia, has been arrested by the police for allegedly strangling his new wife, Onyinye Eze, Bayelsa Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, has said.

    According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, the 33-year-old victim was an employee of Globacom Nigeria Limited.

    The Delta State born Mr. Akpata, popularly called Bishop, who claimed in a statement that he was 40 years old, allegedly on August 16, 2017 killed the woman in her Yenagoa residence.

    Police doubted Mr. Akpata’s age as he also claimed that he had spent 27 years in Australia, meaning that he went there when he was 13 years-old.

    The Police Commissioner said Mr. Akpata murdered his wife by strangling her with the cable of an electric iron. He then also stabbed her with a knife.

    The police chief said the incident became known when one of Onyinye’s colleagues, Moses Awo, reported at Ekeki Police Division in Yenagoa that Onyinye did not report for work as expected.

    According to Mr. Amba, Mr. Awo had reportedly told the police that when he and another colleague went to Onyinye’s residence in Kpansia area of Yenagoa, they discovered that the apartment was locked. They also found that the television set in her room was working.

    Some police officers from Ekeki Police Division in Yenagoa went to the deceased’s apartment and forced her door open. They found Onyinye dead in a pool of her blood.

    According to Bayelsa Police Commissioner, Mr. Akpata was the prime suspect in the murder.
    He was arrested by police in Badagry, Lagos State, after about two weeks on his trail.

    Parading the suspect on Thursday at the state command’s headquarters, Mr. Amba said that his operatives discovered that the deceased room was scattered.

    Mr. Amba said the exhibits recovered at the scene of crime were a knicker; a pair of canvas shoes, one damaged electric iron, one jean jacket, one pen knife, one pink singlet, a Nokia mobile phone and a damaged wristwatch.

    He said the exhibits were stained with blood.

    The police chief said the body of the victim was removed and deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for autopsy.

    Narrating how the suspect was arrested, Mr. Amba said that discreet investigations revealed that the suspect absconded to Ghana after allegedly committing the murder in Yenagoa.

    The commissioner, who said the suspect returned to Badagry, Lagos a few days after, added that Mr. Akpata was tracked and arrested in Badagry on September 1 and brought to Bayelsa the same day.

    “When our operatives went into the apartment of the deceased, we meticulously searched the environment and we saw a three-quarter knicker that was well hidden, tucked somewhere in the room that one would not suspect that something was hidden there.

    “We discovered there was a blood stain on the knicker. By this time, we tried to find out who was with the lady because we knew that they had just contracted a registry marriage.

    “We got in touch with Akpata who is the purported husband. He gave us the impression that he was out of town, implying that he travelled out of town before the incident.

    “So, we were still communicating with him, at least to break the news to him that his purported wife was dead. He told us he was on his way back and this took us some days.

    “As we were communicating with him, he was just giving us the impression that he was coming back, not knowing that he was plotting his own escape.

    “We found out that prior to that time of her murder, the suspect had spent so much money on the lady and they were moving from one hotel to another.

    “Still, we were playing along with him to enable him to come to us. But since he said he was in Lagos, we suspected that Ghana or Republic of Benin would be a likely point of escape.

    “We got in touch with the embassies there and the Ghanaian Embassy was on the alert. From our radar, we found out that he slept in Ghana.

    “He escaped back to Badagry in Lagos. He did not know we were still following him up. We got in touch with the police in Badagry. Eventually he was arrested at the Badagry border. So, we brought him back.” Mr. Amba said.

    Mr. Amba added that the police command got vital information on him, particularly on his Facebook page where they saw many pictures of him with his murdered wife during their court marriage.

    He assured that the suspect would be charged to court while the case would be diligently prosecuted as soon as investigations were concluded.

  • Hector Joberteh’s murder: Police arrest suspects

    Hector Joberteh’s murder: Police arrest suspects

    The Lagos State Police Command has detained three suspects in connection with the killing of Gulder Ultimate Search season 3 winner, Hector Joberteh.

     

    Ratifying the arrests, the recently appointed Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said the suspects are being quizzed about the murder of Joberteh who was trailed to his apartment and then shot at close range.

     

    He said, “Some yet-to-be identified hoodlums pretending to be friends of the deceased, gained access into the apartment of Hector Jobarteh, 38, in the presence of his brother, one Victor Jobarteh, at 8, Olufowora Close, New Oko-Oba.

     

    “They shot the said Hector on the chest without any dialogue and fled from the scene.

     

    “The Divisional Police Officer and a team of policemen quickly rushed to the scene after a distress call and the victim was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died.

     

    “Nothing was removed from his house. The corpse was taken to Orile/Agege Hospital morgue for autopsy.

     

    “Enquiries carried out from neighbours revealed that the deceased may have been a victim of business transaction that went sour.

     

    “To us, this is a clear case of murder and all angles are being investigated.

     

    “I want to use this opportunity to assure the family and indeed Lagosians, that the police will use every asset at its disposal to ensure that perpetrators of this heinous act are not only brought to book, but diligently prosecuted”.

     

  • Osun Speaker condemns abduction, murder of Permanent Secretary

    Sequel to the abduction and murder of a Permanent Secretary in Osun on Friday, Mrs Kemi Kolawole the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, has called on the Federal authorities to provide adequate security on the nation’s highways particularly the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.

    He spoke against the backdrop of the killing of Kolawole and her driver, on Okene-Abuja highway by some suspected kidnappers.

    “It is painful and shocking,” the speaker said in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo signed by Mr Goke Butika, the Chief Press Secretary.

    Salaam decried the spate of killings and insecurity particularly on Okene-Abuja road and urged Kogi and the Federal Government to take urgent steps to find the killers of the permanent secretary and her driver.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that until her death, Kolawole was the Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, Governor’s Office.

    Kolawole was travelling to Abuja from Osogbo on an official assignment on Thursday when the hoodlums kidnapped and killed her and dumped her body at the roadside.

    The deceased was scheduled to attend the inauguration of Justice Abiola Adewemimo as one of the judges of the Industrial Court.

    “ I condole with the families of the deceased and pray that God will grant them rest; I also comfort their loved ones, relations and dependants.’’

    The Osun Head of Service, Mr Sunday Owoeye, has also described the deaths as a rude shock.

    Also, the Forum of Permanent Secretaries in the state commiserated with the families of the deceased, the state public service and the Osun Government on the loss.

     

    NAN

  • UNIOSUN student murder: Aregbesola vows to prosecute, punish killer cleric

    UNIOSUN student murder: Aregbesola vows to prosecute, punish killer cleric

    …appeals to students to keep calm

    The Osun State Government has condemned the murder of Timilehin Sonibare, a final year student of Osun State University who was allegedly killed by a Muslim cleric and three others.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Police in Osun on Tuesday paraded a cleric, Sakariyau Abdulrofiu, and his suspected accomplices, Ibrahim Ayuba and Yusuf Aliu, over the death of Shonibare who was declared missing earlier in June.

    The government promised to punish the offenders once convicted by appropriate courts.

    It also condoled with Timilehin’s parents and family.

    Investigations revealed that the 400 Level student of Microbiology Department was called out by a neighbour, Sakariyau Abdulrofiu, 10 days ago; but his decomposing remains were found at the back of an Alfa’s house on Tuesday.

    The police have arrested three persons in connection with the crime.

    Osun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Adelani Baderinwa, in a statement on Wednesday, described Sonibare’s killing as “callous, painful and disheartening,” vowing that the perpetrators would be adequately punished.

    The government also commiserates with students populace in particular and the entire UNIOSUN community.

    Baderinwa noted that Sonibare’s cruel killing was a blight on the state, which had been in a celebratory mood after one of its students performed spectacularly in a Ukraine medical college.

    He said, “We condemn in strong terms the wicked and conscienceless manner in which the death of Timilehin was perpetrated.

    “It is most callous, painful and disheartening that fellow humans could plan and execute the elimination of another for self-aggrandizement.

    “We note with sadness that it is one of the unfortunate degeneration of values in our society whereby people want to be rich without work.

    “Government feels the pain of Timilehin’s death the more in view of the fact that it came when UNIOSUN is celebrating its winning in the world by the spectacular performance of one of its own in far away Ukraine.

    “Government takes solace in the fact that the security agencies have got hold of some of those who committed the heinous crime.

    “It is the determination of the government to collaborate effectively with the security agents to see to it that the offenders are adequately punished.

    “Government makes a passionate appeal to the students populace to keep calm and peaceful while they rightfully mourn their colleague and allow the killers to be dealt with.”

  • Thabane sworn-in as Lesotho PM two days after wife’s murder

    Lesotho’s new prime minister took office on Friday at the head of a coalition government, three years after he was targeted in a coup and two days after the murder of his estranged wife.

    Thomas Thabane’s All Basotho Convention (ABC) party won snap elections on June 3 but failed to get an outright majority, leading it to negotiate joint rule with the Alliance of Democrats (AD), Basotho National Party (BNP) and Reformed Congress of Lesotho (RCL).

    But his inauguration was marred by the murder of his estranged wife Lipolelo, 58, who was gunned down on Wednesday night in a village near the capital Maseru.

    Thabane’s new coalition government comes into office with the hope of ending the political uncertainty of party splits and fragile coalitions that have long dogged the mountain kingdom.

    He said it was disturbing that Lesotho was increasingly becoming notorious for its failed governments and that it was time to change.

    “I sincerely hope that political reforms will bring stability in Lesotho and ensure that Lesotho governments last for a normal five-year term,” he said in his inaugural speech.

    The new alliance replaces the government of Pakalitha Mosisili, a seven-party coalition plagued by infighting and corruption.

     

    At the ceremony, which was held inside a stadium in Maseru, Thabane thanked his predecessor “for facilitating the smooth transfer of power” and said the two would “remain friends forever.”

    Thabane, 78, previously served as premier of Lesotho. However, the left the country of two million people after the 2012 elections but was forced to flee to South Africa following an attempted military coup two years later.

    In his speech, Thabane commented for the first time on the killing of his estranged wife.

    “I am mourning her death and (the) senseless killing of people like this… is one of many challenges that I am faced with as a new prime minister,” he said.

    The gunning down of Thabane’s wife just two days before he took office created a sense of confusion in the tiny poverty-stricken country which is completely surrounded by South Africa.