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THE MEN OF THE LAGOS STATE POLICE HAVE TAKEN seven additional pregnant victims of another Lagos baby factory into custody, a week after rescuing twenty three pregnant victims of same ill fate. The victims, who among was an underage girl of 13 years old, were found loitering Cele Bus stop, along the Oshodi Apapa Expressway, after escaping from captivity of the baby factory. They were found unkempt, tired and stranded in the area. Investigation revealed that victims had originally come from Imo, Abia and Rivers states. Their captors had deceived them, promising them employment and better livelihood in Lagos. The 13 years old among them divulged to the police that she was raped while she was in her village and had become pregnant. While she was living through her confusion and plight, she was approached by some people who had promised to cater for her and her unborn baby in Lagos, ignorant that the plan was to take her baby from her and sell. Once they found out the true intention of t

NINETEEN YOUNG PREGNANT WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN were rescued by the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, 19th September 2019 from four different baby factories at Ayanwale, Ikotun area of Lagos during a clandestine raid. The baby factories were believed to be owned and operated by one madam Oluchi, an indigene of Imo state who was a resident of Lagos state. However, she is still at large, while two suspects, Happiness and Sherifat Ipeya, her subordinates, were apprehended in the raid. Police sources revealed that the victims were from Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Abia and Imo states, and that they had been deceived with the promise of better livelihood and domestic jobs in Lagos. After relocating them to Lagos, they had been held against their wills, raped and impregnated. Their unborn babies were to be sold to potential buyers who would pay up to N500,000 for a male gender and N300,000 for a female gender, once the babies were born. Also rescued in the operation wer

KINGSLEY MADUKWE, A RESIDENT OF ATAN-OTA, OGUN STATE, WHO HAILED FROM IHIALA LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE, HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY OFFICERS OF THE OGUN STATE POLICE COMMAND FOR BEATING HIS NURSING WIFE, GLORY, TO DEATH. During questioning, Madukwe told the men of the Ogun State Police Command that he had had a misunderstanding with his deceased wife, Glory Madukwe, over their one month old baby she was nursing. He had accused her of neglecting the baby who was crying for food. He said his wife's response to his accusation had upset him, so he'd annoyingly slapped her, unfortunately, sending her to her death. Glory's corpse has been deposited at the mortuary of the State Hospital, Ota. According to the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect has been ordered by the State Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, to be transferred to the Homicide Section of the Command for further investigation. Reviewed/written by Dewale Samuel.

THE EDO STATE POLICE HAD IN OCTOBER 2018 ARRESTED AND PARADED A NINETEEN YEARS OLD BOY FOR ALLEGEDLY STRANGLING HIS MOTHER TO DEATH IN HER SLEEP AT AROUND 5AM, IN THE ROOM THEY BOTH SHARE IN OLOGBO AREA, NEAR BENIN IN EDO STATE. The young alleged criminal had confessed to the Police Investigators that he'd done it for ritual purpose. He also divulged that he had been consulting a spiritualist who had instructed him to kill his mother and then have constant sexual intercourse with her corpse in spite of rigor mortis for him to attain the riches he wished for. The suspect had pandered to the instructions of the spiritualist until luck ran out on him, when his suspicious grandmother found out and raised the alarm. He was apprehended by his neighbours before he could take to his heels, and then he was handed over to the police. Reviewed/Written by Dewale Samuel.

A 30 YEARS OLD MAN, LAMINU ALLI, HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED TO THE MAGISTRATE COURT BY THE LAGOS STATE POLICE for attempting to rape a mad pregnant woman, known as Christiana, in an uncompleted building in the area of Isheri-Olofin, along Igando-LASU expressway to Iyana Iba, Lagos state. The residents who had caught him with the mentally sick victim, pants down and with a knife, alleged that the suspect specialized in engaging mad ladies on the streets in the area in sex for ritual purposes, and impregnating them. Allegedly, he was once also caught in the same act with another mad woman but he got away. After apprehending him, the residents hauled him away to the Police station, where he was detained and then a swift investigation had begun. Investigation revealed that he was culpable, and he was later charged to court for attempting to rape the mad pregnant woman. He pleaded 'not guilty'. However, the prosecutor Supol Kenneth Asibor begged the court to give a new date

THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD ONYEKACHI NNABUIFE, WHO HAD BEEN UNDER POLICE CUSTODY FOR HAVING CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIS NINE YEARS OLD STEP-DAUGHTER, had had his bail application rejected by the Magistrate Court, which ordered his continuous prison custody, pending legal advise from the Lagos State Department of Public Prosecution. Nnabuife faces twelve years jail term if found guilty of the two-count charges leveled against him, of defilement and assault. He was married to the victim's  mother, who had moved in with him with her daughter after their union. Investigation revealed that the accused had been having vaginal penetration with the child for weeks before his arrest and had always threatened the child each time after the abuse,of great consequences if she ever told her mother. However, the mother had noticed a behavioral change in her daughter and had kept pressing her for an answer. She had also been suspicious of her husband to be the reason for her sudden behavioral change.

Chizoba Ogbonna, a 36 years old single mother of three, and a teacher, has been arrested by the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in Abriba-Ohafia area of Abia State for allegedly masterminding her own kidnapping which saw her family pay to her and her accomplices the sum of N500,000 out of N2 million ransom. Arrested alongside with her were her accomplices, Uche Anthony and Joseph Ezema, who'd contacted her family and had demanded the ransom of two million Naira, threatening to kill her within the hours of her abduction if the ransom was not paid, and then ensuring that the first installment of N300,000 was received through Chizoba's account, and then another installment of N200,000 in cash later on. Fortunately, Chizoba's family had alerted the IRT after the first installment payment. The operatives'd swiftly swung into clandestine action, planting a tracking device into the second installment. This'd led th

AJEMINE DOUGLAS, A 41 YEARS OLD MOTHER OF FOUR, WAS ARRESTED BY THE OPERATIVES OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE POLICE SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE RESPONSE TEAM, IRT, in Abalama Area of River State, for killing her husband, Inedugoba Tyger and having his corpse buried in a shallow grave afterwards. She was arrested and paraded alongside with two other suspects, Kingsley Nnaa and Sunny, whom she had hired to perpetrate the crime that took place on January 25th, 2019. Investigation revealed that she had her husband killed because he was in the habit of battering and raping her, and he had also abandoned her, and then moved into a new apartment in Port Harcourt, River State, with another woman. Investigation also revealed that Ajemine was in bed with Tyger on the night of the crime when the two contract-killers snuck into their former apartment, in her privy, and strangled him to death. Then, she'd driven his car to a nearby market and had parked it where it could be easily found by the p

ABDULSALAM SALAUDEEN, AN ISLAMIC CLERIC AND A TEACHER, POPULARLY KNOWN AS 'ALFA' has denied the charge of statutory rape of a five years old girl who was a pupil of his Islamic school, at the Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja. The Prosecuting State Counsel, Ms T. Olanrewaju Dawodu, told the court that the accused, Salaudeen had raped the minor on December 22th, 2018 at the premises of Olorungbebe Mosque at 15, Palace Road, Igando, Lagos. She also told the court that the accused was caught on a hidden camera which was installed in the premises of the mosque by some individuals who had been suspicious of the cleric's sexual abuses of minors. However, when the charge was read, the defendant pleaded 'not guilty'. Hence, the prosecuting counsel begged the court to remand the cleric in prison custody until trial. Justice Soladoye easily granted the request, thereby adjourning the matter until October 14th, 2019 for trial. Reviewed & written by:

SAMUEL OLANIYI, A 65 YEARS OLD MAN HAS BEEN NABBED BY THE SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE TEAM (ITR) OF THE NIGERIAN POLICE AUTHORITY for exhuming the corpse of his late brother and beheading it in an attempt to use it for money ritual. The suspect was arrested alongside with two accomplices, who were Matthew, a logger, and Uchenna Olewunna. Olaniyi was a wine tapper and a native of Ipokia Area of Ogun State. The three suspects were apprehended on their way to Sango Otta to deliver the severed head to a native doctor who had demanded a human skull for the ritual of making Olaniyi rich. An IRT source revealed that after severing the corpse, Olaniyi had given the head to Samuel who had hidden it in an unfinished building, as they tried to raise N48,000 fee for the native Doctor for the rituals. While interrogating Olaniyi, he confessed that he regretted his action deeply and claimed that it was his first time in dealing in human body parts and blamed another friend of his for leading him astr

PASTOR TIMOTHY NGWU, THE GENERAL OVERSEER OF VINEYARD MINISTRY OF HOLY TRINITY IN ENUGU HAS BEEN  ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE, AFTER IMPREGNATING TWENTY WOMEN WHO WERE MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH, AT A TIME. The randy pastor claimed that the Holy Spirit had commanded him to do so, asserting that he could not have disobeyed the order of the Holy spirit, to do the will of God, which was to impregnate anyone he'd chosen and revealed to him, irrespective of their marital status. He added that, every woman impregnated by him would remain in his ministry for life with the child delivered by her. Then he said that he had never pressured, nor forced any woman to sleep with him, claiming that even the husbands of his victims were privy to his acts and had agreed to the Holy Spirit's order and then giving consent to their wives to sleep with him. It was however revealed that Pastor Ngwu already had five wives with thirteen children, among countless concubines. Pastor Timothy's legal wife

Francis Joseph, a 43 years old Ogoja farmer from Cross River state, and a resident of Lugbogi area in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo state, was arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command for defiling a 12 years old daughter of his friend. The child rapist who was married to three wives, and had nine children who were all older than his victim, had lured the twelve year old girl into the bush, where he had had sex with her. After satisfying his carnal desire, he had threatened the girl that she would die mysteriously if she ever reported or whispered a word of the abuse to anyone. The girl kept this secret as long as she could, until she began to bleed profusely in the middle of the night from her private part. She was then rushed to the hospital by her parents, and later on, revealed to them that she had been sexually penetrated by her father's friend. Joseph took to his heels once he got wind of the event, but he was later arrested at the motor-park in Ondo

AN ALLEGED CALL-GIRL KILLER, OYEFEMI OLADIPO, 33 YEARS OLD CONSTRUCTION WORKER WAS APPREHENDED BY A VIGILANTE GROUP WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO DITCH THE CORPSE OF THE VICTIM HE HAD BRUTALLY STABBED A MULTIPLE TIMES TO DEATH. He was apprehended alongside with his security guard, Nasir, who was trying to help him ditch the mutilated corpse. Investigation revealed that the victim, 24 years old, Patience Musa, was stabbed a multiple times on her two breasts, the heart area, neck and the torso. It also revealed that the accused, Oyefemi, worked with Moulds Nigeria Limited, a Jos-based construction company engaged in major highway and civil engineering construction projects. Inclusively, he had picked up the deceased at west of Mines area of Jos around midnight for sex, and a fee of N3000 was agreed between them. Father of the deceased, Musa, a resident of Tudun Wada, who was later invited by the police, confirmed that the corpse was his daughter's. Breaking down in tears, heartbroken and

KATSINA SENIOR MAGISTRATES COURT HAS REMANDED  A 38 YEARS HASSAN GARBA IN PRISON TILL JULY 8, 2019, FOR SODOMIZING A MINOR UNTIL THE CASE WOULD COME UP FOR MENTION. Hassan Garba was caught sodomizing a ten years old homeless boy who usually took shelter in the corridor of a house situated in the Mangal Garage Motor Park, Katsina area. A police sergeant, Aliyu Mamman of the Central Police Station, Market Outpost, Katsina Metropolis, had got a tip and had burst the rapist while he was in the act. The rapist was apprehended on May 15, 2019 and then brought to the police station by the officer, thereafter, he was arraigned in court. Magistrate Hajiya Fadile Dikko who presided over the case ordered his remand in prison till the case comes up for mention. Reviewed by Dewale Samuel.

PAEDOPHILE PASTOR, CHUKWUMA NKWOCHA OF THE OVERSEER OF TONGUE OF FIRE MINISTRY, SHOGUNLE, LAGOS IS STILL LANGUISHING IN JAIL UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVED. He was arrested by a team of the Nigerian Police, for turning minors into sex objects in the named church. The victims were from families struggling to make ends meet, or worse still, having accommodation problems, and finding themselves at the mercy of  the church for aid. The police was believed to have got an anonymous tip about the pastor's statutory raping of the minors, and had swiftly moved  to rescue a total number of twenty nine of them from the bondage. Investigation revealed that Pastor Nkwocha had been having illicit sex with these girls of ages thirteen to seventeen, who were being sheltered in the church's residential flats. A thirteen years old victim, Chinecherem, who was among the rescued victims, divulged to the investigators that the pastor had had sex with her several times, and also revealed that he would

I SAT ON THE EDGE of my hotel bed, stark naked as panic gripped me, and my heart thudded violently against my chest. My frightful eyes riveted on the naked corpse beside me. Her eyes were wide open towards the ceiling and there was drool all over her mouth. It was 7:33pm, a very bad time to be stuck in a hotel room with another man's wife who happened to be dead. My head was imploding, scores of thoughts roamed inwardly like vagabonds. The loudest of it indulged me to take to my heels. But another little one warned me that if I did, I would eventually be caught because I frequented the hotel and some of the hotel workers had come to know me and my car vividly. They only needed to describe me and my car to the police. Hence, once the description got to the dead woman's family, I would be simply made out as her lover and her killer. I did not kill her. She was my lover and I cared so much about her. Hence, we often met here, to express our illicit love and lustful

MAGISTRATE COURT GRANTS BAIL IN THE SUM of N200,000 TO MAN WHO DEFILED OWN DAUGHTER IN THE BATHROOM. The accused, Abioye Idowu who resided at Cele 2, off Ogba area of Ikorodu in Lagos, had reportedly accosted his 20 years old daughter in the bathroom, where she was having her bath, and had demanded strongly that he wanted to carry out a test on her virginity, accusing her of sleeping with men. He had then forced her to open up her thighs and then inserted his fingers into her vagina. Shocked, she had to immediately report the matter to her mother who became lit up with fury. The older woman then raised alarm to the neighbours who admonished them to report the matter to the authority. Shortly later on, the molester-father was arrested and then arraigned days later before a magistrate court in Ogba, Lagos state. The prosecutor, Superintendent of Police Emerhi had pleaded with the court to mete out stiff punishment on the accused to serve as deterrent to other sexual culprits. The

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS 60 YEARS OLD HUNCHBACK MOTHER TO RITUAL KILLERS FOR N7 MILLION IS STILL AT LARGE, AFTER EVADING APPREHENSION. His supposedly deceased mother, Rukayat  Abodunde, a fish monger and a resident of Aiyetoro, an area in Ondo West in Ondo town in Ondo state, was kidnapped by some armed men, suspected to be ritual killers around 10pm, after shooting sporadically into the air to scare away people, and then dragging her into a car. Then, two days after her abduction, the ritualists had returned to demand the refund of their money from the son, having discovered that his mother's back hump which was supposed to bring them wealth was not natural but a result of a domestic accident. This demand had led to a falling out with the son who had also demanded the return of his mother alive to him, hale and hearty. Their argument had given the neighbours privy into the abduction of the victim. Hence, they had attempted to apprehend the son thereafter, but he had managed to

  She hid behind the opened door of Room-016, huddled to her knees, shuddering like a drenched little animal but simultaneously  breaking sweat like a skewered meat  on top of  a s moldering coal. She tried hard  to  muffl e  her cry,   yet  her  sniffl e was  audibl e . “J emi!...Jemi!...Jemila !”, Madam Com fort’s voice thundered through  the  passage in  a familiar t one to her, of fury ,   and sweeping towards  Room- 0 16 like hurricane . Her fright continuously  moved from ceiling to ceiling  b ehind the door , admitting now i t was  too late  to answer her madam’s call, also , there  was a  serious consequence  for her insubordination . She was done for. Suddenly, Madam Comfort surged into the room and intuitionally yanked the door to  reveal  her as  she cower ed  behind it. She pulled her  up like a little object  by her hair  and violently dragged her  to the centre of the room. Then s he pulled her up to her feet  and sent a powerful slap into her face. The little gi

EDITH JUMPED OUT OF THE HOTEL BED and hastily wriggled into her pant, then her skirt. She found her bra lying on the floor; she retrieved it and began to strap it to arrest her heavy dangling breasts. The naked man on the bed was seemingly exhausted. He watched her keenly and gently rubbed his hairy chest down to his pot-belly that floated like a ball in a pool. His phone rang. Picking his call, he began to talk sweetly to the caller and lied about his whereabouts. She second-guessed him to be talking to his wife or one of his lovers. Now, she was fully dressed. She still swept the whole floor with her eyes; making sure nothing of hers was forgotten. Littering the floor were a pack of cigarettes, an empty bottle of codeine syrup and the man’s clothing. Then she swung around to face him on the bed. His image was a menace to her eyes. She silently cussed herself for sleeping with a pig. Nothing was attractive about him. He was fat and his body was densely hairy, worse still, he had a

PASTOR CLIFFORD WAS SUDDENLY AWAKENED by the distress noise, seemingly coming from distance .  His wife,  Etia  had awakened too, propping up beside  him ,  both  rattled . Suddenly ,  a  woman’s  scream  further defied the night, seeming she was in danger.  Then l ike a chain reaction, the pastor’s  cell-phon e began to ring annoyingly from the bedside table.  "What was that noise? ",   Etia  asked rhetorically, hurrying to the window in her  nightie   to peek.  “ I  think the cry came from the other street” Through the window, all she could see was the fence that enclosed their home. Her heart  rammed  violently   against  her chest inwardly , as she shuddered immensely in fear. Clifford's phone kept ringing, identifyi ng sister Debbie as the caller,  “  Darling , aren't you picking that ?” Sister Debbie  was one of the ushers at the  All Saints  Pentecostal Church  which Clifford headed as the parish pastor. The digital clock on the bedside table   now