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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