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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:...