UPDATE: Islamic Cleric attempts using lover for money rituals.

Residents of Big Daddy Street in the Atinplome, Bagadry area of Lagos State on Tuesday stormed an uncompleted building in the area, which they suspected to be a ritual killer’s den, after a female victim raised an alarm.

According to PUNCH Metro, at about 12am, while a carnival went on in the area, a woman in her late 20s, whose name had yet to be known, ran into the party with her throat partly cut, and blood streaming out of her body. The girl, who later became unconscious and was rushed to a private hospital in the area, told the partying crowd that an alfa, identified as Mallam Sheu, had tricked her into the uncompleted structure before slitting her throat with a knife.

The matter was said to have been reported at the Morogbo Police Division, and some policemen came to the scene, but the alfa was said to have fled the uncompleted apartment. It was learnt that in the morning, more residents thronged the area and they were said to have found bloodstains, old clothes, charms and ladies’ clothes inside the structure.

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PHOTOS: Alleged victimization of a Nigerian student in Republic of Benin.

A Linda Ikeji Blog reader shares the story of his experience in the Republic of Benin:

My name is Sikiru Yusuf Adewunmi Joseph Statples. I am a 200l (two hundred) level student in Les Cour Sonour University in Cotonou Benin republic, where I am studying International relations and political science. I went into that country in a good faith of which I entered into a tenancy agreement on the 20th of April 2015 and its going to end on 20th February 2016 with my landlord whose name is Mme HOUNkpehedji.

On the 12th of November before the expiration of the agreement the landlord illegally ejected me without no prior notice or court order and threw my belongings out of the property in that scenario my all my properties was  damaged because of an utility bill which i told him to get me a printed slip of which he went to the meter and wrote an inflated bill on a sheet of paper which i told him i wouldn't pay unless he brings a printed slip from their power holding company. an argument ensued before the ejection.

Subsequent to the unlawful ejection i was aggrieved so I went to my school where i wrote an appeal to the director generale of my school Mr  Fabrice Sonour.  After the appeal i wrote i went to a local police station that has jurisdiction of that area and the police invited the landlord for an interview. He attended the police station but the policemen where been biased about the whole issue of which i was threatened by the landlord that hes going to make life unbearable for me in that country... i had no financial capability to consult a legal practitioner to help address that situation. On the 14th of November 2015 i went to the Nigerian embassy in Benin republic for assistance due to my distress situation i was kept outside the embassy for two hours despite the fact i showed them my permanent voters card as proof of me been a Nigerian citizen. After the long wait a sheet of paper was brought by the security men of which i wrote an appeal to the ambassador then i was let in. I had to come again the next day to the embassy where i met Nigerian Consul to Benin Mr Badmus of which he accompanied me to the police station at Epe Carrefour

To my surprise the consul when he wanted to introduce me at the police station in yoruba dialect said and i quote 'awon ti Buhari ni eleyi' which means i was an emissary of buhari this portrayed me as a whistle blower of the federal republic of Nigeria. That careless comment by the consul made them place me on surveillance in that country.

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Source: LIB

PHOTOS: Islamic Cleric attempts using lover for money rituals.

                                  
Islamic cleric, Mallam Shehu, aka Alhaji Sambo, is currently on the run after his attempt to use his lover, Busayo Amdalat, 20, for money ritual went awry. Busayo, a resident of Ibeju-Lekki, had visited Sambo to spend the Xmas holidays but in the early hours of yesterday, Sambo had a visitor, simply identified as Ifa, and they asked Busayo to put on a white cloth, which she did, they then hit her with an iron rod on her head. .

As Ifa was slashing the Busayo’s throat, she was able to muster courage and hitting him on the head with a bottle, ran to a nearby street where a carnival was taking place. Those who saw her drenched in a pool of blood with injuries inflicted on her neck and other parts of her body, quickly rushed her to a hospital. Policemen from Morogbo Police Division were later called but the alfa had already fled.

More updates following

Source: The News NG

Mother of twins shot dead by 'terrorist' Policeman says 'she has been stripped naked.'

Beatrice Oyesolu, the seventy-five-year-old mother of the twin brothers who were shot dead on Saturday by a trigger-happy policeman guarding Paulson Hotel on Anibaba Street, Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos, is utterly devastated by the loss of the sons. The aged woman said her sons, Taiye, a naval officer and Kehinde, an engineer ─ both 34 years old, had concluded plans to start building her a house next month before the tragedy struck.

The drunken policeman, Stephen James, with Force number 217884, had opened fire on the brothers and their friend, Jeje, who was celebrating his birthday on the fateful day. The trio had cautioned him to stop harassing customers, who reportedly declined to buy him bottles of beer.

James, said to be a drug addict and notorious for shooting sporadically, killed the twins and their friend before shooting himself dead. It took entreaties from residents around the hotel to stop the angry mob who wanted to set the facility on fire. Sympathizers thronged a house in the community where the twins’ mother was. The sympathizers rallied round her as she cried uncontrollably.

She said, “I just came back from church yesterday when they broke the news of their death to me. The government should help me because Taiye and Kehinde were the only hope I have. I have been stripped naked because they are my clothes. Who will I turn to now?

“They promised me a lot of things next year. They wanted to start building a house on my parcel of land next month. This is the seventh month after the death of their father.”

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Source: Punch

'Terrorist' Police officer murders three, shoots himself.

                     

One Sergeant Stephen James, an officer of the Nigerian Police with number 217884, on boxing day, murdered three residents of the Ketu area of Lagos state and took his own life after committing the murder.

According to reports, the officer was popularly called 'Terrorist', a tag he proudly embraced.

Sule Ajayi, a 26-year-old resident of Ketu who reportedly got to the scene of the incident minutes after the occurrence, said: “Guys around always called him Terrorist and he was proud to be associated with the nickname, excited anytime he was hailed.”

The late police officer shot dead a set of twins, Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle and a third person simply identified as Jeje at the Paulson Hotel located on Anibaba Street, Ketu during a football match before killing himself.

“Many times, he had threatened people, both residents of this our area and those who patronize the hotel. When he is charged, he would yell at people over any slight provocation and threaten to shoot and kill.

“He would often say he is on official assignment and as a result, has licence to kill and that he could kill and label a person an armed robber and that instead of punishing him, the police authority would promote him. As a result, we were very scared of him because he went about armed,” one of the residents of the area said on the condition of anonymity.

Residents of the area who confirmed that Sergeant James was often drunk informed that he often smoked too.

According to Ajayi, “Just four days ago, a young man, who visits the hotel often with his friends, came to this hotel and as usual, bought drinks for this policeman.

“While they were discussing and throwing banters, he started bragging again of how he loved shooting. The man who bought him drinks told him: ‘oya, show your power now’. The policeman brought out his gun and released four times into the air.

“Many people in the neighbour hood were scared but they later heard that it was James. That’s how we had been coping with him not knowing he was a danger waiting to happen.”

Investigations revealed two versions to the incident; the first being that one of the three killed residents had a problem with some people in the hotel and the policeman was called from where he sat to intervene and during the arguments that ensued, he was said to have shot the man and the other two who wanted to challenge him.

The officer was said to have shot himself in the chest on realizing how much damage he had done.

On the other hand, the late Sergeant was said to have threatened customers who came to the hotel to celebrate Boxing Day, asking them to buy him drinks.

It was in the course of the harassment that James reportedly stormed the table where the twins and their friend sat and when he made his demand, they had told him to be patient.

The officer was asked to behave responsibly for once after continuing with his harassment of the twins, a statement which was said to have irked the impatient officer.

He was said to have laid ambush for the young men outside the hotel and a source reliably informed that the shooting at the front of the hotel occurred after a hot argument between the trio and the policeman which ended in the demise of the parties involved.

Their corpses have since been deposited at a morgue in Ikorodu and the police public relations officer, Joe Offor, confirmed the incident, stating that the killer cop was under the influence of alcohol.

“I don’t have much information on that but I am sure we would know in the next few days if he was officially drafted to the hotel or if there are more to be heard of the incident,” a police source informed while preferring to remain anonymous.


Source: Naij.com

Mother raises alarm as rapist husband is released without prosecution

Thirty-two year-old Funmi laments over the release of her rapist husband simply identified as Thompson, while adding that she and her children had been living in fear of what Thompson might do to them for causing his woes.

Thompson was arrested following media reports of the bizzare case in October when Funmi alleged that her husband had on many occasions raped their four-year-old daughter, Rebecca, in their home in Igando area of Lagos.

She alleged that apart from having sexual intercourse with the little girl on several occasions, she had caught her husband inserting his finger into the private part of the girl more than once, all of which had traumatised Rebecca to the point where she could no longer talk.

For reporting the case, Funmi and her children were allegedly threatened by her husband, forcing her to move out of his house.

Funmi said, “With all that he did, I thought he would face the law. I thought he would be prosecuted for the abominations he had committed.

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Source: Punch Metro

Young lady forced by the Police to chew andd swallow condoms

This is undoubtedly an act of wickedness; and to think the perpetrators are Police officers in Boroko, Port Morseby Papua New Guinea. 

The disturbing video shows a woman, who is scolded for carrying contraceptives with her and is forced to swallow them, while police officers are watching.

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Source: Naij.com

Woman gives birth to Boko Haram child; narrates her ordeal as a captive.

One of the girls abducted and raped by the Boko Haram terrorist group, Aisha Musa, in an interview with CBS news recounts her experience after being kidnapped by her abductors. Read her story;

Aisha Musa, how she identified herself, has given birth, after the militants had killed her family and made her at gunpoint to become a ‘jihadi’ bride.

The Boko Haram victim disclosed how she had been living in the packed ‘Minawao’ refugee camp for seven months and survivd by selling corn meal at the local market.

She narrates: “They show you a gun, and then whatever they say you have to follow their command. He would lock me up during the day and rape me at night.

“He would go on operations and kill people, and then come home and force me to be with him.”

Aisha, reports disclosed, was freed by the Cameroon army, but the worst of her ordeal was finding out she was impregnated by her attacker.

“I am not enjoying that I have a baby from a Boko Haram man,” the woman cried out.

She stated that she never saw the said Chibok girls but said she often heard the militants speak of them.

Girls like Musa are regarded as spoiled goods – her baby a very public reminder of a cruel and unfair shame. Like many of the other girls, the Chibok girls were reportedly made to marry the militants.

Source:Naij.com

Man divorces wife for killing their child and hypnotizing him

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Tuesday dissolved a 33-year-old marriage over the claim of threat to life made by a retired civil servant, Mr Jimoh Babatunde, against his wife, Jelilat. Babatunde told the court presided over by Mr Henric Agbaje that Jelilat had made two attempts on his life and had even confessed to killing one of their four children.

“My lord, Jelilat confessed to have killed one of our four children in order to eventually eliminate me for reasons which I cannot actually tell. “Secondly, she put some stuff into my food recently to hypnotise and make me be in servitude to her,’’ the petitioner said. He said that his estranged wife had also tarnished his image and made him a laughing stock in their area.

Babatunde also described Jelilat as insolent, disobedient and lacked any care for him and his children. “I did all I could to change her for the better by talking to her and reporting her to her parents, but nothing came out of it. “Now, she wants to sniff life out of me,” Babatunde said. However, Jelilat opposed the dissolution of the marriage and denied the allegations made by her husband.

The respondent said that if the marriage was dissolved, she had nowhere to go and desired to remain the mother of her children in her matrimonial home. Jelilat pleaded with the court not to dissolve the union and promised to turn a new leaf. Ruling on the divorce petition, Agbaje held that it was clear that the relationship between Jimoh and Jelilat had turned sour and was irreconcilable.

“The court frowns at any case of threat to life as the one currently been witnessed. “It is abundantly clear that there is something cruel about Jelilat’s disposition, otherwise, no man would want to part ways with a 33-year-old union. “In the interest of peaceful coexistence, the court has put an end to the union between both of you.

“Jelilat shall take custody of the last child aged eight years old and Babatunde shall pay N12,000 for accommodation and an addition N5,000 for the movement of Jelilat’s belongings,” he said.

 Source: Vanguard

Undergraduate sustains intestinal rupture and fatal injuries as a result of police brutality for being 'inquisitive'

A 200-level undergraduate identified as John Ekefre was brutally beaten by Police patrol officers from the Iponri division of Lagos state, and is currently in critical condition in Lagos State Teaching Hostipal.

The Punch reports that the 22 year old victim was apprehended alongside some of his colleague while on their way to a church program at Tafawa Balewa Square around 11 pm after close of work. Ekefre, who was alleged to be a robber was brutally tortured by the suspected policemen for being too inquisitive after they arrived at the police station.

Narrating his ordeal, the victim who underwent certain surgical operations to rectify an internal injury he sustained from the incidence said; “I work at a cinema in Surulere. We were on afternoon duty that fateful Friday. We closed around 11pm and left for TBS to attend a church programme – The Experience 10.

“When we got to Costain, we alighted from the bus we boarded because there was gridlock. About five policemen on patrol stopped us and we told them we were going to the church.

“They searched our bags, but nothing incriminating was found there. They forced us into their bus. We showed them our identity cards, but they ignored us.

“On our way to the station, I asked them what our offence was and they said we were highway robbers. When we got to the station, they dragged me down, beat me up and one of them hit me in the stomach with the butt of his gun.

“They said I was too inquisitive. The following day, they collected N6,000 from my brother before I was released,” he narrated.

Meanwhile, Ekefre’s family was said to have spent approximately N200, 000 on the victim’s treatment

“The doctor said his intestine was ruptured and that he had a blood clot. He had a surgery and we are still awaiting the medical report,” recounted the victim’s elder sister, Mercy Ekefre.

Six alleged undergraduate cultists arrestes for gang raping a girl

Six undergraduates if the Delta State University, Abraka, has been arrested by the The Delta State Police Command following allegations of cultism and gang rape.

The Command’s public relations officer, DSP Celestina Kalu, said in a statement issued on Friday in Asaba that the suspects were nabbed in the act in a bush by police detectives following a tip-off by some residents of the area.

“On December 14, 2015 at about 6:30pm, the DPO Abraka Division received information that a sound of a girl’s cry was heard from an uncompleted building in a bush around the railway line, Abraka.

"Consequently, a patrol team rushed to the scene and arrested three males, namely, Chukwudi Ejiede, Emeka Otulugbuke, Ogbem Danul, and two females, Winifred Eyefian and Ziya George, all students of Delta State University, Abraka,” Kalu said.

The police spokesperson also said that the police rescued and arrested one miss Omojevbe Tracy, a student of the same institution, who was being raped by the suspects as part of an initiation into Viqueen, a campus cult.

She said that all the suspects have been taken into custody, while investigation into the incident has commenced.

Source: Daily Post

Beheaded man found on prayer ground!

Residents of Amese community in Akure this morning woke to the sight of a beheaded man at the base of  a prayer mountain, thus preventing the worshippers from holding their prayer sessions.

Daily Post reports that some of the worshippers who went to report at the police station we're detained by the police who later sent a team of officers to evacuate to corpse.

The residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also alleged that the policemen left the community where the incident happened and went to the nearby communities to make arrest of many people, saying as a result of this, many residents of the area had fled for the fear of arrest. Another source hinted that it is likely that the deceased was killed in a distant location and was merely dumped at the mountain base.

When contacted the Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command, Mr Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident but denied that the allegation of arrest by the police, noting that investigation had begun on the matter .

6 killed in fresh attack by female suicide bombers on Borno

No less than six people, including a member of Civil­ian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and five suicide bombers were yesterday killed in a bomb attack on a security outpost manned by a vigilante group in Borno’s town of Mafa.

It was gathered that some female bombers approached a securi­ty post manned by the CJTF in Mafa, about 40 kilometres to Maiduguri, Borno State yes­terday, killing themselves and one of the youth vigilante.

Northeast Information Of­ficer of the National Emer­gency Management Agency (NEMA), Abdulkair Ibrahim, who confirmed the bomb at­tack in a telephone message, said five members of the CJTF were also injured.

Source: Daily Post

Four policemen remanded in prison over murder of car dealer in Edo

Four policemen namely, Adedeji Adeleke, 33, Oniyo Musa,35, Abena John,33, and 32-year-old Henry Shobowale who allegedly killed a car dealer, Benson Obode in Benin City, Edo State have been remanded in Prison custody.

It was learnt that the suspects attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos Police Command came to Edo State to investigate a case involving a stolen car, leading to the arrest of the deceased on May 21, 2015.

The suspects were said to have collected the ATM card of the deceased to withdraw over N200,000.

Briefing newsmen, the State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, said the four police suspects were apprehended after Homicide Detectives from Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department took over the investigation of the case.

The police boss stated that all four policemen were tried, dismissed from the Force and subsequently charged for murder on October 19.

Ezike further noted that the case file has been forwarded to the Department of Public Prosecution for legal advice.

Source: Daily Post

Jos: Fourteen (women and children) killed in suspected Fulani attack

The Kwata Zawan area of Plateau state, Jos, has been plunged into a state of mourning following an attack by Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday night; killing about 14 people, all women and children.

Captain Ikedichi Iweha, spokesman for Operation Safe Haven, Op SH, confirmed the incident to Vanguard. He said, “12 women and children were killed in the attack and we are still investigating the incident.”

According to Vanguard, the attackers stormed the village which is few kilometers away from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS at about 8.30pm, holding villagers hostage and shooting sporadically.
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7 months old baby roasted to death in Lekki fire outbreak

An inferno which broke out in Lekki area of the state Thursday afternoon consumed a seven- month-old baby while her parents were away. According to reports, the baby was burnt beyond recognition before help could get to her. Speaking with Saturday Vanguard, the Director State Fire Services, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, narrated thus:”We received distress call at about 1 pm of a fire outbreak at Ikota Housing Estate, I quickly dispatched my men to scene of the fire incident.
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Pastor’s son beheads 11-year-old girl for rituals, attempts killing younger sister too

Silas Anidi, the sonly son of  of the General Overseer of God Peculiar Ministry, Sapele, has been arrested by the Delta State Police Criminal Investigation Depart­ment for beheading an 11 year-old girl identified as Aghogho Igbi. Reports say that Silas was also alleged to have attempted to kill her sister, Favour, 13, when he was caught by neighbours.

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Source: The Sun

Sexual harassment, fraud: FGN probes UNN, 9 other varsities, polytechnics

The Federal Government has inaugurated 10 panels of inquiry to investigate allegations of sexual harassment and fraud against governing councils, management as well as academic staff of some universities and polytechnics in the country.

Among the first set of institutions to be visited by the ad hoc panels were Federal University, Dutsin- Ma, Kastina State; Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State; University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State; Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, and University of Abuja. Others include University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State; University of Calabar, Cross River State; Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State; Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos State.

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Man beats pregnant wife to death for calling him 'irresponsible.'

                       

A man identified as Mr. Bright has been arrested by officers of Ejigbo police station for beating his wife to death.

Mr. Bright and his late wife reside in Olusesi Street in Idimu road, Ejigbo Lagos.

According to Daily Post, that the couple, who have been married for years, were known for constant domestic violence.

Resident told our correspondent that argument ensued between the couple over feeding expense. The woman, it was gathered, called her husband ‘irresponsible man’.

Angered by the wife’s unguarded outburst, the husband descended on her with countless punches till she collapsed and died on the spot.

“When the man noticed his wife was dead, he quickly removed the body and put inside his car boot,” the resident said.

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Source: Daily Post

Woman reports death at a Police station,ends up being detained and acused

                        

Following the inferno that razed a residence in Ebute-Meta area of Lagos state, one of the occupants - 32-year-old mother of two simply identified as Gbemisola has been detained at Denton Police station, Lagos state for allegedly reporting the death of her neighbour to the police.

Reports by residents of Tapa Community in Ebute-Meta area of the state where the victim resided, as explaining that trouble started when the apartment of her neighbour, one Timothy, was gutted by fire.

Gbemisola was said to have raised the alarm that attracted others who assisted in putting out the fire. A resident who pleaded anonymity said the arrest and detention of the woman came as a surprise to everybody in the community. 

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Source: Daily Post

Man allegedly poisons his wife and records her death

               

One Oluchi Ajimowu,  a 29-year-old businessman who was allegedly involved in the death of his wife, Priscillia Ajimowu, a 23-year-old mother of two, has been apprehended by the State Department for Criminal Investigation, SCID, Yaba, Lagos State.

According to Punch, the suspect had on November 29, locked the deceased up in her room, seized her phone and went out with their two children. On arrival, he reportedly met his wife foaming in the mouth.

Notwithstanding, reports say the police are working on two theories: that it is either Ajimowu smashed the wife’s head on the floor, or she poisoned herself after being frustrated by her husband.

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Varsity student impregnated by herbalist dies in an attempt to abort.

It is a sad day  in Ijare, Ifedore council area of Ondo state following the death of a 20 year old National Diploma (ND)  Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) student of the state owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Wunmi Agbeluyi after a herbalist allegedly helped her to terminate the pregnancy.

Detectives in the Ondo State Police command have picked up  the herbalist who allegedly put the deceased in the family way and in a desperate bid to terminate the pregnancy gave her some concoction to drink in order to flush it down . He is currently being quizzed at the Special Investigative Bureau (SIB).
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Source: Vanguard

Ripple effect of terrorism; breast ironing

With the growing unrest and abduction of women and girls by the Boko Haram terrorist group, Cameroonian mothers have evolved a means they believe will keep the insurgents at bay from their daughters. The act of breast ironing has become...read more here

Sexual violence: 400 women and girls abused in Enugu.

A coalition of non-governmental organisations, Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL and Tamar Sarc, has cried out over increasing cases of rape in Enugu State. According to them, girls and children between 05 to 10 years were being abused sexually.

While lamenting the increasing abuse of minors, Ezilo said, “right now there is a case we are handling; a particular primary school child suddenly started living a life of withdrawal, the teacher who had known her for long, made enquiries and discovered that her father has been abusing her.
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Source: Daily Post

62-year-old cobbler caught raping two minors after enticing them with Gala, Coke

                            

A 62-year-old cobbler, Ambrose Chukwudubem who was caught raping two girls, aged 11 and 12 respectively in Owerri, the Imo State capital has blamed the devil for the act.

Chukwudubem who was caught defiling the two girls who are in primary school was stripped naked and beaten mercilessly by some mob before he was rescued by the Imo Security Network, and taken to their station.

The 62-year-old who hails from Umuoparadim Community, Isu-Dimnanume in Nwangele Local Government Area of the state confessed to committing the act, saying he slept with each of them twice.

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Source: Daily Post

ASP engages in gunfight with NSCDC while attempting to escape with stolen fuel

                       

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lagos State Command have shot an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Charles Achidika, during a gun fight between the corps and suspected oil thieves which he was alleged to be a part of.

It was learnt that men of the NSCDC had on December 2 at about 2 am shot Achidika alongside two others, yet to be identified, on the Badagry waterways during a gun duel after the suspects attempted to transport 12,400 litres of petrol, believed to have been stolen from a vandalised pipeline, in Seme, a Lagos border town.

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Source: Daily Post

FCT Police begins investigation into death of hawker allegedly killed by AEPB officials

                        

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has commenced investigations into the death of an unnamed teenage hawker in the territory, who reportedly lost his life on November 13 after scaling a bridge around Bolingo Hotel, Abuja, while allegedly evading arrest by officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB.

The management of the board had earlier denied being responsible for the death of the hawker.
The FCT Police Commissioner, Mr Wilson Inalegwu, addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, said some arrests have been made and investigation was ongoing.

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Source: Daily Post

Nigerian Senate tries to cut itself off from the web, attempts to clamp down on internet freedoms.

The Senate President Bukola Saraki and  a dozen other senators led by Dino Melaye and one Bala Ibn Na’allah has run tests to find out whether it can cut the country off from the World Wide Web,  Per Second News gathered Sunday evening in Abuja.

In a repressive mood the group intend to propose that communications hubs run by the country's internet providers be ordered to block some news websites and foreign communications channels.

Per Second News can confirm that some consultants working for someone in Abuja said that a traffic control system called DPI was used and the aim was to find out whether the internet in the country could work separately from the World Wide Web.

Western countries and the international community over the week-end has expressed concern over the Anti-Media Bill proposed by All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator, Bala Ibn Na’allah.

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Source: Per Second News

Woman loses 2 months pregnancy after being illegally detained by the police.

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, has launched an investigation into how a woman, Risikat Bamidele, lost a two-month-old pregnancy after the Divisional Police Officer of Kemta division allegedly tortured her.
The husband of the victim, Tunde Bamidele, told our correspondent on Wednesday that he had written a statement at the state headquarters of the command at Eleweran, Abeokuta, on what transpired between Friday and Sunday.
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source: Punch

23 baby factories uncovered in Delta State, 6 babies rescued.

The Delta State Police force have uncovered 23 illegal orphanages where babies are allegedly sold within the Warri and Asaba environs of the state. 21 persons suspected to be behind the illicit business were arrested just as they recovered six babies in the hideout of the suspects.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, confirmed the development, saying that the police, following a tip-off, have rescued over 40 babies allegedly put up for sale at various illegal orphanage in Asaba, Kwale and Warri.

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Source: Punch

Man, 42 rapes his own daughter, threatens to cut off her head

A 42-year-old architect, Sanni Idowu, was on Wednesday arraigned before an Ibadan High Court for allegedly raping his own daughter.

The prosecuting counsel, Mr. Tajudeen Abdul Ganiyu, told the court that the defendant was arraigned on a one-count charge of rape, adding that the defendant unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his unnamed daughter without her consent.

According to Ganiyu, the defendant had carnal knowledge of his daughter on several occasions at Amuloko area of Ibadan and threatened to cut-off her head if she tells anyone. He said that medical tests conducted showed that there was penetration.

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Man defies wife's nieces, says its to 'appease the gods.'

                            

28-year-old Blessing Enoyoze has been arrested by the Edo State Police command for defiling two of his wife’s nieces to allegedly ‘appease angry gods’.

It was gathered that the accused reportedly committed that act after he claimed that a native doctor told him to sleep with two virgins to appease the gods in order for his ailing first son to get well.

The unidentified native doctor, The Nations reports, had reportedly told him that his son took ill because his wife slept with another man, adding that the wife who confessed to have committed adultery, offered to bring two of her nieces to her husband.

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source: Daily Post

Update on Borno attack: unspecified number of teenage girls abducted. Resident says soldiers are afraid to confront terrorists

At least four persons were killed and an unspecified number of teenage girls were on Sunday abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Bam village in Biu Local Government Area, about seven kilometres from Buratai village, hometown of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, in Borno State.

A resident of the area, Abubakar Ali, who fled to Miringa town for safety after the attack on Bam, told THISDAY on the phone yesterday evening that the insurgents invaded his village at about 3.30 am and set ablaze the whole village.

He said that they killed four persons and later left with some teenage girls but did not give a number on the numbers of abducted girls.
He said the insurgents raided the village till about 5 am and had sufficient time to “separate the teenage girls from married women, set the whole village ablaze and left with the girls unchallenged”.

He said it was unfortunate that “the hoodlums always attack our villages unchallenged. I am calling on General Buratai to do something about this, as the soldiers seem to be doing little to checkmate them here”.

“We have been telling the soldiers that the Boko Haram members are in some villages around here but they only go to Mangari, a few kilometres away from Buratai and shoot in the air and come back. It seems the soldiers are afraid to confront them,” he said.
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Fresh terrorist attacks in Borno leaves 6 soldiers dead

About seven persons including a soldier, were killed in both Bam and Gajigana villages of Biu and Magumeri Local Government Areas of Borno State.

In the two attacks, while unspecified numbers of teenage girls were abducted in Bam Village, scores of people were injured in Gajigana village after insurgents set ablaze shops and houses without confrontation.

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Sex workers complain about how Policemen extort money from them; 'they use us like ATMs'

        

Commercial sex workers in Lagos State have expressed their grievances with officers of the Nigeria Police Force over how money is extorted from them. Read the full story here

PHOTO: Herbalist kidnaps two minors, turns them into sex slaves

                               

The Cross River State Police Command on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old herbalist identify as Emmanuel Akpan-Okon for allegedly holding two kids hostage for four years and turning them to sex slaves.

Following their rescue by the police yesterday, both kids, Esther Wisdom and Felicia Destiny, aged 11, revealed that the herbalist raped them almost every day for the four years they were held hostage.

The suspect was nabbed after the police got a tipoff that the 42-year-old specialized in the preparation of charms for armed robbers.

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U.S-based Nigerian bus driver honoured for saving 30 kids

                          

The board of Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston, honoured Samuel Agunbiade for keeping 30 students safe on Friday when their bus caught fire. Agunbiade said he heard a loud pop and saw smoke coming from the bus’s tailpipe.

Flayvour360 reports that he immediately pulled off and within a few minutes the bus caught fire but he got all the students off the bus unharmed. Video taken by a witness shows the terrifying moment when the bus exploded. While reacting to the honor, Agunbiade who has been a bus driver for 21 years, said:

“They’re calling me a hero. I said hero? I just did what I was supposed to do. You guys are mine. I’m supposed to take care of you.

Gross! South Korean Professor forces student to eat faeces and drink urine

A South Korean court on Thursday jailed a university professor for 12 years for forcing a student to eat human faeces and drink urine during a two-year period of physical and psychological assault.

The sentence was two years more than had been demanded by prosecutors, reflecting, the court said, “unimaginable atrocities” committed by the 52-year-old professor that had amounted “to a sort of psychological murder”.

The professor, identified only by his surname Jang, was arrested in July after his victim — a design student now aged 29 — attempted to commit suicide to escape his ordeal.

The abuse began after Jang hired him to work for a non-profit organisation.

The court heard how the professor — aided by other former students who were accused as co-defendants — had assaulted his former student with a baseball bat and other weapons.

He also had a plastic bag forced over his face and filled with pepper spray, after which he was fed human excrement.

The victim told police he had tolerated the abuse in the hope that Jang might help him find a full-time post as a college professor.

“The accused trampled upon his victim’s human dignity,” the court said.

The three students who had aided Jang were sentenced to between three and six years in prison.

source: Vanguard

Mandela's step daughter loses vision to domestic attack

                              

It’s likely that the daughter of Nelson Mandela’s third wife Graça Machel will never use her right eye again, and she says that her boyfriend is to blame. In a telling interview with City Press, Josina Machel recalled the October 17 incident that changed her life forever.

The trouble began the night before her mother’s 70th birthday. Graça was in South Africa attending to other commitments. The family had plans to reunite and celebrate the following day. However, Josina desired to feel close to her mother that evening and decided that she would spend the night at her mom’s house. She desired to sleep in her bed.

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LAGOS: Defiled toddlers come under custody of Lagos State government

                    

The Lagos State Government has taken custody of the two toddlers that were allegedly defiled by their father’s friends and co-workers in recently in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Lola Akande disclosed this on Thursday, saying that the children, ages five and three, have been rescued from the abusive environment and taken to one of the Children Homes for proper psychotherapy and guardianship.

She added that the Ministry would henceforth be responsible for their upkeep and educational pursuit.

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source: PM News

Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Defiling A 12-Year Old Girl In Calabar As NGO Marks International Day For Elimination Of Violence Against Women.

As violence against women continues to be a global pandemic, the international community is celebrating “International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women” today the 25th day of November, 2015. Coincidentally, a Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by the Hon. Justice Elias Abuo has about 6hours ago, convicted one Okem Benjamin for the offence of rape and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The convict (Okem Benjamin) was on trial for the rape one Miss X who was a child of just 12 years old as at the time of the inglorious incident. In his judgment which was incisive and coloured with great erudition, Justice Abuo also lambasted the guardian of the innocent victim for exposing the girl to the porous environment which the convict took to his advantage.

The case was reported to Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, a leading and famous human rights organization in Calabar on the 11th  day of  February, 2013. The organization dutifully documented the case, supported the victim, pressed for criminal charges on the accused and meticulously watched the complainant’s brief throughout the prosecution of the case in court. Trial initially commenced at the Family Court Division of the High Court in Calabar, however due to the problems presently bedeviling the Family Courts in Cross River State, the case was subsequently transferred to the   regular High Court in Suit No. HC/16C/2014 (The State V Okem Benjamin) where judgment was eventually delivered today 25th November, 2015.

Basic Rights Counsel Initiative is a not-for-profit making organization based in Calabar, Cross River State and is committed to the protection and promotion of the rights of children and indigent women.