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A 42-year-old woman, Temitope Akinola, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly poisoning and killing her two-day-old granddaughter with a deadly insecticide, Sniper. According to the command, the suspect, who is a resident of Isote area of Sagamu, was arrested on Nov. 21 by operatives of the command. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the grandmother was arrested, following the information received by the police in Sagamu division that the baby left in care of the suspect by her mother had been found dead. Oyeyemi said that the mother of the baby was reported to have gone to the bathroom only to return and discover the lifeless body of her baby. He noted that upon receiving the information, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Sagamu, Okiki Agunbiade, dispatched detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The police spokesperson explained that upon interrogation, the suspect admitted poisoning and killing the baby because she didn’t like her daughter getting married to the father of the baby. “She confessed further that she had attempted to terminate the pregnancy, but her pastor had warned her against it, hence she waited for her daughter to deliver before carrying out her devilish intention. “She explained further that she poisoned the baby with a deadly insecticide known as Sniper,” he said. Oyeyemi stated that the corpse of the baby had been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu for autopsy. He added that the suspect had been transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution. Read the full article

An army deserter and two other suspects were on Tuesday arrested by the police in Adamawa for robbing a woman of her car at gunpoint. The Adamawa Police Command spokesman, DSP Suleiman Yahaya, confirmed the development to newsmen in Yola. Yahaya said the deserter, Dompa Hyellambamun and one Emmanuel Adeka had accosted a woman in the early hours of Tuesday around target junction in Yola, where they fired four shots scaring her to hand over her car. “She immediately reported the incident to our men on patrol in the area, who, in collaboration with some vigilante personnel, trailed the suspects and arrested them. “The vehicle was recovered. Also recovered are AK 47 rifle with 35 rounds of ammunition and a military uniform. “One of the suspects introduced himself as a military man and that he was deployed to Monguno in Borno for special duty, from where he abandoned his duty,” Yahaya said. Also speaking, the army deserter said he was given pass which lapsed on August 8. “I am trying to go back but have no money and I am yet to collect salary and allowance”,  Hyellambamun said. Read the full article

The police in Enugu on Tuesday said that it was on the trail of masked men that allegedly abducted a former member of Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Ude Okoye. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the abduction to newsmen in Enugu, said that positive result was expected from this operation. The former lawmaker was kidnapped Monday evening at about 7 p.m. while returning from his farm in Agbogugu community in Awgu Local Government Area of the state. “We are on the trail of his abductors who allegedly kidnapped him from his farm axis in Agbogugu community,” Mr Amaraizu,a superintendent of police, said. He said those that abducted the lawmakers might have known him as they masked themselves in order to hide their identity. Okoye was also a former National Youth Leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Read the full article

A 52 year old native doctor, Jacob Alonge have been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment without option of fine for raping and impregnating his teenage daughter. The sentence was served by an Evboriaria Chief Magistrates’ Court in Benin, on Thursday by the Chief Magistrate, Dorothy Adamaigbo, who convicted the defendant over three-count charge of repeated sexual assault, fetish wrap of the girl’s pubic hair, raping and impregnating her. The court sentenced Alonge to five years on the first count of possession of fetish wrap of the girl’s pubic hair; two years for raping and impregnating her and 14 years for repeated sexual assault. The chief magistrate said the sentence would run concurrently. Earlier, the prosecution had told the court that the convict committed the offence in Ososo Village, Akoko-Edo Local Government in Edo. The prosecution said that the convict, who turned his daughter to a sex slave for several years, also instructed her never to sleep with any other man. Aside from raping the 17-year-old girl repeatedly and impregnating her, Alonge procured abortion for her and shaved the hair in her private parts. The prosecution said that the girl had become pregnant a second time when the matter came to public knowledge and he was arrested by the police and arraigned in court. According to the prosecutor, the pregnant girl, however, died along with four others in an accident along Benin-Auchi highway, while travelling from Ososo to Benin on their way to the court. The prosecutor said that among the dead were the girl’s uncle, two workers of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Brave Heart Initiative, helping the girl with the case, and the cab driver. The prosecutor said that after learning of the auto crash, Alonge who had earlier pleaded guilty to the counts against him and was about to be sentenced, changed his plea on the day he learnt that his daughter and the others had died. Read the full article

The Ogun state Police Command have arraigned three suspected secret cult members before an Ota Magistrates’ Court. The accused are John Paul, 19; Babatunde James, 28; and Tosin Yusuf, 22. They are facing trial on a two-count charge of membership of unlawful society and conspiracy, to which they pleaded not guilty. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Abdulkareem Mustapha, said that the accused and others still at large, committed the offences on July 4, at 2.00p.m at Kolas area, Cashier Bus-Stop, Itele, Ota. He said the accused and others belong to a secret society identified as “Aiye Confraternity”. He also said that the defendants had been creating fear in the minds of the community by carrying cutlass in the public. Mustapha said the offences contravened Sections 5 and 80 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006. The Chief Magistrate, Matthew Akinyemi, in his ruling, granted each of the defendants bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum. Akinyemi said the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and be gainfully employed. In addition, he said the sureties should show evidence of tax payment to Ogun Government as part of the bail conditions. The case was adjourned until Aug. 7, for further hearing. Read the full article